Mayor Rees’ Diary March 2017
Wed 1st March
09:15 Speak at South Multi Agency Network Meeting 09:45 Travel 10:30 Media: Sunday Times interview 11:00 Meeting Places for People re Dove Lane development 12:00 Travel including call placed to Global Parliament of Mayors’ team 12:30 Attend pre WECA Committee Meeting with Combined Authority Leaders 13:30 Attend WECA Committee Meeting 15:30 Travel 16:00 Meeting with Chair of Bristol Labour Party as Leader 16:30 Briefing re Second Big Housing Conversation 17:00 Meeting re Bristol Leadership Challenge 18:00 Attend Bristol City Youth Council Meeting
Thu 2nd March
09:00 Attend Local Enterprise Partnership Nominations Committee 11:00 Travel 11:30 Meeting officers re Member Support Services 12:00 Meeting with Cabinet Member for Education and Skills 12:45 Meeting with Constitutional Working Group 13:30 Meeting with Chief Executive 14:00 Briefing on electrification delay on rail network 14:30 Briefing on Student Accommodation 15:30 Media: recording audio ahead of People, Places and Spaces conference 16:00 Regular HR team catch up 17:00 Follow up with local mosque imams re Clean Streets Campaign 18:00 Attend Second Big Housing Conversation
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Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS
Fri 3rd March
08:00 Attend colleague engagement event ‘Hot Coffee, Hot Topics’ 09:00 Attend WECA Committee Member Briefing 10:00 Travel 10:30 School Visit to Easton Church of England Academy 11:00 Travel 11:45 Attend Bijan Ebrahimi Tree Planting Ceremony 13:30 Travel 14:00 Regular meeting with Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Management 15:00 Regular meeting with Bristol East MP 16:15 Regular meeting with Bristol North West MP 17:00 Media: Photo call ahead of Women’s Health Conference 17:30 Travel 18:00 Attend Borderlands Exhibition Launch
Sat 4th March -
Sun 5th March
10:00 Attend Big Bristol Spring Clean
Mon 6th March
10:00 Meeting with interim Head of Policy 11:15 Catch up with office team 11:30 Travel 12:00 Attend Roundtable – Bristol Pulse Steering Group 13:00 Travel 13:30 Catch up with City Office team 14:30 Attend regular Finance Briefing 15:30 Media: Filming with Epigram 15:45 Briefing on Special Educational Needs 18:00 Travel 18:15 Meeting with KPMG re sports engagement
Tue 7th March
08:00 Meeting with Chief Executive officer 09:00 Pre Cabinet preparation time 13:00 Meeting with Cabinet Members 16:00 Attend Cabinet 19:00 Travel 19:30 Attending University of Bristol task group on inclusivity and tolerance
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Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS
Wed 8th March
08:00 Briefing on Joint Spatial Plan 09:00 Meet with Head Vicar of St Mary Redcliffe re their development projects 09:30 Telephone Call re Yale Club Alumni event 10:00 Travel 10:30 Attend International Women’s Day Launch of ICC Women’s World Cup 11:00 Travel 11:15 Speaking at Women’s Health Conference 2017 12:30 Meeting Chief Executive and Cabinet Member for Finance 14:00 Meeting with Head of Planning re Joint Spatial Plan 15:00 Meeting with office team re draft correspondence 15:30 Catch up with the City Leadership Programme team 16:00 Briefing re ongoing roadworks 16:45 Travel 17:00 Speaking at KPMG BME Graduate Recruitment Event
Thu 9th March
09:00 Attend Community Conversation event in Hartcliffe 11:00 Travel 11:30 Meeting Shadow Minister for Local Government and Devolution 12:30 Meeting key housing stakeholders 13:30 Travel 14:00 Speaking at 1625 Independent People event 15:15 Media: recording ahead of Ghanaian Independence Day 16:00 Meeting with Strategic Director of Place 16:45 Travel 17:30 Meeting with SetSquared, Business West and Invatech Health 18:30 Travel 19:00 Labour Group Meeting as leader
Fri 10th March
08:15 Travel to Bath 09:30 Attend pre briefing ahead of Strategic Leaders Board 10:00 Attend Strategic Leaders Board 12:00 Travel 12:45 Working lunch with Vice Chancellor of UWE 13:45 Travel 14:00 Regular meeting with Bristol West MP 15:00 Attend to congratulate and hand out certificates at Wider World celebration 15:30 Telephone call with citizen 16:15 Telephone call with Route Managing Director of Network Rail 16:30 Meet with Head of Legal & Democratic Services 17:00 Travel 17:30 Meeting with Director of Our People, Places & Practices
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Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS
Sat 11th March
10:00 Attend St George Community Fair
Sun 12th March -
Mon 13th March
09:45 Attend Flag Raising ceremony for the Commonwealth 10:00 Strategy meeting with Head of Mayor’s office 11:15 Catch up with Office team 12:15 Briefing re Arena 12:30 Meeting with Arena Project Team and Arena Operators 13:30 Briefing ahead of WECA Committee Meeting 14:00 Meeting with Cabinet Member for Finance & Governance 14:45 Meeting with Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods 15:30 Telephone call with Milk for Tea
Tue 14th March
09:30 Catch up with Resident Parking Zones team 10:30 Pre Full Council preparation 13:00 Attend Executive Board 15:30 Attend Lord Mayor's final Full Council agenda briefing 17:00 Attend Member Forum 18:00 Attend Full Council
Wed 15th March
08:00 Meeting re Family Support/Children’s centre 08:30 Telephone Call with BBC re potential documentary series 09:00 Office time 10:30 Meeting with District Manager, DWP 11:15 Telephone Call with Head of Public Sector Partnerships at Legal and General 11:30 Office time 12:30 Travel 13:00 Attend Pre Meeting for WECA committee meeting 14:00 Attend WECA committee Meeting
