Mount Florida Community Council

Minutes of meeting 24.01.06

 

1)       Present   E.Dunwoodie, J.Scott, G. Cumming, J. McBride, J.Mutch, R. Pollock, M, Mc Glashan, S, Buckland, I. Hamilton, D. Moir, S. Bach, E. Ritchie, D.Martin, J-C. Valentin, J. MacDonald,B. Keenan, J. Cicognani, C. Parker.

Speakers-  L. MacSween, PC S. Connor.

2)      Apologies – Betty Russel, Minnie Lacey, Lesley Renton, John Lynch

3)      Minutes – Proposed by J.Pollock, seconded E. Ritchie.

a)      Matters Arising: a message of condolence has been sent to Cllr McCafferty following the death of her husband John McCafferty.

b)     J.Scott and B.Russell attended the carol service at the Asda car park.

   4)Treasurers report – G.Cumming reported no outlays since last meeting. Balance currently £884.89 which includes 75p interest. GC anticipates going to audit after the next bank statement is received.

5)GCC Planning Overview for Mount Florida and surrounding  area – Lewis MacSween(GCC Development and Regeneration services) – L.MacSween reported on a number of issues planned for the local area including the ACAD, the development of a sports facility at Toryglen and work on new drainage for area around Asda and the old prefab site ( Prospecthill Road at Aikenhead Road), planned for August 06.                           R.Pollock expressed his concern that Queens Park Rec, which is viewed as a resource for Mount Florida, is loosing green space and sporting facilities but new facilities only seem to be planned for Toryglen. He spoke of anomaly that Cllr Lynch stating Mount Florida is important but all the local initiatives seem to be surrounding areas and not in Mount Florida.

 L.MacSween finished by saying he was happy to offer his services in future meetings.

6)Community Police Report- PC Stephen Connor  distributed the local crime figures. He spoke of a current initiative in the local area regarding vandalism , where extra officers will be patrolling  key areas at specific times in order to catch the culprits.

G.Cumming spoke of problems regarding vehicles parking on pavements and/or blocking corners. PC Connor said that he would look into this.  In response to a question from the group re parking in Bolton Drive PC Connor pointed out that the ‘Keep Clear’ triangle in Bolton Drive was in fact a courtesy sign and that the Police had no power to remove any vehicles parked there.

7) City Councillor Reports –  J.Scott distributed a report from CLL Lynch dealing with issues raised at the last meeting.  B.Keenan pointed out that the issue she raised had in fact been regarding domestic rubbish being dumped in litter bins and what were Land Services (who have powers to deal with this) doing about it.

  Regarding portaloos  during major events at Hampden Cllr Lynch reported that the      contact person at Hampden was David Kells.

No communication had been received from Charlie Gordon MSP

E. Ritchie had contacted Tom Harris MP and identified Tuesday 21 st Feb as a date which he was willing and able to attend a meeting with the community council.  The community councillors agreed to this and the meeting date was set as 21st February. This is in addition to the scheduled community council meeting.

8) Correspondence  J.Scott distributed various items of correspondence including

  • a planning application for a phone mast in Lesser Hampden
  • Invitation to a Garden Party at Holyrood Palace. If interested contact J.Scott by 17 Feb

9) Plans for 2006  - Creation of sub committees. In order to maximise potential achievement and to spread the workload 3 sub committees were set up to address the following areas

  • Communication between MFCC and Mount Florida Community.  This will deal with newsletters, the setting up of a website, contacting shops local groups and churches.  S.Bach, J.Scott,  E. Dunwoodie, E. Ritchie, J. McBride, Janet McDonald and J-C Valentin
  • Communication with City Council/Scottish Executive.  This will deal with  Local services (planning /cleansing/roads/parking), City Councillors/MSP’/MP/NHS/Public Transport. B.Keenan, G.Cumming, R.Pollock, M.McGlashan, D.Moir, J. Much, S.Buckland.
  • Communication with Hampden Park.    Jim Scott, S. Buckland, J.Cicognani

10) Open Forum- a discussion about the proposed new web site took place with S.Bach explaining how his could bee done . Various suggestions were made as to it’s content.

11)AOCB – none

12) Date of Next Meeting – 28 February 2006 at 7pm.