Minutes of the Sanson Community Committee held in the supper room at 7.30pm on Wednesday 28th September 2011.

Present;
James O'Regan, Donny Wilson, Grant McGaughey, Richard Gravenor, Andy Ewen, Kristi Whittaker, Nola Borrett, Ed Hills, Diane Murray, Jo Duncan, Sam Brown and Ann Fullerton.

Apologies;
Mayor Ian McKelvie, Councillors Margaret Kouvelis, Margaret Giles and John Salmon and Delphine Parker.

Minutes were read by acting secretary Nola Borrett. Ann disputed one item but Ed Hills refuted her dissent.
Passed as correct; Nola/Donny

Correspondence in;
From Mayor Ian McKelvie with apologies for non attendance and containing several items for the committee to consider.
E-mail from Helen Worboys re W.R.C.Flags.

Correspondence out;
Letter to Philip Bronn re community funding.
Letter to the mayor inviting him to this meeting.

No Council report.

General Business;
Committee discussed Ian's letter and gave some thought to his ideas about the Library.
Ed Hills said that we should up the ante re the hotel and leave an open invitation to the mayor to come to our meeting as Ed stills feels we are owed an apology and still wishes to view the concepts that have been drawn up for this project..
Jo Duncan enquired re committee procedures and Kristi suggested that she should write to the secretary about any issue she may have.
She also complained about the Recycling Centre mainly about the glass littering the grounds and also felt the bottle and glass recycling is insufficient.
Jo is also unhappy with the drainage in Grace St.
Kristi complained about the gorse still growing at the Tarpot.

Nola read out Del's letter of apology to the meeting which also criticized Ann Fullerton's latest Occasional Newsletter which Del felt defamed her.
James then threw the meeting open so everybody could have their say about this letter.
Ed said he was gobsmacked that Ann continues to write these newsletters and he said that she misrepresented his views re the hotel project which he is not against but would like to see progress.
Diane Murray said that five parents had rung her re the racial comments in the newsletter. Kids need to grow up in a safe environment and learn racial tolerance,
The remarks written about the Moslem lady at the Sunday Market wearing her burqa were totally uncalled for. Jo Duncan said that she was disgusted, appalled and ashamed that we would treat a fellow resident in this way. She asked Ann to write a letter of apology to the Moslem family.
Andy thinks that Ann writes well but should be careful about what she writes.
Ed Hills wants the committee to move a motion asking Ann to desist from writing but Kristi said we are not police and can not stop people writing whatever they like.
Ann was then given her right of reply.
She said that her main reason for writing the newsletter was she felt the committee was letting down Sanson, the rates are too high and the committee is on too friendly terms with the M.D.C.
She said that she had lost her son and did not want to lose her house through high rates. She told Diane that her letter was not a racial attack. To Jo she said that her letter had been checked by a lawyer. To Andy's suggestion that she should get together with Del she said that she had tried to patch up their relationship.

Meeting closed at 9.02pm
Next meeting in the Library at 7 30pm on Wednesday 26th October 2011

Nola Borrett
(acting secretary)