Minutes of the meeting held in

The Seaview Suite of the Lossiemouth Town Hall

On Tuesday 12th February 2008

Sederunt:   

• Charles French, Chairperson
• Fran Hutton, Vice-Chairperson
• Victoria Moors, Secretary
• Robert Taylor
• Bill Rei
• Constance Campbell
• Amanda Gregory, Housing Officer

Present:  Charles French, Victoria Moors, Robert Taylor

The Chairperson opened the meeting at 1900 hours and welcomed all present.

Item 1. Apologies.

1.1 Apologies were received from Bill Reid, Fran Hutton and Constance Campbell.

Item 2. Minutes of the Previous Meeting

2.1  It was proposed by Bob and seconded by Victoria that the minutes be accepted.  The minutes were accepted and signed by the Chairperson as a true record.

Item 3. Matters Arising

3.1 No matters were raised

Item 4. Correspondence

4.1 There was no correspondence.

Item 5. Reports

5.1 There were no reports.

Item 6. Web Site

6.1 The Core Group have now received the money for the website and the designer has started work on the core groups site and will do the Lossie one next.  Charles showed a mock-up of what the Lossie site would look like.  Bob suggested that the sign as you come into Lossie would be a good picture to have on the site.  Two people from each forum will be authorised to update their own web site.  Charles and Bob will be able to update the Lossie site.  There will be two members of the Core Group authorised as administrators.

Item 7. Region Two

7.1  The Northern Lights Regional Committee have decided to hold their first meeting on 16th April when the committee will be voted in.  It was also noted that Communities Scotland becomes a department of central government on 1st April.

Item 8. Estate Walkabout

8.1 There will be an estate walkabout on 22nd February.  The makeup of the walkabout will be housing officer, councillor, estate warden and representative from the forum.

Item 9. Housing Sub Committee

9.1 Charles handed out copies of part of the committee papers and asked the members for any comments on the actions they thought should be taken

9.2 A survey of new lettings showed tat there were quite a lot of ‘no’ answers to the question “were you told how to………”

Item 9. Any Other Relevant business

9.1. There were no matters raised

Date and Time of Next Meeting

10.1 The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 11th March 2008  at 7pm in the Seaview Suite of the Lossiemouth Town Hall.

7.2 There being no further business the meeting closed at 1930 hours and the Chairperson thanked all those present for attending.