[200William-EC] Recovery of costs 200 William Street

Tue Nov 26 17:06:33 EST 2013

Excellent Matt, I agree wholeheartedly. We need to start charging for the various facilities. I am in agreement with all of this. 

Maxine, how do ww get approval of these items and any other suggestions that come through? 

CAR PARKS: I especially like the car parking, particularly if the same tenants are using the spaces fro their own convenience. When I lived in Panorama in Potts Pt we have a number of spaces available for the housing commission tenants next door and any time anyone parked there illegally, a warning note was issued. The other thing we did which was extremely effective was to only issue car park key cards to apartments that had a car space. In addition, if you had 2 spaces, you got 2 keys, if you had 1 space only 1 key card worked for the car park. It worked a treat. The other thing we can do, parking is a premium in that area, why don't we take on leases for the spots to some local businesses. I used to work in the Hamburg SUD building just down William St and I know we were always looking for car spaces. It could increase outré income dramatically, e.g.; If there are 6 spaces, $300 + GST per month = $21600 pa. we could put those yellow bracket things in each spot so the spots cannot be used except by the paying tenant. 

CAGES: Fantastic idea, why not charge fro them. We would have no difficulty renting them out. e.g.; 4 cages at $50 + GST per month = $2400 + GST pa

GYM: I would be all for a fee for users, but the only problem I am guessing is this is part of the building facilities. Plus we would then be liable to maintain equipment to a certain standard, all for it if we can work out a way to do it that requires little extra maintenance. 

BBQ: Coin system, brilliant, easy to do. It could pay for gas, cleaning, insurance and maintenance. I vote yes. 

ROOF: Yes, I agree in tens of it being hard to charge, it is again, a facility of the building. 

Any other ideas? Anything to get our expenses down and help us pay for the upgraded security. 

Regards,

ROB

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On 26/11/2013, at 11:16 AM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

> Hi All,
>  This is a bit of a knock-on from Rob's last email where he questioned 
> costs of the upgrading of the building cameras. There seems a real 
> problem here as the owners want reduced strata costs however our 
> building is small and there is not that many lots to spread the cost 
> over. There is not a lot of breathing room in the budget and owners want 
> more facilities, Building upgrades and security features.  We have 
> little way to recoup some of these cost's other then strata levies 
> however perhaps there are some options for us.  It's of note that these 
> suggestions will almost certainly require a bylaw change in it self will 
> have an associated cost.
> 
> User Pays.
> Brook recently brought up the idea of Cages that are on common property. 
> lets lease these to people rather then giving them away. They have real 
> value. It's not unreasnoable to ask $20 ~ $50 Per month for these in our 
> Sydney location.  This could add up to a few thousand per year. I note 
> also that there are a few store rooms and other spaces throughout the 
> building that are utilized. I for one would be happy to rent one of 
> these.  Let's put some figures on them and get them rented. It's money 
> for jam.
> 
> Gym - If we plan to fix/upgrade it. Perhaps we can charge people a 
> maintenance fee if they use it. If they dont want to pay for it lets 
> turn it into more storage space and save the P/L and Insurance. It's a 
> simple matter of putting a card reader on the Gym Door and activating it 
> on lots that pay only. It should at least cover the insurance and P/L
> 
> Visitor parking - This is constantly used as parking for tenants. Evey 
> time I have tried to get a visitor in there it's  full of the usual 
> suspects. Perhaps some sort of user pay's system would work here. I have 
> no idea how but throwing it out there.  At the very least a nominal fee 
> may stop people using it as additional car spaces. I know for a fact 
> that one tenant in the building is renting their space to an outside 
> person and using visitor parking for there own car.
> 
> The Roof - We have discussed user pays here before. My thoughts is it 
> would have little chance of making it through a AGM/EGM as it's to 
> attractive as a selling point for property in the building. But if 
> upgrades were to happen the BBQ should at least have a coin box.
> 
> Other property have done some of these measure nearby to great effect. 
> (Particularly storage).
> 
> Matt
> 
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