Minutes of meeting held on Thursday 29th May 2008 in the Castletown Drill Hall at 7:30pm.

Present:

E. Geddes, D. Fraser, H. Crowden, I. Moodie (Village Officer), D. Sutherland (Ward Manager).

Apologies:

M. Cormack, W. Swanson, M Murray, A. Wilcock, D. Flear.

2/ MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING AND MATTERS ARISING FROM THEM:

The minutes of the last meeting held on 24th April 2008 were read and agreed as a true record.

• Amenity skip- contact to be made with TEC services.
• Double yellow lines- TEC services still in the process of applying for a new traffic order for parking restrictions in the area of the shop and hotel junction.
• Ground at Harland Road- has been cleared and ready for village officer to look after.
• Picnic tables- benches at harbour area to be repaired; benches at sand-end to be replaced. Will be paid from the discretionary budget.
• Replacement bin requested for sand-end.
• Car park at post office - hopefully action will be taken shortly.
• Seaforth motel housing site - each house to be individually named.

3/ VILLAGE OFFICER UPDATES

Grass cutting continues. Levelling of ground, school to Tansfield area being attended to. Levelling of ground at Westend requested.

4/ POLICE REPORT

No report.

5/ NEW MOWER

Funding a problem. No monies being paid from discretionary budget for mowers at present as discretionary budget may have to fund village officers. Highlands and Islands have withdrawn their funding for village officers. Leader plus may be another possible source of funding.

6/ CORRESPONDENCE

Letters received were discussed and noted as follows:

• NHS Team update May 2008
• UKAEA Today April 2008
• Highland Council licensing (Scotland) Act 2005- conversion applications for premises licenses.
• Highland Council consultation on draft model scheme and draft code for community councils.
• Scottish Government - consultation on the Education Act 2004 and Amendment Bill 2008.
• Scottish Government - Safer Scotland licensing Act 2005 leaflets.

7/ AOCB

• Letter from Mrs. Hoskin 16 Harland Road- request for someone to look after path used as a shortcut to Harland Road. The path has been created by the residents and therefore belongs to the residents.
• Johnson controls want to do something for the Castletown community and are keen to refurbish the bridges at the beach. Negotiations are ongoing with the Highland Council and David Barclay Access Officer.
• School speed limit- request for 20mph to operate when playgroup is coming out at 11:30am.
• Attention brought to the fact that there is no footpath from 14 Murrayfield to Ice Tech Factory. TEC services to be consulted.
• Problem with over hanging trees at St. Clair Cottage. Letter to be written to owners.

Being no further business the dates for the next 2 meetings were set for Thursday 26th June 2008 & Thursday 28th August 2008 at 7:30pm in the Castletown Drill Hall.

The meeting closed at 20:45hrs.