1

Election of Chairman and Declaration of Acceptance of Office

2

Appointment of Vice-Chairman and Declaration of Acceptance of Office

3

Apologies for Absence

4

Evacuation Procedure

5

PC Barraclough

6

Declarations of Interest under the Local Government Act 1972

7

Parishioner Observations

8

Matters Arising from Parishioner Observations

9

Appointment of Committees

a

Highways

b

Planning

c

Leisure and Recreation

d

Brockeridge

e

Finance and General Purposes

After each Committee is appointed the Council will adjourn to enable each Committee to meet in order to appoint its Chairman and Vice Chairman. (Existing co-opted members of the Brockeridge Committee have been invited to attend)

f

Park Sports Consultative Committee

g

Youth Shelter Steering Group

h

Joint Interest Committee

i

Internal Audit Panel

10

Appointment of Representatives on Outside Bodies

11

Confirmation of Minutes of 14th April 2008

12

To note an amendment to the Minutes of the Meeting of 10th March 2008

Please Note:         In view of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted, the public and press may be excluded from some or all of the next item.

13

Parish Council Review (Mins of F and GP meeting of 30th April 2008)

14

To consider the proposed lease for the Land at Bell Road

15

Confirmation of Arrangements for the Annual Parish Meeting (Wednesday 21st May 2008)
(papers attached)

16

To confirm the amendment of Financial Regulation 3(b) (see PC min 231) to read:
“The Clerk may incur expenditure on behalf of the Council which is necessary to carry out any repair, replacement or other work which is of such extreme urgency that it must be done at once, whether or not there is any budgetary provision for the expenditure, subject to a limit of £2000.  The Clerk shall report the action to the Council as soon as practicable thereafter”.

17

Finance and General Purposes Committee Report
(Mins of the meetings of 26th March and 23rd April 2008)

a

Min 153 - Broken Fence at The Glebe Land

18

Finance

a

Accounts Summary for Year Ended 31st March 2008 (attached)

b

Accounts for Payment (draft attached)

19

Brockeridge Committee Matters

20

Leisure and Recreation Committee Matters

21

Planning Committee Report (mins of 21st April (att’d) and 7th May 2008 (to follow))

a

Joint Interest Committee/SGC Core Strategy

22

Highways Committee Matters

23

Reports from South Gloucestershire Councillors

24

Reports from Representatives on Outside Bodies

a

Parish Charter Working Group

25

Correspondence Received

a

ALCA Area Group Agenda for meeting on 22nd May at Bradley Stoke (7:15pm) plus mins of 27th March 2008

b

SGC – Environmental Link Group Network

c

Other 

26

Correspondence Received (Copies circulated)

a

SGC – New Local Area Agreement – Invitation to Event  to be involved in setting 35 LAA indicators - on 13th May 2008, 10:00 to 12 noon at Turnberries, Thornbury

b

ALCA Newsletter – Volume 5, issue 5, May 2008

27

Correspondence Received (Copies available on request)

a

CVS South Gloucestershire – Newsletter, April-May 2008

b

Winterbourne Library Committee Report – April 2008

c

South Gloucestershire Senior Citizens Forum – Newsletter, Spring 2008

d

Avon Wildlife Trust – Natural World, Spring 2008

e

South Gloucestershire NHS Health Profiles (also at http://www.sglos-pct.nhs.uk/Public Health/reports and documents.htm)