Policies, Procedures and Information
The following documents are available to download for your information:
- BTC Standing Orders 2023
- BTC Financial Regulations 2023
- BTC- Scheme of Delegation
- LGA Councillor Code of Conduct adopted July 2021
- BTC-recording-at-meetings-policy
- BTC Freedom of Information Scheme
- BTC-health-safety-policy
- BTC-complaints-procedure
- BTC Disciplinary Procedure
- BTC memorial-safety-inspection-procedure
- BTC grant-request-form
- BTC-general-risk-assessment-v2
- Privacy & Data Protection notice
- BTC Data Retention Policy Dec 2017
- BTC – Staff & Councillor Privacy Notice
- BTC GDPR Subject Access Request Policy
- BTC Data Breach Policy
- BTC Events Policy
- BTC Website Accessibility Statement 2021
- BTC Social Media Comments Policy 2022
- BTC Market Hill Trading Policy
- Market Hill Trading Licence Application form
Transparency Code
Summary Transparency Code Information
Expenditure exceeding £500
Local authorities must publish details of each individual item of expenditure that exceeds £500. This includes items of expenditure, consistent with Local Government Association guidance. This must be published quarterly. The Town Council publishes all transactions. See below
Government Procurement Card Transactions
Local authorities must publish details of every transaction on a Government Procurement Card. This must be published quarterly.
The Town Council does not use a government procurement card as defined by the code.
Procurement (Contract) Information
Publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £5,000. Publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000. This must be published quarterly. See below:
Parking Account
Local authorities must publish on their website, or place a link on their website to this data if published elsewhere: a breakdown of income and expenditure on the authority’s parking account, and how the authority has spent a surplus on its parking account. Bawtry Town Council retains some of its surplus as earmarked reserves for car park maintenance with any further surplus spent on day to day running costs in the delivery of the other services provided by the Town Council, for the benefit of the community.
Income & Expenditure must be published annually – See below:
Car Park Receipts Received Dec -Mar 2023
Car Park Payments Dec-Mar 2023
Car Park Receipts Received Apr-Jul 2023
Car Park Payments Apr-July 2023
Car Park Receipts Received Aug-Nov 2023
Car Park Payments Aug-Nov 2023
Parking Spaces
Local authorities must publish the number of marked out controlled on and off-street parking spaces within their area, or an estimate of the number of spaces where controlled parking space is not marked out in individual parking bays or spaces. This must be published annually.
The Council has approximately 106 off-street Pay & Display parking spaces on Market Hill, Market Place, Bawtry It has no on-street or other parking provision
Local Authority Land
Local authorities must publish details of all land and building assets. This must be published annually. See below
Social Housing Asset Value
Local authorities must publish details on the value of social housing assets within local authorities Housing Revenue Account. This must be published annually.
The Town Council does not hold any Social Housing Assets.
Grants to Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Organisations
Publish details of all grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. See below:
(The Town Council’s Grant Award Policy & Application Form, can be downloaded from the Services page on our website).
Senior Salaries & Pay Multiple
The Town Council is required to publish details of any senior employees earning over £50,000 per annum. This must be published annually.
The Council has no staff earning in excess of £50,000.
Publish the pay multiple on their website defined as the ratio between the highest taxable earnings for the given year (including base salary, variable pay, bonuses, allowances and the cash value of any benefits-in-kind) and the median earnings figure of the whole of the authority’s workforce. This must be published annually.
The pay multiple for the Town Council as at 1.09.23 is 2.44
Organisation Chart
Publish an organisation chart covering staff in the top three levels of the organisation. This must be published annually.
Trade Union Facility Time
This must be published annually
The Town Council does not have any Trade Union representatives.
Constitution
Local authorities must publish their Constitution on their website. This must be published annually
The Standing Orders and Financial Regulations can be downloaded under Policies & Procedures above.
Waste Contracts
Local authorities must publish details of their existing waste collection contracts at the point they first publish quarterly contract information. This is a one-off publication.
See procurement information above.
Health & Safety
- Market Hill Risk assessment
- Cemetery Risk Assessment (1)
- Wharf Street Play Park risk assessment 2023
- Wharf St Field Risk Assessment 2023
- The New Hall Health & Safety Risk Assessment
Budget & Precept
- Annual Budget – By Combined Account Code 2023-24 agreed
- Annual Budget – By Combined Account Code 2022-23 agreed
- Annual Budget – By Combined Account Code 2021-22 agreed
- Annual Budget – By Combined Account Code 2020-21 agreed
- Annual Budget – By Combined Account Code 2018-19 agreed
Audit
- Notice of Conclusion of Audit 2022-23
- AGAR 2022-23 Audited
- Notice of Commencement 2022-23
- AGAR 2021-22 audited
- AGAR 2020-21 audited
- AGAR 2019-20 audited
- AGAR 2018-19 audited
- AGAR 2017-18 audited