Burntisland Community Council
Minutes of Meeting held in the Burgh Chambers on
Friday14th August 2009
Present: A MacDonald (Chair)
R
Smith (Vice Chair)
A
Grant (Treasurer)
G
Ritchie (Secretary
H
Leuchars (Minutes)
T
Hailey, C Dewar, G Lowe, M Douglas, S, Purves
Councillor
R Edwards, Councillor G Kay
1 Apologies
for Absence
Councillor S Leslie; G
McGregor, S McGregor, R Blanchard, Sgt E Potter
G
Lowe requested to leave
8
Members of public
2 Minutes
of Previous meeting (12.6.09)
B Smith proposed adoption on the minutes
as a true and correct record & seconded by A Grant.
3 Notification
of Community Concerns for discussion under ‘Any other
Business’ - as section 9.
4 Police
Report; Sgt Potter on annual leave and advised contact for
any pressing matters from the meeting otherwise she will submit her report next
month.
5
6 (a) Secretary’s
report
Dates of Guest speakers attending
11th September Michaela
Sullivan Head of Planning – Forth Ports
9th
October Anne Marie Dewar Regional
Community Manager – Scottish Water.
Town Notice Board; We have been advised
that the decision on our Application to obtain funding from the Common Good
Fund to match agreed Sponsorship will be decided at a Fife Council Area meeting
on 2nd September.
Planning approval has been
granted and quotations are in hand ready for ordering
The board assembly from the
manufacturer.
(b) Treasurer’s
report
Accounts have been submitted to Fife
Council showing a balance of £3,553.86.
The free funds are about £2,000 after provision for possible Burgh Buzz
printing and floral enhancement costs.
7
Business
carried forward
Burntisland
Sports Group – Gillian Lowe
A meeting is to be held
7.2 Review
of Community Council Scheme - A MacDonald and B Smith
The Community Council has been asked to
reply with their views on latest proposed l review from Fife Council and A
MacDonald and B Smith responded accordingly on behalf of
a) Should minimum age be reduced to 16yrs? Yes
b) Should elections be four years instead of
three? Yes
c) If members fall below 50% should Community
Council cease? (Agree to 40%) No
d) Minimum
number of meetings to be 6 previously 4?
(n/a
e) Complaints
between Community Councillors to be referred to Fife Council? No
7.3 Review of Local Planning
Applications – Tim Hailey
Mainly domestic applications made during summer
recess. Non-domestic relate to Antenna at Fire Station and Change of use old
Co-op building to Dance Studio.
7.4 Burgh
Buzz – Editorial assistance is required and volunteers are
urgently required
To help get the very popular publication up and
running again.
7.5 Community Council’s Asset Register – Alex
MacDonald
Assets of £500 or more are being listed separately
with those below that figure being grouped together e.g. total number planters as
an entity and total outfit of Christmas lights
7.6 (a)
Christmas Lights – Gillian Lowe reported the
following in the absence of the convenor Gordon Mc Gregor
Recommendation that 2 lights formally at West end of
High Street not be replaced due to brackets not being compatible with the
location. Prices for two new style
brackets are to be obtained on a trial basis to ascertain whether they are more
suitable.
The broken
icicle lights at the
At least 3 tenders to erect lights are being sought
from electrical contractors and grant funding applications are in progress.
7.6 (b)
Burntisland Blooms – Sheila McGregor report in absence
Beautiful
Results will not be revealed until Beautiful Fife
Awards Ceremony in Rothes Halls, Glenrothes in mid September.
In the early part of 2009 traffic calming measures
were introduced on
An automated speed survey carried out
0-25mph 38.3%
26-30mph 47.5% 31-35mph
12.3%
36-40mph 1.5% 41-45mph
0.3% 46-50mph 0.1%
Fife Council Transportation accepts that the current
calming measures in place are not popular or effective and they have since
arrived at 4 alternative options with item 2 & 3 being their preferences.
