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8th December 1914 – Finance Sub-Committee, reported on
14th January 1915 – Parks Committee
Mr Councillor Auster presented the following report of the Finance Sub-Committee:-
Statement of Income and Expenditure for the half year ended 30th September, compared with the estimated figures for the year.
Selly Oak Park:
Estimated Actual
£667 Expenditure £370
£ 19 Income £ 20
1379 Resolved:- That the Report be received, and entered upon the Minutes.
22nd February 1915 - Special Meeting of the Parks Committee
1431 The Chairman explained that the meeting had been convened for the purpose of reconsidering the estimates of expenditure for the financial year ending 31st March 1916. The following report of the Finance Sub-Committee was then read:-
Estimates of Expenditure 1915-16
It will be the recollection of your Committee that Minute No. 1426 approved the estimates of income and expenditure for the financial year ending 31st March 1916 as follows:-
Income £5,755
Expenditure £38,755
These estimates were duly forwarded to the Finance Committee and as a result of a conference which your Chairman has had with that Committee, it would appear that it was imperative that having regard to the extraordinary expenditure to which the Corporation were committed by reason of the outbreak of war and other matters, that expenditure of the Parks Committee must be reduced.
Your Sub-Committee have given the matter the most careful consideration and as a result they recommend that the estimates of expenditure of £33,000 be reduced by a sum of £3,000.
They have instructed the Parks Superintendent to go through the items of expenditure and report to your Committee as to what items can be reduced to meet the reduction of £3,000.
1432 Resolved:- That the report of the Finance Sub-Committee be received and entered upon the minutes.
1433 Resolved:- That the estimate of expenditure of the Committee for the financial year ending 31st March 1916 be reduced by the sum of £3,000 made up as follows:-
Selly Oak Park £50
1434 Resolved:- That Minute 1426 approving the estimates of income and expenditure of the Parks Committee for the financial year ending 31st March 1916 be rescinded and that in lieu thereof, the estimates of expenditure as now revised for the financial year ending the 31st day of March 1916, be approved at the sum of £30,000 and that the Finance Committee be informed accordingly.
1435 Resolved:- That the Report of the Finance Sub-Committee be approved.
18th March 1915 – Report of the Parks Department
Mr. Charles Wale commenced work in the park as a park policeman.
Register of Parks Employees and Officials[1]
Register no.: 171
Name: Wale, Charles Henry
Date of Birth: 16.3.1871
Date of entering service of Parks Department: 18.3.1915
Park or Cemetery at which employed: Selly Oak
Grade (under Committee Minute No. 4634): Parks Policeman
Rate of Pay: [£]2 – 15[s] – 7[d] [per week]
Nature of Emoluments (if any): Uniform and 30/- for boots.
26th April 1915 - Administration Sub-Committee
Employees
The Superintendent submitted the following list of employees who were not affected by the Council Minute granting increases of 2/- per week to men receiving less than 32/- per week.
Park Name Position held Present wages per week
Selly Oak J.T. Horton Keeper 32/- House, coal, gas
3rd May 1915 – Parks Committee
Park Keepers
The Superintendent here stated that he had been informed that the Park Keepers were about to petition the Committee to reconsider their decision with reference to the application for an increase in wages. After some consideration it was
1517 Resolved:- That all park keepers who are receiving a wage up to and including 40/- per week be granted an increase of 2/- per week, with the exception of Park Keepers Print, Finch, Bailey and Horton.
26th July 1915 – Parks Committee
(From a “Detailed Statement of Income and Expenditure for the year ended 31st March 1915”)
Selly Oak Park:
Estimated Actual
£667 Expenditure £507 16. 5
£ 19 Income £ 24 7. 9
26th July 1915 – Parks Committee
Northfield Tithe Redemption
The following report of the Town Clerk was received:-
Northfield Tithe Redemption
I have to report that the Board of Agriculture have given notice that in view of the existing circumstances, the Corporation can be excluded from the proceedings by means of an altered apportionment.
The annual amount of Tithe proposed to be charged on the properties belonging to your Committee is as follows:-
Part of Recreation Ground Selly Park )
Selly Oak Park ) £14. 8. 2
The Board inform me that if this apportionment is made, the Corporation can subsequently effect redemption on the lower scale of costs applicable to redemption effected voluntarily by landowners.
I shall be glad of your Committee’s instructions in this matter.
1615 Resolved:- That the Town Clerk be instructed to approve the apportionment of tithe amounting to £14. 8. 2 charged on the Recreation Ground at Selly Park and Selly Oak Park and to inform the Board of Agriculture that the Committee will make the annual payment of £14. 8. 2.
6th December 1915 – Parks Committee
(The following figures are included in a report of the Finance Sub-Committee on the estimates for 1916-17.)
Selly Oak Park:
Estimated,1915-16 Actual to 30th Sept 1915 Estimated 1916-17
Income £ 20 £ 7. 9. 8 £ 20
Expenditure £467 £133. 14. 4 £400
