RESOLVEN COMMUNITY COUNCIL
The Monthly Meeting of the Council was held on Thursday 6th February 2025 at 6pm at the Community Centre
Present/ Presennol
Mr. N. Francis – Chair/Cadeirydd
Councillors/Cynghorwy
Mr T. Jones, Mr L. Homes, Mr A. Jones, Mr P. Martin, Mr R. Coulter. Mrs J. Llewellyn
Clerk/Clerc
Mrs. C. Payne.
County Member/Aelod o’r Cyngor Sir Not present
10/25 Apologies for Absence/Ymddiheuriadau am absenoldeb
Mr N. Place, Mrs R. Parfitt, Mr P. Thomas, Mr K. Sims
11/25 Declarations of Interest/Datganiad o ddiddordeb personol
None
12/25 Minutes of the previous Meeting/Cofnodion y Cyfarfod Diwethaf
The Minutes of the Meeting held on Thursday 9th January 2025 were accepted as a true record.
13/25 Clerk’s report and Council Matters Arising/Materion yn codi o’r cofnodion
ac adroddiad y Clerc.
The Clerks gave a verbal report, there were no issues or matters arising
14/25 Correspondence
Cost of Living Crisis Project ‘Working with Partners: To Deliver Cost of Living Support to Your Community’ Webinar. 6/2/25
Blue Plaque scheme
15/25 Sub-Committee Reports
Parks Committee – No meeting in December – The major project for the next 2years is the new 3g pitch, providing we are able to obtain funding, therefore it will be general maintenance only in all the parks until such time as we are able to go ahead.
The hot water heater in the pavilion is not working and needs to be replaced, the clerk will contact the electrician for a quote.
16/25 Chairman’s Report
The Chair advised that the library has had a grant to repair the windows and install a new toilet with a grant from Ffynon Oer, and that the children from the school are now attending the library each week
There is still an urgent need for new volunteers to help out as there is no spare to cover sickness and holidays.
17/25 Councillors Reports
A Report on the liaison meeting of Neath Port Talbot Borough Council, and the Town and Community Councils.
The meeting was held at the Civic Centre in Port Talbot on Monday the 27th of February, it was a hybrid meeting with the majority attending online. The new Chief Executive, Frances O’Brien was present for the first time.
Future meetings will be held in Neath Civic Centre.
There were no Town and Community Council items, therefore the short meeting consisted of a breakdown of the Budget for 2025-26. NPT had received an increase of 4.4% which was very slightly above the average. This left the authority with a shortfall of £15 million on a proposed budget of £376.5 million in expenditure of which some 75% was in the form of RSV. Some £8 million had already been saved by cuts, but the remainder had to be tackled via a rise in council tax of around 7% subject to the finalisation of the Welsh Government’s budget in March. There were no compulsory redundancies and the proposed change to a
3 week refuse collection had been turned down.
Trefor Jones.
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