CC January 2025 Agenda
DEEPING ST JAMES PARISH COUNCIL
The Institute, 38 Church Street, Deeping St James, PE6 8HD
E-mail: clerk@deepingstjames-pc.gov.uk
Tel: 01778 343266
Webpage: //deeping-st-james.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk
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The Institute, 38 Church Street, Deeping St James, PE6 8HD
E-mail: clerk@deepingstjames-pc.gov.uk
Tel: 01778 343266
Webpage: //deeping-st-james.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk
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Dear Councillors Bowell, Halls, Hosking, Shinkins-Hoppe, Stevens and Townsin
You are hereby summonsed to attend a meeting of the Cemetery Committee which will be held on Tuesday 7 January 2025 at 7.00pm in the meeting at the Institute.
Julie Fortnum
Parish Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer
Issued on Monday 23 December 2024
AGENDA
25.21 To receive apologies of absence.
25.22 To receive any declarations of interest.
25.23 To agree the minutes of the last meeting held on Tuesday 3 September 2024.
25.24 Clerks report.
25.25 To receive an update about the relaying of the slabbed footpaths in section E laying of a footpath in the recently extended section of the Cemetery (section F).
25.26 To consider the current Cemetery regulations
a) regarding headstone materials (natural and manmade) and graveside memorabilia following an article in a local newspaper advising that a local company is to offer graveside products adorned with Swarovski crystals and glass inlays
b) regarding graveside memorabilia following a noticeable increase in ornamentation made from glass ceramic plastic and fabric materials being placed on a number of graves
25.28 To consider several recent pieces of correspondence about grass cuttings and mud being left on memorials following cutting /strimming and agree a way forward to avoid this.
25.29. To receive an update regarding the application to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which is being administered by SKDC, towards the Cemetery biodiversity project
If required, to RESOLVE to move into closed session in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 due to the confidential nature of the business to be discussed in relation to the following matter.
24.30 To receive an update about the request for exhumation following the burial in a grave reserved for another and the Freedom of Information requests which have been received that relate to this.
If required, to RESOLVE to move of out of closed session.
25.31 To note the date of the next meeting – Date to be agreed at the Annual Parish Council meeting on Tuesday 20 May 2025