ACTIONS and MATTERS ARISING
The Executive Committee had contacted the Head of Air Traffic Control at Hurn Airport, and he had given a presentation to the Committee covering the rules and procedures for flights in and out of Hum. A summary of the presentation was published
in the last Winter Magazine.

CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
First of all the Chairman thanked the Officers and Wardens of this Association for their hard work and support. It is through their hard work that the membership of the Association has grown to approximately 3000 households or nearly half of the households in Broadstone. During the last 12 months your Executive Committee have been very active. Probably the most important activity was planting a Millennium Tree and installing a seat by the War Memorial in the Recreation ground. We included other Broadstone organisations in this project and the memorial plaques indicate the particular organisations included. The dedication ceremony took place in the Autumn and was carried out by the Rev. Paul Mears. The oldest Broadstone born resident Martha Applin, and the two youngest born school children Bethany Ellis and Catherine Wingfield, performed the planting. The event was well attended despite the heavy persistent rain and storm force winds. We financially supported the Christmas lights for the Chamber of Trade, and Broadstone in Bloom for plants in the beds and container in the Broadway. We also commemorated the service of two ex chairmen, namely Colin Kendal and Peter Coles, now deceased, by having two chairs named in the Lady Chapel at St. John's Parish Church. There have been some changes to the organisation of Local Government proposed by Parliament. The Borough of Poole's consultation request under the title 'Jules Jollife' asked for a choice on the new style of Local Government in Poole. Poole has been operating a trial of the "Leader and Cabinet" style. One of the benefits to local Residents has been the Local Area Committee, which gives everyone the opportunity to meet the local Councillors every 8 weeks and debate local Issues. The Committee has a limited budget, and can authorise small improvements.

The "Toast Rack" car park and Footpath 5 have frequently been discussed, without making any real progress, though recommendations have been passed to the Local Area Committee. As always only low cost schemes can be considered, and for the Toast Rack, the current suggestion is to close the Macaulay Road entrance and enter from the southern end.

The Chairman had attended a Borough Scrutiny committee to criticise the operation of the traffic signals on the route into Poole and subsequently Bournemouth. Despite the signals being computer controlled and working under an optimisation programme called SCOOT, an estimated 70% of the journeys result in a succession of RED signals.

Amongst the large number of Planning applications during the year, there were a number of requests from One-2-One for aerial masts to be erected, two of which would have been in Broadstone. One in Pinesprings Drive and the other at the Broadway end of Broadstone Way. This Association together with a residents pressure group organised a public meeting with One-2-One and the lobbying of a Council meeting, and succeeded in persuading the company to withdraw the applications. However, the Company are not governed by the normal Planning rules and it is possible that the plan is only just deferred - watch this space.

Several residents including myself have been confused as to how to report, and achieve some action from the Police, when an apparent crime has been witnessed or the results of a crime have been observed. In the first instance if the crime is in the process of taking place do not hesitate. Dial 999 and the police will attend swiftly. However, if a crime has occurred and only the result witnessed, Jam advised that you should phone 552099 and report the event. Under either circumstance you should request an Incident Number so that you know that a record has been made. A crime has only been committed when the person suffering the consequences of that event wishes it to be recorded thus.

The executive is very concerned about the lack of publicity Broadstone receives in either of the so-called local papers. Your Association is doing its best to act as a conduit to direct any news to the papers but depends on residents and organisations giving us news of events to take place and those that have taken place. l am very concerned that the Broadstone Magazine rarely contains any Broadstone news but lots about Verwood, Ferndown, Wimborne and Ringwood etc. The editor tells me that she is more than willing to give Broadstone news space provided she gets some news. Please help me to help give Broadstone more publicity.

TREASURER'S REPORT for the year ending 31St December, 2000
A copy of the Receipts and Expenditure Account was presented to all persons present. The Treasurer explained in detail the final accounts, which showed a balance of £5556, somewhat less than the previous year, due mainly to the costs incurred over the purchase of the Millennium bench and tree. The accounts were accepted on a show of hands.

Advertising
John thanked our loyal advertisers for their continued support. However the list of Advertisers waiting for space to become available, had now risen to seven. This was the highest for some time, but the Editor felt that to provide more space for adverts would upset the balance of the Magazine, unless we increased overall size and cost, which he was loathe to do.

With regard to the advertising fees, he felt there was no requirement to increase them this year. (f25 per half page, and £40 full page).

