Still no decision re re-ballot for Largs

We discovered that BID did not set up, as planned, in Largs. Seemingly, they have to wait for a decision from Scottish Ministers. Well, that is a relief, and businesses in Largs can "breathe easy" pending, hopefully, a favourable decision. True to form, no one had the decency to inform us of this.
Annabel Goldie, MSP, has been contacting Derek  MacKay, MSP, on our behalf to push for a decision. It is now 4 months since a sufficient number of us met the deadline for the appeal against the validity of the Largs BID result. It has been 2 months since we completed the appeal process, and yet still no decision from   Derek MacKay.
I have received a letter dated 25th March from Kenneth Gibson, MSP, enclosing correspondence from Derek Mackay, stating " this is the first time the Regulations to declare a BID ballot void have been implemented in Scotland and there are no previous examples to draw on. All parties will be notified as soon as my decision is made".
Hardly surprising that we are the first to lodge an appeal within the time frame. BID was set up to allow a 25% vote to legitimise a BID ballot, and , of that only 13% of businesses voting "yes" can enforce the result.
As the local councils do not inform us of the BID process, but leave it up to the BID committee to disguise the process under a " catchy" name,( here it was Largs Matters ), so many of us were kept in the dark, and, judging by voting numbers, by the time we find out about the ballot, BID, etc it is too late to lodge an appeal. Only half of appeals here in Largs have been considered, as the others were time barred - so not only did they get deprived of a vote, but they were also deprived of the right to have their appeal heard. This appears to be the norm elsewhere.
I noted with dismay, that Dunoon (PA23 group) is now a BID district, despite all our efforts to warn them, and, as with Largs, only half of the businesses voted.
Small businesses have a hard enough time surviving in these tough economic times, without the extra tax imposed by BID, and inflicted on us by local councils and the Scottish Government.