The Role of the Troon Community Council

Please see attached posters and info below on the upcoming Participatory Budgeting Events (all events are taking place from 5.30pm – 8pm), where the public can come along and vote on how funding is spent within their locality.  The posters include the QR codes to take you to the online voting form which will remain open until each of the events start.

• Troon & Villages – Tuesday 3^rd September in Walker Hall, Municipal Buildings, South Beach, Troon, KA10 6EF

• Prestwick & Villages  – Thursday 5^th September in Prestwick Academy, 15 Newdykes Road, Prestwick, KA9 2LB

• Ayr South & Villages – Monday 9^th September in Kyle Academy, 20 Overmills Road, Ayr, KA7 3LR

• Maybole and North Carrick – Thursday 12^th September in Maybole Town Hall, High Street, Maybole, KA19 7BZ

Various Third Sector, charity and community organisations have submitted applications to bid for up to £3000 which were considered by the Locality Planning Partnerships’ sub-group. Applicants have been invited to attend this event to speak to the community directly, to showcase their project / work and the plan behind their funding bid. We would love for you to attend to speak to applicants and have your say on the allocation of funding by voting for your favourite applications.

Anyone who lives, works or volunteers in that particular locality and is aged 10 and over can vote.  At the event, over 16s will be asked for their name and postcode and under 16s will be asked for their parent/guardians name, the school they attend and their date of birth.  This information will only be used to ensure it is a valid vote and that you are voting in the correct locality for you.

The Girvan & South Carrick and Ayr North PB event details will be sent out in due course, once the online voting starts for those areas.

Please share this with your networks and come along to support your community.

Age Scotland is inviting applications to the Encouraging and Supporting Grassroots Activity Fund .

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The above Order, which comes into force on 31/08/2024, imposes restriction on the following roads:

• Dallas Road
• Bentinck Drive

Please find attached a copy of the Public Notice, which will be published in the local press on 28/08/2024

A copy of the plan relating to the Order can be found online at https://tellmescotland.gov.uk/tellmescot/pages/notices/detail?uuid=63f00d53-9e1d-3072-8621-d4f18a72d150.

Please see attached leaflets for Release Ayrshire who are a men’s mental health charity.  Please share with your networks.

YOU SURE YOU'RE OKAY (2)

ARE YE STRUGGLIN (1)

If you need any further information, please contact Angela at releaseayrshire@yahoo.com

The above Order, which comes into force on 26/08/2024, imposes restriction on the following roads:

• Academy Street

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NB Council worker pay negotiations are undertaken at a national level through COSLA with the Trade Unions and Scottish Government. Unless the Scottish Government increases the funding currently available to Local Authorities the current pay demands by a number of Council worker sectors are unaffordable within existing budgets, and further strike action is likely. COSLA has already made it clear to both the Scottish Government and the TUs that any agreements on pay beyond those currently on offer, which are not centrally funded, will only be achieved within existing Council budgets at the expense of major cuts in existing services.

Any concerns regarding this should be raised with your local MSPs as it is beyond the ability of the Council to resolve locally, and every Council has been lobbying COSLA, who in turn have been lobbying the Scottish Government to redress the sustained funding cuts in real terms to Council budgets over a number of years.

For further information on the challenges facing Councils, including the effective cuts to Local Authority funding by the Scottish Government, it is worth looking at the latest Audit Scotland Report on Benchmarking of Local Government Performance 2022/2023 which has just been published and can be found at www.improvementservice.org.uk/benchmarking/reports

South Ayrshire Council has been awarded the prestigious Green Flag Award for a number of green spaces by environmental charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful.

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