New volunteers for maintenance and security!

Thank you so much to the owners who attended the meeting last night. Unfortunately we didn’t have a quorum and couldn’t do the AGM but we managed to talk through a lot of really important issues and to get new volunteers to help the board of trustees. Elaine from Trafalgar will send out a new AGM notice soon – please please please could you make sure that, if you can’t attend the meeting, you fill out the proxy and send it to one of the trustees or to Elaine. We know where you live

For now, please could you let me know:

a) whether you have roof leakage problems;
b) whether you have a problem with cellphone reception;
c) whether you’d be interested in pay-as-you-go wifi internet access.

Also, please note that we seem to be having a problem with issues such as overcrowding in some units and that we are going to start instituting fines for tenants’ breaking the rules of the complex. We’d like to ask that owners be vigilant about the caliber of tenants who they choose to tenant their properties, and are investigating ways of vetting and orienting tenants when they come to stay at Elton Place. If you have any ideas, please let us know.

Lastly, we added new volunteers to the maintenance team who will check that their corridor/block is well maintained, cleaned etc by liaising with Marc and the cleaners. Thanks so much to Danielle Franco (8) and Wonga Majola (32) for volunteering! We still need someone for the block to the left of the swimming pool on the far side of the complex. Please let us know if you’d like to volunteer?

Stephen Hersovitz is joining the team to work on security – his position on the board of trustees will be voted on in the AGM – but will start to help immediately on the security features that we discussed at the meeting.

Theft at no. 40

Just heard from ADT that there was a theft (no unforced entry) over the festive season at No. 40. Says ADT:

According to the client he went on leave from the 24th of December 2008 and returned on the 2nd of January 2009. Upon his arrival he discovered that there were some items missing from his flat. After investigation it was discovered that an unknown number of suspects must have had keys for the client’s flat as there was no force marks on any of the doors or windows. The suspect/s then took 1 x computer, 1 x cell phone and unknown cosmetics. They then fled the scene the same way as access was gained.

The owner has said that he will report the incident to the police.

Elton Place AGM: 27 January 2009

UPDATE: The meeting is at 5.30pm not 6pm as was previously announced.

Elton Place will have its Annual General Meeting on the 27th of January, 2009 at 5.30pm at Trafalgar’s offices (No. 1 St Andrew Street, Birdhaven). Please call Elaine Moonian at: (011) 214-5246 if you have any questions. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Getting rates accounts from the City of Joburg

Last night the trustees met to discuss the problems that individuals have had in getting their rates accounts from the City of Johannesburg. As you know, when we finally do get a bill, it will be backdated from 1 July this year and will be pretty big, so getting our accounts is becoming more and more important.

The trustees decided to hire a consultant to get us our accounts as soon as possible. If you have already received your account (when I last spoke to the City they said that 3 owners have their accounts) or if you wish to do this on your own, please let us know in the next 7 days (i.e. before Thursday the 4th of December) otherwise we will presume that owners need help with this. You will be billed R200 for this service by the consultant and you’ll see this fee on your next levy account.

We really hope that this resolves the problem quickly and efficiently – and that it saves us all the many hours that it has been taking to get our account from the City.