Cllr Joseph Bergin, Chairman of the Finance Committee of Alderley Edge Parish Council prepared a report which was delivered at the Annual Parish Meeting on Monday, 14th May.
Cllr Bergin explained that the precept for 2012/2013 has been increased from £90,000 to £120,000 to "enable a similar level of spending; continue the partial funding of the Police Community Support Officer – Jim Newns; provide monies to maintain the Festival Hall and ensure it remains fit for purpose; allow for continuing expenses for the proposed redevelopment of the Festival Hall and fund the repayments required for the Festive Lighting loan."
The Parish Council spent £112,412 during the last Council year. The main items of expenditure include £52,246 operational costs for the Festival Hall, £18,317 personnel costs and £18,157 on Christmas lights.
Click here to read Cllr Joseph Bergin's finance report in full.
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I agree that the old format is far more informative than the report attached to this article. Will the finance report in the old format also be made public?
The Accounts in the Old Format were available at the April Meeting for the year to the end of March 2012. The requirement from the Audit Commission is only to produce a page of balances which, to me, was unhelpful both to Parish Councillors and to the public. That is why I continued to produce accounts in detail for every quarterly Finance Meeting. I think there are about 6 pages, including notes.
Cllr Joseph Bergin has taken over and he agreed that we wanted to provide the best information we could.
They are in the public domain; the Library will have a copy this morning if you can't wait for the Clerk to email you a copy on Monday.