Finance & Governance Meeting 11th October 2017

Next week’s Finance & Governance meeting will be held at the Civic Hall at 6pm on Wednesday 11th October.  Items on the agenda for consideration include: Grant Funding; Consideration of the initial draft of next year’s budget and apprentices. The full agenda and background papers re linked below:

‘-Finance and Governance Agenda 11-10-17

Finance Papers October 17

PLEASE NOTE THAT NEXT WEEK’S SCHEDULED PROJECTS MEETING ON 10th OCTOBER HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Notice of Conclusion of Audit

The Council has received notification from the external auditor that the audit of the accounts and finance governance arrangements for the financial year 2016/17 have been audited and no areas of concern identified.

The accounts are available for inspection by the public at any reasonable time.

The notice of conclusion of audit and the Annual Return are attached below.

Notice of Conclusion of Audit

Annual Return (signed)

Papers for this week’s Council meetings

There will be two Committee meetings this week:

Projects & Initiatives, 6.30 pm, Tuesday 13th June 2017

Projects and Initiatives Agenda 13.06.17

Projects Supporting Papers June 17

Finance & Governance, 6.00 pm, Wednesday 14th June 2017

Finance and Governance Agenda 14.06.17

Finance Supporting Papers June 17

All Stanley Town Council Meetings are open to the public. Both this week’s meetings will be held at the Civic Hall, Front Street, Stanley.

2017 Town Council Election Results

The full results of last Thursday’s local elections showing all the votes cast for each candidate are attached below.

Three Councillors were elected unopposed in the Tanfield ward, all the other 17 seats were contested. The final balance of the Council for the next term is Labour 14 Councillors, Derwentside Independents 6 Councillors.

Contested seats – Election Results 2017

Uncontested election – Tanfield Ward