Due to widespread broadband issues on Tiree last week, our meeting scheduled for Nov 11th was cancelled – we have rescheduled the meeting for Thursday 19th Nov at 7pm.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Apologies
2. Welcome, especially to new councillors
3. Declaration of conflicts of interest
4. Minutes and matters arising
5. Correspondence: repair schedule for A83, wartime debris on Crossapol beach; radio training
6. Tiree water supply: challenges and solutions: (If possible to reschedule, we will have a presentation by Brian McCarthy, Reservoir Manager and Mark Petrie, Water Risk & Lifecycle Planning Manager for Scottish Water with the opportunity to ask questions
7. Covid-19 tier 2 allocation for Tiree as part of Argyll + Bute Council area
8. Transport update
9. Openreach / Internet connectivity issues
10. Forming Planning Sub-group
11. Discussion of positions for TCC ahead of Tiree Trust meeting on certain issues:
    Proposed Motion 1: Tiree Community Council agrees to work with other bodies, including the Tiree Community Development Trust, Argyll and Bute Council and the Scottish Government, with the objective of developing policies that aim to increase the Tiree population as counted in the Census between 2021 and 2031.
    Proposed Motion 2: Tiree Community Council agrees to work with other bodies with the aim of increasing the number of Gaelic speakers on the island to 45% by 2031 as established by the Census.
    1. Procedural note: These motions have been submitted in advance to facilitate discussion, they will need to be formally proposed and seconded during the meeting before being discussed – they may be amended before being voted upon.
12. AOCB
13. Date of next meeting

The minutes from the last meeting are here: DRAFT COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES OCTOBER 2020

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Topic: Tiree Community Council November 2020 meeting
Time: Nov 19, 2020 07:00 PM

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NOTE: Due to issues with internet connectivity affecting large amounts of the island in the days immediately prior to this meeting it was postponed. A new date will be announced shortly.

The next public meeting of Tiree Community Council is on Wednesday 11th November from 7pm via Zoom. The agenda is as follows:

1. Apologies
2. Welcome, especially to new councillors
3. Declaration of conflicts of interest
4. Minutes and matters arising
5. Correspondence: repair schedule for A83, wartime debris on Crossapol beach; radio training
6. Tiree water supply: challenges and solutions: presentation by Brian McCarthy, 7. Reservoir Manager and Mark Petrie, Water Risk & Lifecycle Planning Manager for Scottish Water with the opportunity to ask questions
7. Covid-19 tier 2 allocation for Tiree as part of Argyll + Bute Council area
8. Transport update
9. Discussion of motions ahead of Tiree Trust meeting:
   Motion 1: Tiree Community Council agrees to work with other bodies, including the Tiree Community Development Trust, Argyll and Bute Council and the Scottish Government, with the objective of developing policies that aim to increase the Tiree population as counted in the Census between 2021 and 2031.
   Motion 2: Tiree Community Council agrees to work with other bodies with the aim of increasing the number of Gaelic speakers on the island to 45% by 2031 as established by the Census.
10. AOCB
11. Date of next meeting

(Agenda edited 06/11/2020 due to updated information, texts of motions added)

The minutes from the last meeting are here: DRAFT COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES OCTOBER 2020

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Topic: Tiree Community Council November 2020 meeting
Time: Nov 11, 2020 07:00 PM London

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The next public meeting of the Council will take place on Wednesday 14th October at 7pm via Zoom. As last month, we have moved to the second Wednesday of the month as standard for the time being, due to a routine clash with Mull Community Council’s meetings – so as to make it easier for our Argyll and Bute Ward Councillors to attend.

Agenda:

1. Welcome
2. Apologies
3. Conflicts of interest
4. Correspondence: including water supply capacity problems on Tiree; Argyll Estate factor; the current position of Argyll and Bute Council on Zoom meetings for community councils; national meeting with Deputy First Minister about Gaelic; gravel extraction from beaches; car parking at the school; Tiree Wave Classic
5. By-election
6. Transport:

a) Transport Forum Report (including formal adoption of update to terms of reference and membership)
Air Travel
Reduction in LoganAir timetable
Flight arrivals from overseas
Retiral of the SAABs
Closure North/South runway
Delays in the Post
b) Ferries

