Taynuily Community Council AGM - Minutes 28th March 2007

Taynuilt Community Council

Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 28^th March 2007

Present: Alan Livingstone (AL) / Peter McCracken (PMcC)/ Tom Mclellan(TMcL) /
Ann Dalgaty (AD) / Cathy Reid (CR) / Mary Stone (MS)

Apologies: Allan Macaskill / Elaine Robertson / Ann Dalgaty / Donald McNeil

Public: 5 members of the public were present.

AL took the chair for the meeting.

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held in 2006

The minutes from the 2006 AGM were proposed for acceptance by PMcC and Seconded by CR.

Chairman’s Report

AL gave a brief resume of the main areas of activity of the community council since October 2006.

Mains water – being sorted as we speak. Hopefully Scottish Water will go ahead with re routing WHHA Achnaferna II round by Bonawe House , this would mean there will be less demand on the system as a whole and therefore the pressure can be higher for everyone and there won’t be problems when the new housing is occupied.

Sewerage – Tom received an email last week saying that the 900k project to upgrade the existing works to shellfish standard should begin in August.

Pedestrian bridge across the Nant and continuous pavement up to the village.

Tom and I have a meeting tomorrow with the councils design engineers to discuss plans and costs for a bridge and pavement.
Hope to make an application to CERS fund administered by Forward Scotland on behalf of the executive. However deadline very tight, 26 April.

Car park – I’m now in direct contact with the estates department in Oban who will be contacting Network Rail to move this forward.

Following a meeting with Transport Scotland, pedestrian crossing at hotel being upgraded at both pavements and new signage going up.

Bad corner at Fernoch – work done by Tom . New signage being put up and painted on the road and accident rate being monitored.

Website – new improved website should be available in draft form by end of April.

Taynuilt Option’s Report – some useful information – but a lot of stuff that is unlikely to become a reality.

Housing allocation and Visitors Centre PDA at deer field.

Date for PLI is Tuesday 19^th June. All morning allocated and site visit in the afternoon.

Quote from Planning Advice Note 81

“Through planning modernisation, a wide range of additional inclusion measures are being introduced during the course of 2007 and 2008. These measures require a planning system that: provides more and better opportunities for local people to be involved; is open and transparent; adopts measures to include hard to reach communities of interest and uses a variety of approaches, appropriate to the needs of the community. Greater inclusion should be accompanied by better engagement from all involved in planning, including developers and key agencies, as well as communities and local authorities. We all have a part to play in building trust and confidence back into the planning system and effective community engagement will be the way we achieve this”

If we lose this PLI there’s little point in having a community council.

Election of Office Bearers

All the existing office bearers confirmed that they were willing to remain in office.

There were no representations made against.

The office bearers are:-
Chair – Alan Livingstone

Vice Chair / Treasurer – Peter McCracken

Secretary – Tom Mclellan

Co-opted Members

Mary Stone remains a co-opted to be representative of Inverawe.

Treasurers Report
The accounts for the year ended 28^th February 2007 are shown on the attached links (put curser over link & follow instructions)

TCC Accounts 2006-2007.xls attached

Wind Farm Trust Accounts 06-07.xls attached

Community Council Budget 2006-07 Actual.doc attached

The accounts were Proposed for Acceptance by the members by AL and Seconded by CR.

Members agreed to transfer £10,000 invested in the Bank of Scotland Corporate Bond into the Guaranteed Reserve which provides a higher rate of interest, but locks the money up on an annual basis.

£6,867.70 would be left in the BOS Corporate Bond.

Concern expressed that future funding / investment may be below the 50 / 50 split between short terms expenditure and long term investment.

Some expenditure such as the Senior Citizens Party / Hanging Baskets should come out of the annual windfarm allocation for local groups.

Budget

It was agreed that a budget would be prepared for the next meeting of the community council.

AOB

MS confirmed that the Forestry Commission and Oban Archery Club were considering an outdoor archery practice and competition facility adjacent to Inverawe on FC land. It was agreed that MS would invite representatives from both organisations to the next meeting in order to provide more detail of what is being proposed.

AL proposed that the notice board adjacent to Graham’s Shop should be renewed and re-sited on the wall facing the main street. AL thought that a good, well designed and waterproof notice board could be purchased for circ. £300. AL will investigate further and come back with a firm proposal.

It was noted that Royal Mail postal deliveries to the Village centre / Achlonan / Achnafearna / Cruachan Cottages were now taking place at 4.30pm using a postman from Oban. It is understood that Taynuilt is classified as a rural area and therefore postal deliveries can be made at anytime up until 5.00pm daily. MS had taken the matter up with Postwatch Scotland last October, but had only received a reply in February. It was agreed that TMCL would take the matter up with the Delivery Manager at Oban Post Office.

Date of Next Meeting

Next business meeting to be held on Wednesday 18^th April 2007 at 7.30pm in Village Hall.