Agenda item

To receive and consider the report of the Operations & Estates Officer updating Members on the request from the Rotary Club of Witney as well as new request for a  memorial bench at Witney Lake.

Members received and considered the report of the Operations and Estates Officer, which updated them on the request from the Rotary Club of Witney and a new request for a memorial bench.  The latter had originally been requested for Witney Lake but the lady had now changed her mind and was asking for it to be located on Church Green.  This would be possible, but it would not be able to be the artistic bench she had chosen – instead it would need to be the standard Witney Town Council bench.

RESOLVED:          that the report be noted and:

1.            that the Cedar of Lebanon be used to create a memorial bench;

2.            that the Operations and Estates Officer be tasked with finding a suitable location near to Bishops Mill farm;

3.            that the Rotary Club be asked if it wishes to be involved in this project as part of its memorial project;

4.            that the resident who had changed the location of a bench she wanted to buy as memorial be advised that if she did want the bench on Church Green, it would have to be a standard Town Council bench, but that if she wished she could have the bench of her choice at the Lake and Country Park.