[200William-EC] MARQUIS - NEW YEARS EVE SECURITY

[Matt Perkins]

Agree it's a good offer from George. (Im not sure it's entirely BFMS's 
fault) Just seemed to be one of those things that happen.    I was on 
the ground with security a few time's that night. Security guys were ok. 
But the task they have is not  a simple one. There main problem this 
year was an apartment on the ground floor had some very young very drunk 
guests. These guests were so drunk they would have not have passed the 
RSA test at any licensed venue and would have been required to leave.

My estimate is that most people on the roof were guests of tenants from 
the south side building.  Renters. I didnt see any owners up there.  
Most of the trouble came not when the Fireworks were on but between the 
fireworks.  The young drunk's from Ground floor were in and out and up 
and down the lifts constantly  spilling drinks on there way.  (that's 
where the stains on the new carpet came from)  I booted people out of 
the Gym bathroom twice that I found doing drugs. The bathroom facilities 
are not large enough for that quantity of guests in any case. Especialy 
when alcohol is involved.

Going forward if we were to continue the way we are going we need an 
intoxication criteria. Security should have licensed venue type 
endorsements on there security license any guest deemed intoxicated 
should be refused entry to the roof. If they are on the roof and judged 
intoxicated should be asked to leave if they do not police should be 
called.

Alternatively we should consider not allowing any roof access for NYE. 
Simply program the system not to accept swipes on the night lock the 
doors. No need for security extra expense or perhaps leave us open to 
litigation should some one be injured on NYE.  As most people attending 
were not owners anyway Im thinking perhaps that's not a big problem. 
Worst case we could say owners only no tenants that's going to limit it 
to the bare few.

Another option may also be to only allow people on the roof 10 minutes 
before and 10 minutes after the fireworks. This would still need guards 
to enforce but we are talking 1 hour of roof time  a lot less time for 
things to happen it's a measure of threat mitigation.

Personalty I think we should lock up the roof on NYE and not allow 
access. That way we dont need to pay for security. We dont need to get 
sued when some drunk 17 year old smashes a beer bottle over the head of 
someone or any number of things that could go wrong when you mix young 
people and large quantities of alcohol.  It also stop's people running 
up and down to the roof all night which takes up the lifts etc etc.  It 
much more trouble then it's worth.

Matt.


On 11/01/13 1:28 PM, CSCL wrote:
>
> Thank you for the offer George to split the cost of the security 
> charge. I think that is very fair.
>
> And yes, I agree it's time to change the security people.  As I 
> mentioned this morning when I saw you, they did not check who was 
> coming into the building and were not vigilant with people on level 
> 7.  We had 6 cigarette butts thrown down onto my terrace.  When we 
> asked the culprits to stop, they continued to throw butts down.  
> Clearly, this 'security' team were not doing their work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig Laforest
>
> *From:*ec-bounces at 200william.com [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com] 
> *On Behalf Of *George Ziri
> *Sent:* Friday, 11 January 2013 11:06 AM
> *To:* ec at 200william.com
> *Subject:* [200William-EC] MARQUIS - NEW YEARS EVE SECURITY
>
> Good Morning All,
>
> On New Years Eve we learnt that security did not have a guest list for 
> the apartments. When I looked into the matter today we found that the 
> email with the guest list and rules for the security to enforce did 
> not go through to the security company. The file was to large.
>
> Security on the night improvised and partoled all areas randomly.
>
> Over all the night was a success without incident.
>
> This year we will bring the guest list register date early one week so 
> that we can provide security 1 weeks notice instead of 1 day. This 
> will iron out any issues or queries before the night.
>
> As BFMS feel responsible for this matter, we will absorb half the cost 
> of the security invoice.
>
> I hope this is received favourably.
>
> .
>
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