Minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on
Tuesday 12th January 2016
Drax Community Primary School
Present: Councillors S Greenwood; N Brownbridge;
H Brownbridge; P Roberts
In attendance County Councillor Jordan, District Councillor Peart and three members of the public.
Tuesday 12th January 2016
Drax Community Primary School
Present: Councillors S Greenwood; N Brownbridge;
H Brownbridge; P Roberts
In attendance County Councillor Jordan, District Councillor Peart and three members of the public.
- Apologies were received from Councillor Swift.
- The minutes of the meeting held on 6th October 2015 were approved and signed.
- The budget was approved and and the precept was approved in the sum of £2,500; A payment of £20 was approved for the wreath for the war memorial.
- The contract for the grass cutting was to go out to tender.
- The Council was satisfied with the manner in which the East Riding had dealt with the bridge works by ensuring the council was kept informed of progress. However the Council was concerned about the lack of information in relation to the road itself and that only a small part had been resurfaced and the opportunity had been missed to refurbish the road during the closure.
- The Parish was not flooded during the recent extremely wet conditions notwithstanding a serious flood alert. However the there are two areas of concern where the river bank was failing namely at Ferry Corner and Jemmins which had been reported to the Environment Agency and sand bags had been provided by the EA.
- It was reported that the new Council Infrastructure levy would not affect the parish.
- The Chair was to purchase a suitable shrub to replace the fallen tree at the war memorial.
- The next meeting was fixed for Tuesday 12th April 2016 at the school at 730 pm.
- Following a discussion it was agreed that NYCC would be approached to provide monitoring for speeding in the village.