 Fel cael cael myfyrwch, o'r ffrindwyr, i'n oesaf am y gwblod i'r gweithio, ond ti'n gwneud o'r myfyrwch cymdeithas i Gwllysgwyr. Fe ffyrwch ddiwrnod 25 oesio... 1924, gyda'r hyn. 2024. Fel cael myfyrwch. Fy fyddwch ym Mhwlyf, oedd yn Unedig. Oedden nhw, rydyn ni'n edrych. Rydyn ni'n edrych i gael. Rydyn ni'n edrych i gael. Rydyn ni'n edrych i gael. GO 1 – Ap challenging on absences? Thank you, chair, we've refused any apologies for the absence. Although we don't have John Williams with us at the moment. Ok, he needs to give us apologies really the Governor. Decorations of interest from the colleagues, to anything on the agenda today. Perfect. Fy o ran, maeth o'r cyflawni. Mae'r straff ddechrau deoliad. Ond mae'n gwybod eu Appam, ond maes yn gwneud ei gweld. Mae yma'r adegau gyda'n y pethau yn sicr. Proses i hes調ed o'r adegau. Felly mae'n gweithio'n adegau o pob yma. Llywodraeth y mae'r adegau o'r adegau yn cael £2531 a £1,265, fel ar y teimlo ar y ond yma, mae'n brif Weinidog yng Nghaerdydd ym mwrth yng Nghaerdydd. Felly, rydyn ni'n ddwybod i'n gwneud. Mae'r ffordd iawn i gyda gael yma, a y rhaid i'n gwybodaeth a'r cymrydau cymrydau a'r hollun sy'n 17,027,00. Dydyn ni'n ddweud i gyfyrdd yma, mae'n ddweud i gyfrydau cymrydau a'r hollun. On to page 11, this is St Nicholas Church Barochwil Church Council. That was formed in 1956 and has nine trustees. The application here is related to the churchyard. This is visited by many people from the local community and beyond. That's for example obviously people that visit graves, those that enjoy walking, and the children who attend the local school. It also forms part of the safe route to the school. And also birdwatchers often visit as the graveyard is home to the rare spotted flycatcher. The churchyard is part of the conservation area, the local conservation area. It has areas that have been rewilded and is regularly maintained. They've also joined the Cambridge Churchyard Conservation Award scheme and they've also got a bronze award for this. Funding is for a secure shed, which is needed to house a new mower that they would like to purchase. This shed would also house other equipment as well, not just mower. Total costs are £2,378 and £2,000 has been requested from the community chest. They do have plans to carry out rainwater harvesting from the shed, the roof of the shed to provide water for the churchyard during the dry times in the summer. The parish council, as you can see, they haven't provided any funding. They have discussed it, they obviously support the project in principle, but they are unable to commit to any financial contribution. We have support from two councillors, Councillor Graham Cohn and Carla Hoffman. Thank you. Colleagues, comments please. Councillor Samford. Thank you, Chair. I'm rather disappointed to see they're proposing to acquire a new petrol mower when there are many perfectly adequate rechargeable electrical ones around, but as they're not asking us for funding towards the mower, just for the storage shed, I think this is fine. We can support this application. Thank you, Councillor Henry. I don't think we've supported church applications in the past. I notice that the parish council won't support it because it's the church, so I'm not sure that we can or we should. That's my view. I was looking at that and I believe it's because it's become a charity that we can. I think in the past we haven't been able to help churches like we don't help schools and things, but I know my parish council isn't allowed to help the church, even though there's a war memorial in it. Emma's got something to say and she's probably more intelligent than I am. I just wanted to say that if it's for the benefit of the wider community, that's the main purpose, obviously, for the community chest. Obviously, as you can see from this application, it does benefit the wider community. I know that parish councils, I think there's some role that they can't give funding to religious organisations. Thank you, Emma. I actually think I was talking to a colleague on Melbourne Parish Council yesterday and he informed me that the law has been changed for parish councils that just cabalc for us cabalc are just getting their act together to issue the guidance, but apparently parish councils will now be allowed to help parish churches on my own. I imagine there must be all churches, otherwise that would be changed in court. That's coming this way, so I'm assuming that will affect us as well, if the law is going to be changed in that way. Stand by for a deluge. Thank you. Sorry, I hear what all of you are saying, but I think that we should support it because it's not just about the church. It's about people are using that area. So, I mean, I also don't question the petrol more, but as Peter said, we're not involved in that. Okey dokey, then. I'll take it. Do you want to go to a show of hands? I'm going to abstain on this, I'm not convinced. I need to go to a show of hands in, right? So, those in favour, show of hands please, are those against and those abstaining? Thank you very much. Maybe Emma can feed our comments about the petrol mower back to the applicant. Obviously we can't influence their decision to give them feedback, please. When you're ready, Emma, we'll have the other one. Thank you. So, on page 12, we have the community-led plan application. This is from that ring events fund. We haven't had an application from this pot for a while, so it's good to see this application. It's from Litslington Parish Council. They previously undertook a community-led plan back in 2015, and obviously as a few years have now passed, it needs to be refreshed. The new plan will enable the parish council to agree on future initiatives and how best to spend the precept in the community. You can see a copy of the questionnaire that they're proposing to send out to consult with the community, and that's in Appendix C. This is obviously useful to us in the communities team, as we'll be able to be in touch with them enough for obviously any help obviously regarding this, and especially as we have our new community-led plan toolkit on the websites, that's quite useful. £531 has been requested from the community chairs for the printing costs, for 330 questionnaires, and 100 copies of the finished plan. The working group also intends to provide a £100 prize draw as an incentive for residents to return the questionnaire, and we have said this is something that they will need to fund themselves, and they are aware that we cannot do this. I'll just point that one