CDCC Meeting 16th Sept 2025 @7pm

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Draft Agenda

DRAFT Agenda

Community Council Meeting

7pm 16 September 2025

Cullen Community Centre

Distribution: CDCC, Moray Councillors, Deskford Community Association, Fire and Rescue Services, Facebook, and Three Kings Cullen Association (TKCA)

1.     Welcome and introductions 

2.     Apologies

3.     Outside Agencies Reports

1. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
2. Police Scotland
3.  

4.   Minutes of previous meeting held on 19 August 202

a.    Corrections

b.    Approval

c.    Matters arising not on agenda

5.     Chair’s report 

6.     Treasurer’s Report
 

7.     Secretary’s Report

8.     Planning Officer’s report
 

9.     Councillor’s reports

10.  Community Development Officer’s report
Three Kings Cullen Association – minutes

11.  Deskford and District Community Association – minutes
 

12.  Current Business

1. Community Council Elections 2025
2. Community Council web site and e-mail

                  See attached report

c.  Community Engagement

d.  Islands on A98 going out of Cullen to Portsoy

e.  Traffic obstructions on A98

f.    Millennium Garden Mosaic Repair

g.  Outfall Repairs

h.    Cullen Primary School – Defibrillator

i.    Cullen Recycling Centre

j.    Kronach Twinning Association

k.  Joint Community Councils – 

13.  AOCB
 

14.  Dates for the calendar

15.  Dates of next meetings 
21 (or 28?) October, Cullen Community Centre
18 November 

End of Pilot report for CDCC web site for the 16th September

Introduction:

When the web site launched in April 2025 it was agreed to run for an initial 6-month pilot period to assess interest and viability.

I’ve collated some statistics on visitor and page usage which is listed below, along with a set of options for the future.

Site Statistics:

We have the free version of the WP Statistics plugin, so data is limited, but still useful to show volumes and trends.

Page and Post hits

Hit Type by Month

The site has three types of page content. 

• Home – is the home page of www.cullendeskford.org
• Pages – Static holding pages that form the landing pages for the main sections
  • About CDCC
  • Engagement
  • Election ‘25
  • Planning
  • Resilience
  • News
  • Contact us
• Posts relate to the content that sits below the category scheme within the site and drops content into pages.
  • *There are some other types of content that ‘WP Statistics reports’ but there rae technical data and are minimal.

Posts are contact elements that are used to populate the sections and are driven by categories.

Post hits over the pilot period are shown below.

Month             Apr       May     Jun       Jul        Aug      Sep       Total

Post Hits           369      274      426      528      1241     14        2852

At the beginning of September there are 141 posts that have been added to the site

Visitor Figures

Unique Site Visitors/by Device

Device	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Total
Desktop	109	114	130	125	199	5	682
Phablet	78	83	97	135	384	5	782
Smartphone	217	206	216	216	604	5	1464
Tablet	81	83	66	97	202	1	530
Total	485	487	511	573	1391	16	3463

Visitor Source	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Total
Android Browser	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
Chrome	68	42	54	42	78	2	286
Chrome Mobile	21	13	14	14	46	2	110
Chrome Mobile iOS	2	7	4	0	2	0	15
Chrome WebView	1	0	0	0	9	0	10
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser	0	1	0	0	3	0	4
Ecosia	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Facebook	268	232	249	315	974	6	2044
Facebook Lite	3	0	1	2	14	0	20
Fennec	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
Firefox	10	22	18	17	21	1	89
Firefox Mobile	1	0	1	1	2	0	5
Firefox Mobile iOS	1	0	6	5	5	0	17
Galeon	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Google Search App	0	1	2	3	4	0	10
Headless Chrome	7	3	2	3	5	0	20
Microsoft Bing	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Microsoft Edge	42	68	54	54	68	0	286
Mobile Safari	42	57	71	75	87	3	335
Mobile Silk	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
Opera	1	1	2	0	1	0	5
Safari	16	30	28	36	54	2	166
Samsung Browser	1	7	4	5	15	0	32
Total	485	487	511	573	1391	16	3463

The numbers of unique visitors s reasonably good for this type of site, and the sources they are getting to the site from indicate that the majority are finding pages through Facebook. 

Our content is advertised on the C.D.C.C Facebook page also Cullen Past and Present and Cullen Chat, with 2044 visitors finding us through social media. 1419 are coming through search engines, which is a good number.

Anecdotal Information

There is not a huge amount of information through comments, but a survey/poll has been launched to gather some information, and suggestions should the site continue. That will be reported in October.

Options Appraisal:

The options for the web site pilot are:

1. Close the site
2. Continue for another 6 months, as the contract with Heart Internet has 6 months to run
3. Continue permanent basis.

Recommendation would be subject to survey results 

Option 2: Continue for another 6 months, as the contract with Heart Internet has 6 months to run

There would be no cost implication of extending the Pilot run till April 2026. The costs after that would be:

1. Hosting renewal April 2026-2027 £48.00
2. URL registration of address 2027-2028 £13.00 per year

Conclusion:

Extending the pilot to run for a full year with the decision to renew being made in March 2026 would seem the best option. It gives a chance to see beyond the initial impact the site had.

Also, we have the hosting paid till March 2026 anyway.

The engagement value so far has been significant and can only continue to be a benefit to the community council. For the new cohort training would be available to allow for more content creators and it would be useful to pursue a younger individual to manage the site.

With the hosting we also have 10 mailboxes and should for the coming cohort try to make more use of these.

A survey is out to get residents feedback, and the final results will be reported in October. So far, the limited responses are good