http://tireecommunitycouncil.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/letter-TCC-TCEL-fuel-4.24.docx
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Agenda TCC April public meeting
TIREE COMMUNITY COUNCIL
MARCH PUBLIC MEETING
7pm 10 April 2024
by Zoom
Phyl Meyer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88578680133?pwd=Y2NJWmRweUtRZkZ1YVc4UEhGeCtmZz09
Meeting ID: 885 7868 0133
Passcode: 992789
One tap mobile
+442034815237,,88578680133#,,,,*992789# United Kingdom
+441314601196,,88578680133#,,,,*992789# United Kingdom
Dial by your location
• +44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom
• +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom
- Welcome
- Apologies
- Declarations of interest
- Approval of minutes of last meeting
- Matters arising: phone boxes; community garden; Scottish Water; lack of a BT engineer; Hynish passing place; Scarinish fence update
- Correspondence: SEPA and Potentially Vulnerable Areas
- Meetings reports: Jenni Minto, MSP
- Reports from district councillors
- By-election results and future co-option
- Fuel prices
- Transport: resilience of Glasgow flights; Oban flights; current ferry situation; proposed Transport Forum meeting; reported significant increase in aircraft landing fees at HIAL airports
- TCC accounts and annual grant from Argyll and Bute Council
- All weather pitch access
- Planning applications
- AOCB
- Date and place of next meeting
Extra support during a power cut
SSEN PSR Digital Toolkit |
Dear John
Disruption to essential services like electricity can sometimes happen and it affects our everyday lives. For some, a power cut can be worrying or difficult. Acknowledging the pivotal role that Community and Parish Councils play in achieving better outcomes for communities and widening the safety net of care around them, we are asking for your help in reaching people who may need extra support during power cuts. We are Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), we operate the electricity network in your area. We keep the lights on, TVs running, and homes and businesses heated for 3.9 million customers, with 99% reliability throughout the year. Your residents may not be aware that extra advice and support is available for when there is an interruption to the power supply. By informing your residents of the Priority Services Register this will enable them free access to:
What is the PSR and who is eligible?
What resources are available to promote the PSR?
We appreciate some of your residents may not be in our license area, however by signposting them to our registration pages (for Scotland and England) customers can enter their postcode which will direct them to the right utility to register. If you have any queries regarding the PSR, please contact us on networkscvteam@sse.com. Whether through email, newsletter, coffee morning or via social media channels, we hope that this pack supports you to have conversations about the benefits of the Priority Services Register. Thank you for helping us to provide extra support to the communities you serve. Yours sincerely, Customer Vulnerability Team |
By-election results
Congratulations to our new councillors
NOTICE OF UNCONTESTED ELECTION
ELECTION OF COMMUNITY COUNCILLORS FOR
TIREE COMMUNITY COUNCIL
BY-ELECTION DAY – 2 MAY 2024
The following candidates remain validly nominated for the above Community Council Area as hereinafter mentioned and, as not more than the required number of candidates remains validly nominated there will be no poll therein and not later than 11.00am on the day of the election, the said candidates shall be declared to be elected Community Councillors.
Names of Candidates remaining validly nominated
|
Address as in the Register | |
1 | KHETRAT, Frances Mary | Address in the Community Council Area |
2 | KHETRAT, Swaranjai Benjamin | Address in the Community Council Area |
3 | MACCASKILL, John P | Fairways, Vaul, Isle of Tiree |
4 | MCGOOGAN, Gerard John | Address in the Community Council Area |
Signed
Pippa Milne
Returning Officer
Draft minutes Tiree Community Council public meeting March 2024
Draft minutes February 2024 meeting of TCC
Agenda for February Tiree Community Council public meeting
TIREE COMMUNITY COUNCIL (TCC)
FEBRUARY PUBLIC MEETING
7 pm on 21 February 2024
Due to double booking of the Conference Room at the Tiree Trust, this meeting has now moved to online only. Apologies. JH
On Zoom and streamed on the TCC Facebook page
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82281921522?pwd=N1h6S0ZkQ002RzhIZUVpUmwzYWlmUT09
Meeting ID: 822 8192 1522
Passcode: 923203
- Welcome
- Apologies
- Declarations of interest
- Minutes of last meeting
- Matters arising: Winter timetable 2024; request for a new bus shelter at Pier View; rats; community garden; gritter; phone boxes; Scarinish fence; community bus service
- Correspondence: Ferry consultation, National Climate Adaptation Plan consultation; Jenni Minto on island 15 March
- Meeting reports: Ferry contract; Mull Community Council; Coll Community Council; Tiree Trust climate change initiatives
- Argyll and Bute Councillors’ reports
- A&BC budget proposals
- Democracy Matters consultation
- Ferries: possible changes to RET; timetables for winter 2024/5 and summer 2025; update on reserved deck space pilot
- Scottish Water: will the island have enough water in future?
- Balevullin Beach sand loss
- Planning applications for the last month
- AOCB
- Date and location of March public meeting
Democracy Matter consultation from the Scottish Government
‘Democracy Matters’: phase 2 consultation from the Minister for Community Wealth and Public Finance
Contributions have to be submitted by 28 February 2024.
The fundamental question being asked is: do those of us wo live on Tiree want more control over our own lives?
In general, Tiree Community Council thinks that the answer is yes.
Tiree has made great progress in building community capacity over the last twenty years:
- There is a community-owned livestock mart and cafe
- There is a community-owned hall
- There is a community development trust owning a wind turbine, community broadband, a harbour and two piers, a community shop, fuel station, business units, and employing a ranger (operating a croft camping scheme), Gaelic development workers and a youth worker
- There is a community business running the Crossapol business centre and the Scarinish public toilets
- There is a community trust running the Hynish lighthouse shore station
However, there are challenges:
- Recruiting enough directors and councillors is not easy. The island’s population is only 650, and there is a small-community reticence to stick one’s head above the parapet
- There is always a fear that a few people with sharp elbows will take over
- We know it costs more to deliver services on an island than on the mainland. If we were given our own budgets, we would need to make sure there was enough money in the kitty
So, any changes in the way we are governed:
- Should allow communities to opt-in. Not every community will be ready at the same time
- Should be slow and evolutionary, so the community has time to adjust and build capacity
- Will be more expensive, so funding will need to go up
- Will need support, possibly involving mentors from places where this sort of thing works
- While we try to keep up-to-date with our neighbouring islands, Tiree is a stand-alone community. We want to keep it that way, rather than be amalgamated with other areas.
The full consultation is at:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/democracy-matters-phase-2-consultation-local-governance-review/
You are encouraged to engage with this individually.
John Holliday