CARTINGTON PARISH COUNCIL

The Meeting of Cartington Parish Council was held in the Dovecote Room at the Jubilee Hall on Monday 26^th April 2010.

PRESENT : Councillors I Armstrong (Chairman)

                                      I Fletcher

                                      G Duff

                                      C Macey

                                      S Bridgett (Northumberland County Council)

                                     Mr M Hodgson

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE : Apologies were received from the Police.

WELCOME : The Chairman welcomed Mr M Hodgson and thanked him for coming to the meeting to talk to us about how to get Cartington PC onto a web site.  Mr Hodgson said he could put it on as a subsection of the Rothbury site and he would do the donkey work.

Mr Armstrong explained that the Parish Council had no contact with its parishioners and it would be useful to have the dates of the meeting and the minutes etc put onto the site.

The Freedom of Information would also be put on and it was decided to charge 10p per sheet for photocopying and everything else was in the pro-forma.

It was wondered if it was possible to put a map of the parish on the site also – Councillor Bridgett said he could get a map of the parish.

Mr Hodgson said once he had it up and running the council might want to alter it a bit but that would be no problem.

Mr Hodgson was thanked for his help and left the meeting.

MINUTES : The Minutes of the last meetings were circulated, confirmed that they were in order and signed by the Chairman.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS : The Statement of accounts for the year ending 31^st March 2010 were agreed upon and the Chairman and Clerk signed the Annual Return.  It was agreed to ask Mr Logan Wood if he would act as the Internal Auditor again.

ACCOUNTS FOR PAYMENT : There were no accounts for payment for this meeting.

PLANNING :

A/2009/0548   -  Installation of 9 x eye bolts for the purpose of safety at

                           Cragside Mansion, Cragside – Notice of granting of Listed

                           Building consent.

CORRESPONDENCE :  Letters were received from Great North Air Ambulance, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Northumberland Theatre Company asking for a donation. 

NHS North of Tyne - keen to use any local channels of communication to share important information via a community magazine – ? Over the Bridges.

The Boundary Commission sent a summary of the Final recommendations on the new electoral arrangements for Northumberland County Council.

NALC invited councillors to a special general meeting to be held on Tuesday 18^th May.  The purpose is to consider and agree some amendments to the Constitution which are being proposed by the NCC.

NHS North of Tyne – newly launched service set up called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) to help people in Northumberland suffering from depression and anxiety.

NHS North of Tyne – due to start a programme offering summary care record (SCR) to patients across Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland.  This is an electronic record of a patient’s key medical information – medication, allergies and adverse reactions – which will be taken from GP records and put on a central ‘spine’ or database.  They will be writing to patients telling them about their options whether or not to have a record created for them.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING:  The date of the next Parish Council meeting was arranged for Monday 26^th July 2010 – altered to 2^nd August.