Committee Meeting

A Committee meeting was held in the Office yesterday morning, it started later than normal, due to short notice of it being held.

Normally Committee meetings are held on the first Saturday of the month, but sometimes, if the Administrator is not available, they will be moved to another date.

The meeting was told Steve the Gardener is taking one weeks holiday from the 11th to 18th July.
Pepe asked the keys be left in the car. Pepe has been using the trailer, why we do not know as he has a new trailer of his own.

Pepe said he had given the Bar a factura for the water and electricity used for the pool, however a discussion took place regarding the large amount of water being lost from the pool every night. Although all parties knew the pool was leaking, we had no idea it was on this scale. It was eventually agreed that the bill for water usage 0f the pool be limited to 800 Euro per month, Mi Sol would pay the rest.
The Administrator, Alberto pointed out that if the water Authorities discovered we were wasting this amount of water they would cut off the supply immediately. This is something I have alluded to in past posts. The question was raised, where is all this water going to, and what damage, if any, is it doing to the structure of the pool. Shelagh Shaw said the pool had been repaired a couple of years ago, I replied, if that was the case, it had not been done properly.
It was pointed out, that the repairs should have been carried out before the start of the season.
We had expected the pool to be open much later this year under the Stewardship of the Bar, however in the circumstances, it needs to be closed as soon as practicable, and urgent repairs carried out.

Pepe told the meeting that the Spanish Owners were complaining to him that there were not enough Wet Room facilities. He suggested building another Male and Female Wet Room, plus one for the use of people with disabilities. He would give me a copy of the quotation for this work to be carried out. I pointed out to him, that there was no objection in principle to more facilities provided they were all metered , so that the people using them, paid for the water and electricity used, not the rest of the Community. I pointed out to the Administrator that a majority of Owners at the AGM in September 2006 voted for all Shower Blocks to be closed.
I asked him if this was legal, he replied yes. I then asked him if it was legal to charge for people to use the present facilities, he was not sure. In the end it was decided that the Administrator would seek the legal answers to this problem from the Lawyers, until this information was available to the Committee, no further Wet Rooms would be considered. I will return to this subject in another post.

I said that several Owners had shown concern regarding the the overgrown nature, and dangerous condition of many of the trees on the Park. It was agreed that proper contractors would be brought in to deal with the problem. This is unlikely to happen before October, as now is not the proper time to cut the trees. It was pointed out that the last time we had the trees pruned, we were denounced by a member of the opposing faction.

A discussion then took place regarding a cheque Pepe had written for 7000 Euro. It was explained this was for 3rd party insurance for the Park, and included the Swimming Pool.
The Administrator explained that this was a reasonable figure for the cost of insurance given the size of the Community. Derek Olive explained that the Bar had already paid for insurance to cover the Pool. After some discussion, it seemed that the two insurance policies covered different things.

At this point I had to leave the meeting, due to a prior arrangement. I have not had an opportunity so far to determine if anything else of substance was discussed, if it was there will be a report here.