Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the report of the Town Clerk/RFO - To Follow

If appropriate, declare the Precept for 2020/21 or alternatively defer and agree a date in January 2020 for an Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the Council - but NO LATER than 27 January 2020.

The Mayor asked members if, having heard the presentation from the Town Clerk, considered her reports and engaged in debate, they were ready to decide on the level of precept for 2020/21.   Members voted on this with 8 in favour of this and 5 against. The Mayor did not vote.

A member proposed setting the increase to the precept at 10%.  Members voted on this with 10 members voting in favour, 3 members voting against and 1 member abstaining.

Cllr Collins left the meeting at 8.45pm.

It was therefore agreed that the precept should be increased by 10% for 2020/21, and that the Town Clerk should sign and serve the precept on the West Oxfordshire District Council of £1, 628, 699 in respect of Council Tax for the town.

RESOLVED:     that the Town Clerk be authorised to sign and serve a precept on the West Oxfordshire District Council, in accordance with the appropriate provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended), requiring the District Council to pay the Town Council the sum of £1, 628, 699 in respect of Council Tax for the town during the financial year 2020/21.