Venue: Woodthorpe Primary School, Summerfield Road
Contact: Michal Czekajlo
Community Involvement Officer
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Drop in surgery 6:30-7:00pm
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Talk to your local councillors
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Talk to the local Police Community Support
Officer
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Find out about community groups active in your
area
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Give us your views on what is important to you in
your community
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Main meeting 7:00-8:30pm  PDF 4 MB
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Have your say on the vision for
York’s Libraries – an
overview and a talk from the City of York Council
representative
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Ward budget – an update on recently funded projects, plus timetable
and priorities for the year 2018/19
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Have your say
Additional documents:
Minutes:
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WELCOME
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Cllr Stephen Fenton welcomed
everyone to the meeting. He
informed the meeting that there would not be a Planning Panel
selection at this meeting as it needed to be promoted to make
potential new members aware of the opportunity. The Planning Panel selection would therefore now
take place at the next Ward Committee Meeting
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POLICE UPDATE
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PSCO Joe Moisley gave an overview of the work of his
team. They were based at Acomb Road
Police Station and covered Woodthorpe, Dringhouses and
Copmanthorpe. He said that there
were not many incidents of anti-social behaviour in these
areas. He said he had left
some business cards tonight for people to contact him directly but
that he could not respond to any incidents directly as these should
be reported on 101 or 999.
The subject of litter was
raised by a resident who asked when the police were going to make
an example of people who littered. Joe replied that the police could issue
tickets for littering, but this responsibility fell mainly to the
Neighbourhood Enforcement Team Officers at the Council who were
based at West Offices. As well as
littering they also dealt with noise complaints and dog
mess.
His team’s role was to
mainly deal with anti-social behaviour, parking and traffic
problems.
Cllr Reid said that
prosecutions have been made but it was very much in the hands of
the local press as to whether they published this
information. There was an issue of
“age of consent” as to whether prosecutions could be
made or not. She would let residents
have the relevant information.
She said the York College
endeavoured to make their students aware of littering.
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VISION FOR YORK LIBRARIES
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Charlie Croft, Assistant
Director for Communities, Culture and the Public Realm gave a
presentation on the York Libraries Consultation “Centre of
Learning and Opportunity for all”.
This Consultation is currently underway and closes on
14th February.
He explained that the contract
currently held by York Explore was coming up for renewal and there
would be a new contact for library services in York in
2019. Currently York libraries were
successful as the current provider, York Explore had introduced
many new services. Visitor
numbers and book issues were good, and the service offered
excellent value for money and provided spaces for the community to
come together.
York currently had a high
number of library branches for its population and were in the upper
quartile for usage of English Unitary Authorities. The cost per visit ranged from £0.33
(Rowntree Park) to £2.82 for mobile libraries. There was good support from volunteers and book
stocks were borrowed on average 5 times per year.
Nevertheless, there was a need
to continue innovation and build on successes to date. The service needed to continue to meet changing
needs and expectations in the coming years. There was also a need to see an improvement in the
fabric of the library buildings.
The vision for the future of
York Libraries was for ...
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