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Post by Joe K on Apr 23, 2013 13:39:32 GMT
The public 'crunch' meeting should be Wednesday May 1st, but I've discovered there's another meeting at the City Farm, also at 3:30pm, tomorrow, on a smaller scale (former committee members and a few others), and this may have consequences for the later occasion...  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2013 15:05:36 GMT
A number of people agree with me that there should be one residents' association for the whole of Tredworth.
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Post by Joe K on Apr 26, 2013 23:58:47 GMT
I hope they come to the meeting on Wednesday, then.
The meeting last Wednesday which Lyn Scudamore set up seemed intended solely to retroactively legitimise her announcement a couple of months back that the TRA was 'dissolved'. Karen Bicknell of the City Farm confirmed we were still on, so it's still going to be a last chance for residents to support a group which will defend their interests, Whatever kind of group that might be. I can't keep banging my head against a brick wall, though, so there will need to be others present and in favour.
It helps that it will follow the Luncheon Club, just after 3pm. Some would say the old time of 7pm would be better. Maybe a petition would be an idea, left at the farm, but advertised on the posters...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2013 13:48:41 GMT
I think that 6pm would be a better time. Elderly people don't like going out too late, but many other people either work from 9 till 5 or look after someone at home, so they would have to wait till their partner got home from work and could take over the care duties. An early evening timeslot would also allow some people to attend other activities later in the evening. If it is going to be regularly on a Wednesday, rather than the traditional Tuesday, I would only be able to attend if it was earlier than 7pm, as I'm not going to miss choir practice for a residents' meeting. I'll certainly pop along this coming Wednesday to see how things are stacking up.
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Post by Joe K on Apr 29, 2013 1:49:59 GMT
I only picked 3pm-ish because that's what people have sort of (except not really, going by the attendance) come to expect. It's all moot anyway, because no-one has shown any interest on the Tredworth Facebook page in sharing any issues they think should be discussed, and after the latest piece of partnership lunacy revealed today, I begin to despair of anything good happening in the ward.
If anyone shows up for the meeting, and they want a different time for future ones, we can see what the farm manager/s think...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2013 13:38:56 GMT
I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people who used to attend TRA meetings would not use Facebook. It's worth advertising the event on Facebook, just in case it catches someone new who might like to attend meetings, but I wouldn't really expect much in the way of feedback from that source.
What is the exact time that you're hoping to have the meeting on Wednesday? Is it 3pm or 3.30pm?
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Post by Joe K on Apr 29, 2013 23:38:47 GMT
Karen Bicknell thinks that the pensioners' meal and bingo ends at 3pm, but tends to run over. 3:30pm suits me better, because my daughter is home from St. James' by then.
After the latest BTNP inanity, I'm so close to jacking it all in and putting me and mine first, as I should have done from the start, but I may put up posters tomorrow, telling people exactly what they stand to lose if they don't get off their arses and start to look out for their community, and then be there on time to see who responds.
If I choose not to put the posters up in the end, I will say so here tomorrow night, and that'll be that.
Edit: so, that's that. I'll still turn up, tho. I feel obliged, but I won't be the first person who didn't properly advertise a meeting, I'll just have a better excuse...
Pat Scannell, by the way, appears willing to move the TETRA AGM to the Victory Hotel on June 10th if GCH want him to. He doesn't seem fazed by the possibility that this will lead to no-one from Tredworth attending, and far fewer from the usual crowd, leaving the AGM inquorate. He doesn't care that residents had no say in the change of venue, as long as he rang up the committee members and got their agreement.
Save us from people who find details tiresome...
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Post by Joe K on May 1, 2013 9:31:49 GMT
I hope this works. Sod's Law, no-one will be able to read it (so I'd better put it on the page, too)... St. James’ Park
meeting today
At the City Farm, 3pm (after the Luncheon Club)
To address issues of concern to residents, and discuss whether a new ‘Friends of St. James’ Park’ group, or similar, is required to monitor the state of the park, or the city council is doing a satisfactory job.
