Held on 20/10/2003
at 8 p.m. at Villa Westfield, Wells Road, Draycott.
3. Minutes and report on actions taken
5.3 Appointment of PCC representative
to School Governors
5.4 Replacement of Maureen Richardson
as organiser of the flower rota/ Hall committee.
5.6 Renovation of noticeboard in Glebe
Field
6.8 Village carol singing event
(NB. the new format of the agenda)
Stanley
Price opened the meeting with a prayer, and took the chair.
Present |
Apologies |
Julie
Brown Richard Dingley Sylvia
Dingley Trish
Corrick Chris
Green Colette
Jeff Wilf
Lacey Audrey
Morgan Thea
Oliver Stanley
Price |
John
Cartwright Wendy
Cartwright Victor
Skinner |
Several items were accepted for other business.
·
We
discussed the importance of the Away Day idea. Proposal is to visit St. Hugh's
Chapel, Charterhouse, on Saturday 27th March 2004. The booking fee
is £20.
·
We
need a topic to discuss; 'servanthood' suggested.
·
The
program could include: studying different parts of the bible, having lunch, and
sharing in an act of worship. Suggested time: 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
·
This
was agreed; £20 can be paid.
·
Stanley
has a catalogue. We agreed that he can choose.
·
Stanley
has spoken with three potential candidates: the Astles, Lawn Talbot, Andy
Champion. Geoff Astle is pleased to accept
ACTION: Chris to write to Geoff with formal endorsement of PCC.
·
We
don't need to have two more parent governors until 2006.
·
After
an animated discussion on the flower rota, it was suggested that the ladies
form a flower subcommittee; four will meet to organise the rota. There needs to
be a single contact person for this.
ACTION: Ladies to meet and
progress the different aspects of flower arranging (rota, recovering costs
etc.)
·
Trish
is ready to be our representative on the Hall Committee. We accepted with
gratitude.
ACTION: Chris to write to
Maureen with our thanks for her work on this and on the flower rota.
·
We
have a questionnaire; now we need to distribute it. Could we put it out with
the magazine, or maybe the Christmas cards?
·
Kings
of Wessex seems to be the cheapest, but it would be best to buy our own paper.
Authority was given to Stanley to spend £70 on paper and copying.
·
How
much are the new ones? Richard has researched but he had no details with him.
He thought that the cost was about £300 for a good-sized one.
·
John
Pedder could have a go at repairing the notice board in the church porch, but
we really need to know whether repair of the porch is part of the present
works.
·
The
PCC authorised expenditure of £300 for a new notice board.
ACTION: Richard to investigate further and make a purchase if he is happy.
·
The
report was circulated.
·
Hearing
loop: the hall committee says that we can get it for free! Victor should get in
touch with Cyril Wills.
·
We
recommend to Wendy that we pay £1000 to the Parish Share
Proposed: Chris Green
Seconded: Stanley Price
passed nem. con.
Chris
Green had tried to draft a letter to query our payment for extra scaffolding
hire (see last minutes, 9.2). However, although Richard Dingley had supplied
the documentation which he has, this was not sufficient to determine the course
of events. Specifically, we needed to be able to demonstrate that we had given
the go-ahead for the roof repair in ample time to avoid the start of the
breeding season of the bats. If the delays were entirely due to other parties
involved, we might have been able to claim that the extra expense should be
borne by them. However, the only relevant letters I had were one from Chedburn
dated 23rd April 2003 acknowledging that West Country Tiling were
going to start work soon (by which time the bats would have already been
breeding). There is no written instruction from us in the case.
ACTION: Chris to get additional documentation to understand who
instructed whom to do what, and when. This will probably have to come from
Chedburn.
(NB. the following part was provided afterwards by Richard Dingley for inclusion in the minutes).
·
The
roofers have nearly completed the present phase. I estimate that it might last
a further week or so.
·
John
Pedder will examine the left front nave floor after the funeral on Friday,
probably from next week. Wilf has arranged for the purchase of the needed
timbers through a friend at wholesale prices. John may need some help at times
and we should appoint someone to be responsible for the authorisation of
expenditure and arranging payments.
·
Loo
key to be returned to our house by one of us- John Pedder can use.
This was presented by Julie Brown. Julie was thanked by the meeting
This
was presented by Sylvia Dingley. One of
the most significant reports was that the council for social responsibility had
been dissolved. Sylvia was thanked by the meeting.
There
was nothing much to report before the governor's meeting of tomorrow.
The
report was presented as a written document to be inserted in the minutes (see
separate page on back of agenda). Richard also mentioned that he is organising
trips to some other buildings which have been renovated, to give us ideas and
inspiration.
We
need to decide whether to continue to restrict charitable giving to funds
raised specifically for the purposed. In the meantime, Audrey Morgan
volunteered to organise an Advent lunch as a charitable fundraising event, in
lieu of carol singing (which would not take place this year). The meeting
accepted the suggestion and thanked Audrey.
This is due to happen on December 5th in the Village Hall. Stanley will lead on this and liase with Cheddar Male Voice Choir. It will be a village and community event, for which tickets will be sold.
There was nothing further to raise which had not been presented earlier (see 6.2, above). In future we should have standing agenda items on incoming and outgoing correspondence within the 'items for discussion' section.
We should look into replacing the current ones.
Stanley enjoys doing this, but must concentrate on visits connected with funerals. Can others take on some of this task on Stanley's behalf? This is a call for volunteers!
Some of us are very keen on having joint services with Rodney Stoke, perhaps with the venue alternating between Draycott and Rodney Stoke. Thea suggested the 5th Sunday of the month at first.
At our next meeting, we should consider what study course to adopt for Lent.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday 7th
January 2004. Apologies were received in advance from Julie.