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	BARNTON PARISH PLAN GROUP MEETING 04/09/08
Present:	L.Gibbon, D.Stevens, M.Parkes, F.Casey, H.Kirsopp, R.Stanley.
MINUTE	DETAIL	ACTIONS
1.		Apologies for absence: D.Morris.
2.		Approve the minutes of the last meeting= of the Parish Plan working group. minutes written by Dave Stevens:
		Minutes appr= oved. <= /o:p>	.
3.		Matters Arising:
	a	F.Casey presented the list of peo= ple he had drawn up as requested, at the meeting. After discussion it was decided t= hat the proof reading of the draft of our Parish Plan would be best done by a local teacher.	R.S (To ask a staff member at the local Primary School to be a volunteer)
	b	D.Morris still has to modify the = survey results into “Pie Chart” format in an A4 Landscape document a= nd copy them to L.Gibbon.	L.G (To Email D.M to request the spreadsheet)
	c	L.Gibbon had updated the Draft Ac= tion Plan and modified it to make into a working document. A “Progress / Outcome to Date” column was added.
	d	No response from D.Morris to date= on the vouchers from the Garden Centre. H.Kirsopp volunteered to contact = the Garden Centre tomorrow to try to complete the task.	H.K (To contact the Garden Centre, Re: Vouchers )
4.		Barnton in Bloom:
	a	Certificates had been designed and produced by L.Gibbon for the winners; they were shown to group members who approved of them. L.Gibbon has a list of winnerR= 17;s names and their addresses.	L.G (To Email the list of winners to D.S for the record)
	b	The Group decided that in future a judging date mid to late July would be better as it was thought that flow= ers were past their peak at the beginning of August.
	c	Winners to be invited to the next= meeting to enable a few photographs to be taken of them.	L.G (To contact the winners)
MINUTE	DETAIL	ACTIONS
5		Action Plan:<= /p>	&nbs= p;
	a	L.Gibbon han= ded round copies of the latest version of the Action Plan and the Group discu= ssed all the items in turn at the meeting. All items we= re given priorities (High, Medium or Low) and all items were allotted a timescale = for completion. L.Gibbon not= ed all the group decisions on a paper copy and amended the wording in the “Survey Issues” column as required. <= /o:p>	L.G (To update the action plan and Email it along with the “Plan Forward” and the “Village History” section to B.Kerrigan for comment and infor= mation)
6.		Any Other Business:	&nbs= p;
	a	R.Stanley re= ported that she had received no reply to date on the “Writing for Publicity and Marketing” course, as the person running the course was on holi= day.	&nbs= p;
	b	L.Gibbon rep= orted that the “Poynton” Parish Plan document was seen to be one of= the best in Cheshire<= /st1:place>. It was noted that the document was not a glossy brochure; they had not delivered it to all residents but had used their website and their Civic = Hall as the places to communicate their living document.	ALL (Thoughts for= the next meeting on this issue)
	c	It was thoug= ht that it would be interesting to include details of the demographics of Barnton= in our Parish Plan document.	H.K (To search fo= r the demographic details)
	d	D.Stevens re= ported that he had seen postcards of Barnton in the Post Office and thought that= the photographer may wish to donate some of his photographs to the Parish Plan Group and we could include them in the Parish Plan document.	D.S (To try to ma= ke contact with the local photographer)
	e	R.Stanley re= quested that the date and venue of future meetings be written on the notification Email as well as the minutes. <= /o:p>	D.S (To include d= etails of the date and venue of future meetings as requested)<= /p>
	f	D.Stevens to= update B.Kerrigan with the recent Parish Plan Group minutes <= /o:p>	D.S (To Email B.K= with the minutes)
7.		Date and time of the next meeting:
		Thursday the 25th of September 2008 Starting @ 7.15pm= At the Memorial = Hall