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7pm - Informal Surgery
An opportunity to speak informally to your
ward councillors and partners working in the ward.
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7.30pm - Formal meeting Welcome and Minutes of the last meeting
Minutes:
Cllr Looker welcomed everyone to the
meeting. She gave apologies for Cllr
Watson who had been asked to attend a function at the last minute
on behalf of the Lord Mayor. Cllr
Looker also made an apology for the
meeting not being advertised on the website and through our general
advertising protocol. She will ensure
this doesn’t happen again. The minutes of the last meeting
held on 29th April 2013 were approved as a true record
of that meeting.
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Tour de France
Gill Cooper, Head of Culture, Tourism and City
Centre will give a presentation on the plans for Tour de France on
6th July and the variety of ways communities can get
involved.
Minutes:
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Gill Cooper updated residents
upon the Tour de France arrangements for the city. The Tour de France is the third
biggest sporting event in the world and the single biggest annual
sporting event and will put York on the map as a host of large
sporting events. The legacy from
the race is expected to be threefold:
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cycling
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tourism with one billion people expected to watch
the race from over 180 countries on the day,
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cultural legacy – there will be a 100 day
cultural festival of activities showcasing the city. This has already begun.
Between 100,000 and 180,000
people expected in the city. The
caravan will leave the Knavesmire at
9.00am and travel across the city centre and up Bootham. The
caravan leaves at 9.00am and the
cyclists will leave the Knavesmire at
11.00am.
There are agreed procedures for
emergency vehicles. The race can be
stopped in an emergency. There will be
access for emergency vehicles despite the road
closures. In terms of the care
sector and carers we have ensured that we have the right resources
in place.
The roads will be open again at
12.00 noon with the exception of the A59 which will not be reopened until the
race has reached Knaresborough. The
barriers will not be removed from Bishopthorpe Road as they are planning a street
party
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What arrangements have been
made for stewarding on the day.
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The stewards will be a mixture
of volunteers for pedestrian crossings and flag waving on the
route. Crowd management has been
contracted to a Crowd Management Company.
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Q
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A resident said he had attended
a meeting about two months ago in regard to painting the fences
white. It had been agreed that the
Council would provide the paint and that volunteers would do the
painting. Not heard anything
since.
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Gill said she would liaise with
David Caswell.
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Q
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The railings to Bootham Park Hospital are in poor condition and
people leaning on them or climbing on them could be a health and
safety issue. Could the Council do a
safety inspection on them?
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Information to be passed
on
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Annual Play Day Event at The Groves
Minutes:
A resident provided feedback on
last years event and the plans for this year. The venue for last year’s
event was Door 84 and CYC had helped to secure a temporary road
closure at the bottom half of Brownlow Street which created an
exciting and interesting play area for children and
families. A variety of organisations
took part in the event which included Children’s Centres,
youth organisations, St Nicholas Fields among many
others. There was also a physical
theatre group and some residents of The Groves had ‘open gardens’. This year the event will be held on 9th
August and again the venue will be Door 84. We will also be trying to organise the event
on the west side of the city at Acomb
Out of School Club on West Bank. This
will be run along similar lines to the event in The Grove and
everyone will be welcome.
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The Retreat
David Smith, Director of The Retreat will give
a talk on the work of The Retreat.
Minutes:
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David Smith, Business Development Manager of The Retreat gave a
talk its history and current work. He explained the history of The Retreat and
its Quaker values which was set up by the York Quakers in 1790.
Following the death in York Asylum of Hannah Mills, a York Quaker,
William Tuke set about improving the
way people with mental health problems were treated by developing
an alternative model of care.
£3000 was raised to purchase an 11 acre site in Heslington and build The Retreat. His model was based around compassion, good living
and recovery and focused on human relationships The Retreat became the birthplace of what we
now know at Occupational Therapy and his model changed the face of
the treatment of mental illness which was replicated around the
world.
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The Retreat is a charity and
was originally a private hospital for the wealthy but in the
1980’s it started to undertake NHS work. The work of The Retreat is now more specialised
and provides tertiary services outside of NHS services.
There are two different parts
of the service, the hospital in Heslington Road which has 98 beds and takes older
adults with quite complex and challenging mental health
illness. It also provides end of life
care.
There are three
units
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One specialising in eating disorders for
women
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One specialising in complex female personality
disorders
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One unit which deals with people of working age
treating early onset dementia, eating disorders, detox, and other mental health issues.
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There is also a community based
service at the Tuke Centre which
delivers psychological therapies i.e. basic counselling,
relationship counselling etc.
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There is also to be a York
Recovery College which is a new concept that runs recovery based
courses. This has gone live this
week.
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Idea of development of
emotional resilience for young adults
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Yes there is expertise from our
clinicians to train young people to help other young people and
provide peer support
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Can you offer validated
training facilities
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We have a new medical director
who is making it a priority to make The Retreat a training provider
and bring in junior doctors. There is
already training in place for psychiatric nurses.
