[200William-EC] Recovery of costs 200 William Street
Andrew James
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Wed Nov 27 13:49:18 EST 2013
Dear All,
Sorry I am really busy at work. I have briefly read the emails and I am happy with all of the strategies you have suggested.
Rohan - I have to work this weekend so I can't help out with visits to IKON. However, perhaps the renovation subcommittee should get together briefly next week.
Cheers
Andrew
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From: ec-bounces at 200william.com [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com] On Behalf Of Brook Beves
Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2013 1:00 PM
To: 'Diana Dennison'; 'Dave Petschack'
Cc: ec at 200william.com
Subject: Re: [200William-EC] Recovery of costs 200 William Street
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> [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com] On Behalf Of Diana Dennison
Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2013 10:51 AM
To: Dave Petschack
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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<mailto: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
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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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