MINUTES OF A MEETING OF KINLOCH COMMUNITY COUNCIL HELD ON TUESDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2007 AT 8.00PM IN THE LAXAY HALL.

PRESENT Iain MacIver     Katrina MacLeod

Kenneth MacAulay         Les Mac an t-Ultaigh

Kim Young                   John   A MacDonald

IN ATTENDANCE

Annie MacDonald (Local Member)

Sandra MacDonald (Clerk)

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Apologies received from Iain MacLeod, Murdo MacAulay, Norman MacDonald and Alex MacDonald.

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of the last meeting approved, proposed by Kenneth and seconded by Katrina.

3. MATTERS ARISING FROM MINUTES

(a) Skip Sites – Les told the meeting that he had spoken to Grazings

Committee re gate. He also reported that the Balallan skip has been uplifted regularly over the past weeks.

Funding is still available for “clean-ups” – from £50 - £150. Application forms distributed.

4. CO-OPTION OF MEMBERS

Envelopes containing ballot forms were opened by Kenneth. Results as

follows:

BAYLY, Christopher 2 votes

ETTLES, Catherine A 3 votes

MACDONALD, Sandra 6 votes

MACLENNAN, Donald J 6 votes

YATES, William E 8 votes

Chairman informed the meeting that William E Yates, Donald J MacLennan and Sandra MacDonald are elected as co-opted members to the Community Council and welcomed them in that capacity. Chair also commiserated with Catherine A Ettles and Christopher Bayly and thanked them for allowing their names to be put forward for election.

A proposal by Les Mac an t-Ultaigh, seconded by John A MacDonald was noted, viz. – that future community council ballots be franchised out and not administered by Clerk.

5. A.O.C.B.

(a) Challenge Fund – No applications received by Clerk. Agreed that

Laxay forest walk Gaelic tree trail would be an appropriate project for the Challenge Fund. Clerk to apply.

(b) Road Repairs – Various road and draining works discussed. Annie told the meeting that Scottish Water are to carry out skid tests on main road to help establish if the state of the roads were placing road users at risk.

(c) IaaO – Open meeting in January to promote development plan and recruit members. Extra year’s funding obtained.

(d) Locality Group – At present 10 volunteers in South Lochs willing to train as first responders. Volunteers also invited from Kinloch area.

Next meeting to be held on 4 March 2008 in South Lochs.

(e) Laxay Hatchery – Agreed that Clerk should write Mr Kershaw regarding this.

(f) SSE Windfarm – Chairman outlined current position re community benefit. Overall view of those present was that it would be beneficialto communicate and negotiate with SSE to try and improve the level of community benefit offered by them should the project proceed. However, John A MacDonald stated that he was not willing to negotiate.

(g) Creagan Gorm – Work is progressing well.

9.50pm Peter entered the meeting.

(h) Community Ballot – Les raised this issue and the fact that it was not recorded in the minutes that a ballot had been requested by members of the community. He told the meeting that funding was available from the Comhairle for this purpose. Annie asked for clarification on this matter but he declined to give this information. After discussion the Chair asked him to clarify whether or not he wished to propose that a ballot be carried out but he repeatedly declined the offer.

(i) Planning Applications – Agreed that Clerk should write to the Comhairle requesting that any future large scale planning applications should be made available locally.

(j) Administration Grant –Agreed that Clerk should find out how much Administration Grant is received by the Community Council annually.

6. CORRESPONDENCE

¨ CNES – Acknowledgement of representation made by Community Council re Pairc Windfarm.

¨ KEOSE & GLEBE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION – Copy of letter sent to Planning Dept., Comhairle.

¨ KEN MACDONALD & CO – Copy of letter sent to Planning Dept., Comhairle.

¨ CNES – Community Learning and Development questionnaire. Agreed that this item should be discussed at January meeting.

¨ CNES – Project Fundraising – A Guide.

¨ OUTER HEBRIDES COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP – Newsletter and leaflets.

¨ CNES – Planning applications 9.11.07 – 30.11.07.

¨ CNES – Timetable of meetings.

¨ CNES – Minutes 7.9.07. – 11.10.07.

7. DATE OF NEXT MEETING

Tuesday, 8 January 2008 at 8.00pm in the Laxay Hall.