Roads.

Recent Statements from Banco Popular show a balance of around 30,000 Euro.
I received word today that another 9,000 Euro has been paid in cash to Mi Sol Lawyers by the owner of the flats, most of which has already been spent using the cheques as detailed in the last post. Due to the success of the Court judgements against debtors, the Bank Balance is increasing all the time.

Several Committee members, myself included, are concerned that this money be wisely used.
On April 21st 2007 there is another Court case against Pepe, as previously mentioned. In the unlikely event that Pepe loses this case, all Bank Accounts, money, keys etc, will have to be handed over to the other faction. We fear that if this does happen, the money will effectively disappear and not be used for the benefit of the majority of Owners. Even if Pepe wins, we still want to see the money used to good effect.

For some time now we have been working on plans to have the roads on the Park laid to Tarmac. This is what the majority of Owners want, and would help to make Mi Sol a better place for all of us. Some of the roads are in a pretty bad state since excavations have been carried out for various reasons.

I contacted the Asphalt Company Amaro, and their representative visited Mi Sol two days ago.
His measurements revealed that the total area to be covered amounts to about 22,000 square metres. The quotation from Amaro is attached, this is for approximately HALF of the Park i.e 12,000 square metres.

The Company require a 50 % deposit before starting, the rest on completion. Clearly, at the moment we are not in a position to do that for half the Park. However we may be able to start by having a quarter of the Park laid to tarmac. This is not ideal, but at least we would be making a start, instead of just talking about it, as has happened during the last six years.

We intend to propose to Pepe and the rest of the Committee that a deposit of 25,000 Euro be made to Amaro, and when the rest of the money is available, instruct them to carry out work on the first section of the Park. We would continue to do this until all the required work had been done. I must stress, this is only an idea. Whether Pepe and the majority of the Committee agree to it remains to be seen. At least we now have hard facts regarding the costs involved, on which proper decisions can be made.

By coincidence, Pepe turned up whilst the meeting with the Amaro Representative was taking place. He did not seem very pleased that some of us were using our own initiative to try and get things done. He told the Amaro Representative that he (Pepe) was going to get a quote from another company. We all agreed that was a very good idea.