Mount Florida Community Council

Neighbourhood Watch

mountflorida — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:52:12 +0000

The residents of Florida Avenue/Crescent – Cathcart Road have come together with the support of Strathclyde Police to form a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme. The advantages of such a scheme are that neighbours can support one another. Residents can share concerns regarding personal safety, youth disorder or home security. Runnign the scheme does not require a large amount of time and support is readily avvailable from the Police. Any residents wishing more information about this scheme or interested in setting up their own scheme should contact PC Nick Quinn, Community Police on 0141 532 5022.

Befriending Service

mountflorida — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:46:18 +0000

The Befriending Service was founded through listening to our community, residents, and those working in the area. Many people in Mount Florida were found to experience isolation and loneliness. This was confirmed through discussion with the local Medical Centre, and so in conjunction with them a Befriending Service was established. Thisis administered by a project co-ordiinator and trained volunteers.

The service has been in operation since 2003 and is now based at 4 Clincart Road (old Post Office). Members of the community can call in for a chat, a cup of coffee and find out more about befriending. Volunteers come from all walks of life. No experience is necessary, full training is given and expenses are paid.

Make a difference in someone’s life. Be part of a caring team in your community.

If interested call the volunteer co-ordinator Monday-Friday 10am-12noon:
The Church in the Mount Befriending Service
4 Clincart Road
Glasgow G42 9DJ
0141 649 8800
07906 065818

The Bridge Project

mountflorida — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:37:50 +0000

The Bridge Project is a voluntary project set up to provide free and confidential information on Benefits Advice, help with form filling, making phone calls, and carers support. They can be contacted on 569 1200 (Mon-Thu 10am-12 noon)

Mount Florida Over 50s Club

mountflorida — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:36:16 +0000

Mount Florida Over 50s Club meets in Battlefield East Church Hall on Battlefield Road on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm. Club members enjoy a wide range of activities including bus trips, lunches, musical entertainment, indoor bowls, pool, darts, table tennis, line dancing as well as a nice wee cup of tea.

All residents will be made very welcome.

Welcome to Mount Florida Community Council!

mountflorida — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:27:08 +0000

This is the website of Mount Florida Community Council. Community Councillors are volunteers who care about their local community and can bring concerns and issues to the attention of decision makers in the local authority and government. If you are a residents of Mount Florida, you can bring your concerns to our attention through this website, or simply find out about what’s happening in Mount Florida and what the community council does. You will find links about everything relevant to Mount Florida. If you would like to see anything added, please feel free to leave comments and suggestions.

Minutes of Mount Florida Community Council Meeting, Nov.05

mountflorida — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:07:44 +0000

Minutes of Meeting 22/11/05

1)Present

Community Councillors J.Scott, E.Dunwoodie, G.Cumming, W.McCallum, B.Russell, M. Lacey, R. Pollock, E. Ritchie, S. Bach, J. Mutch, J. McBride, B. Keenan, S. Buckland, D.Moir, L.Renton

Residents J.Pollock, M. McGlashan, S. Whitmore, B. McGuiness, I. Hamilton, D. Martin, J-C. Valentin.

Guests Councillor J. Lynch, PC T. Barbour, PS. J. Haddow

2) Apologies – Cllr M. McCafferty

3)Welcome – J.Scott opened the meeting, welcomed everyone and introduced the invited guests.

4) Councillor J. Lynch – paid tribute to the committee on their hard work and stated he looked forward to working with the community council. He spoke of Hampden, traffic lanes, and the council budget as being areas he felt were relevant to the community. Recent pay agreements will result in budget pruning in the areas of staff training and development but not in what is available to community councils. With regard to concerts at Hampden he sees a need for the community council and the Hampden management team to work together re safeguards in the area.

Cllr Lynch then answered questions from the floor.

5)PC Tracey Barbour the Community Police officer for the area gave the crime figures for the area. She praised initiatives such as Neighbourhood Watch. P.C. Barbour spoke of £500 which the Police had been authorised to spend on local initiatives for the wellbeing of the community and asked that anyone with ideas contact her. In response to complaints from the floor re the new call centre method of answering phone calls she stated that they were still in a settling in period and the situation was expected to improve..

6) Minutes of AGM and matters arising

The balance in the community council’s accounts should have read £1120.45.

Minutes were proposed by W.McCallum and seconded by R. Pollock.

7)Correspondence. Jim made the floor aware of correspondence received including

a) Planning applications for Hamilton Carpet shop Cathcart Road to become a restaurant and an access road for Mount Florida Medical Centre off Cathcart Road.

b) GCC Inclusion update

c) Modernising Greater Glasgow Hospitals

d) Glasgow City Council Minutes

e) Community Council working group.

f) GCC Equality policy external consultation

g) SE Area Committee minutes

h) GCC Environmental and Sustainable Action Plan

i) Glasgow South Community Safety Forum minutes

j) Notification of a public meeting of the BBC board of Governors

k) Consultation on the establishment of local housing forums

l) Forthcoming events at Hampden, including 3 confirmed concert dates.

8) Plan for 2005/6 J.Scott spoke of issues that he felt would be important to the community council area including parking on Cathcart Road.

The annual carol concert will be held at the Asda car park. It is multi denominational and those who wish to attend will be made very welcome.

R. Pollock suggested that we invite a representative from the GCC Planning Dept to provide an overview of the City Council’s plans for Mount Florida.

9)Treasurers Report G. Cumming reported that since the last meeting there had been withdrawals, viz £160 for newsletter distribution, £65.80 for the production of the newsletter, £12.38 for flowers for the widow of former Community Councillor John Lawson. There has been 97p paid into the account in interest and the balance currently stands at £961.42

10)AOCB

1) A suggestion was made that owing to the removal of a park land part of the Queens Park Recreation Ground due to the building of the new Victoria Hospital, the City Council should upgrade the rest of the park.

2) W. McCallum reported that at a recent SE Area committee meeting she had been made aware of upgrades that were to be made to the glasshouse in Queens Park

3) J. Mutch suggested that there should be a forward plan for the newsletter and that they should be produced more than once per year.

4) E. Dunwoodie spoke of the possibility getting a website to allow more people in the area access to the community council. S. Bach offered to help set this up.

5) E. Ritchie suggested that sub committees should be set up I order to divide the workload. J. Scott asked that anyone interested in taking part in a sub committee, contact him and come back to the next meeting with ideas for the committees.

11) Date of Next Meeting 24/1/06 at the new time of 7pm