Present:
| Members | Present | Apologies | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chair: Cllr M Horwood | ✓ | Holiday | |
| Deputy Chair: Cllr P Brown | ✓ | Personal Circumstances | |
| Cllr C Barnes | ✓ | Personal Circumstances | |
| Cllr G Darrington | ✓ | ||
| Cllr P Darrington | ✓ | ||
| Cllr J Knight | ✓ | ||
| Cllr C Prestedge | ✓ | ||
| Cllr L Taylor | ✓ | ||
| Cllr E Uttley | ✓ |
Officers:
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – Ryan Hayman
Senior Executive Assistant – Adele Farrier
Also Present:
Cllr R Wood
Public: NONE PRESENT
MEETING COMMENCED: 19:03
12408 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
Cllr M Horwood
Cllr P Brown
Cllr C Barnes
RFO Stephen Innes
12409 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
NONE
12410 MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
To approve as correct the Minutes of the Meeting held on Wednesday 19th February 2025.
APPROVED AND SIGNED
12411 – TO RECEIVE THE MONTHLY FINANCES
Civic Centre
8200 – Donations – £10,000 youth services for West Kent and £50 to Royal British Legion for Harry Chapman’s sponsored walk for VE Day.
Olympic
4609 – Snooker Income has already exceeded budget of £15,000 as currently £19,216.84. The Olympic overall is doing well and the rooms are being hired out.
Swanley Park
Overall income is down due to the winter months, but we are doing better than previous year for the same period.
Rental income for the cafe will show in the next month’s report.
New income stream from Splash Pool to charge non-Swanley residents £1 and to be an incentive to honour the bookings made and improve overall footfall to the park.
Housing Stock
It was noted that rental income is now being paid on time.
Swanley Link
White recycle bags are no longer being sold at the link and all the existing stock has been used. If we are to buy again it would be at an increased cost to the customer as the bags are no longer subsidised.
Estates
4209 – Service Recharge – Trollies collection income has increased as more trollies are being taken from stores at the customers have been able to work around the technical restrictions.
Payments Out
Swanley Town Council received a £4,000 grant to support local business and this was spilt with £3,000 on mystery shopping to form a gap analysis to see where we can help businesses going forward and £1,000 for business partnership.
Aged Creditors/Debtors
Elim Church has paid outstanding debt.
RESOLVED – accepted reports A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I/J
Date of next meeting – Wednesday 23rd April 2025
MEETING CLOSED AT: 19:37
SIGNED: 23/04/2025
Cllr M Horwood
Chair of Policy and Finance
