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Annual Report 2019

DRAFT ALBURY ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PARISH
Minutes of a meeting held Tuesday 14th May 2019 at 8.30 pm at the Village Hall

Present: Cllr Kent, Cllr Murdoch, Cllr Walne and Cllr Waples

In attendance: Mrs J Pettitt (parish clerk)
The chair opened the meeting at 7:40 pm
1. To receive and accept apologies for absence
None

2. To confirm the minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Parish held 15th May 2018
These were confirmed by the chair.

3. To receive the Albury Annual Report
The chair read out the following annual update:

The Parish Council would like to thank the following people:
• Ray Murdoch, Tracey Waples and Keith Wheatley for all their hard work on the parish council. We shall miss them!
• Ray Murdoch for his role as Chair during the last year and particularly for liaising with Herts County Council to resolve speeding issues and HGV issues in the village
• Tracey Waples for her role as Vice-chair and for her obtaining planning permission for our new sign as well as organising its design, ordering and safe delivery.
• Keith Wheatley for the various things he does free of charge throughout the village, especially the first phase of the clearance at the new village sign site.
• Councillor Davis for looking after our allotment gardens and for ordering and installing the water harvesting system at the village hall
• Pam Wright for her fantastic service to the village, editing and producing the village newsletter for so many years
• Maggie Vicary and Bella Clayden-Smith for litter picking to keep the village tidy
• Anne Sargisson for taking over Pam’s role and continuing to produce the Albury Newsletter every month
• Judi Murdoch for looking after our telephone kiosk library
• Herts County Council for contributing £5100 towards our new radar speed signs
• The new playground committee for organising the first phase of the playground refurbishment

Parish Council activities 2018-19 have included
• Providing a £10,000 grant towards the playground refurbishment which is being organised by a committee of residents
• Providing a £300 grant to Albury 60 Plus towards their Christmas lunch
• Installing a water harvester at the village hall for use by allotment holders
• Arranging the annual safety inspection of the playground
• Organising the fifth Annual Easter Egg Hunt
• Maintaining the allotment gardens and hedges in the village hall carpark
• Clearing the area by the white railings and repainting of the railings
• Contributing £5100 towards two radar speed signs recently installed in the village
• Organising the traditional village sign to be installed in May 2019

4. Question time
None

The chair closed the meeting at 7.50 pm

The Parish Council would like to thank the following people:

• Maggie Vicary and Bella Clayden-Smith for their litter picking services
• Pam Blevins for publishing our updates and notices in the Albury Newsletter every month
• Judi Murdoch for maintaining our telephone kiosk library
• Jeremy Kent for installing the shelving in the telephone kiosk library
• Cllr Waples and Cllr Walne (and his family) for tidying and painting the telephone kiosk library
• Albury Electrical Services for installing our second defibrillator at the Catherine Wheel free of charge

Parish Council activities 2017-18 have included 

• Purchasing a second defibrillator
• Subsidising a weekly community taxi
• Arranging the annual safety inspection of the playground
• Providing a grant to St Mary’s PCC for churchyard maintenance
• Providing a grant to the village hall towards new fire-exit doors
• Organising the fourth Annual Easter Egg Hunt
• Maintaining the allotment gardens
• Providing chocolates for the Albury Santa float
• Adopting the BT telephone kiosk and converting it into a community library
• Producing an Albury Walks Leaflet
• Organising village walks from the new Albury walks leaflet

Annual report May 2017

Albury Parish Council Annual Report May 2017

The Parish Council would like to thank the following people

• Maggie Vicary and Isabella Clayden-Smith for keeping Albury litter free
• Pam Blevins for publishing our updates in the Albury Newsletter every month
• Judi Murdoch for raising funds to help purchase a second defibrillator
• Mr and Mrs Moase for their kind donation towards the cost of a second defibrillator

Parish Council activities for 2016-2017

• Installation of the first village defibrillator at the village hall
• A Christmas tree and lights at the bus stop green
• A subsidised weekly community taxi trial
• Arrangement of the annual safety inspection of the playground
• Applying to grants for a playground refurbishment
• A wildlife talk by Russell Savory to raise funds for HMWT to use at Patmore Heath
• A grant to St Mary’s PCC for churchyard maintenance
• A new boiler for the village hall
• The third Annual Easter Egg Hunt
• December walks followed by refreshments at the village hall
• Cllr Murdoch has worked with the Parish Paths Partnership to produce a leaflet of parish walks. The leaflets should be distributed soon.
• The purchase of a second defibrillator soon to be installed at the Catherine Wheel