Minutes of the meeting held in

The Seaview Suite of the Lossiemouth Town Hall On Tuesday 10^th June 2008

Sederunt:

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

Present: Charles French, Victoria Moors, Robert Taylor, Jane Stokes.

The Chairperson opened the meeting at 1900 hours and welcomed all present. .He introduced Helen MacIntosh.

Item 1. Apologies.

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

Item 2. Minutes of the Previous Meeting

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

Item 3. Matters Arising from Minutes

3.1 Housing Sub Committee. Bob is now a member of the committee and the next meeting is to be held on 20^th June 2008.

3.2 The Tenants Voice should be out this week or early next week.

3.3 Jane said that she was going to put up her own fence as she needs a high fence at the back of her property (Note: Planning permission is required for fences over 1.2 meters within 20 meters of a road or path)

Item 4. Correspondence

4.1 .Copies of all correspondence was handed out and all are on the agenda

Item 5. Web Site

5.1 Web Sites. We now have the Core Group, Lossiemouth and Bilbohall on and Forres is the next one followed by Spey Coast. The only updating we can do at the moment is to get our minutes onto it.

Item 6. Environmental Grant

6.1 An e-mail had been received from the Council with information on what the requirements would be. A question of ownership of the ground was raised. We would have to submit proposals and plans for the use of the ground. It was agreed that we need to have a meeting with the Councils legal section. As funds would have to be raised from various sources we would have to maximise the use of the ground. It was agreed that there should be three categories of users; children; teenagers; fitness and wellbeing, this would maximise to funding potential.

Item 7.  Consultation

7.1 Post Office. Several meetings have been held by the MSP but no consultation document has been received yet.

7.2 Local Area Committees. The consultation document and the questionnaire had been received. There was also a letter from Eric Brewster chair of the Moray Forum for consideration. As the consultation does not end till august it wa decided that each of the members should study it in detail and a joint reply would be submitted after our July meeting.

7.3 Open Spaces Consultation. The return was completed.

Item 8. Any Other Relevant Business

8.1 The three estate walkabout dates were noted by all and maximum attendance was encouraged

8.2 Bob asked about the spend of last years environmental grant as there did not appear to have been any security lights installed.

Item 9. Date and Time of Next Meeting

9.1 The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 8^th July 2008 at 7pm in the Seaview Suite of the Lossiemouth Town Hall.

9.2 There being no further business the meeting closed at 2000 hours and the Chairperson thanked all those present for attending