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Guildhall Planning Panel
Minutes:
Chris Edghill, clerk to the Guildhall planning panel
updated the meeting on the work of the panel this year. The panel had supported the following
large projects:
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A submission by First York in James Street to
transform it for the new electric buses
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Hillary House: This
project has now been given the ‘go ahead’ apart from
the additional storey on top of the building
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The Hiscock
Building
The panel meets in West Offices
every three weeks starting at 4.00pm through to
6.00/700pm.
The whole of the current panel
are standing for re-election with the exception of Gwen
Swinburn who has resigned.
Discussion took place regarding
the election of Christine Low of Huntington Road who would like to
be considered for the panel. It was
felt that the panel was currently big enough so Roger Pierce offered to give her his place on
the panel.
Cllr Look suggested that the
panel have this discussion between themselves at their next meeting
and it would be good to have new people joining the
panel. The twelve names set out below
were accepted subject to the panel reviewing the way it works and
come up with a solution.
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Chris Edghill
Roger Pierce
Alan Filby
Ann Petherick
Vivien Irish
Louise Elliot
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Gill Pratt
Tony Martin
Dr David Medio
Joana Ingerson
Andrew Finch
Christine Low
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Feedback on Ward Funding
Minutes:
There is a ward budget for
community groups based within the ward to apply to for
projects. If projects cover more
than one ward then there is a pot of money for such projects and
people interested should contact Cindy.
The budget for 2014-215 in
£2760 with a further £2200 to be awarded to community
groups in the ward to run projects which support our ward
priorities.
The current ward priorities
are:
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Create a user friendly city centre for residents and
businesses
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Create a cleaner, greener, safer city
centre
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Create more inclusive city centre
communities.
Cllr Looker said that she would like to take the
opportunity to ask residents what they thought about these
priorities, whether they should be changed and what they saw as
priorities for the ward, this will be discussed further at the next
meeting.
Last year three awards where
made:
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Door 84: alterations to toilets
and kitchen access to improve use for all users to the
centre
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£760.00
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Door 84: inner city partnership
– a partnership project in the city centre to address issues
raised by residents and to improve the image and welcome for young
people in the city centre.
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£3,350.00
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Groves RA: gentle exercise classed aimed at
older people held in the local area to improve health and well
being for older residents and reduce isolation.
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£850.00
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Total:
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£4,960.00
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Ward funding
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Feedback on the projects that were funded with the 2013-14
financial year ward funding.
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Announcement of the ward budget for 2014-15
Minutes:
Any groups interested in
applying for funding for a project in the Guildhall Ward to apply
sooner rather than later as money is allocated on a first come
first served basis.
Cllr Looker said she was conscious that recently not a
lot of money had been put into the Navigation Road
area. A resident said that
the Jack Lyons Association was doing some work with young people in
this area.
Information booklets are
available and any help you may need can be given by the community
involvement officer.
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Have Your Say
An opportunity to raise any issues and ask
questions relating to the ward.
Minutes:
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There are traffic regulations
in favour of pedestrians but the police do not seem willing to take
action for example unregistered vehicles parking on Goodramgate and behaviour of cyclists. We have noticed the reduction in policing in
the city centre. As regards cyclists can they be stopped from
chaining their bikes to downpipes
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These offences take place
usually outside of Council hours when there are traffic wardens on
duty.
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Could the police have a day of
action once a year
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We have raised this issue with
the police. It would be a good
idea to have a special meeting with the police so that they can
share residents concerns. We will
look at setting a date for this meeting which will focus on
enforcement issues.
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It
has been noticed that the grounds of park road school are being
used for local children to pay football
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The headmaster is happy for people to use the facilities and has
never locked the gates.
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Perhaps we need to think about
how we use the money in a different way.
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We would like to commit
ourselves to supporting community activities in our local
area. Perhaps we could give them a
smaller amount to get something going in their area. Support community funding.
The ward priorities perhaps
need to be more specific, people are asked to think about them and
feedback their thoughts.
It was agreed that this should
be put on the website and residents asked to feedback their
thoughts on the ward priorities to their neighbourhood
team.
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The new seats in the city
centre are excellent and make it much easier to get
around.
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Can the cycle racks in
Parliament Street be relocated
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This is being looked
at
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Could the fair stalls be
positioned back to back
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I will pass on these
comments
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Can we have someone come and
talk about the market
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There is a Guildhall Community Conversation Public
Meeting planned for Monday 16th June where residents can
come and have their say. This will take
place at the Friends Meeting House commencing with a drop in
session at 6.00pm and question time at 7.00pm This meeting will be attended by Cllr James
Alexander, Cllr J Looker and Cllr B
Watson.
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The meeting commenced at 7.30pm
and finished at 9.00pm
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