Reunion

BREASCLETE COMMUNITY COUNCIL -
Annual General Meeting - 5th May 2004

1. Minutes
The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 15th April 2003 were approved.

2. Annual Report
The Annual Report & Accounts 2002/03 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar were received and duly noted.

3. Correspondence received and duly noted:
SEPA - Recruiting new Board Members
CNES - Challenge Fund
CNES - Breasclete Pier
Crofting Community Development Scheme
BNSF Minutes re House Numbering Campaign
W.I.Health Forum - nominate a representative
W.I. Health Council minutes 13/2/04
W.I.NHS Board - new GP contract
Western Isles Woodland Strategy
Scottish Executive - Consultation on Charging Fees
S.Exec - Rights of Appeal in Planning
S.Exec - Water Environment
Planning Aid for Scotland
Water Consultation Panels
CNES - Timetable of Meetings, Minutes, Info Bulletin

Clerk to write BNSF regarding (a) the house numbering campaign, detailing the total and elderly number of households in the community; (b) the committee's support for the Handyman Scheme, but inability to take part as all current funding is required for the new community centre, and (c) to CnES re new bus shelter at Garynahine Buspark.

4. Finance
Record of Income & Expenditure 1st April 2003 to 31st March 2004, and Abstract of Accounts for Year ended 3lst March 2004 were distributed, duly noted and formally adopted by the committee.

5. Any Other Competent Business

Amendment to the constitution agreed in order that the AGM date co-incides with Breasclete Community Association meeting in April/May. Extraordinary General meeting members present reduced from six to four members.

Corporate Services Challenge Fund - Ł2000 to be applied for by 30th June.

K Maclennan was approached by members of the community highlighting their concern regarding recent incidents at the Lighthouse buildings.

Garynahine road junction incident - speed restrictions/traffic calming measures required, with general speed limits required in the Breasclete Community Council area.

Several items were held over to be discussed at next meeting in June.

Next meeting of the Breasclete Community Council - 2nd June 2004 at 7pm

Minutes of the meeting held on 3rd March 2004 were approved and accepted.

Dr Rigby gave a brief outline of what exactly NHS 24 was all about and how it would affect the community. A lot of concerns were raised as to the way the system was to work and although Dr Rigby believes this to be a better way of working than previous many people at the meeting were left unconvinced. All the new information is to be distributed to the public via television adverts and mail shots which will be beginning shortly.

He also stated that both he and Dr Marshall are considering stopping the surgery that is held on a Thursday night in the Breasclete School. He explained that due to new regulations the rooms that they use in the school and the room which had been proposed they use in the new hall are no longer suitable for the requirements. They have however to compensate for this starting an early morning surgery from 8-9am. They are also to increase their evening surgery (-6pm) from twice to three times per week. Dr Rigby said he definitely thought that this was the best way forward for the North Lochs Medical Practice.

New Community Centre: Progressing extremely well inside, the contractor has stated that completion should be end of June possibly running into the first two weeks of July. Kenny John who had been in the hall most recently told the committee that the upstairs of the hall was now at a very advanced stage, with the lift now being in place and a lot of the painting having been done.

The Chairman suggested that the committee take a decision as to what should be done with the old hall when the new hall is ready. After a brief discussion as to the pros and cons it was unanimously decided by the committee that the old hall should be demolished. It was agreed that as the old hall belongs to the Council we should approach them and ask them to knock it down.

Finance: Last months measure from Alec Murray came in at Ł92,000. In the main account we have Ł83,000 and in the revenue account we have Ł14,000 which does not include the Ł1,100 from the wedding album evening or the Ł10,000 which Alex MacDonald (Convenor) has granted us from the ward money.

Breasclete Playpark: Details next month.

Fund Raising: The Wedding Album Evening was hailed a great success after raising the magnificent sum of over Ł1100. There has already been talk of a re run in the new hall! The next event is the Sale of Work to be held this coming Saturday (8th May), details of which were circulated in the newsletter.

Official Opening: After a brief discussion on the matters surrounding the opening of the new hall it was agreed that an EGM would be called to discuss that sole matter. This was arranged for Wednesday 19th May 2004 at 8pm.

Hall Equipment: Anne Macleod (Head Teacher) read a letter she had received from the Council in response to her application for funding for equipment. The letter basically stated that any equipment purchased by the council would be solely for the use of the school and could not be used by any other groups. It was suggested that Anne invite a representative from the Education Board to come to the next meeting to discuss the equipment and any issues the Council would have with the school children using any equipment bought by the association.

Fallon, Boyan and Dina are dealing with the wish lists for equipment received from the various groups and are hoping to have application put in by the end of this month.

Storage for all the new equipment was also discussed but was thought better left until the hall was complete and we saw what equipment we actually did have and how much storage there was.

Memorial Bench: Kenny John informed the committee that he had been approached by Aggie regarding placing a memorial bench outside the new hall. The bench is in memory of Willie Morrison, Jimmy McCulloch and Donnie Smith whose former classmates are all contributing to buying the bench and commemorative plaque. The committee agreed that this would be okay and that further discussions should take place to agree on a suitable location for the bench.

Date of next meeting 2nd June 2004