Kingsway Villagers

Folks

The Next open meeting is Friday 8th August in Avionics House on the Kingsway Business Park.
For those who went last time, it’s in the same room as we had then (see map here).
Start Time: 1930h

The Draft Agenda at the moment is:
Welcome
Introductions of the Committee
Aims of the Association
Work Done To Date
Open Floor For Issues (See notes on this section below)
Open Floor For Positives
Date Of Next Meeting
Meeting Close

The “Open Floor” will be a portion of the meeting where any resident can raise an issue that needs to be take further by the Association. Any person can ask to raise an issue. This needs to be clear and consise. The Chair will then ask the floor if there are any objections to the issue been addressed and if there are none then it will be minuted and taken as an action. If there is an objection, then this will be heard and then a vote taken to see if it is to be addressed.

The “Open Foor For Positives” is to get a vibe from residents about what we like about Kingsway and what positive things the Association can do to improve community spirit etc.

If you want to add any specific items to the Agenda, please email them to kingswayra@googlemail.com or in an envelope clearly marked with Residents Association and for my attention, to: 70 Thatcham Avenue, by Wednesday 6th August, so I can at least try and get some form of response for you.

Cheers,

Barry.

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Hi All,

Just a quick update on what the committee that you elected has been up to so far.

We have had our first meeting to determine what needs to be done to get the organisation up and running and have come up with a number of tasks to be done (creating a constitution, areas of possible funding, bank accounts, a terms of reference etc), as well as what we can do in the short term.  We have a couple of ideas for a couple of events to be held later in the year which we are looking into.  Finally we are trying to make contact with all the stakeholders who we may have a dialogue with in the future.

Thank you to everybody who has sent an email of support to our new address, it really is appreciated. 

Finally, please don’t forget about the open meeting on the 8th August.  If you have a topic for the agenda, please send it to me to ensure it arrives a week before the meeting.  This gives us time to consider the issue and see if we can gather more useful information to contribute to the discussion.

Cheers

Barry

The first meeting of the Kingsway Residents Association went ahead as planned and approximately 35 people attended. All things considered, we were very pleased with the turnout and I wish to personally thank everybody who attended. It was extremely gratifying to see so many people so enthusiastic about the future of our community and I really felt that we now have a chance to do something special for the future of the Village.

The meeting was chaired by Cllr’s Bryan Claridge and Ann Mozol of the Quedgeley Parish Council. Once again I would like to thank them on our behalf for giving up their time to help us.

The minutes will be published on here as soon as they are available but (to the best of my recollection), the major points agreed were:

• The elected commitee will hold their respective positions for an initial period of 6 months.
• “Open meetings” will take place approximately every 2 months.
• The committee will hold “closed meetings” on  a 2 monthly basis.
• In “extraordinary circumstances” additional meetings may be arranged as required.
• The commitee will hold it’s first (closed) meeting on Monday 7th July at 8pm.
• The first open meeting will take place on August 8th at 7:30pm (venue to be confirmed).
• In order to avoid open meetings from “dragging on” for too long, the agenda will be set before the meeting starts. Residents will (of course) be invited to propose items to be added to the agenda up to (I think we said) 3 days before the meeting date.

The following people were elected to the committee:

• Barry Kirby (Chairman)
• Ian MacLauchlan (Secretary)
• Richard Read (Treasurer)
• Clive Barton (me - lol) Web Officer *

After the election of the main 3 committee members, there followed a discussion about “additional positions” which included an interesting proposal along the lines of electing an office for each area (building phase) to be both a local contact for residents and to help publicise and promote the RA in those areas. I think it’s a good idea and hope to discuss it further at future meetings.

* For myself, I explained that I was loath to volunteer for the 3 major roles because of both time constraints and because I wished to focus on reporting the RA’s activities on this ’site as well as bringing matters from blog subscribers to the attention of the Association. In order to do that successfully, I suggested that I should like to be part of the committee (something along the lines of a “vice-secretary”)! My request met with much support (thank you all) and Barry suggested the title of “Web Officer”, thus this “extra-ordinary role” was created!

As I said earlier, this is just my recollection (I’d make a terrible secretary - lol) and the official version will be posted shortly; so - if I missed something really important, please don’t shoot the messenger

Hi All

Better late than never! The venue for tomorrow nights meeting will be the Robert Hitchins Offices.

Maps will be placed in the parish notice boards (beside small park and the bus stop), however brief directions are:
Out of the village to the A38 towards J12. Turn left at the roundabout towards the Waterwells Business Park. Left at the next roundabout towards the park and ride and head up to Naas Lane. at the T junction to Naas Lane turn RIGHT and then left and follow the signs to the building where the meeting is.

Apologies for the lack of ideal venue but it is the best we can do. And please don’t let it put you off! Please come!

Barry

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Folks

I know we have said we have delivered leaflets about the forthcoming Residents Association meeting, but with so little time left we have not been able to hit everybody in the Village. It has been impossible to get enough leaflets and the time to visit everybody’s house, so I would really appreciate it if you could mention the meeting to your neighbours if you see them, and hopefully the word will spread about it.

I would like to thank Clive and Sarah for helping to deliver leaflets as we are all just residents and to give up your time (in the rain) to do something like this for free is just what is needed!
Also thanks to the Parish Council for doing the printing for us, otherwise this would have to have been funded out of our pockets, so I’m very grateful!

Now all we need is for everybody to turn up (when we get the final word on the venue)!

Barry

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