Election of Vice Chairperson
M Norton agreed to stand and was unanimously elected.

Apologies for absence  - H Hutton, R Tudor Hughes.

Approve and sign Minutes  prop. M Inston,   sec. M Hills.

District Councillor's report
J Stimson spoke re. the challenge to Green Belt designation discussed at the last meeting, he had received many letters protesting at the proposal from Sandford residents. It would not be appropriate to discuss redesignation at Local Plan level so any discussion would not occur until revisions to the Structure Plan. He thought there was unlikely to be any change but said that local vigilance was important.
N Northcott suggested that Clerk invite representative of CPRE to our next meeting.
Cllr Stimson said that following the election, the Conservatives now control the SODC having 27 seats to 9 Liberal Democrats. He hoped to be on the planning sub committee for our area and for the local plan task group. He was arranging a meeting with Mr Lally regarding the Park Homes site and point raised for improvement. He hoped to be a member of the scrutiny committee to continue to monitor flooding problems.
He had received some correspondence from Broadhurst Gardens residents complaining of the tree lopping work being carried out.
Nothing had been decided yet about the proposed wheelie bins.

Matters arising
Traffic etc. N Northcott thought matters would be resolved soon and P Egawhary was getting things organized. He had said another 750 parking spaces were proposed at the stadium.
He had received a proposal re the Jubilee garden from G Turnbull. Clerk would ask for more detail and it was hoped to have something for the next meeting.
The notice board would be relocated from inside the rec. to a new position between the letter box and the telephone kiosk. A new notice board would be ordered and located near the post box in Heyford Hill Lane.
Clerk had obtained a version of an 'accessible' kissing gate from the County Council. It was agreed to order two for the Church Rd rec. to replace the existing ones.

Matters for consideration

	Broadhurst Gardens.  The parishioners present voiced their disquiet on the progress and manner of working of the contractors doing the tree work. N Northcott explained the tendering process, how three quotations had been obtained from contractors and that the

lowest was selected. There had been a competitive price from two of the contractors and the third had been much higher. The selected tenderer had previously carried out good work in the village however he had serious personal problems which had caused some delay. However it was agreed that the work was of not a sufficient standard and it was agreed to request a meeting on site for next Sunday with him, together with a representative of the residents and two councillors to discuss cleaning up the site and halting the work until the end of the bird nesting season.

Income and expenditure  Prop. M Norton,   sec. M Inston.

Income Bank interest VAT return 02/03 Precept 1st installment	310.72 1,031.46 4,500.00	Expenditure Mag Coll rent on rec. E Shatford (salary and expenses) G Surman (bus shelter) OPFA OALC	130.00 804.99 470.00 25.00 189.14
Total	5,842.18	Total	1,619.13

For information
OALC seminar in July for new councillors. P Tuson and M Hills expressed an interest.
The VHMC had recently held their annual meeting. The chairman had sent a letter to the Clerk requesting parish council backing and possibly financial support for making some improvements to the patio area. This was agreed and Clerk would ask him to provide details and costing for next meeting. Similarly for re-locating the basketball net.

Items for agenda of next meeting

Date of next meeting  - confirm for Monday 9 June 2003 at 7 pm in the Village Hall.

Meeting closed at 8.10 pm