out, and we have support from councillors, Susan Vanzer, then. Thank you. Thank you, Emma. Colleagues, comments, because I've got one, with regards to the £100 draw. Anybody else got anything to say on it? In that case, I don't think we should be funding the £100 draw. If the parish council want to do that, then fill their boots. But I don't think that's for us to do. I'm going to look to the financial lead, whatever your title is now. John Williams has just joined the meeting, so thank you for coming, John. This is the Llywodraethan Parish Plan application, and the subject matters. There's only a small amount of funding, but it includes a £100 prize draw. Just value your thoughts. If anyone else has got any, well, John, Mike fires up. Thank you. Apologies, this was an accident on the A14. I don't agree with funding a prize draw, to be honest, from the community chest. I'm happy that obviously the neighbourhood plan process is funded, but not a prize draw. I don't think that's the purpose of the community fund. Councillor Hanley. I agree with you both. I agree with what you're saying about £100, but my question is why are we funding a parish council? Surely parish councils have the ability to raise their own funds, and we were not, in the past, indicated that we really think they ought to raise their own funds and not come asking the district council for money. Emma. This is the ring-fenced fund in the criteria. It states that parish councils of any size can apply for a community-led plan community chest application. Obviously, yes, it would be good if the parish council could. Just draw your attention that there is actually 43,249 pounds left in the pot currently, so there's plenty of funds. But I understand your points, thank you. Is Lyttlington big enough for a preset? May not be, maybe one of the small it is. I suppose in the long run, as I was just saying to Sue, I suppose it benefits South Cams as a whole to fund the community-led plans because ultimately they feed into the local planner. I think everything is just top-notch. We've been encouraging the development of community-led plans. I think it would be a bit perverse to say no to this myself. Cancer Savings. I agree with the previous comments. If there's money in the pot to fund this, we should fund the questionnaire and the printing, but not the prize draw. 531, not 631. I'm totally against the prize draw, but I think the questionnaire and the final plan would be useful. Just to clarify, Emma, the 531 is the sum that we will be authorising, which doesn't include 100. I'm looking around the room and I think we're unanimous in that one, so thank you very much. Emma, there's a small amendment. Would you like to speak to that? Yes. This is a criteria change suggestion in relation to the number of parish councils that can apply to the community chest, and this is for the main non-ring-fenced fund. None of those ones like the community-led plan, the cost of living or the biodiversity, because any parish council size could apply for those. Details can be found in paragraphs 11 and 12 on page 7 and also in appendix D on page 29. The 160 elector threshold was introduced into the guidance back in 2018. In the last two years, only four parish councils in this category have received funding, totaling almost £4,000, and then three of these were lower value, should I say, Queen's Jubilee applications. I'd like to ask members to potentially consider raising this to 200 electors to allow for six additional parishes to be given the opportunity to apply, those parishes being gravely, Croydon, Hildersham Boxworth, Hayden and Great Everston. If you are in agreements, I would also like to ask if you would also agree to the 10% threshold that we have. We have a 10% leeway either way, depending on whether the application shows good cause, basically. Thank you very much. Colleagues, would you like to hear from Councillor Williams first or after we've had a quick gymwag about it? First. First, OK John. Actually I wanted to hear your views first. That's fair enough. Councillor Henley. Pretty aware that we're not in a position where we're scratching around for funding at the end of the financial year, so it would seem to me to be a sensible thing to do to increase the scope of this, to include these other small parishes. Thank you. Councillor Hanson. I would be very happy for us to do that, because inevitably all our little villages are increasing in numbers anyway, so we're going to get long stay dropped off the peg soon if they have another 40 or 50 or fewer people. So I think we should be thinking about that. Thank you. Councillor Samford. Thank you Chair. I should probably declare an interest in the gravely and boxworth of both parishes in my ward. Naturally I would support their inclusion in the new criteria, but I'll let the rest of the committee decide for that reason. I think that doesn't count here, you're doing your job. Top of the banana. Councillor Hurrah. I agree with what's been said by the viewers. That's lovely. I think we're all in agreement, so it's over to you Councillor Williams. OK, I'm happy with that, if that's what the committee wants. OK, right then, in that case then, but is there any kind of procedural process or is this it? We're now legally OK to do this here, or does it have to go somewhere else for ratification? Far as we're concerned, we're in support, so I'll just leave that one with you just to make sure that we're not going to be challenged from the outside council that they're doing something wrong. But if it's OK to crack on, you have our undying support. Would you be kind enough, if there is no legal issues, to write to the affected Paris councils and inform them that that would be the case? And also the two 10% as we call them, Babrum and Kingston, to say that they are essentially now included, if you like. OK, thanks. You're all done now, aren't you? Well, I think that's it. I think we had a very short agenda today, there's nothing more of it. So I'd just like to thank everybody for coming along, John for struggling against the traffic and what have you and everybody else and also our officers as well for putting on such a fine show. But ultimately, I understand the queue to join the meeting for the general public using the thousands and not all of them have been able to join today. So I'd just like to say thank you to all those who have managed to join and it's a very happy and goodbye from us and it's a goodbye from them. So that'll be the end of the meeting. Thank you very much indeed. Bye-bye.