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

Wed Nov 27 13:00:19 EST 2013

Visitor Parking Spaces:

I am in total agreement to lease them out and derive income for the Body
corporate.  Currently there is no way to police people using them as they
wish.  As Matt says, there is already some selfish occupant within the
building who has rented out their car space and selfishly plonks their
vehicle in a visitors space without any regard for anyone else.  Whilst
George goes to a lot of trouble taking photos and attaching notices to every
occupants door threatening action, the offenders just ignore/laugh at the
notice. This also goes for other selfish occupants  who don't give a damn
and just park in the visitors spots for indefinite times.  I too have had
occasion when a guest to my apartment cannot park their vehicle because of
the selfish actions/disregard by others.

Storage Cages:

I am in total agreement to Lease them out.  They legally belong to the
Owners Corporation.  Whilst I have raised this issue previously this problem
will not go away and it may well be that another owner, in the future or
whenever, will ask the same question as I, as to who owns them and how do
you get hold of one. 

Rooftop Barbeque:

I agree that this needs to be more attractive and on a user pay basis.  I
don't consider this a priority.

Rooftop Gymnasium:

Again I agree this needs to be made more attractive and on a user pay basis,
and perhaps placed on the EC agenda for follow up action.

IN SUMMARY:

I agree with Rob that the current levies for a building of this type is
totally over the top, and where there is areas to derive income for the body
corporate, then I am all in favour of pursuing those possibilities.  As we
agreed at the last EC meeting the installation of the CCTV cameras to the
foyers on each floor is the only evidence the police can use to prosecute
criminal and malicious behaviour, as we have recently witnessed.   I am
happy to support the best quote for this installation.

Brook

om: ec-bounces at 200william.com [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com] On Behalf
Of Diana Dennison
Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2013 10:51 AM
To: Dave Petschack
Cc: ec at 200william.com
Subject: Re: [200William-EC] Recovery of costs 200 William Street

I do feel that the 5 visitor parking places should remain just that (as part
of the appeal of the building, along with the roof access, etc) and we
should work out a way to ensure they remain for visitors' use with a 24hr
limit. 

We just want to make sure we don"t have a repetition of the woman who bought
a house lower down Dowling St, then bought the 2 commercial spots, let the
vendor remain in one, parked herself in the visitors' and brought in tradies
each morning who were working on her house down to park in other visitors'
spots !!

Tradies working in the building are another matter, and I think they should
be tolerated. 

In the next email I'll attach some evidence of the same car parked in the a
visitor's spot since the 16th Nov.

regards,

Di 

On 27 November 2013 10:37, Dave Petschack <dave at robadda.com> wrote:

Thanks to all for their thought and feedback - some great ideas.

I am particularly in favour of having a more managed approach to spare
parking spaces and I would be keen to let these out if possible. the income
would be very handy.

I agree about a fee for renting out the cages - should have done it years
ago - good idea Matt!

Re the gym - it has always been a white elephant, but perhaps we consider a
proper upgrade and a user pays. I think this would make people look after
the equipment and restrict access to those who appreciate a gym.

BBQ - area - i think the upgrade needs to be taken into consideration with
some of the other renovations before making a decision. This woul be a low
priority for me after security and foyer works.

Thanks again all, Maxine, would you please add these ideas to the agenda for
discussion as a group at next EC meeting.

Regards Dave

On 26/11/2013, at 4:46 PM, Matt Perkins 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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