The Tetney Parish Council is made up of 9 elected members - comprising a Chairperson, Vice-Chair and 7 members - who work for the benefit of the community and all local residents. The Parish Council is fully accountable and subject to detailed audit.
The Clerk to the Parish Council is a part-time employee working a minumum of 56 hours per month, and is subject to normal employment laws.
Meetings take place on the second Thursday of each month except in August and December and are held in the St John's Methodist Chapel school room starting at 7.30pm. There is a short open forum where members of the public may comment on parish matters (limited to 3 minutes per person) starting at 7.15pm.
All enquiries about this website or content, please contact the Tetney Parish Clerk at clerk@tetneyparishcouncil.gov.uk .
Your parish councillors are:
Cllr R Coles - Chair and council liasion to the primary school
Cllr S McMillan - Vice Chair and District Councillor
Cllr Y Fletcher - Councillor and representative for St. John's Chapel
Cllr R. Lukehurst - Councillor and representative to Tetney Playing foeld & Village Hall Association & St. Peters' & St. Paul's church
Cllr J. Kerman - Councillor
Cllr A. Moorby - Councillor and representative to the Girl Guiding group.
Cllr M Anderson - Councillor and representative to Lincolnshire County Council transport
Cllr T Evans - Councillor
The Parish Councils' duties and responsibilities include:
- Management of the allotments.
- Management and ownership of Tetney cemetery.
- Management and ownership of the public toilets.
- Management and ownership of all benches, flower planters, red dog waste bins, black litter bins (emptied twice weekly by ELDC), yellow salt bins, notice boards and flag pole.
- Management and ownership of bus shelters.
- Management and ownership of the War Memorial.
- Management and ownership of all white posts, chains and bollards at the cemetery, Jubilee Gardens, Market Place tree and public toilets.
- Grounds maintenance at Jubilee Gardens, St. John's Methodist chapel, St. Peters' & St. Pauls' church, cemetery, public toilets, Market Place tree and the verge outside the primary school.
- Reviewing and commenting on all planning applications as statutory consultees.
- Liaising with relevant authorities relating to infrastructure, policing and community issues.
- Remembrance poppies.
- Christmas illuminations on the Market Place tree.
Assets include: Public toilets, 4 notice boards, cemetery shed, flagpole, 2 bus shelters, 10 benches, 10 litter bins, 6 dog waste bins, war memorial, 5 grit bins, 2 interactive portable speed signs, 2 flower planters, remembrance poppies.