Agenda – Community Affairs Working Group – 21 March 2022
Below is the agenda for the Community Affairs Working Group meeting for 21 March 2022.
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CHICHESTER CITY COUNCIL
The Council House • North Street • CHICHESTER • West Sussex • PO19 1LQ
Tel: 01243 788502
Email: clerk@chichestercity.gov.uk • Website: www.chichestercity.gov.uk
Town Clerk: R Duggua RD BA (Hons)
YOUR ATTENDANCE IS REQUESTED AT A MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TO BE HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, THE COUNCIL HOUSE, NORTH STREET, CHICHESTER AT 3.00PM ON MONDAY 21 MARCH 2022
AGENDA
1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
2. MINUTES OF THE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS WORKING GROUP MEETING HELD ON 17 JANUARY 2022.
3. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST BY MEMBERS OF THE WORKING GROUP IN MATTERS ON THE AGENDA FOR THIS MEETING
4. UPDATE FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES
Please note that any actions arising from the previous Minutes are included on the Agenda.
a) Minute 59(a) – Season of Culture
To receive updates.
b) Minute 59(b) – Events update – HRH Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee
To receive updates.
c) Minute 59(d) – The Queens Green Canopy Champion Cities
To receive updates
d) Minute 59(e) – Appointment to outside body – Safer Sussex Task Force
To advise the Working Group that no further updates have been received.
e) Minute 59(f) – Appointment to outside body – Oxmarket Association Trustees
Town Clerk to report.
f) Minute 67 – Queens Platinum Jubilee Commemorative Tree Planting
To receive an update
g) Minute 61 – Sussex Police Chief Big Data presentation
The Mayor to report
h) City Centre WiFi
Councillor Plowman to report
i) Chichester Railway Station
Councillor Plowman to report
5. POLICING AND SECURITY IN THE CITY
a) Community Wardens update (reports attached or to follow if not available)
Pam Bushby – Divisional Manager, Communities and Wellbeing, Chichester District Council.
b) BID Rangers update (attached)
Helen Marshall – Vice-Chair, Chichester BID
c) West Sussex Police update
Inspector Ross Wickings – Chichester Neighbourhood Policing Team
6. REPORTS FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF FRIENDS OF CHARTRES, RAVENNA AND VALLETTA
To receive reports from Friends of Chartres, Friends of Ravenna and Friends of Valletta (reports attached)
7. CHICHESTER TREE WARDENS
To receive a report from Chichester Tree Wardens (report attached).
8. FIRE SAFETY FRIENDS OF KURSK
To receive a report from the Fire Safety Friends of Kursk (report attached).
9. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIC TOWNS AND REGIONS
Councillor Scicluna to report.
10. UK HARVEST
A presentation by Yvonne Thomson, UK Harvest Founder and CEO
11. COMMUNITY HIGHWAY PARTNERSHIPS
A presentation by Steve Hill, Stakeholder and Partnership Lead, West Sussex County Council Highways.
12. CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATION AT THE SUSSEX POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER FOCUS GROUP
To decide City Council representation at the focus group meeting being held in Selsey on 18 May 2022 at 2.30pm
13. PROPOSED SPEYER FRIENDSHIP LINK
To advise Members of proposed dates for a visit by a civic group from Speyer to Chichester in Summer 2022 (28/29 July or 4/5 August)
DATE OF NEXT MEETING (DISCRETIONARY GRANTS): MONDAY 11 APRIL 2022
DATE OF NEXT ORDINARY MEETING: MONDAY 6 JUNE 2022
To: Members of the Community Affairs Committee
- Councillor Apel
- Councillor Carter
- Councillor Gershater
- Councillor C Hughes
- Councillor Lishman
- Councillor Sharp
Ex Officio Members:
- The Mayor (Councillor J Hughes)
- The Deputy Mayor (Councillor J Joy)
- Chairman of Planning & Conservation Working Group (Councillor Plowman)
- Chairman of Finance Working Group (Councillor Scicluna)
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However, these provisions will not apply on occasions where the press and public are excluded from the meeting when confidential matters are discussed.
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