16:00 Travel 16:30 Meeting delegation from Somaliland with Cllr Jama 16:45 Travel 17:45 Meeting Hockeys Lane Action Group
M a y or’s Office
Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS
Thu 16th March
08:00 Briefing re Arena 09:30 Travel 10:00 Meeting CEO, Cabot Learning Federation and Principal, City Academy Bristol 10:30 Media: School Report Day 11:30 Travel 12:00 Meeting with South West Director of Arts Council England 12:30 Meeting Chief Executive re medium term financial plan 13:45 Briefing re MetroBus iPoints 14:00 Meeting Chief Executive and Strategic Director for Place re planning projects 15:00 Briefing on St James Conservation Area / Old BRI building 15:20 Briefing on Budget Consultation 16:00 Media: Sign off quotes 16:30 Office time 17:00 Regular meeting with the Youth Mayors 17:30 Meeting Cabinet Members on Joint Spatial Plan 18:00 Travel to studios 19:00 Media: Made in Bristol ‘Crunch’
Fri 17th March
08:30 Travel to London on train 11:00 Attend LGA Environment, Economy, Housing & Transport Board 13:00 Travel 14:00 Meet Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group 14:30 Travel 15:00 Meet with Partner of Good Faith and Director of Syrian Resettlement Programme 16:30 Meet Head of Operations, UN and Head of the Syrian Resettlement Integration Programme, International Organisation for Migration 18:00 Travel to Bristol
Sat 18th March
10:00 Attend Bristol’s Labour Conference as Leader
Sun 19th March
18:00 Attending to present award at Royal Television Awards South West
M a y or’s Office
Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS
Mon 20th March
10:00 Meeting Chair of The National Club 10:30 Regular meeting with Strategic Director of Neighbourhoods 11:15 Office Time 11:30 Briefing re International Investment 12:45 Meeting representative of Citizens UK 13:00 Speaking at Forum on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children 13:15 Office Time 14:00 Regular Finance Briefing 15:00 Meeting Cabinet Member for People
Tue 21st March
08:00 Meeting Chief Executive 09:00 Attend Great Western Cities Leaders meeting 10:30 Office time, meeting with team 14:30 Meeting with Senior Leadership Team re corporate peer challenge 15:30 Telephone call with Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 16:00 Meeting officers re Supporting People Services Consultation 16:45 Attend regular Party Group Leaders meeting 18:45 Travel 19:00 Business Dinner, Vice Chancellors, University of Bristol and UWE Wed 22nd March
08:30 Meet onsite with Duries Chartered Surveyors re land at Fruit Market site 09:30 Travel 10:30 Office time 11:15 Meeting with office team re draft correspondence 11:30 Meeting with council officers re update on taxis 12:15 Media: recording message ahead of Connected Woman Business Conference 12:30 Travel 13:15 School Visit to Little Mead Primary Academy 14:00 Travel 14:15 Visit Brentry and Henbury Children's Centre 15:15 Travel 16:00 Meet with KPMG and the Director of Greater Manchester Connect 17:00 Meet with City Centre business
M a y or’s Office
Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS
Thu 23rd March
08:00 Ride along with Days Road Household Waste Recycling team 10:00 Travel to office 10:45 Meeting with International team re city sovereignty 11:00 Briefing ahead of Core Cities meeting 12:00 Meeting with Strategic Director for People 12:45 Media: ITV interview re situation in Westminster 13:00 Briefing re Festivals/Events 13:30 Media: BBC Interview re situation in Westminster 13:45 Media: Filming ahead of 10th anniversary celebration of BCfm radio station 14:00 Briefing specifically on housing ahead of core cities 14:15 Media: Filming with Loraine Blumenthal 15:45 Telephone call with Cabinet Member for Education 16:00 Meeting with Chief Executive and Chair of Common Purpose re city leadership
Fri 24th March
09:00 School Visit St Mary Redcliffe & Temple School 10:00 Travel 10:00 Telephone call with Partner and Engagement Manager at McKinsey 10:30 Office time 11:15 Travel 11:45 Attend Launch of Labour’s Metro Mayor campaign 13:30 Travel 15:00 Speak at Bristol Primary Heads Association Conference 17:30 Travel 18:00 Attend European City of Sport Baton Handover ceremony
Sat 25th March -
Sun 26th March
04:30 Travel to Ohio United States of America by coach and then aeroplane
Mon 27th March
08:30 Attend Kettering Ohio Multinational Symposium
Tue 28th March
08:30 Attend Kettering Multinational Symposium 14:00 Travel to New York City, New York State
M a y or’s Office
Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS
Wed 29th March
09:00 Travel 11:00 Meet with Benjamin Barber and Dr Nutter of Global Parliament of Mayors 14:00 Travel to Newark Airport 18:00 Travel to London
Thu 30th March
06:20 Arrive Heathrow 09:45 Attend Core Cities cabinet meeting 15:00 Travel to Bristol
Fri 31st March
09:30 Meeting Deputy Mayor Craig re Bristol Leadership Challenge programme 10:00 Travel 10:30 Attend and speak at Russell Group DVC & Provosts Network Meeting 11:00 Travel 11:30 Briefing re Arena 12:00 Office time 12:50 Telephone call re Yale Club event 14:30 Meeting Chief Executive University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust 15:15 Travel 15:40 Meeting Director General of the BBC 16:30 Travel 19:00 Attend Fourth Annual Bristol Young Heroes Awards
M a y or’s Office
Bristol City Council Marvin Rees Website PO Box 3176 Mayor of Bristol www.bristol.gov.uk Bristol BS3 9FS