Meetings are normally held at the Gooderstone School Hall at 6.30pm. Members of the public are welcome to attend - please contact the Clerk to request access details.
MEETINGS CALENDAR
Meeting Dates for 2024/2025
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19th May 2025 6:00pm Annual Parish Assembly - Gooderstone Primary School
19th May 2025 6:30pm Annual Parish Council Meeting - Gooderstone Primary School
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19th June 2025 6:30pm (extra meeting to approve Internal Audit & 24/25 Accounts) -Gooderstone Water Gardens
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21st July 2025 6:30pm - Gooderstone Water Gardens
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15th September 2025 6:30pm - Gooderstone Water Gardens
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17th November 2025 6:30pm - Gooderstone Primary School
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19th January 2026 6:30pm - Gooderstone Primary School
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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/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. She/he 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.
