Meetings are normally held at Gissing Community Building at 7:30pm, usually on the first Tuesday of every other month. Members of the public are welcome to attend - please see the Minutes and Agendas tab.
MEETINGS CALENDAR
Meeting Dates for 2023 (1st TUESDAY OF MONTH)
All meetings begin at 7.30 and are held at the Community Building
Tuesday 3 January 2023
Tuesday 7 March 2023
Tuesday 2 May 2023 (Annual Parish Meeting and Annual Meeting of the Parish Council)
Tuesday 6 June 2023 (Finance Meeting)
Tuesday 4 July 2023
Tuesday 5 September 2023
Tuesday 7 November 2023
The Role of the Clerk
The Clerk is the ‘Proper Officer’ of the Council who is responsible for the smooth running of the Council’s business. He or she is the first point of contact for the Council and all correspondence comes to the Clerk.
Responsibility for implementing the decisions of the Council rests with the Clerk along with giving professional guidance where necessary whilst remaining neutral and discrete. The Clerk is also responsible for financial management.
The Clerk prepares, circulates and displays agendas in public places. He or she signs notices and summonses with a list of business to be transacted but does not have the power to fix the meetings of the Council. The Clerk is required to attend meetings, take minutes, keep Council minutes in a book and hold other documents.
A member of the Council may be appointed as Clerk without remuneration but nowadays it is more usual to appoint someone who is not a councillor to be paid for the work they undertake.
