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

Wed Nov 27 08:51:30 EST 2013

Hi Rob,

Regarding the cages we have other buildings with cages on common property and the owners corporation have had a by-law passed as well as a licence (lease agreement) drawn up and lease the cages out.  This would be the best way to go as then you would be able to hold a bond for the cage as well.  Please note I sent out an audit drafted by George requesting we be notified as to who is using the storage cages and no-one has responded as of yet.

Parking - I know at another complex where BFMS are the building managers all residents have to notify the building manager the rego of the car/s when they first move in and that the swipe cards are deactivated when they move out and that the new resident is required to go to the building manager and obtain an activated swipe when they move in.  This would be one way of monitoring parking and would make it easier for us to monitor and issue breach notices for parking in visitors carspace.

The rooftop would be a hard by-law to pass as both Rob and Matt have said it is a feature of your building.

Regards,

Maxine Wickey
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From: ec-bounces at 200william.com [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com] On Behalf Of Rob Willett
Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2013 5:07 PM
To: ec at 200william.com ec at 200william.com
Subject: [200William-EC] Recovery of costs 200 William Street

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<mailto: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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