Summer timetable Monday boat instead of Friday
Two boats on Saturdays early Q1 2021 due to Clansman be replaced by LOTI

7. Boundary Commission investigation into ward boundaries in Argyll and Bute: response of Tiree Community Council
8. Public contributions
9. Date of next meeting

Papers:

DRAFT COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES SEPTEMBER 2020

Tiree Transport Forum Terms of Reference v3 October 2020 (Note these have been updated from the original posted version due to feedback)

Tiree Community Council Police report 14.10.20

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Our next meeting following our taking a break over summer will be held on Wednesday 9th September – having been shifted to the second Wednesday of the month due to a clash with neighbouring Mull’s regular slot, to make it easier for our ward councillors to join us. As always, members of the public are welcome to attend to observe the meeting.

The agenda is below as are the draft minutes as previously published as well as a proposed correction to these, for the last meeting in July.

Agenda:

TIREE COMMUNITY COUNCIL PUBLIC MEETING by Zoom

Wednesday 9 September 2020 7 pm

1. Apologies
2. Conflicts of interest
3. Minutes of the last meeting and matters arising
4. Correspondence: exposed dump on Crossapol beach; benches around
Tiree; meeting of Tiree Transport Forum; Electors Annual Canvass; Tiree
Wave Classic; campervan scheme; participation requests to Argyll and
Bute Council; car access to Tiree’s beaches; internet coverage; projection
of population on Tiree over the next ten years; Gaelic speaking on Tiree,
a new survey; governance issues
5. By-election (supersedes co-options)
6. Towards a new Tiree Community Council planning policy
7. Representation of Tiree’s on Argyll and Bute Council Sounding Board
and the Scottish Government’s Islands Strategic Group
8. Transport update
9. AOCB

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Minutes of last meeting:

DRAFT COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES JULY 2020

Correction to Draft Minutes of Tiree Community Council meeting 1 July 2020

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The next meeting of TCC will be held on Wednesday 1st July at 7pm, once again via the Zoom online and telephone conference platform.

Agenda:

1. Apologies
2. Conflicts of interest
3. Minutes of the last meeting and matters arising
4. Correspondence
5. Ferry update
6. Air service update
7. Scarinish phone box
8. Virtual Doors Open Day
9. Complaint about governance
10. AOCB

Downloadable version: TCC agenda 1.7.20

Minutes of the previous meeting, held on 3rd June 2020: DRAFT COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINUTES JUNE 2020

Minutes of an informal members-only “agenda meeting” and discussion of a response to accusations of misconduct made against TCC, held on Monday 22nd June: minutes agenda meeting 22.6.20

The latest “landing figures” provided to us by CalMac for numbers of cars and passenger journeys to and from Tiree –  kindly agreed to be shared: Tiree – Shipped and Landed 26th June

We received a response from Calmac to our letter – details posted as an update to this page: http://tireecommunitycouncil.co.uk/ferry-capacity-and-latest-guidance-june-26th-update/

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We will be holding another public meeting via Zoom video/teleconference on Wednesday 3rd June 2020 starting at 7pm. The agenda and joining instructions follow below:

Agenda:

1. Welcome
2. Apologies
3. Declaration of conflicts of interest
4. Minutes of last TCC public meeting and matters arising
5. Correspondence: including new guidance for community councils while social distancing remains in place; co-option of new members; police report; enquiries from people moving to Tiree
6. Summer ferry timetable: we will be joined from Mull by Elizabeth Ferguson, CalMac Community Board member
7. Possible priority given to islanders travelling on the ferry during the summer
8. The role of TCC in planning and managing the phased exit from lockdown on Tiree, including advice to those travelling to Tiree more generally
9. TCC’s role in planning visits to the island by key workers; those moving to the island
10. Review of teleconferencing as a tool for public meetings
11. Date of the next TCC public meeting
12. AOCB

Word downloadable version: agenda june 2020

The draft minutes of the previous meeting: Tiree Community Council Minutes 6th May 2020

Following the last meeting there was a question about the numbers of passengers and vehicles travelling to and from the island. Don McKillop of Calmac has kindly agreed to share with us the figures for this and agreed to their publication here – please note they are unaudited and may therefore have minor inaccuracies, but they are fairly illustrative of the extremely low number of passengers.

Tiree – Shipped and Landed 28th Mar – 28th May

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