Digital VC meeting owing to lockdown conditions.
- Present: Ann Marie Cameron, Iain Jenner, Lisa Glaze, Dave Wrigglesworth, Jo Cowan, Karl Spierling
- Apologies: Andrew Baxter, Nicola Mair, Malcolm McGregor
- Adoption of Previous Minutes: LG proposed, DW seconded
- Matters Arising:
- AMC re communications relating to Glen Righ hydro – has now contacted FLS re lack of response -ongoing
- IJ has contacted Iain Cameron (HC Waste Manager) who has agreed to dispose of waste material at Onich Bay by providing a skip – involvement of additional vehicle support (tractor & trailer?) required for removal from the beach to the skip – IJ to investigate
- IJ to print off and deliver hedge letters to AMC – there have been glitches with exchanging emails recently
- LG has continued to replenish resilience group food supplies at the village hall – DW monitored most recently and food stocks are still being used frequently.
- Treasurer’s Statement: £3409.80 of which £1328.21 is NLCC funds & £2081.59 is grants from HIE/SSE
- £600 is allocated to the Village Hall for running costs this year as a resilience hub
- £692 (HIE) to be used for Xmas food/afternoon tea/new year newsletter
- £100 donation to St. Brides School (IJ to approach MM)
- Correspondence:
- Retrospective planning application/renewal from Gordon Milne to alter/extend Cairndow
- AMC to forward NLCC comments re sewerage capacity to ePlanning portal re amended Lodge-on-the-Loch ‘motel’/café development
- Emails received from Henrik Miecsi (HIE) detailing further funds available for tourism infrastructure and CRF, Communities Recovery Fund.
- Agenda Items: no pressing agenda items.
- AOB:
- DW spoke with new manager at Onich Hotel, Vincely Paul, who is ‘very keen’ to be involved with community efforts to tidy and safeguard Onich Bay; owners are considering putting more pods in the field area by their carparkand would improve access infrastructure as part of this development; DW to write an email to management in this regard, and also spoke with Sallie Jack who plans to compile a botanical list of shore plants which DW will mirror with a list of birdlife
- AMC will approach the owners of encroaching hedge who have been on holiday recently.
- DW suggests two ways to reduce costs of the newsletter – raising sponsorchip from businesses in NL, and offering it in an email only version to those who want it; the latter can be asked in the next issue, the former by NLCC FB post
- Christmas Afternoon Tea delivery to be carried out in week before Christmas week; JC to create Christmas Quiz & ask school to make cards & draft CC message for gift bags; IJ to approach Lyndsay Michie (Stiff Peaks bakery) for baking
- Meeting closes: 8.47 pm
- Next meeting date: Thursday 7th January
ACTION POINTS:
- AMC to pursue Glen Righ hydro community payback
- IJ to contact Ian Cameron HC re waste disposal at Onich Bay & planning for further discussion
- AM to re-submit comments re sewerage at Lodge-on-the-Loch
- IJ to draft newsletter
- JC & IJ to facilitate Afternoon Tea
- IJ to supply Christmas Tree to St. Brides and contact MM