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Draft minutes CWC steering committee meeting 17/08/00

1.1. David Brunskill appointed Chairman of the meeting.
1.2. Bruce de Saram was asked to take the Draft notes of the meeting.

2. The Revised Draft of the minutes of the General Meeting held 10^th August were accepted. David will submit them to the next General meeting on 11^th Sept for approval.

3. It was noted that the Cabinet paper which we object to (see copy our letter sent) has been withdrawn and will not now proceed to the Ratification.

Comments arising:

There was extensive discussion.

Action:

Hugh Closs will seek publicity with the intention of persuading the council to totally reject the flawed DDF and the Cabinet paper.

4. Millenium Day (Hugh): A rota has now been drawn up for all to be at Time and Talents and arrange to do the distribution of the posters/leaflets.

6. Embryonic sub committee structures were discussed.

The following was resolved:

It was noted that the Sub Committee structuctures will have to be very fluid and will change as required by the Campaign Strategy.

5 and 8: Taken as one item.

Extensive discussion.

It was resolved that Pauline Adenwalla, David Brunskill, Gary Glover, Brian Hodge, Ian Owers and Emma Williamson will meet the Council Team on 4^th September.

Mention was made of the need to appoint full time staff and to have permanent premises.

We agreed to discuss with the council Team

• The Community Forum and if we the C.W.C. want it or not.
• We will examine the Elephant and Castle model.
• We will keep in mind the issue of Value Maximisation
• We will ensure that by the end of the year a draft development plan has appeared which suits our needs.
• We noted that the Elephant was funded by a single Regeneration project budget and there was no reason why CWC should not also receive funding.

Summary:

1. We reject the Council’s vision offered to us at this stage.
2. CWC intends to ask for our Independence in all our dealings with the Council.
3. It was agreed that the timing of this first joint C.W.C. and Council meeting was too early for us to get representatives from all walks of the Community.
4. We want the Council to issue us with a draft Agenda for this meeting.
5. We all agreed that it was important that we cooperate as far as possible with any suggestions made by the Council Team at this early stage so that we have a constructive meeting.
6. It was recognised that it was too soon for us to become an umbrella organisation and that we must not at this point claim to be over representative of the Community.

Next steering committee meeting - 6.30 on the 11^th Sept at Alfred Salter School, prior to the General meeting.

The meeting closed at approx 9.40pm.

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