Education
The partnership between Government, LEA and parents appears to be working well. Government grants for teaching of three year olds, and enhancing existing buildings have been awarded, and a considerable amount of 'sponsorship' money has been raised to allow provision of technical improvements on a matched funding basis.

Broadstone First School has been awarded Family Friendly Status, and has recently become a Beacon School, a status that recognises the excellent standards in creative writing and general language skills, and requires other schools to share its expertise. It can also now provide a small conference suite for up to 12 persons.

Springdale School has concentrated on the development of computer facilities, and as part of the National Grid for Learning now has a ten PC network installed.

Broadstone Middle has had £750,000 for the development of a new science and arts block, and has reorganised the space thus released, to include a library/research centre equipped with the latest I.T. equipment. This was purchased with some of the sponsorship money, which was also used to help Allenbourne, Lockyers and Corfe Hills schools.

Corfe Hills has been awarded Technology College status, and is busy extending its ICT facilities. It will also get continued Government support over the next four years at £172,000 p.a., with the aim of giving the school a high-tech feel, whilst still retaining the local character.

Post Office Advisory Committee (POAC) and Telephone Advisory Committee (TAC)

TAC
We belong to Purbeck and East Dorset TAC, (not Poole and Bournemouth). The OFTEL organisation that had been responsible for TACs was now changing to OFCOM to reflect the present status. There are many official reports and consultation papers circulated, and sometimes presentations by major suppliers. Vodaphone and BT are the most helpful.

Currently BT is putting some low power transmitters into phone boxes to cut down on installation costs. Internet access and digital TV are areas rapidly developing technologies that are building interfaces into the telephone world.

POAC
These Committees are being merged into larger regional bodies, and are likely to be killed off at a local level. Post Office Counters are now owned by an administrative organisation called Consignia. In practice it makes little difference to their work. Local Post Offices are expecting to get more powers, such as dealing with passports, banking and related financial matters. Locally the move of Broadstone sorting office down to the Nuffield Estate is now complete. Statistically it has made little difference to the (high) quality of service in this area.

Dorset Federation
The Federation of more than 30 local Residents' Associations, meets four times a year in Ferndown and covers topics of common interest. They receive reports from organisations such as Dorset Police, CPRE, Poole Harbour Commissioners, Dorset Health Authority, etc. They also attend meetings of Hum Airport Authority and the Dorset Waste Forum. Among topics discussed this year are: Equalisation of VAT on new housing and refurbishment. Pressure on housing associations to build solely for local residents. Oppose the proposals for rural roadside advertisements. Further developments for Hum Airport on green belt land. Abolition of Community Health Councils. Push for full Council Tax payment on second homes. New Council Constitutions. First Deposit Draft of the County. Waste Plan. New contracts are to be awarded in April 2004, and the Government requires a 25% reduction in household waste by 2005. The Federation were also actively supporting the new Scrapstore project. The Federation were currently without a Secretary, and would be pleased to hear from any interested party.

Election of Officers
The President, Dr Fleming, now took the chair. In compliance with the rules of the Association, a notice had appeared in the Spring Newsletter, inviting members to nominate persons for office. Since no nominations were forthcoming, the Executive Committee recommended that the officers listed below be re-elected.

Frank Meaton (Dorset Federation) and Don Harris (Chamber of Trade) will continue to serve on the committee, as will the existing area wardens, and the warden's representatives.
There had been no further nominations so the officers submitted by the Committee were elected unopposed. After the election, John Noyes resumed the chair.

AOB
Mrs Eileen Thurston of the Evening Townswomens' Guild echoed the Chairman's comments about the Community Magazine. She had phoned to advise them that a sizeable cheque was to he officially handed over to the Air Ambulance Service. Nothing happened, not even 'Sorry cannot make it!'

John Bull raised the matter of the lost trailway sign at the junction with Waterman Way. This had earlier been raised at the Local Area Committee. He had had a letter from Leisure Services, saying that as yet the old sign had not been located, and until that was resolved, the question of refurbish or replace could not be answered.

Councillor Mason asked if anyone could volunteer to be Secretary and/or Treasurer for the Youth Club Committee. This would involve fairly light duties four times a year.

Councillor Williams felt he must emphasise how impressed he was with the quality of the magazine.

In closing the formal section of the meeting, the Chairman expressed our thanks and appreciation to Joyce Warren, and the Combi Shop for the refreshments to come.