Minutes - Recreation and Amenities Committee Meeting

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Present:

Councillors:Rosemary Sign [Chairman]
Dawn-Marie Cox
Liz James
Jim Marshall
Denis Welstead
Sarah White

Clerk: Colin Arnett

Public: 0

Presentation by Tim Griffin – Landscape Architect – on his Proposals for Church Green

Tim Griffin gave a detailed presentation on his proposals for Church Green and answered questions. Members were appreciative of his efforts and Cllr Sign thanked him for attending the meeting

RA/08/60 Apologies for Absence

None

RA/08/61 Election of Chairman and Vice Chairman

Cllr Sign was elected Chairman being proposed by Cllr James and seconded by Cllr Marshall.
Cllr Marshall was elected Vice-Chairman being proposed by Cllr Sign and seconded by Cllr Welstead.

All members voted for the appointments except Cllr Cox who abstained

RA/08/62 Public Question Time

None

RA/08/63 Minutes of the Meeting held on 14 May 2008.

The minutes were agreed as a true record of the meeting and were signed by Cllr Sign.

RA/08/64 Matters Arising from the Meeting of the 14 May 2008

• RA/08/51 Abbots Worthy Bus Shelter – the clerk confirmed that the new plaque, together with the one from the old shelter had now been installed.
  
  
• RA/08/51 London Road Triangle – the clerk was awaiting a response from WCC regarding the sowing of wild flower seeds. HCC had been notified of the poor state of many of the bollards.
  
  
• RA/08/57 Junior Football – Scandor had agreed to release the two junior pitches a week earlier for practice matches.

RA/08/65 Project Updates

The clerk tabled a project status report [Copy attached].

• Church Green – Members agreed that the proposals from the landscape architect should now proceed to public consultation. A tentative date of the 2 July 2008 [6pm-8pm] for an exhibition was agreed pending confirmation of the availability of Tim Griffin and the venue of the Church Rooms.
  
  The clerk was asked to prepare a flyer to advertise the event. Cllr White agreed to distribute the flyer.
  Action – the clerk
  
  
• Equipment for the over 60’s – Members agreed that representatives of the initiators of the petition for the equipment should be invited to join the meeting with Wicksteed.
  
  
• Replacement Seats – the clerk confirmed that the Finance Committee had allocated an initial £4,000 to the project with the balance for the completion of the project being considered later in the year.
  
  
• Fryers Close – a request had been received from a parishioner for the PC to maintain the area and install a dog-bin. The clerk indicated that he is pursuing both matters. Action – the clerk
  

RA/08/66 Web-site

Cllr James reported that the designer is now working to complete the web-site and that a draft should be circulated to members before the next meeting. The anticipated “live date” is now August/September 2008.

RA/08/67 Newsletter

Cllr James confirmed that next edition of the newsletter would be with the printers within the next two weeks.

RA/08/68 Clerks Notices

• Willis Waye Notice Board – a request had been received from Cllr Gordon for a replacement notice board in Willis Waye. Whilst members were sympathetic, they decided to defer a request for funding to the Finance Committee as they considered this to be of a low priority.
  
  
• Football Pitches – the Finance Committee had approved the funding for the renovation work on the football pitches at Eversley Park during the summer. This included vertidrain, overseeding, fertilising and weedkilling, but not top dressing, as this was considered not to be essential by the Grounds Supervisor.
  
  
• Lovedon Lane Bus Shelter Repair – the Finance Committee had decided to defer the repair to the glass in the shelter until they were confident that the current phase of vandalism was over.

RA/08/69 Chairman’s Notices

• WCC Grass Cutting – Cllr Welstead expressed his concerns at the poor state of grass cutting by Serco of the verges etc within the village. Cllr James had raised the issue with WCC and was still awaiting a response.
  
  

RA/08/59 Date of next meeting

The next meeting was scheduled at 7.30 pm on the 9 July 2008.

The meeting closed at 9.30 pm.

R&A Projects – Status Report as at 11 June 2008

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