Also to invite interest in staging a ‘Community It’s A Knockout’ in the park, and approach the council for the funding on offer for such an event.
Everyone wishing to attend is welcome to do so. Imagine it much narrower... Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2013 15:02:31 GMT
Sorry that I didn't get to attend. I was feeling rather tired. I'm suffering from hayfever, despite taking anti-histamines. Did anyone turn up?
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Post by Joe K on May 2, 2013 2:00:41 GMT
Not a one, apart from Verona Vidal, who broke a shoe getting there...
If it weren't for a refusal to let the Great & Powerful Phil get away with his partnership shenanigans in the run-up to the AGM, I would jack it all in. As things stand, I may persevere with Street Reps. It turns out the partnership may actually have little say in that...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2014 14:23:06 GMT
TETRA's AGM is being held in the Big Vic at 6pm on Monday according to the Citizen, but I haven't seen any other advert for it. I tried to find the information on GCH's website, but it doesn't seem to be there. I can't imagine that there will be a huge turnout. I'm free that night, so I'm going to turn up just to see what's happening and ask why I haven't had a newsletter since falling out with Pat Scannell over four years ago.
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Post by Joe K on Apr 6, 2014 10:41:26 GMT
D'you know, I'm going to have to for to Proboard's help forum and complain about the 'improvements' they've made. It used to be that all comments to threads I had already contributed to were flagged at the top, while spam wasn't flagged up and you'd occasionally have to give me a heads up. It was just chance that I looked at this specific forum today, just before paying Pat Scannell a visit (if he was in) to find out about the meeting.
I was going to pass by the city farm and the Big Vic to see if signs had been put advertising the meeting, and in the case of the Vic, I still am. If there isn't a poster up for it, I... won't be too surprised, really. Neither, that an AGM for a group that was based in Moreland is going to be held in Tredworth. I'll bet there's no poster at Parry Hall, either, even though I've raised this issue with GCH. And everyone says there's no need for a notice board...
Here's the video for the council meeting on March 27th, by the way. I only uploaded one part, as the first bit (including your questions, and Saj Patel's derisive responses, was too long for Youtube and I don't know how to split them up yet. It's just a sample, to establish the principle, though sadly, no-one else has repeated it, besides Mike Wilkinson taking wholly inadequate two minute clips. We don't have a Richard Taylor, ready and able to record full sessions...
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Post by Joe K on Apr 7, 2014 10:31:16 GMT
Just posting this to Tredworth Facebpook page:
Confusion over this. I was told an AGM had been advertised in the paper, but I suspect they were told it would be the first (public) meeting of the year, and wrote that down as 'first annual meeting'...
ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour and other problems will be up for discussion at the first annual meeting of the Tredworth Estate Residents' Association.
Tetra now covers around 2,500 properties and is represented by six city councillors and a county councillor.
Monthly meetings are a chance for people to have their say and for police and councillors to report on recent operations. A progress report is expected from police who have been targeting antisocial behaviour in the are (sic) and there will also be a roundup of what has been happening elsewhere in the community since Tetra formed last year (again, sic). Former chairman of the Tredworth Residents' Association Pat Scannell (sic of saying sic now) said: "This is our first annual meeting so it is a good opportunity for people to come along to meet other members and find out what other issues need to be discussed in the community."
Up-to-date information is delivered to the doors of 2,500 Tredworth residents through a community newsletter.
The idea came up at a Tetra meeting last year, with Gloucester City Homes help[ing with printing costs.
The meeting takes place at the Big Vic on Monday, April 7, at 6pm.
Tetra have been around for years, and distributing newsletter throughout that time. Pat Scannell has never been chairman of the TRA, although the Citizen have been corrected on this several times now.
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Post by Joe K on Apr 7, 2014 10:35:35 GMT
D'you know, I'm going to have to for to Proboard's help forum Must have had a real brain-fart to type 'for' instead of 'go'. Maybe I was going for 'foray', but it seems unlikely... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 13:53:46 GMT
Maybe it isn't the AGM. I'll ask GCH. Whatever it is, there's nothing advertised on the noticeboard outside Parry Hall.
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