January 2010 Newsletter

Dear Residents,

To all our Hindu Friends, we hope you have enjoyed the Thaipusam Festival!

Anyway, welcome to the first edition of our newsletter which keeps you inform of the activities in our neighborhood. This year, your committee is working towards improving our surrounding areas and also to step up gradually our security which has been implemented in our ‘kampung’.

With the recent Ponggal and Thaipusam festival celebrated by our Hindu community, the next major festival around the corner is the Chinese New Year. According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, we will bid farewell to the year of the Ox and welcome the year of the Tiger.

In anticipation to that, the Committee would like to wish all our Chinese friends and family members “Gong Xi Fa Cai”!

Tree Planting

MPSJ has allocated 50 trees to us. We plan to plant these trees along the road with fence facing Public Bank. We need some volunteers for this so if you are free kindly assemble at Gate 4 at 9 a.m. on Sunday 31 January 2010.

Our long term goal is to plant a row of trees along that stretch to beautify the area but we will only be able to do so as and when MPSJ allocate additional trees to us in the future.

Street Lighting

As part of our on-going improvement programs, we will be embarking on lighting up all the streets. We have already started to identify all the TNB poles which are without a light installed. This is done for us to estimate the cost of installation and operation.

Once this is completed, we will be making a formal application to TNB to have almost all the poles installed with lights and we anticipate this will take about 2 months to complete. We believe with additional lights, it will help us step up our security measures as the additional lighting will keep intruders and potential criminals out of our area as they can easily be spotted.

We will however have to make a few exceptions as there are those who can afford to but do not pay their dues. In these instances, the poles will be left as is.

Car Stickers

Please be reminded that the car stickers will be issued to all who live in our area. Please ensure you submit your forms and for those who have the old stickers, kindly return it by attaching it with your application forms. Non paying residents will be issued stickers as well.

One the stickers are distributed, we will gradually enforce more stringent checks in the future and this will be done in stages and will cover all vehicles coming into our area. Please ensure you get your stickers. Closing date is Jan 31, 2010.

Rukun Tetangga

Recently, some of our Committee members attended the National Key Result Area (NKRA) Convention in Sunway Convention Centre. There they met with some of the ministers.

They have advised that we apply for the RT as this will give us certain advantage like getting funding to carry out community projects such as having our own RA’s office and meeting area, empowering us to stop and carry out identification and checks for vehicles coming through our check points.

We are now looking into this possibility and if it brings benefit to our community, we will apply for the RT to be deployed in our area working parallel with the gated and guarder scheme.


Thank you.

The Committee
11 Trees @ USJ