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WEST OXON DISTRICT COUNCIL Committee Meetings Members of the public are encouraged to attend meetings of the Council and Committees. If you live in the District and are on the Electoral Register you can take part in the meetings. Information about this and your Councillors and committee members is available online at www.westoxon.gov.uk AUGUST 2012 Monday 3 Uplands Wednesday 5 Council Monday 17 Lowlands Weds 19 Cabinet Thursday 20 Standards Committee Economic & Social O&S Committee Thursday 27 Environment O&S Committee Audit & General Purposes Committee Meetings are held at the Council Offices, Woodgreen, Witney. Start time 2pm. For further information contact Committee Services: 01993 861523 EMail: enquiries@westoxon.gov.uk Agendas, reports and minutes are available online: www.westoxon.gov.uk/meetings 22 CHIPPING NORTON TOWN COUNCIL MEETS on the 3rd MONDAY Parishioners are very welcome to attend all meetings; some confidential matters may be discussed by councillors in camera. Parishioners wishing to ask about local issues are given 5 minutes at the start of the meeting, subject to advising the clerk in advance. Local groups and organisations can apply for grants; Council also supports a variety of causes including The Town Museum, The Silver Band, The Lido, The Theatre and other charities operating in the parish. Town Councillors are available before and after the meetings. District & County Councillors, representatives of the Police and local press may attend. Milton –Under-Wychwood, Village Hall 4/09 Winchcombe, Abbeyfields Community Centre 12/09 Chipping Norton, Glyme Hall 25/09 Do Something Amazing... 96% of us rely on the other 4% to give blood. Please don’t leave it to someone else. Register as a blood donor Receive an information pack, containing all you need to know about giving blood. www.blood.co.uk CHIPPING NORTON TOWN COUNCIL Notes on the Council Meeting for DATE 17th SEPTEMBER Full Minutes of meetings, associated committee meetings and correspondence are available in the Council Office. Mr G Beacham (Acting Clerk) The Guildhall, Goddards Lane Chipping Norton, Oxon, OX7 5NJ 01608 642341 (9am to 1pm) cntc@btconnect.com H A V E Y O U R S A Y Council Tax Reduction Scheme Chipping Norton Police Station London Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AW Non-Emergency Number 101 Opening Times Monday to Friday 8am – 4pm Saturday & Sunday – Closed Closed for lunch 12.15 – 1pm Oxfordshire councils are asking residents for their views on a new scheme to help low income households with their council tax bill which would come into force during 2013. As part of the Government's welfare reforms the current council tax benefit scheme will no longer exist in its present form but will be replaced by a locallyrun scheme, called the Council Tax Reduction scheme. From 2013 funds from central government will reduce by around 10% - but all the Oxfordshire district councils, Oxfordshire County Council and the Police Authority are working together to ensure that support will continue to protect all claimants in 2013/14. There will therefore be no impact for claimants, in 2013/14. However from April 2014, Oxfordshire councils may need to make changes to the local scheme in order to meet the 10% grant reduction. Consultation on how this might be achieved is now underway. Cllr Simon Hoare, Cabinet Member for Resources at West Oxfordshire District Council, said "Across the county there is a deficit of £3m to fund Council Tax Benefit and in West Oxfordshire alone we have 5,200 residents currently receiving the benefit, which means that an additional £484,000 per year needs to be found to maintain this current level of support. "We are currently exploring a number of options that could help protect those most vulnerable and are interested in hearing residents' views on how to achieve this. The District Council is also working together with all the local councils to take the same approach in setting up their own new schemes, which will help save time and money." The countywide consultation is open to all residents until 5 October 2012. The survey can be completed online at www.westoxon.gov.uk/consultations or requested from the Council by calling 01993 861000. ROAD CLOSURES INFORMATION Tel: 01452 425000 Information continuously updated. Please check by phone or online (www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/roadworks) In November Thames Valley Police Constabulary introduced 101 -the new national police non emergency telephone number. Our current non-emergency number 0845 090 1234 will be phased out. Calls will cost 15p irrespective of how long that call may last, on landlines and mobiles. Call 999 In an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, when there is danger to life or when violence is being used or threatened.
OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL Support Finder website launched www.supportfinder.oxfordshire.gov.uk A NEW website has been launched to help thousands of people in Oxfordshire take control of their care. Support Finder has been developed as a quick, easy and comprehensive “one-stop-shop” for people with personal care budgets. Personal budgets are an allocation of funding given to service users after an assessment to meet their needs and provide them with more choice and control over their care and support. It will also be useful for anyone looking for care providers, help with living at home, staying healthy and safe, transport services or leisure activities. The site is provided by Oxfordshire County Council and has been developed with the help of local people and organisations that represent older people, carers and people with disabilities. Local businesses and organisations that provide an adult social care service are able to submit their details online for a free listing on the website. Around 650 organisations and services are listed so far. Users of the site can find what they need quickly thanks to the simple design and useful features such as the ability to make and store lists County Councillor Arash Fatemian, Cabinet member for Adult Services, said: “Support Finder is certain to be a useful resource for people in Oxfordshire “We are now at a point where more and more people are seeking to take control of their own care and decide exactly which services they want to use. That’s a really good thing, but to be able to do it properly you need information to make decisions. “Support Finder has been designed specifically for anyone looking for services, whether they pay for them themselves or have personal care budgets. There are more than 2,600 people with these budgets at the moment in the county and that will increase over time to 5,100. “That’s why Support Finder is so important. It is the only site of its kind in the county, bringing together information from many organisations on support and advice for adults in one place for the first time.” Bulk oil buying scheme from ORCC Trading Ltd. “Over the last few months our members have saved around £60 compared with the market average price for 1000 litres of heating oil (a staggering £160 against the highest prices). That is the power of bulk oil buying.” ORCC Trading Ltd has set up a new social enterprise that will reduce the cost of your domestic heating oil each time you place an order. All you need to do to take advantage of the scheme is to pay an annual membership fee, which will cover as many oil orders as you need during the course of the year. The scheme is being promoted by Oxfordshire Rural Community Council, a long established and well respected Oxfordshire charity. By bringing communities throughout Oxfordshire together and making the most of joint buying power, we can make savings and pass them directly to people like you whose fuel costs are high simply because you use oil-fired central heating. The environment benefits too. Every time a tanker comes out to make a delivery, it is using a lot of diesel – a full tanker can get as little as a horrifying 8 miles per gallon. If deliveries are organised so that one tanker delivers to several customers in a village instead of making lots of individual deliveries, the fuel consumption is reduced and so is traffic in the village. ORCC Trading Ltd Jericho Farm, Worton, Witney, OX29 4SZ Tel: 01865 883488 Email: oil@oxonrcc.org.uk All profits from ORCC Trading Ltd will go directly to supporting Oxfordshire Rural Community Council who work to enable rural communities to be more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. All you need to do to take advantage of the scheme is to pay an annual membership fee* of £20, which will cover as many oil orders as you need during the course of the year. * Annual Membership fee £20 domestic/ £30 community building/ £100 business To be included in the next month's order round send your membership application and annual fee to ORCC Trading Ltd at least one week before the order deadline. Total membership at 30 July 2012: 825 members. Bulk oil ordering dates Final deadlines for ORCC Trading Ltd to receive all orders for inclusion in the next Bulk Oil Orders is 9.00 am on 26 September 2012. PLEASE NOTE: members should refer to their local coordinator's deadline for receiving order forms, which will give an earlier date. Contact your local community co-ordinator - www.oxonrcc.org.uk No local co-ordinator for your community? Why not volunteer? www.oxonrcc.org.uk 23
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