Dear Oakham Town Council
I send this question assuming the Clerk is going to return our right according to standing orders
to the agenda of the next meeting?
I ask the following question after the council has refused my right as a Cllr and elector to
inspect and obtain bank statements for the period which covers August 2016.
For some time now bank statements have been provided to all Cllrs this one was withheld
from the statement of accounts for August 2016. An inspection is required to ensure
that Mr X was paid £18,000 and Not Mr Y it is a duty of any parish councillor to scrutinise
any payment made from public funds and it is unacceptable for the council to withhold
an entire months of payment evidence based on a false claim of data protection.
Cllr question for next meeting:
Oakham Town Council has refused myself and all members access to the August Bank Statements.
and exempt minutes for the same period.
Cllrs have a right to inspect and obtain all bank statements as do electors according to the
audit act. Apart from the £18,000 salary payments made in August 2016 to a person not correctly
named in the schedule of payments, perhaps there are other payments shown in that month which
the council do not want members to see, when will the council permit members and electors
their rights to inspect and obtain copies of all statement and receipts?
From
Martin Brookes (Cllr OSE)
