[meersbrook-house] Public Perception of FoMH and Going Ahead with Printing of Flyer

[kate souper]

Thank you Simon for your voice of experience regarding SCC. It certainly
makes sense to me.

Please can I make a few points:

   1. I feel that the disagreements on this email list really need to be
   reigned in as it is public and we need to at least appear united.
   2. These public disagreements also risk making people not want to join
   the group / take an active role in its future / make them want to leave the
   group.
   3. We keep getting bogged down in semantics instead of deciding /
   actioning things. For example, at the last steering group we endlessly
   discussed the wording of the flyer, and *then* continued that discussion
   online *even* *after* *it was finalised*, yet we had no discussion at
   all about the survey which is arguably far more important than which flyer
   words to use.
   4. I think we need to be clear about what we want, and need to focus on
   what needs to be done to achieve that, rather than trying to second guess
   what the council and/or certain councillors think, which appears to be
   constantly changing.

Obviously things should be much easier once we have a formal structure and
people have designated roles and responsibilities within the group.


Finally, a group of us met up at SUM studios earlier today to see one of
the undeveloped buildings (Liz Martinez emailed the whole list an
invitation). Three of us decided that we need to get the flyers printed as
a matter of urgency. So we will go ahead with printing Anthony's original
flyer (he is away on holiday), aiming for them to be ready for the
facilitators meeting on tuesday evening. We will also finalise the content
of the survey on tues, so *please do put forward your ideas*. Maybe the
place to do this would be the

Public Meeting Working Group Proposal : 2nd July 2014 thread

within the public meeting group in the forum as it appears to fit the
thread well? (Apologies I don't know how to link into the forum). Obviously
and importantly we need to liase with you about this too Nick, but the
survey needs to be up and running before we can distribute any flyers.

Cheers Kate



On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Simon Clement-Jones <simon at cdesystems.co.uk
> wrote:

>  The problem is that SCC is a many headed beast and capable of thinking,
> saying and sometimes even trying to do mutually exclusive things.
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> Part of the council wants the building empty of SCC staff, part of the
> council doesn’t, part knows what’s going on, part thinks it knows what is
> going on, part doesn’t know or care but is prepared to speculate wildly.
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> Whether the staff stay or go if the community demands a role in the future
> of the building then that may focus a few minds on the possible.  The
> status quo will not be an option at some point in the future and FoMH need
> to be ready (and united) for that moment.
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> If you want some weasel words which hopefully covers the facts for the
> flyer:-
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> *“The long term future of Meersbrook Hall is uncertain.  *
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> *“Sheffield City Council have no definite plans right now, but may decide
> to find another use for it or sell it off.  *
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> *“Many in the community hope to work with SCC to secure the future of MH
> as a community resource before any decisions are taken.  *
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> *“If you care about the future of Meersbrook Hall, have got ideas about
> what uses it could be put to, please come along to the meeting at…”*
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> Simon
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