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7th
January 1957 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
Rate Estimates 1957/58
The following report of the special Sub-Committee on Rate
Estimates was submitted:-
From a very long and complex report the following specific items were
listed for Selly Oak Park:-
Seats
·
12 Plank Seats - £18 – Replacement of existing
dilapidated seats
Fencing
·
New sawn oak gates for main entrance - £40 –
Replacement of temporary gates
·
350 yds. open pale to canal - £500 - Replacement
of dilapidated chestnut fence
·
6 Rolls wire netting 4ft. high, 1½“ mesh - £50 -
Replacement around tennis court
·
Repairs to oak pale boundary fence south side of
Corisande Rd. - £55 - Preservation of western boundary
Electric Installations
·
Immersion heater - £15 – Lodge, fuel economy in
summer time
Tennis Courts
·
2 Hard Courts - £1000 - By P.C. Min. No. 15929
these new courts were scheduled for 1956/57 but were deferred
Items considered but deleted
before submission of report:-
·
Surface path from Daughters of Rest to canal
bridge - £300
·
Surface area in front of dressing rooms - £60
4th February
1957 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
Councillor Mrs Tomlinson presented the following report of the General
Purposes and Finance Sub-Committee:-
Departmental Establishment
(From a very long report the
following proposed remuneration emerges:-)
Horticultural Section
Post: Pk.
Kpr. Selly Oak
Grade: Misc.
V
Holder: J.
Hughes
Salary (1.4.57) £594- 0- 0. - £655-10- 0.
Departmental Establishment
18568 Resolved:-
That the proposals referred to in this report and as more particularly
set out in detail in the General Manager’s report and in the report of the
Special Sub-Committee in connection with the re-organisation of the Parks
Department, be approved, ..............
that the
Establishment Committee be recommended to approve and confirm the foregoing
adjustments to the departmental establishment; and that subject thereto the
posts be filled in accordance with the recommendations contained therein from 1st
April, 1957.
4th March 1957 – BCC Parks
Committee Minute
Councillor Mrs Tomlinson presented the following report of the General
Purposes and Finance Sub-Committee:-
Officers-in-Charge and Foremen – Grading and Conditions of Service
I have received official intimation from the Establishment Officer that
your Committee’s proposed revised rates of pay for Manual and Non-Manual Staff
engaged as Officers-in-Charge and Foremen, as decided by your Minute No. 18470
of 7th January have been approved by the Establishment Committee,
such proposals to take effect from 1st February, 1957.
Arrangements have been made for the Officers-in-Charge and Foremen to
work the revised hours of duty with effect from today, for an experimental period
of six months.
The Committee will recall that the proposals include the regrading of
Non-Manual Officers-in-Charge and the transfer to the Non-Manual Staff of all
Manual Officers-in-Charge within Grade III.
In this connection I set out in Appendix “A” a schedule giving a
suggested increment stage and salaries within the new grades of the
Officers-in-Charge concerned.
The Committee’s approval is requested.
Appendix “A”
Name: Hughes,
J.E.
Park: Selly
Oak
Present Annual Remuneration: £631-7-4
Present Grade: Grade III (Manual Staff)
New Grade as approved by
Establishment Committee: Misc.
Div V (£594-0-0 - £635-10-0 p.a.)
Increment Stage Recommended: £640-2-6 (3rd inc.)
Officers-in-Charge
and Foremen – Grading and Conditions of Service
Hereon the following
resolution No. 5246 of the Establishment Committee was submitted:-
Parks Committee – Rates of Pay and Hours of Duty – Parks Superintendents,
Officers-in-Charge and Foremen
5246 Resolved:- (i) That having considered the submissions made
by the representatives of the Parks Committee, approval be given to the
proposal to adopt, with effect from 1st February, 1957, revised
rates of pay for Parks Superintendents,
Officers-in-Charge and certain manual staff employed in the Parks Department as
set out in Appendix “L” of the report of the Parks (General Purposes and Finance
Sub-) Committee attached to Minute No. 18470 of the Parks Committee; also to
adopt revised hours of duty for Parks Superintendents, Officers-in-Charge and
Foremen within the current conditions of working an average 44-hour week throughout
the year as set out in the foregoing report of the Parks (General Purposes and
Finance Sub-) Committee on the understanding that such revised hours of duty
will be operated for an experimental period of six months in the first instance
and that no change shall be made in the
existing hours of duty worked by Officers-in-Charge at single-handed and smaller
recreation grounds and also Parks Police who carry out duties under similar
conditions;
(ii)
That the Parks Committee be informed that this Committee are of opinion
that the existing values placed upon emoluments in respect of accommodation
etc. provided for Superintendents and Officers-in-Charge of Parks should be
examined in view of the anomalous situation which has arisen as the result of
their present valuation.
18687 Resolved:-
That the Supplementary Report of the General Manager referring to the
recommendations of the full Committee by Minute No. 18470 in respect of revised
rates of pay for manual and non-manual staff engaged as Officers-in-Charge and Foremen
as approved by the Establishment Committee from 1st February 1957, be
approved; and the Officers detailed in Appendix “A” thereto be placed in the
new grades stated and at the incremental stages set out therein; that the
arrangements made for the Officers-in-Charge and Foremen to work revised hours
of duty from 18th February as referred to in the foregoing Minute, for an experimental
period of six months, be noted; further, that the observations on emoluments in
respect of accommodation etc., be noted and dealt with in accordance with
Minute No. 18680.
There is a report of the need to reduce the Parks Department’s
Rate Estimates 1957/58 by £75,000.
