DRAFT Minutes of Meeting of Kirkmahoe Community Council Date: 17/02/2022 Place: Online – Zoom 7.30pm (Weather warning of dangerous road conditions) Present: KCC Members: Jean Muir JM; Alistair Johnstone AJ; Alice Howdle AH; Irene Paterson IP; Peter Landale PL Councillor: Public: Apologies: John Duncan, Pamela Crosbie, Hugh Johnstone 2. Minutes of last meeting – Minutes approved once date changed Treasurer’s report – Community fund not events fund.
3. Matters arising from minutes and Correspondence–
1. Clarification on the statement re cuts in the Councillor’s report - £5.2 billion of COVID-19 funding has been removed from Scottish Government budgets in 2022-23, despite ongoing demands on Scotland’s NHS, transport networks and education system. Whilst the core Barnett settlement from the UK Government has increased, this is not sufficient to cover the impacts of the loss of this COVID-19 funding. The real terms reduction to total Barnett Funding (excluding Financial Transactions) is £1.747 billion by comparison to the 2021-22 Budget Bill position shown in this document. This represents a real terms reduction of 4.4%. The effects of the UK Spending Review settlement on the longer-term funding outlook for the Scottish Government are discussed in the Medium-Term Financial Strategy. Funding for 2022/23 Council D&G
2021-2
2022-3
314.6
329.0
increase 14.4
percentage increase 4.6
Much of this is ringfenced (eg for Social Work, Education etc) resulting in less money available for non-ringfenced funds. 2. Speeding at Duncow – Jeff leaver is consulting with the roads department to get clarification on whether the C11N will be speed restricted as part of the Council’s project on safer access to schools. A reminder was sent that the school children have to cross the C11N to access the King George V playing fields. Council has said they will assess it taking various things into account.
Proposer
Proposed PL Seconded AH
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