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Hustings on Tiree

It’s election time!
Tiree Community Council will be holding a virtual hustings on Friday 29 April at 7pm.
Eight of the eleven candidates for our ward in Argyll and Bute Council have told us they will be there, and we hope we will be able to confirm more over the coming week.
This will be an opportunity to ask questions about things you feel are important, although, with so many candidates, time will be limited!
We will post the joining details for the virtual meeting in the next few days.

Consultation on future of Argyll and Bute air services

The Argyll and Bute Council is consulting on local air transport services on the West Coast area, linking Oban, Tiree, Coll, Colonsay and Islay. This consultation will inform the next contract for the service and shall consider issues including:

•            Current use of the air service
•            Preferred flight times and days
•            The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver services

The last item is under active consideration following successful trials of UAVs to deliver supplies during the pandemic, resulting in significant savings for the NHS. Active work is in development to create a UAV Hub at Oban airport, with Royal Mail also interested in the possible applications.

If you would like to respond to the consultation directly, or just find out more, you can do so here: https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/consultations/argyll-and-bute-council-west-coast-air-services-pso

TCC will be happy to make a submission on behalf of Tiree constituents, so if you would like to feed in your views to that, please email TCC member Phyl Meyer at phyl@tireecommunitycouncil.co.uk

Useful Links – skills, training and support

The National Crofting Development Plan for Scotland, published around this time last year, highlighted some opportunities for training and support for rural communities, to address a range of challenges unique to rural areas. You can read the full Development Plan here.

Many of the opportunities mentioned in the report have expired, but we’ve collated some resources for ongoing opportunities and support that we hope will be helpful below. The following will not be new information to a lot of people, but hopefully there’s something useful in here for those who may be looking for some extra support. We welcome suggestions for additions to this list, and any input from our local crofting community.

Please note that NFU links have not been included, as the majority of their web content is available to members only.

Scottish Government Resources 

The Crofting Commission 

SRUC

Other resources: 

Notice of April 2022 Meeting and Minutes of March 2022 Meeting

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 13th April 2022 at 7pm.

Agenda:

  1. Welcome
  2. Apologies
  3. Declarations of interest
  4. Minutes of last meeting and matters arising, including the Platinum Jubilee event, community garden and Ukrainian refugees.
  5. Correspondence:
    • Island Bonds Consultation events
    • Argyll and Bute Council’s offer to create a Digital Hub on the island.
    • Letters patent for the Tiree flag
    • National Development Plan for Crofting – report
    • Strategic Transport Project Review Team consultation
    • Tiree Dental Service
    • Oban Orthodontic service
    • Struthan Terrace pavements
  6. Ferries: 
    • Tiree and Coll Community Councils press release about ferry situation and next winter’s dry docking season.
    • Don McKillop and Alan Hood to explain the proposed new Terms and Conditions for ticket sales, including planned cancellation charges
    • Re-formation of the Tiree Transport Forum
  7. Argyll and Bute Council Elections: how should Tiree Community Council engage with the candidates, and should there be a Tiree hustings?
  8. Consultation on the Collective Leadership Model: update on the Tiree Community Council response
  9. Consultation on the proposed shared headship between Tiree High School and Oban High School: a report into the current situation and Tiree Community Council’s part in the process
  10. End of Gaelic simultaneous translation pilot for Community Council meetings: where  next?
  11. Community Councillors Meetings Report 
  12. Tiree Trust Report 
  13. Planning 
  14. AOCB

Meeting papers:

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.

Join Zoom Meeting online by PC or smart device:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87800250832?pwd=Tit5dUZXdnNkY1NhZUVaZmZmSElXZz09

Meeting ID: 878 0025 0832

Passcode: 544404

Dial by your location

        +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom

        +44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom

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.

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 

Take part in survey on the future of schools leadership in Argyll and Bute

We are currently running a survey to gather views from the community on proposed changes to the way schools are led in our Council area – proposals which are quite similar in many ways to the temporary arrangement that our own school has been operating under with Oban High School for the past two years.
Please follow this link to take part in the Community Council’s survey on Argyll and Bute’s Collective Leadership Model for schools.
 
You will find more information about the survey within the survey introduction. Please note that all submissions are anonymous. We will ask about what group you belong to within the community, but individual responses cannot be linked back to a named individual.
You will find links to information about the Council’s proposal and the school’s latest HMIE report in the introduction, or you can follow the links below.
 
To search for the HMIE Report: https://education.gov.scot/education-scotland/inspection-reports/?orderBy=dateDescending
 
The Council’s ‘Empowering Our Educators’ information page: https://empoweringoureducators.co.uk/