Updates from the General Committee with regards to Cheque Payment

To : All Residents of Sierra Damansara
From : The General Committee
Date : 1st Oct 2009

Re: Mode of Payment

With immediate effect, all cheques for Sierra Damansara Residents Association to be addressed to :

Ong Chee Tat for Maybank A/C no.562759-101660

This will be our account pending registration of our Sierra Damansara Residents Association application at the Registrar of Societies (currently underway).

Thank you for your kind co-operation.

From the General Committee.

An email from a soon to be neighbour (published with permission)

Hi Leslie,

Thanks for taking the lead in the blog and putting all efforts in making Sierra Damansara better for living. I should meet you one day. My family and me is the one that signed-off in your blog as “newbie”. We are moving to Sierra Damansara soon. If I may give you my 2 cents worth, maybe the residence are not paying maintenance fee because they do not see the professionalism and value of the guards. The many times I went in & out was really a simple walk thru. Probably the guards are making judgement based on my image of a family and kid in the car thus allowing pass at ease. But really, with so many con-artist out there, we can never be sure. Please don’t take it as I sound too negative about it. Do you think the residence will also be open into looking at re-tendering the security guard contracting as well? I am thinking of asking the security company who provides service to my company to pitch for it. I think the guards are pleasant and had done an excellent job. I think cost will be a factor but I think it’s worth exploring. Anyway, I am supportive of your idea to install CCTV. I think it is excellent. Hope we can get good recommendations from other residences.

Cheers,

LEONG

Neighbourhood Street Party and Get Together

There have been suggestions for us to have a neighbourhood street party and get together. I feel its an excellent idea and we can have this before the start of the fasting month, perhaps on Saturday August 15th from 5:00pm onwards. We can hold this along Jalan 4/14 (where the drums are located). What do you all think ?

If you have problems leaving your comments, drop me an email at chong.leslie@gmail.com.

Brochure on Sierra Damansara

CCTV to be installed soon (updated)

From the summary of the first poll on the level of security, the majority of us (55%) felt that the current level of security is good but can be improved further.

The security committee had our first meeting together with our chairman Mr Ong and one of the areas of improvements is to install CCTVs. This CCTV rollout will be done in phases due to budget constraints and the first phase would be to install it at our guardhouse and also along the perimeter fencing along Jalan 4/14. Eventually, the committee would like to ensure that the whole neighbourhood will be covered. Thanks to Peter Tan whom has kindly scanned this image to me, this would be the proposed CCTV coverage area for Phase 1.

The security committee is now seeking independent contractors to submit their quotation for the installation of CCTV. If any of you have friends to recommend for this purpose, kindly inform them to be here in person on Thursday, Aug 6th at 6:00pm. The security committee will meet them in person at the guardhouse to give them a tour of our neighbourhood to get their expert advice on the number of cameras required for this purpose.

Updated maintenance list

One of the points raised during the recent AGM was for us to have a list of all those whom has not paid or have not been keeping up-to-date their share of the maintenance fees.

I will be in contact with Mr Ong soon to get this updated list and with the permisssion of our committee, it will be published here for all to see.

From the poll, 11 out of 30 of you whom have voted on the poll feels that our neighbours will pay their share if we highlight this to them again. There is still hope.

Once the list is out, let's all each have a nice chat with our respective neighbours and find out the real reason for them not paying their share.

Feedback and comments please.......

The story so far.....

Thank's to all of you for visiting this blog and casting your vote. It's great to see some of you have taken the time to vote on possibly our the two hottest issues ie. the level of security and also why some of our neighbours are not paying their share of maintenance.

Welcome to the four of you namely, Ngee Boon, Daniel, Chong and Samantha for showing some interest by signing up to this blog. And yes, a special mention to Daniel for leaving the first comment.

How about the rest of you guys out there ? If I recall, during our AGM, there were a few of us which was pretty vocal about several issues. Why the silence now ? Do we need to meet in person to get our message across ? C'mon guys, let's hear it from each and every one of you !

I understand from Mr Ong that there will be a security committee being formed soon. So far, there's twelve of us (52%)who feels that the current level of security is good but it can be improved further. Perhaps we could each put on our our thinking caps and offer some suggestions to the committee on how this can be achieved.

As for the other issue on why some of our neighbours do not pay, I will leave it for the next post.....