PRESENT:

Sandy Brunton, Michael Ackerley, Georgia O’Neill, Tom Bettley, John Cable, Barry Morley, Chris Reade

APOLOGIES:

Alan Parker, Derek Crook

MINUTES:

April minutes – date amended.  Proposed by Michael, seconded by Sandy.

MATTERS ARISING:

Letter to Harbour Committee completed.  Still to do – newspaper cuttings for website.

TRAVEL EXPO:

John gave his report of the Expo.  40 new contacts made.

The stands at next year’s Expo will not be arranged in ‘streets’ for specific areas of Scotland as it has been in previous shows.  With this in mind, a provisional booking has been made for two stands (with Duart).

Sandy thanked John for all his work.  John is preparing press article for P&J, R&A and Am Muileach.

MARINE PARK:

No further forward really.  5 areas declared on a shortlist.  The [probable] pros and cons of being a Marine Park were discussed.

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Georgia had received a report from Scott Wilson Scotland Ltd about upgrading the remaining stretch of the Salen/Tob road.  The suggestions made were to request minimum disruption and ask how a bottleneck would be avoided in Salen and how traffic speed through Salen would be controlled.

PRESIDENT:

No report due to no mail being received.

WEBSITE:

No report

TREASURER:

Tom reported a balance of £3,328.41

SECRETARY:

Georgia has visited the distillery four times to pick up the remainder of the Chamber’s paperwork, as requested, but it is never available.