{"content":[{"text":"Minutes of meeting held on 18 February 2021 at 7.30 via Zoom","bbox":{"left":0.22781,"top":0.257373,"width":0.5444640000000001,"height":0.018056000000000016}},{"text":"1. Present: \n Tom Anderson TA (Chair), Marion Macleod MM (Secretary), Rita Fenton (Treasurer) RMF, \n Ron Ferguson RF CC, Isabell McLaughlin IM CC, HCllr Derek Louden, DL \n Public in attendance - None \n 2. Apologies: \n Angie Cox AC (Minute Secretary), Sandra MacDonald SM (Vice Chair), Dave Macrae (Tain \n & District Development Trust), HCllr Fiona Robertson \n 3. Police report: \n Apologies given for nonattendance due to shift cover. Report sent to MM prior to meeting - \n no callouts in our CC area since our last meeting and local Patrols are ongoing. No issues \n raised for the Police. \n 4. Minutes of meeting held on 21 January 2021: \n Minutes Proposed by RFM and 2nd by RF \n 5. Matters arising from Minutes: \n RMF confirmed that an Invoice has been received from HC for the Christmas Lights in Milton \n and that the Discretionary Ward Fund payment had been received, and payment will now be \n made. RMF to follow up. MM advised that there is still no date for when HC will be able to \n take down the Christmas lights due to Covid Restrictions. \n RF and TA confirmed that the Potholes previously reported have or are in the process of \n being dealt with. \n 6. Reports by Highland Councillors. \n DL noted that an extra £10M had been set aside for roads in 2020/21 but this work had not \n gone ahead due to the Pandemic, but it has been agreed that the money that was not spent \n on the roads will be carried forward to 2021/22. It was noted that the lack of spending this \n year has had a significant impact on the roads and concerns were raised as to how far the \n money will go, given the extremely poor condition of all the roads in our CC area. \n DL also noted that HC have received more money from the Scottish Government than was \n initially thought and so hopefully the Budget Statement will not be as bad as expected.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.308862,"width":0.755944,"height":0.56975}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.181415,"top":0.085519,"width":0.576749,"height":0.135583}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.181415,"top":0.085519,"width":0.576749,"height":0.135583}]}