Garve & District Community Council - Draft Minutes: 1 December 2009

Draft Minutes of the Community Council Meeting: 1 December 2009 - Achnasheen Village Hall

Present:
Alex Mackenzie, Helen Grainge, Marion Taylor, Sue Tarr, Sheree Grant, Jennifer Haslam, Jimmy Ruggles-Brise.

In attendance:  
7 Members of the Public.
          
Apologies:      
John Urquhart, Cllr Urquhart, Uisdean Menzies Jean Bailey.

Chairperson welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced Squadron Leader John Gilbert who gave the meeting a talk on Low Flying in the area.

Approval of Draft Minutes of previous meeting: Proposed Jennifer Haslam.
Seconded Alex Mackenzie

Rural Watch – Helen has been in touch with PC Carrie Shanks Community Police Officer based in Dingwall – unfortunately due to ill health she was unable to attend this meeting but Helen will arrange for her to attend meeting in February.  As there have been some instances of vandalism in the local area in particular the toilet at Achnasheen, it was suggested that members of the community remain vigilant and report anything out of the ordinary to the Police.

Review of Community Council Boundaries – it was agreed that an email would be sent informing Highland Council that we wished our area to remain as it currently is.

Level Crossing questionnaire – Helen had additional copies available for anyone who had not yet received their copy.

Correspondence
Planning – notices, letter and eplannning.
Charles Kennedy – Letter from Network Rail.
SNH – golden eagle Protection Areas.
Northern Community Justice – Newsletter.

AOB
Member of the Community asked about Play Park in Garve. The Community Council were not involved with any plans for a play park.

Gorstan Junction – Signs need replacing and bollards requested for road leading into Gorstan.

Rubbish reported in lay-by at Gorstan beside old Church.

Member of Community asked about signs or markings on road at corner at Tarvie.

Sue asked about co-option of members onto Community Council, it was agreed that persons wishing to join should write to Helen, and this will then be discussed by Community Councillors.

Jean suggested that an idea for fund raising would be to have a Community Directory.  We will look at this idea in the new year.

As there were several issues relating to roads and transport issues we will try and invite TranServ and Highland Council to meeting.

Date of Next Meeting:
2 February 2010  -   Garve Village Hall

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Garve & District Community Council
Statement of Bank Accounts
30 November 2009

Main Account: £1686.47

Senior Citizens: £760.71

War Memorial: £1540.26

Newsletter: £1076.08