Update on the card access.

The committee had finally agreed to carry out a signature campaign to obtain the consents of the owners to support our proposal for the implementation of the card access system. I think getting this majority consents is a good thing for the management and the R.A. This goes to show we are transparent and accountable to the owners due to the fact that the singking fund is utilized to finance the whole project. I had also pointed out in my previous blog that the majority shall decide on the implementation. If we fail to get the majority consents, we would just have to abandon the whole project.

I had done some prelimanary work before we start to carry out the exercise. I had put up the notices on the notice boards and on every level of the building for all the blocks. I would not think that the residents would be so ignorant enough to ignore them. Getting a majority consent is difficult for us to achieve since a substantial number of units here are occupied by the tenants. We have to get about 400 signatures. Although I have mentioned that the tenants can act as proxies, they may not be too keen to do so since their movements would be restricted. To the tenants, you can rest assured that you would be given sufficient number of access cards.I am sure you want security too. Start getting the consent from your landlords to sign. Thank goodness that the personnel at the management office are willing to assist us. They can reach out to the owners who are not staying here. The owners here can also sign at the management office. We have given ourselves a month time to complete the whole exercise.

To be more transparent and accountable, the committee had also decided to organize a dialogue session with the owners on 3 December 2006, a Sunday at 11.00 a.m. Our main objective of holding this dialogue is to brief them on the technical aspect of the card access system and on other details of the implementation. We also wish to get some feedback from the owners pertaining to this implementation .

Now , the R.A. has some legwork to do. I shall be carrying out a door to door campaign this Saturday. I shall start from Block A. Other committes would be covering other blockc. I shall assist them since it's school holidays now and I have plenty of time to do so. I really don't know what is the reaction from the owners. I could be chased away.

Good night and have a nice day!