1) Remove
the central refuges (islands) and the hatching and replace them with kerbed
build outs to extend each footway into the road so that traffic in each
direction is adjacent to the centre of the road.
2) As
(1) but with the addition of sets of speed cushions on the road at the location
of the kerbed build -outs.
3) Remove
the central refuges (islands) and hatching and replace them with sets of speed
cushions.
4) Leave
the current measures unchanged.
Burntisland Community Council agree that the current
layout is not suitable although acknowledge the requirement to slow
traffic. As Transportation are the
experts in this field it was agreed the decision should be left with them, however,
it was also felt that the speed limit be looked at with a view to reducing it
to 20mph and that there be no intrusion on the road from kerbed build outs.
7.8 Common
Good Progress Report – progress as at August 2009
Note: This status
report was extracted from information supplied by
Information
about asset management plans; lease reviews and revaluations are scheduled to
be made available in mid-November and there will be further discussion at that
time.
Other
factual information provided so far is summarized as follows.
(a) Ownership
Property at
Other
properties identified in discussion are not part of the Common Good Fund, e.g.
land beside Young Hall; North View; flats above Unity Hall; Stenhouse
Reservoir; field near to
(b) Revenue and Balance Sheet as at
The revenue
surplus for the year was £164.20 on income of £16,611, after adding a
revaluation reserve of £6,200. Most income was from rents (£8,760) and interest
(£7,453).
Most
expenditure was on revaluation and depreciation (£17,218). , followed by
donations (£4,648). Expenditure on property costs was £612.
The total
fund is valued at £386,435, of which £251,580 was property and £69,725 was
investments.
The Burgh
Chambers site, including 2-4 Kirkgate and
The Links
was valued at £2,000. The Young Hall was valued at £3,000.
(c) Links Income and Expenditure as
at
Total
income was £76,448. Total expenditure was £110,509. Income from the summer fair
was £58,459. Income from commercial concessions was £9,250.
Expenditure
on grounds maintenance was £28,048; recreation attendants £17,754; Highland
Games £14,131; and building works £5,579. Advertising of the fair was £9,233;
bedding plants was £5,054. Miscellaneous work on tunnels, walkways, pageant and
bonfire was £9,522.
8 New
Business
8.1 Camilla
Loch Site – Scottish Natural Heritage
Camilla Loch is a site of specific scientific interest
(SSSI) and Scottish Natural Heritage has reviewed the site notification
documents for the above SSSI and is required to notify relevant interested
parties with copies of the reviewed documents.
The reviewed citation describes the protected natural
features of the area, list of operations requiring consent from
8.2 Street
Cleaning Services Improvements
Information received from the Cleansing Officer in
relation to new local
8.3 Local
Holidays 2010 Onwards
Monday’s 5th April, 5th May, 19th
July, 18th October, and 19th November.
8.4 Common
Good Grant Application
Application not supported as there was not sufficient
benefit to Burntisland.
8.5 Craigencalt Ecology Centre Fun Day on 30th
August
The meeting was notified of the pending Fun day and
leaflets were circulated to those present. A Free shuttle bus will operate to
and from the event from The Port at
8.6 Natalie Lowrie – Kinghorn Teenager Appeal
A fund raising concert is to be held at
8.7
Burntisland Medal Walks Scheme-Ramblers
Leaflets are available showing 3 walking routes all
starting and finishing at the links car park i.e. silver route - 15 mins around links and promenade, bronze route – 30mins,
Gold route 60mins. There was considerable interest and support for this ‘GET
Burntisland FIT’ scheme
8.8
All Fife Council buildings/museums/exhibitions free on
these dates. (
9 Any
Other Business
9.1 Town Clock – request the chime sound be
investigated and mechanism repaired
9.2 Young Hall Paintwork – application to be submitted
for September meeting requesting funding from Common Good Fund to carry out
necessary Painter work.
This was agreed
in principle by
9.3 Library Roof – Completed date of works requested
to allow Art Club to set date for exhibition.
9.4 Remembrance Day – arrangements are in hand for
10 Date of
Next Meeting