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INAUGURAL MEETING
26 10 04

PRESENT
R.Robinson, A.Scobbie, R.Lee, A.Irvine, L.McLean, J.McCarry, D.McCarry.M.Mcneill, L. Gow, J.Macdonald, T.Davidson, B.Fearon

Introductions
Clackmannanshire Councillor Brian Fearon chaired the Inaugural meeting and explained the procedure for the election of new office bearers for this newly formed TULLIBODY – CAMBUS &GLENOCHIL COMMUNITY COUNCIL.

Acceptance of election results
He informed the meeting that there were 11 members of the new community council and 3 vacancies.

Election of office bearers

Nominations for chairperson

1. Robert Robinson
Proposed by Robert Lee
Seconded by James McCarry
2. Alex Scobbie
Proposed by Lynn Gow
Seconded by Ann Irvine

There were no other nominations.
Alex Scobbie intimated that if Robert Robinson wished to carry on as chairperson he would stand
Down, Robert said he would carry on as chairperson if elected, Alex then stood down.

Robert Robinson was duly elected as chairperson

Nominations for vice chairperson

1. Alex Scobbie
Proposed by Ann Irvine
Seconded by Linda McLean

There were no other nominations

Alex Scobbie duly elected as vice chairperson


Nominations for secretary

1. Linda McLean
Proposed by Robert Lee
Seconded by Donna McCarry

There were no other nominations

Linda McLean duly elected as secretary


Nominations for treasurer

1. Margaret McNeill
Proposed by Linda McLean
Seconded by Robert Robinson

There were no other nominations

Margaret McNeill duly elected as treasurer

Minutes secretary

1. Robert Lee
Proposed by Robert Robinson
Seconded by Donna McCarry

There were no other nominations

Robert Lee duly elected as minutes secretary




New office bearers take up their positions
Chairperson-Robert Robinson
Vice chairperson-Alec Scobbie
Treasurer-Margaret Mcneill
Secretary-Linda McLean
Minute Secretary- Robert Lee

Term of office
There would be Six 4 year terms of office and five 2-year terms of office. The following was agreed.
Four-year term of office is R.Lee R.Robinson A.Irvine M.McNeill A.Scobbie L. McLean.
Two-year term of office is J.McCarry D.McCarry L.Gow T.Davidson J.Macdonald. #

Welcome and Apologies
Clacks councillor B.Fearon handed the meeting over to the new Chair R.Robinson who welcomed everyone to the meeting, and said that it was unfortunate that the previous community council was dissolved due to not attaining the required minimum of councillors to operate. However it may have been a good thing as we are back stronger by two councillors. No apologies were received.

MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING 26/10/04
The minutes were handed out and read they were then Proposed by L. McLean and seconded by T.Davidson.

MATTERS ARISING
Councillor Fearon cast doubts on the date of proposed opening of the Tullibody By-pass being December but thought realistically it would be probably be Jan or Feb of next year. There were some reservations from the tenants of No 3,5,7. Dovecot road that the by-pass was very near their back gardens. The internet link for the secretary has not been resolved and it has escalated to such a extent that letters threatening Debt collectors have been received by the secretary. The treasurer has already run up phone cost around £20 to try and sort out the situation. The incompetence of the Server Tiscali seems to be the main failing in this situation since the treasurer has paid the £80 requested to Tiscali to rectify the non payment of the internet link, however the cheque was sent back, but the secretary has since been informed by Tiscali that she would be cut off since this payment has not been received, since this has been ongoing from June it was thought [ the service is the best around] we would give it 1 more month to see if Tiscali could get their act together then the Council would look to other internet servers.
The money for the CCTV at the Tron shopping Centre has been allocated and Councillor G. Matchett is dealing with this so more news in the near future.


PC Lapsley`s REPORT

P.C Lapsley was not in attendance.

Community wardens report

Community wardens were not in attendance.

