<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thank you Kate, I completely support your approach here, and also Moira's request that discussion takes place on the forum or in meetings.</div><div>Apologies for my silence over the last few days, I am preparing for my Ofsted registration visit on Monday which absolutely has to take priority for me so I may not get chance to get onto the forum to contribute fully to discussions until Monday evening. I will support whatever the group decides in the meantime.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Laura<br><br>~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~<div>Laura Holmes 07736 844109</div><div><a href="mailto:laura@b4wd.org.uk">laura@b4wd.org.uk</a></div><div><a href="mailto:laura@holmesadmin.co.uk">laura@holmesadmin.co.uk</a></div></div><div><br>On 13 Sep 2014, at 17:49, kate souper <<a href="mailto:katesouper@gmail.com">katesouper@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Simon for your voice of experience regarding SCC. It certainly makes sense to me.<br><br></div>Please can I make a few points:<br><ol><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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 <i>then</i> continued that discussion online <i>even</i> <i>after</i> <i>it was finalised</i>, yet we had no discussion at all about the survey which is arguably far more important than which flyer words to use.</li><li>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.<br></li></ol><p>Obviously things should be much easier once we have a formal structure and people have designated roles and responsibilities within the group. <br></p><p><br></p><p>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 <u><i>please do put forward your ideas</i></u>. Maybe the place to do this would be the<br></p><p> Public Meeting Working Group Proposal : 2nd July 2014 thread <br></p><p>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.<br></p><p>Cheers Kate<br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Simon Clement-Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@cdesystems.co.uk" target="_blank">simon@cdesystems.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">If you want some weasel words which hopefully covers the facts for the flyer:-<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">“The long term future of Meersbrook Hall is uncertain.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">“Sheffield City Council have no definite plans right now, but may decide to find another use for it or sell it off. <u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">“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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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">“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…”<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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