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<DIV>Further to the emails below : </DIV>
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<DIV>There were 6 Councillors including the Chairman at the meeting yesterday.
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<DIV>I addressed the meeting before it started. It is a statutory requirement
for the public to be allowed to do so.</DIV>
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<DIV>The attachment is a copy of what I said.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Council voted 5 to 1 to become a closed meeting. The 4
people in the Public gallery were asked to leave.</DIV>
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<DIV>Karl Lawrence</DIV>
<DIV>Chairman, Hitcham and Taplow Society. </DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=lawrencek28@btinternet.com
href="mailto:lawrencek28@btinternet.com">Karl Lawrence</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 26, 2014 10:07 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=hts-members@taplowsociety.org.uk
href="mailto:hts-members@taplowsociety.org.uk">HTS Members</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [HTS-members] Fw: A Reminder</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Further to the email below :</DIV>
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<DIV>A notice has been posted announcing that a Council meeting will be held at
3 00 pm next Wednesday, 30 April ”To preview and short list proposals in
respect of the Land Securities monies.” </DIV>
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<DIV>The Council propose to exclude the public and the press from the meeting
because of “the confidential nature of the business to be transacted”</DIV>
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<DIV>Your Society Committee considers that this meeting should be a normal
Council meeting, open to the public and the press. It considers that the Land
Securities monies belong to the Parish and its residents and that any discussion
about their use must be open to public scrutiny. It considers there is
nothing of a “confidential nature” to be protected.</DIV>
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<DIV>Your Society Committee wishes to know what you think. <STRONG>Should the
meeting be a closed meeting? </STRONG><STRONG> </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Karl Lawrence</DIV>
<DIV>Chairman, Hitcham and Taplow Society</DIV>
<DIV>Tel : 01628 631634<BR>Email : <A
href="mailto:lawrencek28@btinternet.com">lawrencek28@btinternet.com</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=lawrencek28@btinternet.com
href="mailto:lawrencek28@btinternet.com">Karl Lawrence</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 25, 2014 12:56 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=hts-members@taplowsociety.org.uk
href="mailto:hts-members@taplowsociety.org.uk">HTS Members</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=taplow.pc@googlemail.com
href="mailto:taplow.pc@googlemail.com">Taplow Parish Council</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> A Reminder</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The deadline for the receipt of proposals for using the
£100.000 ’windfall’ received by the Parish from Land Securities<FONT
size=3>, the developers of the new Bishop Centre, </FONT></FONT></SPAN>is just
five days away.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Proposal must be received by the
Parish Clerk by 30th April. The criteria set by the Parish Council are that a
proposal must offer permanent ‘legacy’ value, must benefit the entire Parish
community, must be affordable within the amount of the ‘windfall’ and must not
must not require any long term maintenance costs which cannot be met within the
Council’s normal annual budget.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Clerk has advised that any
proposal which the Council considers fails to meet these criteria will be
rejected and the proposer will be advised of its rejection.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The proposals meeting the
criteria will be presented for consideration at the Annual Parish Meeting in the
Village Centre on 20th May. Proposers will be allowed up to 5 minutes to present
their idea. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Clerk has advised that the
Council will determine which proposals it considers to be feasible at a full
meeting of the Council on a date to be announced,.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Karl Lawrence</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Chairman, Hitcham and Taplow
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