Clerk & Responsible Financial Officer
Sofia Hillman
The 1972 Local Government Act gives the Community Council’s Proper Officer (who is commonly the Clerk) certain responsibilities. As the council‘s Proper Officer, the Clerk is regarded as the Community Council’s most senior member of staff.
Obvious examples include receiving and sending council correspondence, handling face to face, telephoned and emailed queries relating to the council’s powers and activities, updating the council’s website, taking minutes of meetings, keeping the council‘s minute book up to date and available for inspection, the initial handling of requests for information under Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the initial handling of complaints (except when the complaint relates to the Clerk).
Other delegations to the Clerk may be appropriate. This will depend on the size and activities of the council, the Clerk’s level of experience and qualifications. The clerk is authorised to purchase, for example, basic office equipment or supplies or to arrange emergency repairs to council equipment up to a fixed sum which is subject to arrangements which control the council’s finances.
Clerk@StNicholasBonvilston-cc.Wales
The 1972 Local Government Act gives the Community Council’s Proper Officer (who is commonly the Clerk) certain responsibilities. As the council‘s Proper Officer, the Clerk is regarded as the Community Council’s most senior member of staff.
Obvious examples include receiving and sending council correspondence, handling face to face, telephoned and emailed queries relating to the council’s powers and activities, updating the council’s website, taking minutes of meetings, keeping the council‘s minute book up to date and available for inspection, the initial handling of requests for information under Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the initial handling of complaints (except when the complaint relates to the Clerk).
Other delegations to the Clerk may be appropriate. This will depend on the size and activities of the council, the Clerk’s level of experience and qualifications. The clerk is authorised to purchase, for example, basic office equipment or supplies or to arrange emergency repairs to council equipment up to a fixed sum which is subject to arrangements which control the council’s finances.
Clerk@StNicholasBonvilston-cc.Wales
