Approved Minutes for November 2007 meeting

Minutes of CDRA meeting on November 20, 2007

Present: Calum Campbell, Christine Macmillan, Annetta Dunn, Taylor Edgar, Cllr. Donald I Nicholson, Andy Cumming*

1. Apologies - Alena Edgar, Erica Campbell, Donnie Morrison, Moira Morrison

2. Minutes - The Minutes of the previous meeting were approved after being moved by Cllr. Nicholson and seconded by Annetta Dunn

3. Matters arising from the Minutes -
Playpark equipment: It was agreed to write to the three Point councillors early in January 2008 asking for £2,000 from each from their ward initiative budgets.
It was agreed that in order to progress the playpark to scale back the original specification and go for the smaller £25,000 modular design.

Hypermarket: After expenses, the hypermarket raised £145.16. The bank balance as at November 20, 2007 stood at £7,293.

Roads: The letter sent to Iain Mackinnon, Director of Technical Services, was circulated and approved.

Newsletter in the Co-op: Christine confirmed she had sent a letter to the Co-op headquarters requesting permission for the local store to sell the Bricks Newsletter. A reply was still being awaited.

(* Jane Macintosh entered the meeting at this point)

Red bricks: Taylor to email Calum Macdonald re. red bricks

4. Playpark - Calum Campbell to contact contractor, Murdo Mackay re. an estimate for site preparation works.
It was also agreed that Calum, being a member of the Common Grazings Committee, should arranged with Murdo Dan Macleod and Alasdair Murray to peg out the playpark site.

5. Comic Relief grant application: It was agreed that the application should be submitted as planned but amended to reflect the new specification for the playpark.

6. AOCB - Taylor raised the issue of visibility at the Upper Garrabost junction. Although the street lights were to be welcomed, they did reduce the ability to see headlights of oncoming cars travelling from the Lower Garrabost direction.Cllr. Nicholson commented that a mirror to see into the dip was now in the revenue programme for next year. A better solution had been ruled as prohibitively expensive for various reasons.

7. Date of next meeting - A provisional date for the AGM was fixed for Tuesday, February 12, 2008. It was agreed that the AGM notice should be placed in the Rudhach.