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Shane Whitehead (Chair) |
Carmen Grimes (Minutes) |
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Zahida Ahmed |
Nicola Pritchard |
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Rick Smith |
Pauline Pappoe |
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Richard Overton |
Richard Stubbs |
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Tee Fabikun |
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John Defoe |
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Apologies |
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Lorraine Cavanagh |
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Linda Powell |
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Michael Mulquin |
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The meeting was called to order at 15.05pm by the
chair Shane Whitehead
1.1 The minutes of the meeting held on Monday 18th March were agreed.
2.1 Richard S, explained that the ERDF and SRB returns have been completed and submitted to the relevant offices, although there are some SRB outputs that haven't been collected, those expected from the Carpenters and Docklands centre will now have to be collected for the quarter ending March 2006.
He also assured the meeting that he was confident that the money will be paid by Newham College and that there should not be a cash flow problem by the end of the month (April). As is normal, there will be a 5% retention held back by the college.
A copy of a letter was sent to Pauline by Richard S, who explained that it was a standard letter in respect of the assistance that Home 2 Home had given
Newham.net and it was sent in support of the TMO’s ERDF claim).
The C&D centre are no longer entitled to funds (£30.000) to install a lift facility as the premises do not have a long enough guaranteed life. Tee wanted to know what would happen to the money, and was told that the College would decide this but it would make sense to extend the H2H project if possible, though this would require match funding to be found.
3.1 Rick informed us that the paperwork for the bank account has been completed and sent off, he also informed the meeting that he would be making a presentation the to TMO board on 02/06/05 setting put plans for the future.
3.2 Zahida told us
that there would need to be some changes made to the Direct Payments video, which will incur additional
costs, but will be completed by next week. She will also assist Trinity Chapel (who
also have some tapes that can be transferred
onto the system) for 3 hours a week starting w/c 05/05/05 she will also assist Streetleague .
3.3 Rick will take action to sort out the music licence by the end of July '05 when it will be due for renewal
3.4 Nicola informed us that she will continue with the masterplan films but as of yet there are no new commissions for SDP.
4.1 Richard O informed us the internet was not working for some of the last week, and that re-booting the system seems to help, there are also issues with the Webcam as changes made (due to the recent damage) have not really taken effect, but work carried out on the game servers(installing hard drive) has been done though the service is not yet operational.
4.2 Regentv will launch 03/05/05
4.3 Richard O will also continue to
switch off parts of Carpenters Connect infrastructure to make the system
more reliable and get it ready to join RegenTV, but work on the New
Union Wharf estate will take priority although the satellite migration will
take place by the end of May, with everything up and running by June '05 with Carpenters
Connect being eventually switched off and merging with Regentv.
4.4 Carmen will begin training to install STB's week ending 29/04/05.
5.1 Shane would like to read the original bid
to the ODPM to clarify LBN's relationship with Regentv in the future and
also that of the TMO.
5.2 This possibility of expansion of Carpenters Connect to the neighbouring blocks was briefly discussed but, in the absence of Linda Powell, the matter was deferred until the next meeting.
Rick asked whether the parents of Sarah and Joanna have agreed for us to continue using footage of them at forthcoming demo events, Carmen was only able to contact one set of parents as the other had moved off the estate, but every effort will be made to contact them action to be carried forward.