January 2023 Minutes | Stirling Council

Fintry Community Council Minutes

18^th January 2023

19:30

Menzies Hall

Present/apologies for absence:

Group/Organisation	Representative
Fintry Community Council Reps	Michele Bennett (MB - Chair Moira MacKay (MM) Ian Rodgers (IR) Terry Baitrum (TB)
Stirling Councillor	Cllr McGarvey
Members of Public (MoP)	4
Police	Apologies
Apologies	Sue Wallace (SW) Natalie Russell (NR)

Declaration of interest in any items of business

Councillor McGarvey in relation to Earlsburn extension.

Approval of Minutes of last meeting:

Approved

Councillor’s Report

Cllr McGarvey advised that he would be carrying out in person surgeries before the Community Councils Meetings.

Local Place Plans – Cllr McGarvey advised that he would be in discussion Development Planning regarding asking for a Local place plan toolkit which

will assist Community Councils to prepare local place plans.

Treasurer’s Report

Treasurer’s Report January 2023

1. General Fund Account

The current balance is £10.857. Money has been spent from the food for all grant see below.

Food for all Grant	Budget	Spend	Remaining
Food Boxes Kids Gifts	£4,300.00	£2,415.18	£1,884.82
Volunteer Expenses	£1,000.00	£270.00	£730.00
Hall Hire	£200.00		£200.00
Boxes	£100.00		£100.00
Wood for Compost store	£300.00		£300.00
Compost	£320.00		£320.00
Plants and Seeds	£200.00		£200.00
Wood for Planters	£700.00		£700.00
Post crete	£50.00		£50.00
Labour	£1,330.00		£1,330.00
	£8,500.00	£2,685.18	£5,814.82

2. Foundation Fund

The current balance is £28,865.

The current budget and spend to date are shown below.

Foundation Scotland Budget	Description	Budget	Spend	Balance
Commissioned Service	Community Transport Scheme	£2,500	£1,665	£835
Commisioned Activity	Continued Path Maintance	£5,500	£2,230	£3,270
Commisioned Activity	Maintance of resilience fund assets	£1,000	£397	£603
Commisioned Activity	Flood Prevention Project	£2,500		£2,500
Fintry Special Project	Community Garden & Resilience Fund	£1,242	£413	£829
Fintry Special Project	Menzies Hall Resilience Hub	£11,500		£11,500
Fintry Special Project	Hardship and Resilience Fund	£2,000	£1,050	£950
Fintry Special Project	Prescription Collection service	£4,000	£2,862	£1,138
Micro Grants-A	Individual Grants £250-500	£2,000	£2,000	£0
Main Grants	Constituted Groups £500-2500	£10,000	£5,924	£4,076
Student Study Grant	Student Study Grant	£3,000	£250	£2,750
Administration Fee	FCC Admin work	£500	£88	£412
	Post code lottery grant	£97	£97	£0
	Total	£45,839	£16,975	£28,864

Two grant applications received for Student travel grants both voted on and approved.

The FDT have advised that the Community Council are classed as business and therefore we cannot calm the £25.00 back from the log scheme for the hardship families that we’ve purchased logs for.

Resilience Update

16^th December 2022 The Resilience Team were called out and the resilience plan was activated for the flats in the main street the water tanks in the attics had burst bringing down ceilings and flooding all flats we arranged for hot food and alternative accommodation along with fresh water and food packs to be supplied for the following week until water reinstated etc.

30^th December 2022 the resilience team were called out to assist with hydro sacks to protect property from water penetrating house due to flooding.

14^th January the resilience was called out to assist with hydro sacks for property being flooded.

Prescriptions on going.

Hydro sacks – Stirling Council have a new supply of hydro sacks which will last up to 5 years they are maybe willing to supply some to us.

£265.00 will cover the supply of 50 hydro sacks.

Seniors Christmas party was a great success on bringing people together

Planning

Knockraich planning application for creation of flat approved with conditions

Old Balglass application for demolition of sun room to create two storey extension Peatland restoration north of east of easter Crenate approved

Erection of two dwelling houses at east of Cashel house refused

Enforcement cases

Alterations to ground level main street case closed.

Earlsburn –

Representatives from Earlsburn wind farm came to give a talk regarding their proposed planning application which will be processed through the Scottish Government the proposals are for an additional 11 Turbines at 180m in height includes onsite sub station and energy storage equipment to be in operation for 35 years.

The currant land which at moment is grazing land, plantation forestry and blanket bog will continue during the life of the wind farm they also advised that there are involved in another project which is peat land restoration in local area.

The grid connection will supply 60,000 homes with electricity

Estimated project Timeline is January 2023 until 2026 wind farm operational

The application is submitted and consultation period will end on March 22^nd 2023

The Community Council along with Carron , Gargunnock, Cambusbarron and Kippen Community Councils will receive funding if this project is approved by the Scottish government funding would not be available until 2027 at the earliest.

Please note that Councillor McGarvey left the room during the Earlsburn update

Roads/Paths

Road Closure B822 Kippen – Fintry from the 30^th January 2023 end date 15^th February 2023 8.00am until 5.00pm

Phase 1 30/1/23 – 8/2/23 Road closed at the firs

Access to Stirling via Arnprior Turn off

Phase 2 6/2/23 – 15/2/23

From Hillview to entrance Culcreuch Castle hotel carriageway upgrading works

Path to clachan from Fintry Stirling Council has advised that the deep clean works will be carried out once the weather is better.

Correspondence

Email from two members of the public re travel grant see finance

A.O.B.

Strathcarron fundraiser MM/SK MM advised that they were still to have a meeting

Date of next meeting

8^th February 2023