Project Fencing

Dear Residents,

Recently, we ran a poll on the blog asking you to vote on the following:

Are you in favor of fencing our area (perimeter of USJ 11/3)? The choices were “Yes”, “No” and “Don’t Care”.

An overwhelming 92% of the respondents came back with a "Yes”! That means, the residents here are overwhelmingly in favour of the fencing. That is an incredible!

With that in mind, the committee is planning for the next launch of our project that is, ‘Project Fencing’. Our target is to have this fencing installed no later than 31 January 2009. That is about 3 months from now. It will probably cost us about RM70+ thousand. Our target is to collect from generous donors and all households with a minimum targeted amount. We will let you know the amount in the next newsletter.

Once we have enough funds, we will start the project to build up the fence. Any excess funds will be used for improvements such as to the guard house, install CCTV and boom gates to certain entry/exit points instead of using the drums which can easily be pushed aside by irresponsible people now.

This fund will be managed separately from the ones that we have already collected from you which are used to sustain our security services. We want to ensure that our secuirty system will continue to run uninterrupted.

It is also our fervent wish to improve all the areas of our security in our area. In doing so, we would like to see how we can maximize our resources and minimize our costs. You would appreciate that, it has been a big learning process for all of us in the committee in a very short period of time! But we have perservered and it would not have been possible if we did not have your 100% backing. Thank you dear residents!

Anyway, the idea, in the longer term, is to try and reduce our cost and thus hopefully, our monthly fees. In this respect, we hope to get more subscribers to contribute to our efforts. The more money we collect from more people who are willing to contribute, the less the burden it will be, for all of us. So, if your neighbours have not subscribe yet, perhaps you might be able to help us by talking to them, on our behalf.

On another note, while there are some black sheep within some of the shop operators, there is also a big majority of them who are for it, that is, they are really supporting our security initiatives.

In those instances, we hope that the residents here will support their businesses by patronizing their outlets more. It is only fair that we try to support them in anyway possible. For example, if you need to patronize a 7-11 outlet, why not buy it from the one nearest to us. If you are looking for food, then there are plenty of choices here to pick from including incredibly delicious hawker food.

However, there is one particular one we are sure you do not want to go to! (Sorry Mr. DINEOUT, we have written you off!)

If you are looking for a haircut, fruits and vegetables, groceries, fresh food market, pet food, tuition centre, gym, laundry, organic foodstuff, homecook Malay food from various parts of Malaysia, a place to have some nice family meal with different price range, some food and a chat or a place to "Line Dance" and chill out, it is all here for you.

These community shops are there for our convenience so the more we support them, especially in these trying times, the more they will appreciate the community here. So, let us all work together and give them a helping hand.

The committee has given them the assurance that we, the community in USJ 11/3, will not neglect their needs. We intend to assimilate them into our "kampung" (in Chinese – “San Chin” or New Village).

We will be promoting their shops in the future on this blogsite and we will tell you about the people behind the scenes, their challenges and what they have to offer us, the community in 11 Trees.

So watch out for that on this space!

Thank you.

The Committee
11 Trees @ USJ