Following a brief period of being unable to operate due to insufficient numbers, the Tiree Community Council has now been formally reconstituted after a by-election increased our numbers to the required level.
Your current Community Council is now:
Phyl Meyer (Chair), John Holliday (Secretary), Jacqui Bennett (Treasurer) and Tim Arkless.
Our first public meeting will take place via Zoom at 7pm on Wed 25th Jan 2023.
Agenda:
- Welcome by chair Phyl Meyer and housekeeping
- Apologies
- Declarations of conflicts of interest
- Minutes of last meeting
- Matters arising
- Correspondence: Police report, HIAL, Response from Douglas Hendry re our letter on Island Community Impact Assessment, resignation of Dr Mike, Potential meeting with Andrew Kain and Ross McLaughlin, Argyll and Bute Islands Sounding Board
- Duties of Councillors – Discussion of who will do what in terms of e.g. Facebook page, meeting streaming, website maintenance, banking signatories, handling of correspondence, representation on Tiree Transport Forum.
- Reports from Argyll and Bute Councillors and Members of the Parliaments
- Co-option of more members – discuss a process
- Potential closure of Tiree Service Point – response from TCC and the community
- Reports on Meetings: Ferry Stakeholders Group, including an update on waiting room at the pier, Community garden project
- Potential joint working with other island Community Councils
- Engagement with Parent Council
- Planning matters: Proposed amendment to our planning policy – under “Scope” replace requirement for comments to be made directly to us with requirement for the comments to be made via the Argyll + Bute Council planning portal. Report on any current planning applications from December/January.
- Policy on the balance between virtual, hybrid and in-person meetings
- AOCB
- Date of next meeting
Meeting papers:
Tiree CC Inaugural Minute 19.12.22
Meeting joining instructions:
Please note: our meetings are recorded for the purpose of minute taking. If you do not wish your camera feed to be recorded, please do not enable your camera. Keeping it off, rather than on but covered over also helps reduce internet load for participants.
When you first join the meeting at the start time – you may find you are in a Waiting Room, please just wait for the meeting to start and you will be admitted automatically.
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Guidance on joining the meeting:
You can choose how you view the meeting using the app if joining via the internet – “Gallery view” shows you multiple participants
Please note that by default you will join the meeting muted (i.e. you will not be sending sound out to the rest of the participants) – please leave yourself muted unless you need to speak, and when invited to do so by the chair, and remember to re-mute afterwards. This is needed to ensure that the call is not made very difficult to follow by background noise from multiple people, which can be extremely disruptive to the call.
We suggest that members of the public not enable their camera, unless wishing to be seen when making a contribution to the meeting. This saves bandwidth and reduces the size of the recording for the minutes. Please note that our meetings may also be streamed to our Facebook page, where they may remain and be viewed after the meeting has ended.
If joining on a PC, tablet or other device, please set your screen name to a recognisable form of your actual name so that other participants know who you are – this is required if you wish to participate via either speaking or using the text chat.
The mute and unmute button is in the lower left, and looks like a microphone, next to the button for switching your webcam on/off.
If you are using a telephone to dial in, the mute and unmute command can be given by typing on your handset: *6
Requesting to speak:
If joining by computer, you can find a button to “Raise your hand” to ask to speak under the “Participants” menu, accessed by pressing the Participants button (looks like a human figure, in the middle of the bottom part of the window). You can also use the chat function to make a comment or to ask to speak on a point.
You can “raise your hand” to ask to speak if phoning in by using the code: *9
As ever if you have questions or if there is anything we can do to help you take part in the meeting accessibly, please let us know by e-mailing phyl@tireecommunitycouncil.co.uk
