HONORARY PRESIDENT; Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald

POLLOKSHIELDS

HERITAGE

MINUTES of Annual General Meeting held on 26th April 2010 in Pollokshields Burgh Hall at 7.30pm

Sederunt:- Niall Murphy [Chair], Hilary Stanger [Treasurer], Janet Lamb [Secretary], Iain Dyer, Karin Currie, Ann Laing, Evelyn Lennie, Roger Millar, Sheila Ogilvie, and John Thomson, a further 56 persons signed the attendance sheetand some further 10 people arrived for the lecture offered after the AGM.

Apologies:- some 20 apologieshad been receivedfrom members, along with those from committee members, David Hart, Elizabeth Jarvis and Helen Barnard.

Minutes of the 2009 AGM:-These minutes, having been circulated, were accepted as a true record. Adoption was proposed by John Thomson and seconded by Sheila Ogilvie.

Chairman’s Report:- Niall Murphy reviewed some of the issues discussed by the committee during the year. He augmented his talk with a slide presentation. He up-dated the meeting on the current situation in respect of:-

Maxwell Park Station was selected as runner up to Scotland’s Adopted Station of the Year 2009 for the refurbishmentof the former booking office as a community meeting room. Two exhibitions were hosted there in 2009. With grant assistance we have invested in purpose built heritage planters which were recently installed on the platforms by Network Rail. Members were reminded that the meeting room is available for hire.
We continued to liaise with the City Council concerning the state of trees in the area.
Ready Steady Grow 2010 and our promotion of this local event to occur on 6thJune.
Leslie Street Greenspaces and our continued support of the proposals to retain and upgrade these spaces.
The new City Plan 2 was adopted in January 2010 and consultations on City Plan 3 are underway. We continued to have concern for the lack of a master plan for the new developments in the area between East Pollokshields and Port Eglinton.
West Pollokshields Conservation Area Appraisal appeared in draft in May 2009, and, following consultations, was adopted by the City Council in March 2010. We were disappointed with the final document.
A lecture series, of five evening public lectures at the Fotheringay Centre, has been organised this session.
Considerable improvement of our website is underway and ongoing.
Our future plans include offering a range of activities in Pollokshields’ 160th anniversary year in 2011

[please note a fuller version of Niall Murphy’s talk appears on our website @

He thanked those all who had supported him over the year, noting Iain Dyer [vice chair and planning], Janet Lamb [secretary], Hilary Stanger [treasurer, membership secretary and newsletter distribution], Karin Currie [newsletter and work for Maxwell Park Station], Evelyn Lennie [newsletter distribution], Elizabeth Jarvis [assisting AGM organisation],Helen Barnard [planning], Ann Laing [station gardener], Roger Millar [lecture series organiser], David Hart [website master] and John Thomson [fund raising in connection with Maxwell Park Station]. He noted that Cordelia Oliver, a hugely influential figure on the Scottish Arts scene and one of our founder members, had passed away during this year.

Treasurer’s Report:- Hilary Stangerhad circulated the Receipts and Payment Accounts for the year ended 28th February 2010, along with the Statement of Balances and the Independent Examiner’s report on the accounts. She gave an explanation of these paying tribute to the help received from Lesley Paddison who had scrutinised them as our independent examiner.Acceptance of the Accounts was proposed by Karin Currie and seconded by Sheila Ogilvie, and unanimously agreed by the members present. It was agreed to appoint Lesley Paddison again for next year.

Election of Office Bearers and Committee:- Nominations were invitedat the meeting. The committee had received prior nominations and these were put to the meeting. All were elected viz

Niall Murphy - Chairman
Iain Dyer - Vice Chairman
Janet Lamb - Secretary
Hilary Stanger - Treasurer / Membership Secretary

And committee members; Helen Barnard, Karin Currie, David Hart, Elizabeth Jarvis, Ann Laing, Evelyn Lennie, Roger Millar, Sheila Ogilvie, Alison Taylor and John Thomson and. It was noted that further members could be co-opted.

AOCB:-

1. There was discussion on the possibility of arranging for a local memorial, perhaps a garden or stained glass, to Cordelia Oliver.

2. Helen Barnard noted that the proposals for installing heritage lamp posts had been affected by the recession. It was noted that there would be a need for some 2000 lamp posts at the approximate cost of £1700 each, although the Council would make contributions. It was further noted that several lamp posts and fittings in East Pollokshields were getting into disrepair.

Date of Next Meeting:-

This would be in April 2011, the exact date to be arranged.

The meeting closed around 8.30 pm and a vote of thanks was given to the Chairman.

After the meeting there was an illustrated talk by Rosemary Watt, Senior Curator for the Museum of Transport and formerly Keeper of the Burrell Collection and the Curator of European Art and Design, on

’The New RiversideMuseum’

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Correspondence address: The Secretary, PO Box 3754, Pollokshields, Glasgow G41 4YF