Margaret Johnson Clacks Housing Dept

M. Johnson was not in attendance.

Brian Fearon Clackmannanshire Councillor’s report

It was with some regret that Councillor Fearon informed the Community Council of the death of Clacks Councillor Mr William [Billy] Calder. We had met the councillor on the occasion of the Tullibody Wishing Well incident and found him to be committed to his work for Clackmannanshire and will be sadly missed.
The plans to demolish Newmils are underway since the residents who are affected have been lettered by the Clacks Council about the proposed plans and the reallocation of said tenants but it will be a long process since although there is plenty housing stock in Clacks the preferred area are hard to come by and the undesirable areas are just not wanted, although the end of March next year has been mentioned for the demolition no timescale has been given. Councillor Fearon is hoping that some development will replace it. The subject of compensation for relocation was brought up. L.Gow thought the grant was wrong and too much since the council could move the tenants cheaply and efficiently, the sum of £1000 is to be given to the tenants being moved for their inconvenience and receipts for other expenditures were to be submitted to the Clacks Council. Councillor Fearon says the payment does not really cover things like the stress and upheaval of having to be uprooted from friends and neighbours as he has personal experience of this since recently moving home and thought the payments fair.
There is going to be restructuring of the Housing Dept to make it more efficient he stresses it is not the fault of the staff for the allocation of houses since they have to follow guidelines that cannot be ignored and policies and points system have to adhered to.

SECRETARYS CORRESPONDENCE

The secretary did not bring all correspondence since she was unaware we would be going on to a full meeting.

TREASURERS REPORT
The balance stands at £2716.81p

A.O.C.B.

Robert Robinson and Alex Scobbie had attended three meetings, the first meeting was the Social inclusion partnership meeting (SIP) it was well attended by members of various groups from Clackmannanshire, there were guest speakers giving presentations on aspects of community regeneration. Communities in the priority geographic areas were as identified by the Scottish executive as Alloa south and east, Tullibody, Sauchie and Coalsnaughton. After the presentations those present were split into four groups to discuss areas to be tackled in, HEALTH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY SAFETY and ENVIORNMENT, each group then gave a report of there discussion points. A lot of good points were identified and these will be carried forward for consideration, we made it clear to the meeting that we were not pleased with the situation reguarding over five years all the money for regeneration of deprived communities in Clackmannanshire had been spent in Alloa south and east with the result that in the other areas the percentage of depravatation has risen, we felt that they were solving a problem in one area and creating bigger problems in the other areas. Both Alex and Robert came away from the meeting with a better understanding of the structure for regeneration in Clackmannanshire.

The second meeting was the quarterly general meeting of the Alloa south and east COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP TEAM, (CPT) After the normal functions of the meeting a presentation was given on five years of SIP this highlighted the achievements of the CPT in the five years they had been operating, and I must say that I was impressed by what they had achieved in that time. Again Alex and I gained a lot of knowledge from this meeting, which can be implemented into any future committee formed in the Tullibody area for regeneration.

The third meeting we attended was held in the offices of the Tullibody healthy living initiative, R. Robinson, A. Scobbie, H. Forrest, M. Sutherland and J. Hardman attended the meeting; we were given a presentation on the various aspects of community regeneration with a strong hint that Tullibody would be included in the next round of funding in April 2005 with this in mind R. Robinson suggested that it would be a good idea to have a committee in place prior to April 2005 and suggested that the community council should call a special meeting inviting representatives of the various groups and interested people in the village to attend. Also some of the advisors to the community regeneration scheme.

A committee could be formed which would then fall within the already in place structure for regeneration i.e. community partnership team, CPT, the CPT could then seek advice and guidance to be ready to manage the project prior to funding being released, it was agreed to do this prior to April 2005


L.Gow enquired how she would go about putting a request to the community Council for a donation to the funds of a community youth club. She was told to put the request in writing to us with the name of the club and the number of youths attending and the Community Council would arrange a donation since this is the sort of activity that we should be supporting as much as possible.
The Costcutters shop at the top of Alloa Rd has ask for any help the council could give them on the siting of a bank Auto teller at their shop although we thought it was a good idea since the shop serves a big area of the Delph and Braes it was outside our powers we advised getting in touch with his bank who would look into the situation.
Still no litterbins at Newmills
It was agreed by the Community Council to reimburse the treasurer £30 towards the cost of expenses she has incurred through phone and letter writing and personal visits to the bank on the Tiscali business.
It was also agreed to obtain a paper shredding machine for the secretary to help with the recycling of the waste paper correspondence she deals with each month, L. Gow has volunteered to donate a stapler from her shop in the Tron to the minute secretary to be used on the minutes and agendas for each months meeting.



As there was no other business the chairman thanked everyone for their attendance and closed the meeting.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING 30/11/04