"Together - Let us keep our neighborhood safe"

Sunday, January 6, 2013

December 2012 newsletter


Dear Residents,

There were 2 break-ins reportedly happened in the second week of December 2012. Both the houses were not equipped with any alarm system hence when it was broken in, there were no alarm raised and from the outside, no one knew there were intruders in the houses.

We hope the house owners will install some of such anti-theft devices like camera and alarm systems. If at all, it will act as a deterrent and should there be any break-ins, the alarm will help alert the guards on patrol.

Because of these two recent cases, we have added another patrol unit on 24x7 duties until the holiday season is over as many people are expected to leave for long holidays and leaving their houses empty. The guards will also be extra vigilant at the entry/exit points. With the additional patrol unit, this will of course increase our operation cost.

This brings us to the next pertinent point. In order for us to be effective in ensuring that crime is curbed, we need your continued support. Please pay your subscription and on time. Also, just because the guards are around, you should not to take things for granted so please be vigilant at all times. Do keep a look out for your neighbors who are away and notify the police/guards should you see something amiss. 


Here is an update of what is ahead in our community:

Futsal Court

The court was finally opened for play from the first week of December 2012. There was much delay in getting the “Certificate of Fitness” or CF from MPSJ. The delay had caused some impatient residents to take the situation into their own hands by breaking the locks etc. Such unruly behavior was uncalled for as everyone was working towards getting the court to be opened as soon as possible.

The soft opening of the court marks a milestone for the developer of the court as they are now proceeding to demolish the old one to be planted with trees/plants on the existing land.

As we have mentioned, to prevent abuse, misunderstanding and vandalism, certain rules and regulation will apply. The rules and regulation are being deliberated amongst the committee members. Once it is firmed up, a notice to the rules will be displayed at the court.

We are targeting to have the official opening on Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 10am. There will be a friendly match and we will be inviting some guest and VIPS from TopSpeed, officials from MPSJ and our ADUN, Subang Jaya. We hope all of you, our residents will join in. There will be refreshment and a friendly game amongst the residents.


Collection

As a reminder, the collection dates are for October 2012 to end of March 2013, a total of RM300 for six months of security services. We do welcome payment for a full year so for your family’s safety including your own and the community at large, we urge you to make the payment as soon as possible if you have not done so.

Please make payment to “Persatuan Penduduk USJ 11/3, Subang Jaya, Selangor” to your respective Street leader and be mindful to get the receipt from them. It will provide a record for both parties should situations arise when a claim from the insurance company against burglary is necessary. For your information, we have taken out a policy that covers break-ins for our members.

When you receive your receipt, please check to make sure all the details like name of issuer, amount, dates, etc are correct to avoid any future misunderstanding. Also, we strongly recommend you to make payment via cheque rather than cash.

If you still want to make cash payments then please do insist for a valid receipt which should be issued to you immediately.  We plan to do a ‘walk-about’ in January 2013 to visit the residents who have yet to pay.


Car and plaque stickers

New car stickers as well as stickers for your house plaque will be issued for the New Year. Please do take note – we will start to issue them when it is ready for distribution.


Adopt a Fire Hydrant program with Bomba – Gotong Royong campaign

The “Adopt a fire hydrant” which was held on Saturday, 13 October 2012 was a success. It was hosted by the team from our local Fire unit located in SS 17. Our ADUN, YB Hannah Yeoh as well as Dr. Loi, our councilor for our area attended the event.

There was brief by the local fire chief. This was followed by the cleaning and painting of the fire hydrants in our area. Random testing on the fire hydrants were carried out to make sure they function properly.

Refreshment was served and several residents came out to join the event. Thank you to all who came and supported the event.

 
Annual General Meeting

Our annual general meeting (AGM) will be held in the first quarter of 2013. We are targeting it to be held sometime in March 2013. All paying residents are invited to attend. We will be reporting the audited accounts as well as the various activities that were undertaken throughout 2012. Please do attend as it will give you a chance to find out how the moneys collected from you are spent.

Further information will be provided when the actual date approaches. Please be informed.


Thank you.

The Committee
11 Trees @ USJ

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear admin,

I would like to ask why is it those cars without sticker are allowed to come in,park in the G&G area and walk to Taipan? If everyone can access to our residence area,what is the reason of paying? They can come in easily to do some illegal things and exit easily too. Because I've seen a lot cars that's without sticker park along the roadside opposite Taipan. Some of them still park in front of our house. Hope admin can take this matter seriously.

Thank you.

Admin said...

Dear sir/madam,

Firstly, it will be nice to know who posted this comment because as your neighbor, I would like to get to know you. Before I go to your issues, let me, on behalf of all the residents thank you for all your support and we hope you will continue to do so.

I would like to reply your first question, that is, the payment collected from you (and me). The collection is to pay for the guards and to maintain the security services in our area, to keep us as safe as possible within the limits of our resources. But, I would like to mention, we cannot guarantee that we are able to do that 100% as this is done on a best efforts basis.

Now coming to your second issue, indiscriminate parking.

It is not possible for us to keep outsiders out of our area as much as we would like to as the law does not side with us on that.

And so, cars from outside does come into our area and they have parked indiscriminately along the roads you have mentioned. They have also used USJ 11/3 as a pass-through to get to their next destination.

FYI, we have deliberately planted trees along that road (with the help of young children - you can see that in earlier postings in the blog) and placed the drums there and as well as to keep that small gate locked but to no avail. We have also lodged many complaints with MPSJ who had issued compound as a result but stopped when complaints stopped.

You as a resident here can also do your part. Have you lodged any complaints consistently with MPSJ? If not, you should. Please go to their website or visit their office personally and lodged the complaint to them. Only they have the authority to carry out punitive action against such illegal parking.

I would like to reiterate that the job of the Committee (who are all VOLUNTEERS) is to help maintain the security of our area. We do that by coordinating collection, have regular discussions on what we need to do to improve, etc. This is an on-going exercise in which we take up with our security company regularly as well.

We also use the money collected to buy a modest Insurance policy to cover our members in cases where robbery does happen. We also meet with the authorities such as the Police, Bomba, etc to get updates and help from them to enhance our security.

We do not and cannot act on: illegal parking, misunderstanding between neighbors, pet problems, etc. These are the job of the authorities, in this case, MPSJ. Therefore, I strongly recommend you to formally complain to MPSJ about the illegal parking and obstruction to your home as well as the inconvenience caused.

I hope you are now clear about our roles (and yours) as residents of this area. Often, the Committee is seen to be some 'entity' totally disconnected to the residents, which, in reality we are not. We, in the Committee are no different from you as the resident. We pay our dues as well but we also volunteer our time (for free). And we try to the job as best we can.

So, to summarize, we are not some "entity" that you imagine us to be but we are simply residents like you coming together and doing our best for our community.

Instead of asking us such questions, I do hope you can step forward and give us some suggestion as to how we can rectify this situation. If it is good and workable, we will not hesitate to implement your suggestion.

If you wish to, you can also call me anytime on my mobile.

Thank you.

Regards

Jeffrey Khoo
Chairman
Persatuan Penduduk USJ11/3