26th Feb 2025
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Vale Parish Publication 2025

Vale Parish

Publication 2025

The Rector and Churchwardens of the above Parish request the Electors and Ratepayers to meet at the Vale Douzaine Room on Wednesday 12th of March 2025 at 7:30 pm to transact the following business:-

  1. To pass the 2024 Trésor account before the Dean of Guernsey or his delegate.
  2. To pass the Churchwardens’ Parish Accounts for 2024 which have been duly examined.
  3. To appoint an examiner for the Churchwardens’ Parish Accounts for 2025.
  4. To elect a People’s Churchwarden to replace Mr Jeremy C. S. F. Smithies, who has resigned office as of today, for the unexpired term of office to 2026.
  5. To elect two Ratepayers to serve on the Vale Parish Church Property Management Board for the following year under Section 6(1)(d) of the Parochial Church Property (Guernsey) Law 2015 to replace Mr T. I. Ashworth whose term of office has expired but who is eligible for re-election and Mr C. W. Smith who does not wish to stand for re-election.
  6. To receive a report on the insurance of the Parish Church.
  7. To decide whether they are of the opinion to levy by means of Owners’ Rate the under-mentioned sums, as recommended by the Vale Parish Church Management Board, for the Churchwardens’ requirements during 2025:-

£

                a. Ordinary repairs and maintenance of the Parish Church

2000

                b. Extraordinary repairs to the Parish Church Including: -

                                Repairs to roof platform access to spire and gully

                                Carry out repairs to plasterwork adjacent to Font

5560

2000

                                Replaster section of West wall within the choir vestry

2000

                                Attend to roof slates, leadwork, water gully

2000

                                Preliminaries and contingencies; scaffolding

2000

                                Professional fees

2500

                c. Insurance of the Parish Church

4000

                d. Upkeep of Parish Church clock

750

                e. Remuneration to bellringers for public occasions and upkeep of bells

390

                f. Contribution towards cost of floodlights

250

23450

                        Refunds for work not undertaken, superseded or deferred

-12610

                                                                                                                                                                Total

10840

  1. Any other relevant business.
  2. To request the Constables to apply to the Royal Court for a Remède to levy the sums voted.

The Reverend Beverley J. Hervé, Rector

Mr Michael Bubb, Rector’s Churchwarden

Mr Jeremy C. S. F. Smithies, People’s Churchwarden

This notice was published in the Guernsey Press on 26th Feb 2025