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Bungay Community PartnershipBUNGAY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP Minutes from the meeting held on Wednesday 28th June 2008 Present: Martin Evans (in the Chair), Mark Casto Maureen Davies, Chris Reeve, Mary Seamons, Didy Ward, John Warnes, Apologies from: Brian Cloke, Josiah Meldrum, John Putman, Bruce Waldron
1. Funding Didy Ward passed round the first draft of the costings for the consultations and it was agreed that more specific quotes for printing would be required. Another piece of advice from Janet was that the application should show the value of volunteer time and that it would be advisable for those working on the project to keep timesheets to show how much time has been spent. Chris Reeve described the Halesworth Visioning day and stated that the responses had been published in a document by the Blyth Valley Partnership, but this had not been made available to the public and there had been no progress since. There was some discussion regarding the status of the Community Partnership in relation to Bungay Town Council. It was agreed that one of the Council representatives would ask the Town Clerk to create an agenda item for the council to receive a report on the activities of the Community Partnership to date. There was also some discussion on Didy Ward’s position on the Steering Group should she be appointed as Research Consultant to co-ordinate the consultations. There is an amount of £2,800 allocated for research consultancy in the costs. It was agreed that Didy would need to resign from the Steering Group to avoid any potential conflict of interest during the consultations, whilst remaining as Project Co-ordinator. It was agreed that the position would be open to other consultants to also apply to conduct the work. Should another consultant be appointed there would be no need for Didy to resign from the Steering Group. There was also some speculation regarding Didy’s position as a Town Councillor should she be appointed to conduct the research and this needs to be clarified with the Town Clerk. 2: The Visioning Day 3. St John’s Road Allotment site The Steering Group discussed whether there would be any possibility of WDC’s ability to acquire the land through compulsory purchase (should Bungay Community Partnership be able to secure asset funding) and it was agreed that this will need to be discussed with WDC but no arrangements were made to do this. 4. Sustainble Bungay Update 5. Action for Market Towns Sally Williams, the project co-ordinator for that group, has created a programme to visit all market towns in the area and plans to come and talk to the Bungay Community Partnership before our next meeting. However, her timetable means that she will need to be with us at 5.30pm on Wednesday 25th June It was agreed, therefore, that our next meeting would begin at that time. Ms Williams has suggested that her visit will take approx. two hours, so any other business we have for that meeting will be concluded as soon as possible after Ms. William’s visit. However, as we believe the business discussed during her visit may be concluded within one and a half hours, the remaining agenda items will be discussed from 7pm. The visit will enable us to talk to Ms. Williams about our own plans and to learn what support we may receive from Action for Market Towns. It was agreed that as many members of the Steering Group as possible should attend that meeting from 5.30pm. 6. Any Other Business We discussed the need to reinforce the Steering Group with additional members. Martin Evans is to invite David Ritchie who is a District Councillor for the Saints area which will give us a greater reach into our hinterland, John Warnes is to invite Ian Byrne who has a great deal of experience with helping communities achieve their aims and Mark Casto is to invite Mary Hancy who is very involved in many activities in the town. Didy Ward reported that a further councillor, Simon Thompson, had expressed an interest in joining the Steering Group. 7. Date of Next Meeting
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