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27 </style><title>Future of 7 VT working group: Eighth meeting</title></head><body style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, Arial; background: rgb(254,250,246)"><div style="text-align: center"><h1>Future of 7 VT working group: Eighth meeting</h1><div class="byline">This informal summary by Henry S. Thompson, Convenor</div><div class="byline">Held at 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh on 3 April 2009, 5:30 p.m.</div></div><div><h2>1. Attendance</h2><p>Present: Alison Burnley, Madeleine Harding,
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28 Brian Mayes, Laurie Naumann,
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29 Eileen Schott, Henry Thompson (in the clerk's chair)</p><p>Prevented: Phil Lucas, Rufus Reade</p></div><div><h2>2. Real Estate Market review</h2><p>AB identified some commercial estate agents, and spoke with a local
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30 agent: his estimate for 1 large room, 2 smaller rooms, kitchen and lavatories
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31 was 150 to 200 thousand pounds, in the centre of Edinburgh.</p><p>This would require not only selling 7VT but also at least one of the
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32 flats.</p><p>Our current Meeting Room is 792sq ft, as is the hall.</p><p>Not clear how quickly we could sell, or what a realistic cost for a
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33 building that would suit us would be, that is, not clear that we could get a
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34 building with an 800sq ft room for 200 thousand.</p><p>If we remain a central meeting, we need at least that much space, as the
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35 Meeting Room is full on busy Sundays. If we are split up, what does that do to
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36 our community?</p><p>ES looked at out-of-town 'units', semi-industrial, no costings retained.
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37 Windows are an issue, and of course conversion costs would be high.</p></div><div><h2>3. Comparison with other meeting venue rentals</h2><p>ES looked at our rental charges and those of some other church hall
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38 rentals in the area. The figures look broadly comparable to ours, so there is
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39 not much scope for raising prices to get more income. ES was impressed by the
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40 quality of the website the Meeting House uses to present itself to potential
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41 renters. Having a manager on site also meant our response time was much better
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42 than most of the other sites.</p></div><div><h2>4. Status for form distribution/collection</h2><dl><dt><b><a name="Financial_experts">Financial experts</a></b></dt><dd>LN waiting for review of his proposed
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43 questions, will interview individuals.</dd><dt><b><a name="Lettings_comparison">Lettings comparison</a></b></dt><dd>ES has done this, see above.</dd><dt><b><a name="Quaker_groups">Quaker groups</a></b></dt><dd>MH has distributed a questionnaire, and has
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44 between 1/3 and 1/2 of them back</dd><dt><b><a name="Central_Edinburgh">Central Edinburgh</a></b></dt><dd>Forms were available at the rise of meeting
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45 on Sunday 29th March, 25 replies in hand.</dd><dt><b><a name="Midweek_meeting">Midweek meeting</a></b></dt><dd>AB has given out some forms, more to go out
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46 next Wed.</dd><dt><b><a name="Local_meetings">Local meetings</a></b></dt><dd>No news from PL</dd><dt><b><a name="MH_staff">MH staff</a></b></dt><dd>No news from PL</dd></dl><p>We'll try to have tabulated responses by our next meeting, at which point
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47 we can combine across different groups</p></div><div><h2>5. Next steps and next time</h2><p>We agreed that dividing up the writing work makes sense, and HST agreed
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48 to try to move us forward on the draft table of contents so that we can begin
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49 to agree who will contribute what writing. HST said that he envisages having
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50 both a report on our work, covering all the information we've gathered,
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51 probably quite substantial, and a much shorter 'executive summary'.</p><p>What about soliciting forward-looking input from various
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52 constituencies? Time is short, but we need to give people an opportunity to
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53 contribute to the vision.</p><p>We will have two open meetings to give people the opportunity
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54 to share their visions of the future with us: 3 p.m. on 3 May and 7:30pm on 4 May.</p><p>ES shared her idea of a public participation (experiential) means of
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55 presenting our findings and helping the AM to understand our findings, maybe at
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56 AM on 6 June, or afterwards.</p></div><div><h2>6. Actions review and new actions</h2><p>HST to get the Kath Russell report [<b>done</b>]</p><p>HST to ask John Phillips for an electronic version of his notes for us [<b>done</b>]</p><p>HST to ask Ken Jobling where to find the details of how food hygiene regulations
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57 apply depending on exactly what's happening. [<b>overtaken</b>]</p><p>HST to invite Mark Hutcheson to one of our meetings at his earliest
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58 convenience, as Convenor of AM Trustees. [<b>done</b>]</p><p>ES to get some costs of out-of-town units</p><p>HST to get publicicity out about the vision input meetings.</p></div><div><h2>7. Next Meeting</h2><p>Our next meeting will be at 7 Victoria Terrace at 5:30pm on Friday 24 April. We
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59 tentatively agreed on Friday 1 May 5:30pm for our next meeting after that.</p></div></body></html> |
