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The Glass Park
Out of the original 20 trustees only 7 remain Mr. J. Rosser - Community (Barnby Dun) (lives at Armthorpe) Fred Powney - Community (Kirk Sandall) Mr G Boot - Adjacent and Local Business Vacant - Adjacent and Local Business Vacant - Adjacent and Local Business Vacant - Adjacent Church Interest Vacant - Wildlife and Landscape Mr D Shaw - Adjacent Sporting Interest Vacant - Theatre Interest Liz Jeffress - Youth Interest Elsie Butler - DMBC (ward councillor for Edlington) (lives at Armthorpe) Vacant - Parish Council (Barnby Dun) Resigned due to the Audit Report Vacant - Parish Council (Kirk Sandall) Resigned due to the Audit Report Martin Hilton - Kirk Sandall Community Wildlife Group (try and join, if you can) Vacant - Education Infants Vacant - Education Junior Vacant - Education Senior NB Article 7.2 states, if any appointing body does not exercise its power of appointment within one year of it first being granted or a nominated trustee appointment by it ceasing to be a trustee then the power of such body or authority to appoint a nominated trustee shall cease. All the above will have been vacant for over a year by the next AGM. The day to day running of the site is carried out by the management group who are the Chair, V/Chair, and Secretary. (n.b. the Trust has not got a Treasurer, this job is done by an outsider.) The Glass Park Development Company, a Private Company Limited by Guarantee is run by Liz Jeffress and Martin Hilton. This is where communication breaks down as no one can talk about the "Company" in Trust the meetings!! To add to this, Trustees are not invited to Company meetings or given any report on Company matters. No Progress has been made since last year. The pond has four plants that need to be checked (three of them can seriously damage the ecology of the pond if left uncontrolled). Nothing has been done!! In June 05, following complaints by residents, the District Auditor published a daming report on The Glass Park Company.. The AGM was once again a farce this year, with NO Chairman, NO Treasurer and NO accounts. Once again the election of officers was done in a smoke filled room. We believe its high time a AGM was called, so the whole village can select a new committee to run both the Trust and the Company. We have since found out that the Glass Park Development Company is sitting on £120,000 of 106 money and have been doing for the last 5 years. Money that could be used for the much needed Sports Pavilion, so come on Liz and Martin let the people have the money who could make better use of it. How two people can hold a village to ransom is beyond us. News Flash The Glass Park Report is now available ("The Dobson Report"). There will be a public meeting in the Mansion House (not in Kirk Sandall as the Ward Members would of liked) on Monday 11th December at 11am, if you are unable to attend you can request a copy of the report from DMBC. N.B. both reports can be found on this website Wintergate
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