Minutes of Meeting 22/11/05

1)Present

Community Councillors J.Scott, E.Dunwoodie, G.Cumming, W.McCallum, B.Russell, M. Lacey, R. Pollock, E. Ritchie, S. Bach, J. Mutch, J. McBride, B. Keenan, S. Buckland, D.Moir, L.Renton

Residents J.Pollock, M. McGlashan, S. Whitmore, B. McGuiness, I. Hamilton, D. Martin, J-C. Valentin.

Guests Councillor J. Lynch, PC T. Barbour, PS. J. Haddow

2) Apologies – Cllr M. McCafferty

3)Welcome – J.Scott opened the meeting, welcomed everyone and introduced the invited guests.

4) Councillor J. Lynch – paid tribute to the committee on their hard work and stated he looked forward to working with the community council. He spoke of Hampden, traffic lanes, and the council budget as being areas he felt were relevant to the community. Recent pay agreements will result in budget pruning in the areas of staff training and development but not in what is available to community councils. With regard to concerts at Hampden he sees a need for the community council and the Hampden management team to work together re safeguards in the area.

Cllr Lynch then answered questions from the floor.

5)PC Tracey Barbour the Community Police officer for the area gave the crime figures for the area. She praised initiatives such as Neighbourhood Watch. P.C. Barbour spoke of £500 which the Police had been authorised to spend on local initiatives for the wellbeing of the community and asked that anyone with ideas contact her. In response to complaints from the floor re the new call centre method of answering phone calls she stated that they were still in a settling in period and the situation was expected to improve..

6) Minutes of AGM and matters arising

The balance in the community council’s accounts should have read £1120.45.

Minutes were proposed by W.McCallum and seconded by R. Pollock.

7)Correspondence. Jim made the floor aware of correspondence received including

a) Planning applications for Hamilton Carpet shop Cathcart Road to become a restaurant and an access road for Mount Florida Medical Centre off Cathcart Road.

b) GCC Inclusion update

c) Modernising Greater Glasgow Hospitals

d) Glasgow City Council Minutes

e) Community Council working group.

f) GCC Equality policy external consultation

g) SE Area Committee minutes

h) GCC Environmental and Sustainable Action Plan

i) Glasgow South Community Safety Forum minutes

j) Notification of a public meeting of the BBC board of Governors

k) Consultation on the establishment of local housing forums

l) Forthcoming events at Hampden, including 3 confirmed concert dates.

8) Plan for 2005/6 J.Scott spoke of issues that he felt would be important to the community council area including parking on Cathcart Road.

The annual carol concert will be held at the Asda car park. It is multi denominational and those who wish to attend will be made very welcome.

R. Pollock suggested that we invite a representative from the GCC Planning Dept to provide an overview of the City Council’s plans for Mount Florida.

9)Treasurers Report G. Cumming reported that since the last meeting there had been withdrawals, viz £160 for newsletter distribution, £65.80 for the production of the newsletter, £12.38 for flowers for the widow of former Community Councillor John Lawson. There has been 97p paid into the account in interest and the balance currently stands at £961.42

10)AOCB

1) A suggestion was made that owing to the removal of a park land part of the Queens Park Recreation Ground due to the building of the new Victoria Hospital, the City Council should upgrade the rest of the park.

2) W. McCallum reported that at a recent SE Area committee meeting she had been made aware of upgrades that were to be made to the glasshouse in Queens Park

3) J. Mutch suggested that there should be a forward plan for the newsletter and that they should be produced more than once per year.

4) E. Dunwoodie spoke of the possibility getting a website to allow more people in the area access to the community council. S. Bach offered to help set this up.

5) E. Ritchie suggested that sub committees should be set up I order to divide the workload. J. Scott asked that anyone interested in taking part in a sub committee, contact him and come back to the next meeting with ideas for the committees.

11) Date of Next Meeting 24/1/06 at the new time of 7pm