Following the series of breakins that we as an estate were subject to late last year and early this year, it became evident that our security had to be upgraded/beefed up/reviewed.
The Security Committee went out to tender for the Security and during the tendering process, it became patently obvious that a lot more had to be spent on security to obtain the desired outcomes (this was evident from our then service provider and the new ones who tendered). It was obvious that with the unique challenges our estate presents, security needed a different approach and one that would require more expenditure from us.
If you would recall we had an information meeting in July where this was communicated to residents and we received the mandate from the community to do what was required to secure our homes.
We(the entire board) shortlisted three companies for the final evaluation, one of which was the then service provider, HWS. As we concluded the meeting, HWS resigned and informed us that they would be leaving end of August(this was mid August). We then contacted our choice and asked if they could take over in two weeks and they agreed to do so.
We were left with a decision to make; Either appoint somebody (at a higher cost obviously), or appoint nobody and be left without security pending the AGM and further mandate from the body.
We took the decision that we had been mandated to by the body at the meeting of July and appointed Fidelity Security Services with effect from 01/09/10.
I am sure that in light of the successes (arrests, identifying fraudulent activity etc) that we have had (including the latest), you will all be in agreement that the correct decision was made and that the cost implications thereof would have to be borne.
As a result of the above and some other factors the levies have had to be raised with effect from 01/10/10 to R2,550.00
This was communicated at the information meeting on 20th September and was met with agreement.
Kind Regards,
The Board of Trustees
Thanks
Dr. George
