Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from:

Dawn Gourlay, Arrochar Community Council

Mary Haggarty, Arrochar Community Council

John Livesey, Ministry of Defence

Allan Murphy, Dunbritton

The minutes were approved

Samantha Somers updated the Area Community Planning Group on the meeting of the CPP Management Committee held in March 2018.

Agreed

Kirsty Moyes circulated the Kirkmichael Voice and explained that the meet and eat group ran a lunch group in St Joseph’s primary school on a weekly basis. Due to the expansion of early years childcare, the venue would no longer be an option within the next 12 months. It was suggested that both Dunbritton Housing Association and the Ministry of Defence have properties within the Churchill area and Kirsty would pass details back to the group.

Linda Skrastin from the Health and Social Care Partnership explained that there was currently a service redesign underway with the Out of Hours service at the Vale of Leven Hospital. Stephen Whiston, Head of Planning and Performance for the HSCP was involved with discussions and has been seeking clarity on progress and implications for residents within the Helensburgh and Lomond area, however there has been no feedback received to date.

It was stressed and recognised that any decisions on this are outwith the control of Argyll and Bute’s Health and Social Care Partnership and assurances were given that Argyll and Bute HSCP will continue to ask questions on progress.

It was agreed that updates would come to the group, as and when they became available.

Michelle MacDonald and Tim Lamb from Centre 81 showed the group a video and gave a presentation on the financial challenges they were currently facing.

Centre 81 were encouraged to apply to Dunbritton Housing Association with regards to their Community Fund and to discuss further with Morevain Martin about becoming a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO).

Morevain Martin updated the group on the plans for Garelochhead train station which intends to provide services for veterans by veterans. The group is anticipating becoming a constituted SCIO in mid-June.

Pauline Inglis and Maria McArthur gave a presentation focusing on the pilot schemes of literacy and numeracy which will be rolled out to all schools within Argyll and Bute.

Craig gave an overview of the work that the Youth Engagement Officer role entails and explained the concept of a Police Scotland Youth Volunteer scheme in Helensburgh. It is hoped that this will be launched in September 2018. Adult volunteers are required to assist, Craig requested that if anyone was interested to contact him for more information.

Sephton MacQuire from Dunbritton advised that new houses were due to be completed in Succoth in October 2018 and also promoted Dunbritton’s community fund which can provide £200 per annum to community groups.

Neil Sturrock from SPT advised that there was a new contract for the Kilcreggan ferry and that there was a new operator now in place with a different boat.

Police Scotland advised of the campaigns they are focusing on over the summer and agreed to do a presentation on Rural Watch for the August CPG meeting.

Janice Kennedy, Scottish Enterprise, advised that there was a new Chief Executive Officer within Scottish Enterprise and a new strategic plan in place.

Morevain Martin, Argyll TSI, advised that the new Chief Executive, Kirsteen Murray, was now in post and that Gillian Simpson had now left with Jean Senior replacing her. Morevain also mentioned that a group of ladies from Rosneath had been invited to the Older People’s Assembly in Holyrood.

Greg McKearney, Scottish Fire and Rescue, informed the group that 5 new Rapid Response Vehicles (RRV) were coming to Argyll and Bute with Garelochhead being one of the first stations to receive this new vehicle.

David Pinder, Ministry of Defence, advised that a new Commodore would be taking over from John Livesey and would forward on contact details to the group. He also advised that 6 families had recently been given a tour of the local area and that they were still on track for their plans. It was agreed that a wider update on progress would come to the next meeting of the CPG as an agenda item.

Linda Skrastin, Health and Social Care Partnership, advised that they were working with the Scottish Ambulance Service on developing a pathway for where people had fallen at home but there was no injury.

There was no-one present from the council’s Governance and Law service to speak to the paper. Following discussion it was agreed that members preferred the format of the agenda as it currently is and did not wish to have an agenda prescribed to them. Therefore the recommendations of the report were rejected.

Thursday 9^th August, Helensburgh TBC

As the Chair is unable to attend the next scheduled meeting of the group, the group collectively decided to change the meeting date to one where the Chair is available. Details of this new date will be circulated as soon as it is known.