Approve and sign Minutes   (previously distributed) prop. M Norton sec M D'Arcy

Matters arising
Residents of boat moored at The Wharf had spoken at length to N Northcott and said they were not squatters as they owned the boat. The enforcement officer was surprised they were still there but apparently the river navigation had red flags so movement was difficult.
Mr Sapey had been asked whether he would like to be co-opted onto the council. He said he would be very interested possibly in the Autumn but had too many commitments at present. An advertisement would go into the next Link.

District Councillor's report
Regarding the stadium traffic, J Stimson agreed to put on some pressure with the police and would talk to R Tudor Hughes and the Oxon CC re the signs. He would also comment to the City Council re the under parking provision and the possibility of rugby in the future which would exacerbate problems.
Park Homes improvements are proceeding very slowly and Mrs Hutton is not satisfied with progress.
He had received a letter from M Inston about the recent area forum, the forum had been a total waste of time.
The retrospective planning application for 40 Church Rd was to go to committee on 27 March following a councillor's site meeting in the morning. It was agreed to ask Mr Graham to be the parish council's representative at the evening meeting. Clerk would write setting out objections formally.
There had been media coverage of SODC's rubbish and recycling plans for the new financial year but the proposed system was still being debated by the policy development panel and local consultation would occur before implementation.

Matters for consideration

Traffic - progress report. R Tudor Hughes had no formal report to give but attended to discuss the stadium problems with the parish council and parishioners. N Northcott summarised the position to date which was that no progress had been made regarding either road signing to direct fans away from the village, no further parking had been provided at the stadium and the police were not preventing the illegal parking along roadsides and on verges. There was talk of a large rugby game to be held in April and also talk of permanent rugby fixtures in addition to the football, hotel and other used. This could only make matters worse. R Tudor Hughes said that traffic enforcement was a matter for the police which they were not carrying out. It was suggested that parish council invite police Inspector G Houlalla to a meeting to discuss this. He would be invited to next meeting along with R. Dix (R Tudor Hughes) would invite him. A major problem was that the City Council were the main planning authority for the stadium development and they were very difficult to deal with.

	Unlighted skips on the highway - N Northcott again expressed his concern over skips being left unlit on the highway and asked what was policy regarding this.
	Jubilee sign and garden - progress report. M Norton had asked a contractor to contact N Northcott but nothing had happened yet. N Northcott had spoken to a signwriter who could prepare a new painted decorative sign for a price up to £600.00. It was agreed that N Northcott would ask him to come and look at the site and make suggestions for a sign costing up to £600.00
	History guide. 1,000 copies had been obtained from Parchment Press. 500 would be distributed with the Link, some would be given to the Vicar to give to new people to the village, some would be given to the Four Pillars for guests. Clerk would contact Senior Navigation Officer at Osney Lock to get permission to distribute them from the lock and a copy would be sent to the local history section at the Westgate library.

Income and expenditure   Prop. J Smithson, sec. M Norton
Clerk had attended the annual audit by District Auditor on 1 March. All was in order. It should be minuted that the accounts had been presented to the parish council for internal audit and approved before 20th September and the matters arising from the main audit should be reported to council.

Income		Expenditure Parchment (history sheet) Scottish & Newcastle (sign)	94.44 200.00
Total		Total	294.44

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Items for agenda of next meeting

Date of next meeting   - Monday 8th April 2002 7.00pm in the village hall

And future meetings  -  2002  May 13 (annual meetings),  Jun 10,  Jul 01,  Aug 05,  Sep 02,  Oct 07,  Nov 04,  Dec 02     2003  Jan 06,  Feb 03,  Mar 03