To receive any verbal updates from partners present and to note any written updates circulated at the meeting:
a) Youth Advisory Group (YAG)
b) Salisbury City Council
c) Laverstock and Ford Parish Council
d) Police (including update on the Police Station)
e) Fire
f) SCCAP (see also item 11 below)
g) Clinical Commissioning Group – written update.
Minutes:
Youth Advisory Group (YAG)
Winnie Manning, Integrated Youth Services, Team Leader gave an update to the Board. Five young people had recently attended the Shadow Community Operations Board (COB) meeting to give their views on the Salisbury Campus project. One of the issues they highlighted was the poor signage to the footpath behind Waitrose.
The YAG had members of varying ages and backgrounds. The group would be joining the WWI commemorations by putting together a dance performance. Winnie gave thanks to Cllr Douglas and Cllr Clewer for their work with the young people.
The YAG were keen to work with Stanhope on the Maltings development consultation.
Salisbury City Council
Andrew Roberts, Leader of SCC gave an update to the Board.
· There would be less community events during 2014, due to budget cuts.
· It was hoped that the Community Sports Coaches would continue in place for another year.
· The booking fees for all sports pitches owned by SCC would be waived for 2014.
· SCC would be looking to form a policy on listing Assets of Community Value.
· There would be a new city Councillor for the St Martins Ward by the following the by-election taking place today.
· The Crematorium would re-open for services on 20 January 2014. The project had been delivered on budget, however there had been a delay due to a complication with the delivery of the windows.
Laverstock and Ford Parish Council
The former Chairman of the parish council; Ron Champion had resigned at the last meeting, a new Chairman had been elected, Cllr Christopher Burnell had been elected as the new Chairman and Cllr Vic Bussereau as the Vice Chairman.
The Parish Council had requested that the new housing development at Hampton Park 2 has WWI fallen soldiers names for each of the new street signs.
Police
Inspector Andy Noble gave an update to the Board.
There had been some movement of PCSO’s who had trained to become Police Officers, to replace those posts, three experienced PCSO’s from other areas were now in place.
Sergeant Jenny Bailey-Hobbs had been seconded to work on the decommissioning of Salisbury Police Station and had been replaced by David Whitby.
The main focus over the next few months would be on violence and non dwelling burglaries.
The Technical College would be aiming to open in 2014, at the Wilton Road Police Station site, with Police assets starting to move out of the building from May 2014.
For an interim period, assets would be collocated with Wiltshire Council in Bourne hill, where the Neighbourhood Policing team along with other police services would be located, this would include a front counter enquiry service.
There would be 100 responses staff serving the wider area, including Tidworth and Amesbury, would be based at the existing police estate in Amesbury, still serving Salisbury but would start and end their duty from the Amesbury location.
A new purpose build custody suite was planned for Salisbury, until that was in place there would be a period of time when the custody suite at Melksham would be used. There would be specifically contracted staff to ferry those arrested to Melksham, so not to tie up the Officers on the beat.
A series of public meetings would take place in due course to present updates, however Inspector Noble would be happy to meet with groups personally to provide an update on the information available.
Questions and comments were then taken, these included:
· Bourne Hill is already a well used building, what about the police vehicles, where would they be kept? Answer: The majority of the police which operate from vehicle would not be based at Bourne Hill.
· When people are released from custody in Melksham, would they be helped to get home? Answer: Everyone who is released from custody is evaluated, if there are concerns then they would be assisted.
Fire
Mike Franklin circulated the December Fire update at the meeting.
· Fire and rescue crews had been busy recently assisting with the recent flooding situation around the county.
· The Public Safety Plan had been published online at: http://www.wiltsfire.gov.uk/ and is available in print upon request.
· WFRS was working with Dorset to see if there could be a combined working approach to produce budget savings. Frontline fire service staff would not be effected, the merge would see the people at the top, middle and back office staff all in one place. A business case would be produced by September 2014, an update would be brought back to the Board following this.
Councillor Tomes noted that the Fire Service had done a good job during the floods, however some of the evacuation procedures had not been as well coordinated as they could have been. Answer: Mike had not received an feedback on this, he agreed to look into it and feedback in due course.
Action: Mike Franklin, to feed back regarding the coordination of recent flood victim evacuations.
SCCAP - Deborah Biggs
The Steering Group had met to discuss the future of SCCAP; plans would be taken forward at a round table meeting on 7th February.
Clinical Commissioning Group
The board noted the written update attached to the agenda.