| MONDAY
31ST MARCH 2008
Present:
Roy Pugh - Chairman
Brian Tokely - Vice Chairman
Mary Cooper - Secretary/Treasurer
Rathnait Mullen - Press Officer
Barry Cooper - Member
Joyce Stewart - Member
Ken Richardson - Member
Apologies: Irache Merino, Richard Slade
Chairman’s
Statement:
The Chairman reminded committee that ‘Any other Business’
should be either notified via the Chairman or Secretary prior
to the start of each meeting.
Minutes of the 30th meeting were reviewed and accepted as a true
record:
Proposed by Ken Richardson and seconded by Joyce Stewart, Carried
unanimously.
Matters Arising:
1.Personal Complaints: Roy stated that he was receiving an increasing
number of phone calls from members reporting minor problems with
swimming pools, cracked walls etc.
Some discussion took place on this subject and it was agreed that
with the best of intentions, for the Committee, to raise, log
and track each and every personal problem to a satisfactory conclusion
with Masa would be an impossibility.
Roy will therefore write a statement to be displayed on the CRA
notice Board explaining that all complaints must first be reported
to the Masa Site Office by means of the official complaints system.
If the problem prevails, the committee will accept and pass on
letters of complaint to Masa Management at the next available
meeting. These letters must be written both in Spanish and English.
Once these letters have been given to Masa the CRA will seek an
answer to the problem at the following meeting, the outcome of
which will be relayed to the originator. It is regrettable however,
that when this process has been completed the CRA will not accept
any further responsibility for bringing each one to a satisfactory
conclusion.
Subjects from the CRA Statement of Intent and major problems such
as subsidence, street lighting, touristico, road safety etc. will
be kept on meeting agendas throughout satisfactory resolution.
2. Address to the CRA Membership: Roy reported that this is now
complete and will be published and distributed in the April edition
of the New Camposol Courier. The cost for the production and publication
of this supplement is €240
3.
Membership Register: Roy reported that an updated version of the
CRA membership register is now to hand – Many thanks to
Tony Butler for producing this.
4. Meeting with Garrigues: No further progress to report, Carried
Forward
5. The Road Report: Carried forward – Roy to write a letter
of thanks to Mr Lloyd Jones and the composer of this report.
6. Liaison with the Ayuntamiento: Brian reported that he has approached
Jacqueline Galvez with our request for regular Liaison Meetings
to be held, Jacqueline has accepted and a meeting date has been
set, 9th April, which Brian will attend, subjects to be discussed:
1.Identification of land for Post Boxes and Post Rooms on Sectors
B,C, and D and timescales for Correos opening on Camposol.
2. Timescales for opening of Dispensing Pharmacia for Camposol.
3. Progress and timescales for Medical Centre on Camposol.
7. Meeting with Masa 26th March: the minutes of the last Masa
meeting were reviewed and accepted as a true record.
Proposed by Brian Tokely and seconded by Joyce Stewart
Next meeting to be held on Wednesday 9th April
8. Subsidence D7:
Roy reported that it does appear we are making some progress all
be it very slow.
The committee have received a letter from members, who are affected
by subsidence on D7, thanking the committee for their hard work
in liaising with Masa to resolve their problems, they are more
than pleased with the progress Masa are making with repairs to
their villa.
We can also report that Masa are re-housing the owners of one
of the worst villas on D7. This is a very satisfactory conclusion
to a very major subsidence problem and the committee are very
pleased with the outcome.
Properties missing from the work schedule have been accepted and
will be included.
9. Missing Escrituras: It was reported that these Escrituras have
been paid for but have not yet been provided, Masa have agreed
to resolve this problem.
10.
Electricity Charges: Some of the affected have now been resolved,
however others will take longer timescales of 2 – 3 months
are expected.
11.
Change in Post Room Venue: Brian reported that he has spoken with
the owners of Rumours who have agreed that, in the short term,
the CRA can also use this venue on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
The CRA desk will be situated in the downstairs Bar between the
hours of 4pm to 5pm.
13.
The Way Forward for the CRA: Roy raised his concerns reference
the apathy both from the membership and the Liaison Committee
towards activities being organised by the CRA Social Committee.
Some discussion took place and it was agreed that with the many
social functions taking place at the present time, some 5 planned
in April, from other fund raising organisations on Camposol, it
is very difficult to for us to also sell tickets, coupled with
the fact that money is becoming more and more tight with the poor
€uro exchange rate.
Another reason given was due to the distinct lack of volunteers,
from the membership, who are willing to put themselves forward
to support what is for the few willing volunteers, very stressful
and time consuming, more volunteers would make life so much easier
for all of us.
In view of this the committee felt it was best for the time being
to postpone those social activities planned by the CRA over the
next few months. It is expected however, that we will continue
to run the Bonus Ball and the Car Boot Stall.
This topic is carried forward for more discussion at the next
Liaison Committee Meeting.
A.O.B There being no other business the meeting closed at 12.40pm
Date
of Next Meeting:
Saturday 19th April at 10am, Venue - Camposol Business Centre.
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