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  • in reply to: Wrexham Council Find Money Tree #172957

    R T
    Keymaster

    [quote quote=172956]As staff are being moved from the Council Lampit Street offices at present has the car park ben resurfaced as part of a deal to attract a better price from a developer to convert their ‘surplus’ offices into apartments to complement those that are being developed in Henblas Street.
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    I have seen a couple of mentions of similar around – and have spoken with WCBC this morning.

    Wrexham Council has confirmed there are no plans to sell off any part of Lambpit Street offices.

    in reply to: Cleaning Company back to Council! #171942

    R T
    Keymaster

    I was sure it had been mentioned in a meeting previously, but I have checked and can confirm that the Directors received no remuneration for their roles.

    Other current financial information is however restricted.

    in reply to: Ty Pawb merry go round (again) #169914

    R T
    Keymaster

    [quote quote=169899]There seems some confusion in the report on Wrexham.com today about the Wrexham Music CoOperative and Wrexham Symphony Orchestra as they are two seperate organisations. WMC was formed after the drastic cuts to the Council Music Budget- WSO is totally seperate – the Chair of this group however is Derek Jones who is also Chair of the Ty Pawb Advisory Board..[/quote]

    No confusion.

    From the article, “[i]We later contacted Lead Member for Education, Cllr Phil Wynn, on how a report last year noted that the council had “…established a partnership with the Wrexham Symphony Orchestra and the university, as well as Ty Pawb” and how that partnership has fallen apart so drastically.[/i]

    That line is from https://www.wrexham.gov.uk/assets/pdfs/information_reports/2018/wrexham-music-co-operative.pdf – the report from the council on the Coop setup.

    [i]”The co-op have set up Twitter and other social media platforms
    to link with all Wrexham schools, established a partnership with the Wrexham
    Symphony Orchestra and the university, as well as Ty Pawb and have already
    applied for several grants for the new service – one of these is from the Andrew
    Lloyd Webber foundation that have previously supported other activities within the
    North Wales Music Co-operative. “[/i]a

    in reply to: Wrexham Weather #169592

    R T
    Keymaster

    “Ratty” appears to be a former familiar face in the higher echelons of council staff, a firm message about perhaps predictable issues from someone with insight?

    in reply to: Ty Pawb merry go round (again) #169300

    R T
    Keymaster

    [quote quote=169299]Interestingly the Council have not published the TY Pawb report that is due to go to Scrutiny next Thurssday- reports are normally out late Wed/Thursday am the previous week.
    Ty Pawb is supposed to be a centre of creativity so we might see a masterpiece of creative writing being produced!!
    Someone must be burning the midnight oil![/quote]

    It exists, and will be out later today.

    Interesting the original draft plan was top secret, until it accidentally got sent out to all media in 2015 ( https://www.wrexham.com/news/peoples-market-car-park-charges-to-double-in-arts-hub-plan-105111.html / https://www.wrexham.com/news/arts-hub-plan-shows-10-year-900000-loss-105399.html ) whereas the brand new business plan that is being released today is a public document.

    in reply to: Ty Pawb merry go round (again) #168976

    R T
    Keymaster

    [quote]
    The one item everyone in Wrexham should pick up on was the £810,000 running costs mentioned at the Audit Meeting but no clarity yet again about how much has come as a subsidy from ratepayers. It was stated at the begging that there would be at least £100k a year for three years now we seem to have seen a potential huge hike in what ratepayers are now contributing when other key services such as Social Service and Schools are having major budget cuts.
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    That figure in the report was as direct quote from a councillor and was a new figure to me, so asked later, and it was clarified. It was on https://www.wrexham.com/news/scrutiny-committee-given-job-of-answering-how-has-this-happened-over-ty-pawb-management-issues-168880.html “([b]After the meeting Cllr Jones has been in touch – the £851k is in-fact capital, and is referenced in an earlier agenda item on budgets – page 6 on this PDF. The figure was not corrected by anyone in the meeting.[/b])” etc

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    Rob can you not get a direct sound feed from the Council PA so that you are able to capture all the meeting.
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    There are a range of issues around capturing meetings audio and visual, and also from the storage and management standpoint. That meeting record was a very lightweight affair, iPhone set to ‘low’ 1080p capture with no external audio. That still created a several gig file to trim later and upload.

    It was also a test to see if there was going to be any objections in the meeting to recording, so whip out the cam and record, rather than hook in cables and the like. That could change in the future depending on what is recorded. The longer record was initially for own records however as it developed into a wider more interested agenda item I thought it worthwhile to whack up on Youtube.

    The other issue is I was making notes of the meeting, doing the odd tweet and sorting the recording, while juggling battery boosters at the same time, while trying to follow the track of what was going on. Adding in external audio means an extra faff, and possible mixer of some sort too.

    (Also https://twitter.com/wrexham/status/1134817643754643456 if anyone hasn’t seen it relating to this meeting – the audio has to be right or others can’t report!)


    R T
    Keymaster

    This thread (I think) got a mention in a Scrutiny today – you can watch it here: https://wrexham.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/418968/start_time/2683000?force_language_code=en_GB

    The Lead Member refers to ‘negative’ feedback.

    The original release can be found on https://www.wrexham.com/news/20-businesses-join-scheme-to-offer-vulnerable-people-a-safe-place-when-visiting-wrexham-149906.html that Cllr Krista Childs refers to just before Cllr Lowe’s comments, noting she is on the committee but was unaware of the scheme.

    in reply to: Snow or no Snow #163123

    R T
    Keymaster

    [quote quote=163110]The point was that the initial news post from WCBC was contradictory to itself, not the met office of which did not forecast snow for Wrexham.[/quote]

    To clear that up, the Council claim was published against our note at the bottom pointing out stuff we had looked at did not concur that there would be large amounts of snow – thus the piece this afternoon, which has gone down badly with some council staff I am told.

    in reply to: Snow or no Snow #163101

    R T
    Keymaster
    in reply to: Average waiting times at Wrexham Maelor #162905

    R T
    Keymaster

    [quote quote=162897]Rob: yeah their reporting tool is not the easiest thing to use. I’ve managed to find out how to do it though:

    – In the second row, you have two boxes ‘Target’ and ‘Date’. Drag the ‘Date’ box down to the row below and put it next to the ‘Measure’ box. (when you drag the boxes the box you are dragging appears miles above the mouse, so it easy to think its not working. you need to ‘drop’ the actual box and not the mouse).
    – Now drag the ‘Measure’ box and put it in the place where you just got the ‘Date’ box from.
    – You should now see data for all dates and you can use the drop down on the ‘Date’ box if you wish to filter to certain date ranges.
    – Now you can just use the export button to export the data.

    Should look like this afterwards:

    [/quote]

    Brilliant – thanks very much! Never even thought to try and drag and move them around, and as you say even then they appear about 100px higher!

    Target , Measure , Date in that order and then expanded out makes the info I manually did pop up and thus exportable if that helps anyone else reading!

    Thanks again :)

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