NLP Board Minutes - 8 August 2007

North Lanarkshire Partnership

Minutes of the Board meeting

Held on Wednesday 8 August 2007

Present:	Cllr Jim McCabe, Chair	NLC
	Cllr Jim Smith	NLC
	Gavin Whitefield	NLC
	Maureen McConachie	NLC
	Chief Superintendent Anne McGuire	Strathclyde Police
	David Collie	Jobcentre Plus
	June Vallance	NL Voluntary Sector
	Liz Connolly	Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire
	David Smith	Strathclyde Fire and Rescue
	Crawford Kirkwood	NL Voluntary Sector
Attending:	Stephen Kerr	NHS Lanarkshire
	Sandie Mackay	NLC
	Karen McNiven	NLC
	Gregor McKenzie	NLC
	Kenny Moffat	CVS North Lanarkshire
	Karl Monsen-Elvick	Volunteer Centre
	Stephen Fraser	NLC
	Martin McGuire	Motherwell College
	John Walls	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Apologies:	Colin Sloey	NHS Lanarkshire
	Ken Corsar	NHS Lanarkshire
	Tim Davison	NHS Lanarkshire
	Hugh Logan	Motherwell College
	Roger Popplewell	Communities Scotland

Welcome

Councillor McCabe welcomed all to the meeting, particularly Kenny Moffat, CVS North Lanarkshire and Karl Monsen-Elvick, Volunteer Centre, who were in attendance to deliver a presentation on the Voluntary Sector Partnership Group "Infobase".

Item 1:             Apologies

Apologies were noted from Tim Davison, Ken Corsar and Colin Sloey, NHS Lanarkshire; Hugh Logan, Motherwell College and Roger Popplewell, Communities Scotland.

Item 2:             Minutes of the last meeting (13 June 2007)

Agreed as an accurate record. 

Item 5 – Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility.  Stage 2 submission in support of the development of this facility will be considered by Sportscotland at the end of August 2007.  The NLP Board will be updated on the outcome of the bid in due course.

Item 3:             Matters arising

Community Forums  - The meeting was reminded that Chairs of the Community Forums had previously requested access to NLP Board papers ahead of each meeting.  It has been agreed that the papers will be made available to the Forums after each NLP Board meeting (Agenda/papers/minutes).  Progress is being made to have the NLP Board papers posted on to the council MARS (Minutes, Agenda, Reports) system.

Action – Community Regeneration Unit

Migrant Workers – The Information Sharing Group will continue to monitor trends within the migrant worker population and bring any issues identified to the Board.  Particular issues which partners have in their locality should, in the first instance,  be brought to the Local Area Partnership with common issues being considered at the NLP Board meeting.

Action:  Community Regeneration Unit

Sustainability review – Discussions are now complete and reports on each project will be finalised by the Autumn.  Recommendations will be brought before the NLP Board, possibly for the October 2007 meeting.

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