MINUTES OF THE COMMUNITY OF OWNERS REPRESENTATIVES
DATE: Friday 14th September 2007
VENUE: Community Office 28/1
TIME: 10.00 a.m.ATTENDANCE
Chris Gatenby
Emil J. Böttcher (Interpreter & Chair today)
Francisco Domingo Frutos (Administrator)
Jack Taylor
Malcolm Haughton
Martin Heppell
Rick Wilmot
Roger Jay
Wendy Slade (Minutes)
APOLOGIES
Andrew Heaney
Frank van Son
Karl-Heinz Schlömer
Sandra Miller
Terry Chapman
MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
Could not be discussed because not everyone received a copy. These minutes will be brought up at next meeting.
MATTERS ARISING
- We are without Carmen, last Monday was her last day, as she was needed by Huma in the Main office. Carmen is no longer available to help the CoO. The bus service which was supplied by Huma is no longer running as it was. A meeting took place with Huma on Wednesday to try and solve any problems and to ask Huma if Carmen can carry on and assist the CoO, but when we got to the old CoO office everything had been withdrawn from us.
- The question was asked if we had all the names and addresses of the community, and were told that we have. We all need to calm down and get together to resolve this problem.
- It was asked if there was possibly any availability to us to use the main office and why don't we rent an office in the main office block from Huma. This seems a logical question, security need somewhere to write reports, drink and use other facilities which we must provide. The reason for this problem is that Huma presented the CoO with a contract on the spot and asked us to sign it, but we did not like the terms (25€/m²). Frank said that we would find somewhere else to rent, and this is how we came to rent 28/1 at the sum of 800 euros (± 8€/m²). We were asked what we thought about this, and most of the community of owners representatives believe this cost is far too much and that we should be paying around 400-450 euros per calendar month for an office to rent.
- We were told that no information was put on the internet because there was insufficient time to find a property.
- There are two immediate problems the first is the cost of renting a villa and the second one is finding someone to man the office. We agreed that an unfurnished villa would be very suitable and the top price should not cost any more than 500 - 550 euros.
- We suggested that we go back to the owner and re-negotiate a lower price. It was said that the owner of 28/1 was on site at the moment and that they needed to meet and ask him if he would consider taking a lower rent, as most of the community were not in agreement with the amount we were asked to pay. If this could not be done then they would not sign the contract. The Administrator, Emil and one of the representatives were invited to go to meet with the owner of 28/1 to talk about the rent, but he appearde not to be open for negotiations.
- We held a short discussion and voted on going back to Huma with an offer to rent the original villa at a cost of 500 euros as it has everything we need. We all agreed as it also has a post box which we can use.
- It was discussed about the minutes. That the way they are now, it's hard for people to understand them. We should leave out names of who said this and that and keep it more like it was discussed about and the result or decision was that. Good idea. Do we need to rewrite the minutes of old meetings? No, from now on we will do it the new way.
- Many people have received a letter about a new water connection. And a copy of something like BORM. This is the Bulletin Official of the Region of Murcia. We want to know who is this company, part of Aqualia who are the owners of this company or the other way around. Water is such a problem here in Spain and it is controlled by the government and they do not play games with us, we will have to pay for what we use. It was brought up that we would be paying twice for this service, what of course can not be. To be investigated by the Administrator and President.
Friday 21st September 2007 in the new Community Office (28/1) at 10.00 a.m.