To achieve the savings the following
specific items were deleted from the original allocation for Selly Oak Park:-
Seats
- 12 Plank Seats - £18 – Replacement of existing dilapidated seats
Fencing
- New sawn oak gates for main entrance - £40 – Replacement of temporary gates
- 350 yds. open pale to canal - £500 - Replacement of dilapidated chestnut fence
- Repairs to oak pale boundary fence south side of Corisande Rd. - £55 - Preservation of western boundary
Electric Installations
- Immersion heater - £15 – Lodge, fuel economy in summer time
Tennis Courts
- 2 Hard Courts - £1000 - By P.C. Min. No. 15929 these new courts were scheduled for 1956/57 but were deferred.
1st April 1957 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
In the absence of Councillor Mrs. Tomlinson, Councillor
Wothers presented the following report of the General Purposes and Finance
Sub-Committee:
Police Report – Serious Accidents
Since the last meeting of your Sub-Committee,
there have been 19 serious accidents dealt with in the parks and the patients
sent to hospital. There were also 184
minor injuries treated and the patients sent home. Details of serious accidents are given in
Appendix “E”.
Appendix “E”
Police Report –
Serious Accidents
Date: 9.2.57
Park: Selly
Oak Pk.
Name & Age: John Wood (18)
Nature of Injury: Lacerated right elbow.
Cause of injury: Fell playing football.
Staff - Regradings
I have to recommend the regradings as set out in Appendix “H” for the
approval of the Committee, to take effect from the dates indicated. The services of the employees recommended
have been satisfactory.
Appendix “H”
Regradings
District No. 1
Name & Age: Grace,
A.J. (21)
Where employed: Selly
Oak Park
Grading & Wages
Present: Gdn.
2nd cl. £8-10-4
Recommended: Gdn.
2nd cl. £8-17-3d.
Date commenced: 22.9.52
To date from: 11.3.57
Staff –
Regradings
18789 Resolved:-
That the staff regradings as set out in Appendix “H” to the foregoing
report be approved and confirmed, to have effect from the dates shown in each
case.
Alderman Mrs. Hyde
presented the following report of the Recreation and Entertainments
Sub-Committee:-
Festival of Entertainments, 1957
It will be remembered that your Committee approved preliminary
proposals for the provision of entertainments in certain selected parks to be
held during the period 4th - 18th May, and the following
are the programme arrangements to date:-
(From a list of 9 sites:-)
Date: Wed. 15th
May
Park: Selly
Oak
Event: 7-30
p.m. Police and Fire Brigade Display (subject to petrol rationing).
Festival of
Entertainments, 1957
18828 Resolved:-
That the programme of entertainments to be provided during the 1957
Festival of Entertainments as more particularly referred to in the foregoing
report, be approved.
6th May 1957 – BCC Parks Committee
Minute
The following report
of the General Manager, which had been circulated, was submitted:-
Mobile Canteen Tenders
In accordance with the usual practice, an
advertisement was recently placed in the local Press inviting tenders for the
privilege of operating with a mobile canteen in the following parks and
recreation grounds at which there are at present no refreshment facilities and
where it is considered desirable that refreshments should be provided:-
(From
a list of ten sites:-)
Selly Oak Park
In response to this advertisement, tenders
have been received from the undermentioned persons:-
(From
a list of 5 tenderers:-)
Park: Selly
Oak and Lickey Hills (Beacon Hill)
Name and Address of Caterer: Mr. W.J. Ferguson, 22 Brentford Rd;14
Recommendation: To
operate from 1.5.57
In all the above cases the caterers have
operated at your Committee’s sites. The
Public Health Department have carried out periodic inspections of the vehicles
involved and have submitted no unfavourable reports. Arrangements have been made, therefore, for
the above caterers to operate the mobile canteens at the sites mentioned from the
dates stated at a rental of 10/- per week, subject to the approval of your
Committee.
The Committee’s confirmation of the action
taken is desired.
Mobile Canteen
Tenders
18954 Resolved:-
That with the exception of ................... the caterers named for
...........Selly Oak Park, ................. as more particularly referred to
in the foregoing report, be and are hereby, approved, to operate from 1st
may 1957, on payment by each of them of a weekly rental of 10/- for this
privilege.
3rd June 1957 – BCC Parks
Committee Minute
The following report
of the General Manager which had been circulated was submitted:-
Mobile Canteen Tenders
As a result of an advertisement inserted in the local Press inviting
applications for the privilege of operating a mobile canteen in certain parks and
recreation grounds for the summer season 1957, your Committee on the 6th
May last, by Minute No. 18,954, accepted applications received from various
caterers, in respect of sites at
.......... Selly Oak Park, ...........
.......................
Since the report to your Committee on the 6th May last, Mr.
Ferguson who was granted permission by your Committee to operate with a mobile
canteen at Selly Oak Park during the 1957 summer season, has intimated that he
is not now able to operate at the park.
Arrangements have been made, therefore, for Mr. J.F. Law of 56, Lincoln
Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham 12, to operate his mobile canteen at Selly
Oak Park for the season from the 25th May, at the normal rate of
10/- per week, subject to his canteen being approved by the Public Health
Department.
The Committee’s confirmation of the action taken is desired.
Mobile Canteen
Tenders
On Minute No. 18954.
19011 Resolved :-
That Minute No. 18954 be varied to provide for the deletion of the permission granted to Mr. Ferguson to
operate a mobile canteen at Selly Oak Park during the 1957 summer season and
that permission in this respect be granted to Mr. J.F. Law of 56 Lincoln
Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham 12, at a rental of 10/- per week, subject to
his canteen being approved by the Public Health Department.
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