Draft minutes TCC AGM 2025

MINUTES OF AGM OF TIREE COMMUNITY COUNCIL (TCC)

7 pm 11 June 2025

Tiree Trust Conference Room

In person, on Zoom and on live Facebook stream

  1. Present: Gerard McGoogan (chair), Dr John Holliday, Frances Khetrat, Tim Arkless (all in person) and John MacCaskill (remotely). Cllr. Amanda Hampsey was present in person. Kirsty MacFarlane, convenor of Coll Community Council, was present remotely. One member of the public was on the Zoom call, and there had been 636 views on Facebook within two days.
  2. Apologies: there were none.
  3. Minutes of the 2024 AGM: these had been posted. There were no comments. Proposed JMC, seconded GMG.
  4. Chair’s report:
  • TCC had held 11 public meetings, a mixture of in-person and online. We currently have five members. Aran Khetrat resigned during the year to pursue his studies on the mainland. There are no co-opted members
  • Transport: there is an active Tiree Transport Forum. This has lobbied for improved ferry schedules, and has achieved an extra sailing for the Tiree Wave Classic. We have been liaising with Coll CC, Mull CC and CalMac about the Deck Space Pilot. There have been issues with ferries sailing with unfilled car spaces, despite the booking system reporting that the ferry was full. JMC has managed the banked flights system. We attended a meeting discussing the air service to Oban. We lobbied for patients with travel warrants on the plane to be allowed to stay more than 48 hours in Glasgow. We were unsuccessful in this
  • Library: we have fought against plans to close this
  • All-weather pitch: we have been trying to get improved access to this after school. This is work in progress
  • Visitor Levy consultation: we have surveyed the island and provided Argyll and Bute (ABC) Council with a response
  • Ambulance Service: we campaigned successfully for an additional ambulance staff member and extra training
  • TCC has put the island’s defibrillators on a Google map online
  • Police: we have campaigned to maintain a full-time police presence on the island
  • OpenReach: we have provided community liaison for the roll-out of the R100 programme
  • Replacement cable between Coll and Tiree: we have again acted as liaison with the SSEN team
  • Legacy projects: we are trying to wind up the community garden (being passed to Tiree Community Business), unused telephone boxes (hoping to de-commission this year), bicycle pumps (passed to Tiree Trust)
  • Planning: we reviewed around 30 applications, and made only one representation: supporting a house in Mannal
  • Coastal erosion: we supported ABC to apply to Dynamic Earth for funding to produce a shore management plan for Hynish Bay, Gott Bay and Balephetrish Bay. This was successful. The work will start in July
  • Local Place Plan: we decided not to contribute to this
  • Road Traffic Signage: we liaised with Mull CC for signage to help visitors use single-track roads better. There was no progress on this
  1. Presentation of accounts (GMG): There had been five transactions. The balance was £1627. The accounts were agreed by the meeting.
  2. Election of officers: elections are expected next autumn:
  • Gerard McGoogan was elected unanimously as Convenor: proposed JH, seconded TA
  • John Holiday was elected unanimously as Secretary: proposed GM, seconded FK
  • Frances Khetrat was elected unanimously as Treasurer: proposed JM, seconded TA
  1. AOCB: there was none

The meeting closed at 7.30pm

Dr John Holliday 12 June 2025