Dear Residents,
You might have heard by now the meeting scheduled for Friday afternoon in MPSJ was cancelled at the last minute. Some of you have actually turned up as a result of our letter which we have sent to your homes.
Well, we do apologize if we are unable to inform you on time. We only got notification about the cancellation late Thursday evening. By which time, we have already informed all our residents and at the same time, have prepared for our meeting at 3 pm in MPSJ.
In fact, the committee members were looking forward to meet with the complainants as we really want to find out what their problem was. It was a big disappointment to all of us and we felt very bad as we could not inform everyone of you on time.
Because of this situation, we plan to write a letter to MPSJ stating our disappointment with the last minute cancellation and we would insist that they give us more advance notice in future before they cancel any scheduled meeting with us. We would also seek clarification from them on why the meeting was cancelled at the 11th hour. We hope to get an official reply from MPSJ on this matter and we will post it on the blog.
However, we have heard in the grapevine that apparently this meeting was called by our councillor for our zone, Encik Ismail Kamal. But something came up for him at the last minute and so he had asked for it to be cancelled. However we cannot confirm this at this point in time but if that is true, we will write him an official complain letter as well.
Further to that, we would also want him to know that as a councillor for our zone, he should act in a more responsible manner and that if he cannot cope with the job, then we will have no hesitation to recommend him to leave this job.
If proven to be true, we most certainly will do something about it as we do not need such people who have no respect for other people’s time to serve us. In our view, if they cannot manage their own time efficiently, then how on earth can we expect them to serve us effectively? They will be just wasting our time.
Sadly, this outdated system of appointing councillors rather than being elected or voted in, is still being practiced. And so it gets mixed up with politics as well. As far as we are concerned, these appointed councillors (politicians) should stay out of these positions if they are not fit to serve the public at large.
The way forward, we believe, is to have a proper election process, whereby leaders are voted in rather than being appointed just because they come from some political parties. With a proper election process in place, we believe, the community will at least have the opportunity to vote in capable people who can lead and willing to work for the community without expectations of any returns.
We sincerely hope that what we heard about our Councillor Ismail Kamal is not true. If it is, it will most certainly leave a sour taste in our mouth!
The Committee
11 Trees @ USJ
8 comments:
Jeffrrrey Khoo,
You know I even toke aday leave just to attend this hearing (I want to know who complanit and for what reasons?) You are right too, how can MPSJ just cancelled without giving any reason. Not only I went to MPSJ on Friday a group of us, very disappointing & frustrating is ts the way they serve to the Communities ????
Gan 3D
i was all ready to go for the meeting at 2pm when i heard about the cancellation. since you had notice that it was cancelled on thur evening, i feel that you should have posted it on this website as many of us would have checked here for the latest news and to double confirm the time for the meeting. anyway,still a big thank u to the committee for all the hard work on our behalf.
CT/3D
Dear CT,
I apologise for not being able to update the blog on time. As a matter of fact, the letter was dropped into Encik Bakri's mail box sometime on Thursday and he only checked it late that night when he came back home. I was only informed at about 11 am the next morning as they could not reach me on my mobile. I was in a meeting and my mobile was put to silent mode. I only managed to tell all the people I know that day via sms. I could not update the blog as I was outside my office where I had my meeting.
This situation is most unfortunate as if whoever has called off the meeting should have the courtesy to inform us a few days in advance. It is never our (Committee's) intention to inconvenient anyone as some of us actually put off some of our important meetings just to attend to this one and only to find out at the last minute, it was cancelled.
All we can do is really to extend our apologies to the people who came and never got a chance to partake in the meeting.
We will try to respond faster to you in future. Please also keep our mobile numbers handy in future so that you can call us anytime to check so that we can inform you first hand before you actually come to such meetings to avoid such a situation again.
Thank you.
Dear Residents and Commitee members,
The need to dissipate the information to all the concern residents in the shortest time possible is utmost important to our community. I would like to invite our residents to post their valuable suggestion(s).
th-chong,3k
can anyone help us with the sms service that i have seen where an alert is given out to all the hp nos. in the system? i think the sj community uses it. how much is the cost, etc? how does it work,etc? that way all the residents can get genuine alerts/news from committee if urgent. or perhaps a cheaper n/or faster alternative - tweeter?in fact i was a bit sceptical of the cancelled news cos i tot maybe we were being conned into NOT going for the meeting. :)
CT/3D
Jeffrrey Khoo,
I hv recieved a sms ts morning stated that MPSJ again calling for the meeting about the G&G on ts coming Friday. why the notice is so short ??? can all our residents recieved ts pc of notice in time for the meeting??? I will take a day leave just to hear what YDB has to say in the meeting and hope our committee ask why last week meeting was called off. thanks
Gan 3D
[1] Distribute leaflets at all our exit/entry points.
[2] Put up a big enough clearly visible impromptu notice/bunting/banner whatever, for all.
[3] SMS whatever mobile available and get all to forward.
[4] Blast the emails even at the last minute doesnt matter read/unread; set all residents' mail contacts ever ready.
[5] Go "word-of-mouth" too.
Thanks
To the committee, keep up the good work. Must also acknowledge that the guards from my experience are definitely professional and friendly.
Do not be deterred with just few 'pain in the neck'.
By the way, could we also have a section to educate the residents to stop leaving their rubbish along the tress surrounding USJ 11/3. Some even decided to 'donate' their sofas to the trees.
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