Meeting held on 10 October 2004 at Kingsbarns School Hall

Present : Cllr. Peter Douglas and 13 village residents

1. Community Council Members :

Cllr Douglas reported that since the last Meeting the following 4 nominees had put forward their names and had been duly elected as Community Council Members;

Joyce Taylor, Clare Wright, Peter Erskine and Geoff Lang. These elections had been made as the number of nominations were less than the number of vacancies, and only those 4 persons had put their names forward as being willing to stand.

This evening’s Meeting therefore, represented the inaugural Meeting of the newly elected Kingsbarns Community Council.

Care Wright voiced her wish to hand over the Chair of the Community Council to another. There being no other volunteers Joyce Taylor was duly appointed and accepted as the new Chairman of the Community Council.

The post of Treasurer being vacant, and there being no volunteers for this post, Peter Erskine was duly proposed and accepted.

The post of Secretary had been vacant since the resignation of Margo McKee in July, and there being no volunteers, Geoff Lang was duly proposed and accepted.

Finally, Charlotte Kirby was nominated as Vice Chairman.

2. Minutes of previous Meeting :

The Meeting scheduled for September 13th had not taken place, hence the last Meeting was July 5th.

The Minutes of that July 5th Meeting would go forward for agreement at the next meeting (November 22nd).

3. Matters arising:

Sub-Committee

Recalling that in April April 2004 Miss Jean BeIl, Scott Tunrbull and Huw Lloyd-Richards had -been elected to serve on the sub-committee to investigate “Future Development in Kingsbarns”, Huw reported that two constructive meetings had taken place since, in May and in September. Minutes of those Meetings had been passed to Clare Wright, out-going Community Council Chairman. These Minutes along with a report on the sub-committee’s findings would be presented at the next Community Council Meeting on Monday November 22nd in the Kingsbarns Memorial Hall.

4. Any Other Business :

Future Meetings

Joyce Taylor, incoming Chairman, asked for support in confirming the dates of future Meetings, one year hence, at 2-monthly intervals.

These were duly diarised as: Monday November 22nd, Monday January 10th, and thereafter on the first Monday of alternate months, viz. Monday March 7th, Monday May 2nd. Monday July 4th, Monday September 5th and Monday November 7th.

Bench at Bus Stop

It was noted that this was in need of repair and Cllr. Douglas volunteered to organise necessary repairs.

Kingsbarns Welfare Association

Soup and Roll Lunches -The next of which was scheduled for Monday November 1st.

The Association had written to ask for a small grant to support this new initiative. Raymond Hare proposed that the organisers of this regular event be given £50 to go towards this, with a review after 3 months. Peter Erskine seconded this proposal.