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Saturday, July 2, 2011

June-July 2011 Newsletter

Dear Residents,


The collection for the subscriptions for April – September 2011 is overdue and we noticed that the response for payment from you has steadily improved right after the opening up of our boom gates and the simultaneous implementation of the patrolling system during the day. Continued support from you is imperative for us to ensure the security services are to carry on.

Crime is slowly making a come-back in the whole area of USJ there has been an increase in cases reported but also arrests. USJ 11/3 used to be a hotspot for crime but because of our G&G, it has come down significantly. However, if the collection continues to deteriorate, there may come a time where we will have no choice but to do away with the security services in entirety. And this is a real possibility as it has already happened in other areas and it will happen here is the support is not there from you.

Payment:

We would like to appeal to ALL of you to make the lives of your Street Leaders easier by doing the following:

1. Please make out the cheques and put it into the mailboxes of the Street Leaders so as lighten the burden of the Street Leaders and please notify them via their mobile;

2. Help us to ask your neighbors to make payment if they have not done so;

3. Make sure you get your receipts issued to you once you have made payment.

Recent cases reported in USJ 11/3:

You might be interested to know that at least four robberies have happened in USJ 11/3 in the last few months:

• Paying member in USJ 11/3A while they were out – the thieves managed to commit the crime despite the presence of our guards and Street Leader as they used the clothes to block the view from outside. The Resident’s Association is now facilitating and helping in insurance claim for the victim.

• Paying member in USJ 11/3C – crime detected and foiled by patrolling guards.

• Paying member in USJ 11/3K – attempted break-in but foiled due to patrolling guard.

• Non-paying member in USJ 11/3N – owner away overseas – thieves carted away everything inside the house. Lorry driver told the neighbor owner was moving house. Street Leader and guards could not contact owner to verify.

New Stickers:

The new car stickers are now ready for collection. You need to return your old (yellow) ones to exchange for the latest stickers. This is extremely important as when the guards do their rounds, they will only look out for the cars with valid stickers. In case someone tries to break into your car and you do not display the valid sticker, they will not intervene should anything happen to your car. So, please take note of this. The onus is on you to make sure you get your valid stickers upon payment.

The guards will be asking you to return the yellow stickers in exchange for new ones. Please make sure you get your new stickers as this enforcement will start from 30 June 2011 where only cars with valid stickers will be looked after by the patrolling guards.

Plaques:

As for the plaque outside your house, a new sticker will be put up temporarily to indicate that you have made payment as well. These stickers are important as we will be making some amendments to the operations of the G&G systems.

We also have a suggestion from our residents those residents who do not make payment to return the plaque as well. This will be carried out in the near future.

In order for you to get the new stickers for both your cars and your house, please make sure you expedite your payment if you have not already done so and do insist on getting your receipts and have your details properly recorded.

New Security system:

We have already reverted to the system in the day-time, in which we have carried out a trial run sometime earlier this year (during the Chinese New year). This is to be fair to our paying members and to ensure that only the ones paying will get the necessary attention from our security guards.

We now plan to expand system to a 24 hour shift basis. The Committee is proposing that all boom gates will be remained open 24 hours while all the guards will be assigned to certain streets for them to patrol round the clock. During their patrol, they will only check on houses and cars with valid stickers only. The boom gates will NOT come down at all be it day or night.

We plan to have a trial run of this new patrolling system during the coming Raya holidays. A new survey form will be given to you to have your feedback before we embark on this. Please see the last page of this newsletter.

Your “friendly” Neighbor:

A “lone ranger” who lives in No.10, Jalan USJ 11/3K has persistently been complaining constantly to the authorities over our G&G. Your Committee members have had to deal with his complaints over and over again including giving in to some of his demands and spending money to meet his demands and and yet he is still not satisfied. The latest issue which he had raised has to do with access along 3K. Once again, a report was lodged to to MPSJ by him.

Survey Form:

Before we embarked on this planned trial, we would like to get your opinion and feedback before we do the implement the new system scheduled for the Raya Holidays. Please fill in this form in the newsletter which was sent to your homes, fill it up and send it back to us by 15 July 2011. Your name, house address must be fully completed in order for us to consider your feedback. Only PAYING residents feedback are welcomed.

If you did not get a copy of the survey form, please any of our guards or our committee members before the closing date so that a copy can be given to you.


The Committee
11 Trees @ USJ

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Commitee Members,
Opening up the gates 24X7 is not so good idea, everyone should know. We would like to know the list of tasks require assistance and hopefully an informal meeting at our padang could be organized for all concerned residents to assist to resolve our G&G problems TOGRTHER.

th-chong, 3K

Anonymous said...

Dear Commitee Members,

We would like to propose that the residents living in their street receive monthly update the status of the security contribution as reminder. If agreed, email us the update for 3K, we will print and distrbute our own. Hopefully the rest of the streets also have volunteers to carry out the same.

th-chong, 3k

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. TH Chong,

We will bring this and other suggestions up in the next meeting.

Thank you for your kind support.

Editor