August 2007

AGENDA

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MEETING:                    FINANCE & RESOURCES COMMITTEE

VENUE:                        Yoredale, Bainbridge

DATE/TIME:                  Monday 6 August at 10.30 am

[Membership:  To be decided at the Authority meeting on 31 July 2007.]

Business

1. Membership of the Committee.

2. Election of Chairman.

3. Election of Deputy Chairman.

4. Public minutes of the meeting held on 9 May 2007.

5. Public Question Time.

The National Park Authority has allocated up to 15 minutes at the start of meetings to allow members of the public the opportunity to ask questions and/or to make statements that relate to the work of the Committee.

Written notice of all questions and/or the intention to make a statement must be received by the Chief Executive (National Park Officer) at Yoredale, Bainbridge, Leyburn DL8 3EL no later than 12 noon on the day before the meeting.

Each person will be allowed to address the meeting for up to three minutes.

6. Exclusion of the public from the meeting during the consideration of those items of business listed in column 1 of the following table on the grounds that each involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 specified in column 2:

Item No on the Agenda                              Paragraph No
   19                                                             1, 3 and 5    
   20                                                                     3    
   21                                                                     3

7. Apologies for absence.

8. Declarations of the existence and nature of personal interests.

9. Declarations of lobbying.

10. Financial progress report: 1^st Quarter to 30 June 2007.

11. Opportunities Fund: Spending Proposals.

12. Personnel Policies.

13. Special Leave for Public Duties.

14. Proposed Review of Staff Travel Costs.

15. Training and Development Update.

16. Health and Safety.

17. Staffing Matters.

18. Sickness Absence.

PRIVATE BUSINESS –MINUTES/REPORT CIRCULATED TO MEMBERS ONLY

19. Private Minutes of the meeting held on 9 May 2007.

20. Insurance Cover and the Authority.

21. Review of the lease of the Aysgarth Falls Coffee Shop.

22. Such other business as, in the opinion of the Chairman, should, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency.

David Butterworth, Chief Executive
National Park Office, Yoredale, Bainbridge

27 July 2007