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Agenda – Community Affairs Committee – 4 March 2024

Below is the agenda for the Community Affairs Committee meeting taking place on 4 March 2024.

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Supporting papers for this meeting are only available in PDF format. Please use the link below to download

Chichester City Council - Coat of Arms

CHICHESTER CITY COUNCIL

AGENDA

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED TO ATTEND A MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TO BE HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. THE COUNCIL HOUSE, NORTH STREET, CHICHESTER AT 5.30PM ON MONDAY 4 MARCH 2024

Signature - Mrs Sam Tate
Town Clerk
26 February 2024

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive and approve apologies and reasons for absence from members of the Committee.

2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST BY MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE IN MATTERS ON THE AGENDA FOR THIS MEETING

3. MINUTES OF THE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON 4 DECEMBER 2023.

To approve and sign as a correct record the minutes of the ordinary committee meeting held on the 4 December 2023.

To correct the pronoun used to refer to Councillor Chant in minute 40 from his to their.

4. UPDATES ON ACTIONS FROM THE PREVIOUS MINUTES NOT COVERED ELSEWHERE ON THE AGENDA

a) Councillor Gershater to talk to the NHS Community Trust about Stonepillow clients accessing services.

Councillor Gershater to report.

b) Write to Matt Davey at WSCC asking for clarification of Friends of Centurion Way archway responsibilities.

Town Clerk to give a verbal report.

c) Organise Voluntary Sector Promotion and Recruitment Event in the New Year

Katie Coffey to give a verbal report.

d) Complete ward-based community asset mapping

North, West, East and Central Wards to report.

e) Provide Councillor Vivian with questions for the PCC Katy Bourne for overview & scrutiny meeting in the New Year.

All Councillors to report.

f) Get more detailed costs, permission from the family and cemetery approval for the war victim headstone.

Councillor Scicluna to report.

5. POLICING AND SECURITY IN THE CITY

a) Community Wardens

Pam Bushby – Divisional Manager, Communities and Wellbeing, Chichester District Council (reports included in the supporting papers or to follow).

b) Chichester BID

Report attached.

c) Chichester Police

Report attached (report to follow).

6. TO NOTE REPORTS RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING:

  • Friends of Chartres (report to follow)
  • Friends of Ravenna
  • Friends of Speyer
  • Friends of Valletta
  • Chichester Tree Wardens

7. PRESENTATIONS FROM OUTSIDE ORGANISATIONS

New Park Cinema Presentation by Alison McDonald-Hughes

8. VERA HOAD – MEMORIAL TREE AT GRAYLINGWELL

To note planting of a memorial tree at Graylingwell.

9. PROPOSAL TO IMPROVE THE STORAGE LOCKERS AT STONE PILLOW GLASSWORKS SITE

Report attached.

10. GALA UPDATE

Report attached.

11. BENCH FOR WHYKE OVAL

Town Clerk to report.

12. D-DAY 80th ANNIVERSITY

Councillor Apel to report.

13. LGBTQ+ ISSUES

Councillor Chant to report

14. PRIDE FLAG

Councillor Chant to propose to fly the Pride Flag above The Council House for Pride month (June 2024).

15. ITEMS FOR THE NEXT AGENDA

16. DATE OF NEXT MEETING MONDAY 8 APRIL 2024

To Members of the Community Affairs Committee

  • Councillor Apel
  • Councillor Chant
  • Councillor J Gershater
  • Councillor Hitchman
  • Councillor Knight
  • Councillor Kondabeka
  • Councillor Loxton
  • Councillor Squire

Ex Officio Members:

  • The Mayor (Councillor C Gershater)
  • The Deputy Mayor (Councillor Corfield)
  • Chairman of Planning & Conservation Committee (Councillor Butler)
  • Chairman of Finance Committtee (Councillor Scicluna)

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