The Council meeting on December 6th confirmed the budget as discussed at the
Revenue & Resources meeting.
The meeting resolved not to delay the actual setting of the precept to take account of the work of the Festivals Working Party, but to include the budget figures for the Festivals and ask the Working Party to continue their work bringing recommendations back for consideration in the New Year.
The meeting had a presentation by a representative of Atkins about a proposal by Wessex Water to build a flood alleviation scheme on the New Road play area. We were concerned that when the scheme was completed, they were proposing that the access would have to be fenced off permanently to make maintenance work safe. We could forsee the inevitability of balls going into the area and children being forced to trespass to retrieve them. We were not convinced that Wessex Water had considered alternatives to this site and decided to ask a representative of Wessex Water to come to talk to us.
