Appin and Lismore Interpretative Strategy Implementation Project.

Minutes of meeting held at Appin Co-op 21st February 2006.

Present:

Alison MacCorquodale - representing Appin Community Council (AM)

Alex Gourley - co-opted Appin Community Council (AG)

Pauline  Dowling - representing Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor (PD)

Tony Perkins -co-opted Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor (TP)

Marilyn Kriskansen - representing Appin Historic Society (MK)

Stephen Austin - representing SNH (current Chair) (SA)

Marina Curran-Colthart, - representing LBAP , A&B Council.

Apologies:     Duncan Livingston, Lismore Community Council

                     Mandie Currie, Lismore Community Council

Item 1 Introduction to project and steering group

SA introduced this new project to the group and explained that the first project to draw together a draft strategy was now complete and that this new project was to implement the strategy.

SA had written to the chairs of Appin Community Council, Lismore Community Council, Appin Historic Society and Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor to invite them to send a representative along to these steering group meetings. After some discussion it was concluded that those names with * above were representing there organisation and as such are responsible to reporting back to their organisations and bringing views, feedback etc back to future meetings. SA explained that a small steering group was required so that it could be effective but stressed this could only work if those representing organisations gave them feedback. Other attendees were their as co-opted members bringing there local knowledge and experience to the process.

There was some discussion about the spectrum of steering group members and it was agreed that Appin Co-op would be invited  to join the steering group.

Action Point 1: SA to write to Appin Co-op inviting them to send a representative along to the next meeting.

Item 2 First tasks for the steering group

SA suggested that these be limited to  i. finalising the draft before submitting to the consultants for printing, ii. feedback to the communities and iii. LBAP project. the meeting agreed to these 3 tasks and then proceeded to discuss them in detail.

i. Finalising the draft.

- suggested changes submitted by SNH were agreed to

- TP and PD reported that a large percentage of the community on Lismore were quite insistent that the title be changed to include "The ancient Parish of Lismore and Appin" -there was a lengthy and excitable discussion about this by the steering group. In the end the group decided to change " A Heritage Interpretation and visitor management strategy for Appin and Lismore " to "A Heritage Interpretation and visitor management strategy the communities of Appin and Lismore". In addition it was agreed to make reference, at the end of paragraph one of the introduction, to the historic parish in the area.

-MCC requested that section 4.2 was removed. This was agreed.

-MK requested that the first sentence in section 7.13 be merged with section 7.12 and that the remainder of section 7.13 and 7.14 be merged. MK also requested that "for cooperative customers" be added after "for five cars" and that "A small number ..." be replaced with "An increasing number..." .This was all agreed.

Logos to be positioned on the front page along the bottom left to right being Lismore Historic Society , Appin Community Council, SNH, Appin Historic Society, Lismore Community Council. (if no logos available then just the name of the organisation to be put in its place.

Action Point 2: TP to forward all agreed changes to consultant so that final version can be printed.

ii Feedback to the communities

It was agreed that the steering group would put on workshops and make copies of the final strategy available to the communities once it had been printed and that comments on the proposed project would be sort at that time.

There was some discussion about community wanting to here what was going on in the interim so it was agreed that PD would do a small section in the respective columns for the two communities in the Oman Times and that SHE would handle the large publicity splash through it PR section after March.

Action Point 3: PD to write to Aping and Pismire columns in Oman Times about the strategy.

iii. LAP Project

Work on the ground will need an identity and a Logo - it was thought this could be based on the biodiversity found in the area. As such it was agreed that MCC should progress a competition for both communities to come up with a suitable logo for the whole strategy area.

Action Point 4: MCC to progress strategy logo competition across both communities.

There were no more points for discussion and the meeting ended at 12:10.

Date of next meeting will be decided once strategy has been printed.