Issue - meetings

Verbal update by Area Governance Officer.

 The Area Governance Officer and Andrew Hemmings will continue to liaise to see if there is a group which can coordinate efforts.  Andrew has been able to get some volunteers to agree in principle to keep a neighbourly eye on some locations, but the need for a local coordinating group is clear, . The Area Governance Officer will contact the current convenor of the CC to see if there is any group who may be willing to take this role on.

 The Clerk outlined the resilience project which was started around 2 years ago.  He advised that he was aware of a significant minority of  Community Council’s who were reluctant to take part.  He advised that this was attributable at least in substantial part to a misunderstanding of what was requested,  as some were of the opinion that they were leaving themselves open to additional risk or being asked to undertake work which was more properly the remit of the council.  The clerk explained that this was not actually the case and that what was being sought was a local solution to local issues with people agreeing to undertake simple tasks which they would probably be doing in the event of an emergency anyway- the plans purpose being to maximise the effectiveness of the actions of all participants.

Discussion took place firstly as to whether this was a topic which the forum would be interested in supporting, and secondly considering  ways in which the forum could assist.  The forum agreed that it was a topic that should  be supported and the Clerk agreed to liaise with Andrew Hemming’s in order to make contact with other bodies such as the Community Council and Kintyre Seniors Forum to assess the appetite for taking the plan forward  and implementing it in the area .