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Meetings are normally held at The Community Building, Holly Lane, Hapton at 7 pm, usually on a Wednesday. - please check the agenda when it is published.  Members of the public are welcome to attend - please contact the Clerk to request access details.

MEETINGS CALENDAR

Meeting Dates for 2023

 

  • Wednesday 18 January

  • Wednesday 8 February

  • Wednesday 8 March

  • Wednesday 19 April

  • Wednesday 17 May (Annual Parish Meeting and Annual Meeting of the PC)

  • Wednesday 14 June

  • Wednesday 12 July

  • Wednesday 13 September

  • Wednesday 11 October

  • Wednesday 15 November

  • Wednesday 13 December

Meeting Dates for 2024

 

​Meeting dates calendar Link for 2024-2025

The Role of the Clerk

 

The Clerk is the ‘Proper Officer’ of the Council who is responsible for the smooth running of the Council’s business. He/she is the first point of contact for the Council and all correspondence comes to the Clerk.

 

Responsibility for implementing the decisions of the Council rests with the Clerk along with giving professional guidance where necessary whilst remaining neutral and discrete. The Clerk is also responsible for financial management.

 

The Clerk prepares, circulates and displays agendas in public places. She/he signs notices and summonses with a list of business to be transacted but does not have the power to fix the meetings of the Council. The Clerk is required to attend meetings, take minutes, keep Council minutes in a book and hold other documents.

 

A member of the Council may be appointed as Clerk without remuneration but nowadays it is more usual to appoint someone who is not a councillor to be paid for the work they undertake.

In a Meeting
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