Grays Central Community Forum

Open Meeting

 

Tuesday September 8th , 2009

 

Attended: Vivienne Wright, Geoffrey Nathan, Ross Bannister, Claire Bannister, Colin Baker, Ursula Garwood, Carol Spencer.

 

Apologies: Kingsley Edore, Steve Veitch, E. Cunningham, M. Curran, I. Lewsey

 

 

1.     Meeting opened at 7.30pm, All welcomed.

2.     Apologies: Kingsley Edore, Steve Veitch, E. Cunningham, M. Curran, I. Lewsey

3.     Agreed minutes of last meeting with change to Veolia from viola

4.     Report from Carol Spencer regarding Hathaway Road Park Play Equipment.

Andrea has agreed for work on Hathaway Road Park to commence.

Project agreement completed and funds of approx. £20,000. TBC hold the funds. The forum need to plan the park.

Not to worry about VAT as all costs through the council, to email Andrea for costs.

Packs were taken to the Playnetwork day and parents and teenagers were approached to complete the pack. They were given a selection of outdoor fitness equipment to choose from. Discussion took place on what the target market was. At previous discussions at the forum meetings and through discussions with some local residents, the forum had made a decision to put into place equipment for the older generation of residents to encourage the use of the park area and to help raise a ‘keep fit’ profile for the park. It was discussed that there should be some benches in the park also.

CS mentioned that all play equipment needs to meet EN1176.

More information of the type of equipment that is available to be brought to the next meeting.

 

It was mentioned that a section of the park was being used to store equipment whilst a storm drain was being repaired/replaced in Ward Avenue. It is expected that the site will be returned to normal after the work has been completed.

 

Next months meeting will be used to try to finalise choices for the park and to include some benches.

CB left the meeting at 8pm.

 

 

5.      Matters arising:

·        None

6.     Items for discussion

·        Numbers of PCSO’s for Central Grays and Orchard Forum areas.

Mike Stone has raised the issue with the police about the lack of PSCO’s in our areas and has asked for support of our forum.

It was agreed.

 

7.     Chairs Report

a.     Davy Down- Event happening at Davy Down on Sunday September 13th.

b.     Meeting at the council chambers on 24th September regarding the East of England Plan through till 2013. 

 

8.     Correspondence

a)      

 

9.     Finance and Funding

Need to ring fence 11% for Veolia bid.

 

 

Update on finances given by Treasurer

 

 

 

10.   Any Other Business:

a.     To place a big advert in the local paper to encourage more people to attend the meetings.

b.     Discussed the lack of support from our councillors. Yash Gupta always attends when possible and always sends his apologies. The other councillors for our forum area rarely do this.

c.     It was mentioned that other forum areas have ‘fun day’s’. It was suggested that it might be something that this forum should consider. It was decided to discuss this at the next meeting.

 

11. Next Meeting:

 

Tuesday October 13th 2009    7.30 pm  

 

 

 

Meeting closed at 8.25 pm