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jeast. Good evening and welcome to the local spending board for East and West Mosey held on Monday 3rd of June 2024. As we have members of the public present, please can you note the following fire precautions. In the event of the fire alarm sounding, please leave the room immediately. Proceed downstairs by way of the main stairs or follow any of the emergency exit signs. Leave the building. A follow the size of theeverybody set up by hour. Leave the building. I follow the size of the fire assembly point, which is in the old church path on the pathway between the rear of the Isha public car park library end and the churchyard. The first item on the agenda is Poetman of Chair. Please can I take the boards from nation's? And I shall nominate Councillor but any popums. Thank you Councillor Backs. Only three members present. I guess there will be no other nominations. I can confirm that Councillor Popum is a pointless chair for the local spending board for East and West Mosey for the minutes per year 2024-25. There are loads of us here tonight so I don't think it's going to be a long meeting but I hope it's productive. First on the house tonight, the appointment of a chair for the following year. OK, the decorations of interest. Any members like to declare any interest? Steve? Thank you Chairman. I mean, it's not pecuniary at all but just to say that probably like yourself, like Pat, many of us will be aware of the applicants and have met them before particularly. Alex over the back there. So just to say that obviously I have met Alex before and and quite possibly the representative of the church I might have met as well. Thank you. All right. OK. I've been just, OK, minutes of the meeting held on 5 June last year. Could we agree those minutes? Is that agreed? OK. Thank you. Right. Can we proceed with local spending and applications for the community, infrastructure levy funds for East and West Mosey? Right. Shall we take the first one? Thank you. Application 1 and net, pedal? Is it? Pedal. Pedal. Petty. Petty. Sorry. I told you how to do it. I don't mind. If you could. I think the mics linked up so that'd be great. And then you have 3, be given 3 minutes to present your application to the Luke. Yes. You will do in a second when I turn mine off you'll be able to return your button on. It's. Yeah. So when I turn mine off you'll be able to in a second she have 3 minutes to present your application to the boards. I am mean. I will tell you when to stop at 3 minutes exactly. An issue of fairness and transparency and our decision making. But then following the board will be able to ask you questions about your application. I should say that I think there's sufficient money in the pot to fund all applications tonight if the board does decide to do so and we'll actually ask if the board is looking to award funds as it goes along after each application and deliberate after the presentation. Or whether you'll leave that to the end just so applicants are aware of the process that we're undertaking the process. So on. Okay. Okay. Good evening. I'm Annette Petty. I'm from the East Mosey Methodist Church. We're applying for some funding to help us complete replacement of single glazed double windows in our Moss Hall, the hall that we mainly use for our lettings. We replaced the windows on the south side of the hall in March 2022. And this has already made a big difference to the warmth of the hall as you can imagine. The remaining windows on the north side are in poor state with frames rotten in parts and single glazing causing drafts and also not very secure. Alongside the installation of the PV panels on the roof with with which with your help were installed last year. The completion of this project should help to improve our carbon footprint. Users should also feel the benefit by feeling warmer and it being less drafty. And they should also benefit from lower fees because if we're lowering our costs it will reflect in the fees that we charge them hopefully. And it will also reduce the maintenance costs as less repairs and painting on an annual basis and easier for us to keep clean as well. It will also improve the noise impact from the halls on our neighbours and we're quite close to neighbours in Amana Road. We're keen for the installation to take place during the August school holidays whilst the premises is empty and receiving the grant will make this possible. We are constantly fundraising not just for property issues for other things too but we've achieved £6,000 so far towards this project and will continue to fundraise as we have other projects that also need attention within the building. That's all I've really got to say. So thank you for your time. Thank you. Okay. I knew members here would like to question or talk about yes, Steve? Thank you. Thank you Chairman. Thank you Annette for the presentation. I don't see any problem with supporting this but I'm wondering who is using the hall at the moment. I know that you've got a nursery there and I wondered if it was in use by the nursery or if it's some other part of this date. The nursery is our main let I have to say because they're in every Monday to Friday between 8.30 and 3 o'clock really but immediately after that we have dancing groups and we have brownies and rainbows and a keep fit class and we also have a photographic company that come in and use the premises as well. So it's used outside of that quite a lot and there's only two afternoons actually when it's not in use and that and so you know it's the use is quite high. Thank you. Anybody else? No questions. Okay. How do you manage then with the services and everything else you've got all this going on in the church? The hall is actually separate from the church. We have the hall at the back and the church is at the front and so the church isn't impacted with any of the activities that go on during the week. We do have other things going on in the church like we have a preschool played group on a Thursday morning. We have the photographic club that use it on a Tuesday night and actually we also use it for polling so we let the church out for polling and there are other talk things that we do like fundraising events. Sorry. Is that better? Yeah. Can you hear me now? Can you? All right. We will take just each application as it comes and then we'll talk about the funding after we've discussed the application. Is that okay? Yeah. All right. Okay. Thank you. Could then we ask for the second application. Thank you.

