Ormiston Community Council
Minute of Public Meeting held in Village Hall on Monday 28th April 2008 @ 7.30pm
J Gillies as appointed member chaired the meeting until Office bearers were elected.
He welcome all elected Councillors both old & new & asked for nominations of office bearers.
Chairman: - J Blane proposed R Purves seconded B Black - no other nominations
Vice-Chairman:- Scott Gillies proposed R Purves seconded C Jess no other nominations
Secretary: -C Jess proposed B Black seconded I Fulton no other nominations
Treasurer: - M Addison proposed I Fulton seconded C Jess
F Cullen proposed R Purves seconded B Black
A vote was taken & M Addison elected as Treasurer 4 votes to 2
J Blane as Chairman continued to Chair the meeting.
1. Present: - R Purves, S Gillies, M Addison, J Blane, C Jess, B Black, D Brydon, R Baines. I Fulton
Councillors; - J Gillies, D Grant
Public: - S Johnston
2. Apologies:-, K McLeod, R Currie, F Cullen
3. Minute of Previous Meeting: - The Minute of the previous meeting was approved B Black & M Addison
4. Matters arising:
Chairman thanked all previous Councillors advising that he had intimated this when advising the election results
Medical Practice: - nothing further to report on this matter, no further complaints have been made to the community council to this date.
5. Fa’side Community Planning Partnership:-
Amenities committee: - these meetings are still not achieving a full attendance with 8 attendees (3 council members) & 5 apologies being received. It was noted that there is lack of attendance by administrative staff.
Steering Committee: again it noted that there is a lack of representation, the people that make the decisions on the provisions of services etc are not at these meetings, which defeats the object of the meetings.
There was mention of new groups being proposed to deal with youth & wellbeing. A Seminar is to be held to work out how these groups should function without having duplication, (3 different residents associations in Tranent & 1 community councilor.)
Discussion was held about the provisions of a Community Centre for Ormiston in the 2010 budget. Please see A O B in this regard.
Community and Police: - this Committee meets once a month. They chose 3 issues to deal with that have been presented & hopefully deal with them. Resolutions being presented at the next meeting. Then another 3 are chosen to attempt to resolve. Last month was parking in Pencaitland & Ormiston and Anti- Social behavior in Muirpark area Tranent.
This month’s projects are Parking in Ormiston, Youth disorder in Pencaitland & the Heugh Tranent.
6. Main Street:-
The proposed bollards that were to be erected to protect the Historic Monument have still to appear.
The Builders are being asked by East Lothian Council as to when they will be finished & the parking of their delivery vehicles as this is not helping the situation.
When the building containers have been removed this will provide more parking for store users.
The Community Council was advised that the resurfacing of the Main Street has ‘failed “to make the top 10 list of priorities. J Gillies has advised the B Cooper of ELC has been asked to revisit this and if no acceptable answer received the Community Council may consider raising the profile of this problem through the medium of the press.
7. Proposed Planning Applications:-
Nothing to report in this
8. Computer
Price’s to be obtained by the next meeting
S Johnston asked the Community Council for their support in approaching East Lothian Council re the lack of facilities in the village. He advised that he had received correspondence that the Council had valued the existing building adjacent to the Bowling Green at #30K & they were of interested in continuing with the idea of purchasing the building. S Johnston advised that when the Building & ground was originally sold there was a legal agreement from the Council that the green would be kept by the Council. The green has been maintained by members of the bowling club on a voluntary basis & that the upkeep costs stated in the correspondence from the Council is totally out of proportion.
It was agreed that all Councillors for the ward should be invited to a meeting with members of the Community Council & Bowling Club & that a member of East Lothian’s administration be asked to attend. J Blane to organize this.
Heritage Forum – next meeting 8/5/08- D Brydon to attend
F C P P request for info on Community Councilors – to be returned now that the elections are complete.
Letter from a Michael Ormiston visiting from America – this has been passed to E L C Tourism section.
E L C letter from Alan Blackie re a corporate parenting event. 6/05/08
Letter from Ormiston Football Club stating that ELC has not been forthcoming with expected help and asking for the Community Councils support. We will give this but would expect that something would be done in the village to encourage our youth to participate in the sport.
Letters from ELC re 1st meeting after the Election
Guide to the Antisocial Behavior etc (Scotland) Act 2004
Post watch Issue 18
E L C Meetings
ELC – 25/03/08
22/04/08
Cabinet – 08/04/08
Licensing sub-committee- 10/08/08
Planning – 01/04/08
Education- 15/04/08
Copies of Minutes – 25 March 2008
22 April 2008
Wicksteed Playscapes
Leaflet on booking Village hall
Scotways Walks/other outdoor events guidance letter
Poster Ian Gray MSP
2008-09 Community Environmental Fund - S Gillies to ask School re this other possibility is picnic tables for the public park.
East Lothian Bio Diversity Plan – Public Consultation – to be passed round CC’s for comments @ next meeting.
Association of Scottish Community Councils – constitution draft – to be copied & passed to all CC’s for comment @ next meeting