THE latest community news from Harlech

Bingo

MAY’S Bingo in Harlech’s poolside cafe was the penultimate session before the summer break, with the final event on Saturday, 22 June at 2.30pm.

Saturday saw more happy winners, with one very lucky lady in particular, and raised over £130 to help keep Ardudwy’s community run leisure centre open.

The leisure centre in Harlech serves Barmouth and the Ardudwy Coast and is run by the community for the community.

More help is always needed, especially with advertising, so if anyone is able to put up posters in their area advertising events such as Bingo and the regular themed meals that take place in the centre’s poolside cafe, please call in at reception, or call 01766 780576.

There are lots of other ways for people to get involved with helping, too, so if you’d like to be involved, drop in.

Community Council

WHEN taking over the chair on behalf of the council Cllr Huw Jones thanked Cllr Judith Strevens for all the work that she had done during the last year and best wishes for the future was conveyed to her and her husband.

The clerk reported that she had received a further e-mail from Gwynedd Council stating that they had put an application forward for a draft Lease Heads of Terms for the Castle toilets and this would highlight the responsibilities of both parties (Gwynedd Council and Harlech Community Council).

With regard to employing a cleaner this matter is entirely up to the community council who they wish to employ, this is nothing to do with Gwynedd Council, and the contract would be between the community Council and the cleaner only.

They hope to move on swiftly with the work of bringing the statement of terms together and then the community council can discuss it and if everybody is happy with this it will then be possible to arrange a lease very soon.

It was agreed to accept these Lease Heads of Terms and ask if a lease could be drawn up.

It was also agreed to ask Phil Griffiths if it would be possible for him to add these toilets to his list of toilets that he cleans.

The treasurer reported further that she had been to see the internal auditor and that she had received a good report and that all the books were in order and the account correct apart from the fact that the internal auditor had drawn attention to the fact that new Standing Orders and Financial Regulations are needed as the ones the council have are out of date.

Also there is a need for the council to comply with Section 81 of the Local Government Act 2000 by publishing the register of members’ interests and ensuring that the information and accounts are published on the website. It was agreed to put this matter on next month’s agenda.

The council received a letter from HM Land Registry informing the council that the Trustees of Rehoboth Chapel had presented an application to register the piece of land by the chapel cemetery and also the babtism pool. There was no objection to this.

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