Thank you for hearing our application this evening. We are applying for £18,607.78 to pay for the replacement and the refurbishment of the kitchen at the St. Peter's community and youth hub on Ray Road in West Molesy. We estimate that there are about 500 different people on average who use that building each week from a range of different things from baby groups, toddler groups that are part of the activities that St. Peter's run through to the food bank which is based there, the night shelter which is run there and a huge number of different groups. Of course most importantly because that's the primary use of the building, the youth programme that runs with double figures of different sessions that happen throughout the week. So it's a building that's being used seven days a week and the kitchen that is in place at the moment is simply not adequate for the level of usage that's there. So what we'd like to do and what we've had people provide the quotes to do is to put a more commercially based kitchen in there. For instance with a commercial dishwasher that then can wash the number of cups and plates and different things that need to be washed across the week. And all of the other equipment that makes it viable for that number of people to be able to use what is one fairly small kitchen within the building. So the hopes are that we can replace those and we'd ideally like to do that over this coming summer so that it's possible for it to be ready in time for use for different projects from September. What else does I meant to say, Jo? I should have introduced Jo and Alice who's our social action director at St Peter's and so she is responsible for the night shelter, the food bank and various other projects. And one of the things we run each week is a community breakfast which has about a hundred different people coming to it. So trying to put an event like that on with the current kitchen is a bit tricky. We have some wonderful people who help with it but it's not a straightforward thing to do. So that was all I was going to say but it's used seven days a week effectively by about 500 people on average each day. Thank you Alex and can I just say you're doing a wonderful job there, Jeremy, because it's nice to pop in to see them, especially we've got a party in the back garden. Anyway, members would you like to question somebody on the application? Thank you and I've just echoed what Tony said. My thanks to you both for all the work that you're doing for the community there. I've seen the kitchen, I wondered whether you were looking to extend the size of it or if it's broadly speaking staying the size that it is but you're just going to check out what you've got there and replace it with new things. So there's this money to actually make purchases for appliances and things. Or are you actually going to have to sort of, are you going to completely rebuild the whole area? I mean, ideally we'd love a bigger kitchen but the truth is we're fairly stuck with the footprint. The one thing that we have explored, there's a store that's next to it that's sort of half of next to it, half of next to it is a cleaning cup that we can't do very much about. But on the other side is a store and we had wondered about whether we would try and create a doorway into that store and turn that into a store for the kitchen rather than what it is at the moment. But this quote is the cost of taking out all of the current kitchen, putting in commercial units throughout the kitchen. New sinks, we obviously need to have hand washing sinks separately to the normal sinks. Having a commercial dishwasher, having a commercial oven, having a commercial microwave and all of those things. So the quotes that we've included are for all of those different bits of equipment. And then in fact the quotes we got back with, we estimated it cost about £4,000 to install it and get it all right. And in fact the quotes we got back from the different contractors all matched that. And so I take it that you would own the equipment, it's not sort of renting or leasing it and have you checked with Surrey County Council, there's no issues with them as the landlord? Yeah, when we entered into the lease for that building we had to agree, various, so we had to draw up plans as an annex to our lease in terms of what we're doing. There are other developments which you're aware of that we're planning to do, in fact we have some funding from your fund Surrey to develop other areas of the building which is amazing. So if we were to have this funding as well it would mean that we could optimise those different spaces within the building and also upgrade that kitchen, which is a much needed thing. But that's all being signed off by Surrey. Anybody else like to say anything? Pat? Can I just say that both organisations, both churches, deserve every penny you get, if we can help we will. It's only two applications, the only two people there, we have the funds to go through both applications as they stand. And what are your views, members? I think I'm happy to fund in full both applications. Oh, there you go. Yes, I agree. I also have a Chris. Remember to switch the mic on. Anyway, both applications, deserve every penny, and I'm fully supportive and the council is fully supportive of what you're trying to achieve both churches. Thank you very much for your endeavours. And anything else I've been needing to say, if there's something else? No, ladies and gentlemen, members, we have passed your application for the funding and you will get full funding from us. I hope that is what you've come for and you're going away. Happy. Thank you, all of you. Thank you. Yes, so you're free to go now. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. [BLANK_AUDIO]