December 2019 - Ucol-shareholders

High Street - Postal Adresses
by Tim Ross 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Hi All, Further to our conversation at the last meeting regarding numbering of the homes at High St, here is the response from the guy we are dealing with at the DCC: "I have just gone through the Addressing Standards we have to use and I don’t see how using a letter to identify a building is allowed. So as best I can see you are stuck with numbers only. If the site is clearly addressed the building shouldn’t be an issue." I can't be at the meeting tonight but hopefully this sheds some light on what our options are. Tim.

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re final agenda for meeting tonight
by mariannequinn＠xtra.co.nz 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hi team: see attached (as well as below) for agenda tonight. Best wishes meantime, Marianne Agenda UCOL Meeting 7.30pm Thursday 12th December, 2019 Centre for Sustainability Seminar Room - 563 Castle Street Chair: Rainer Beneke Note taker: Marianne Quinn Present: Rainer, Marianne, Apologies: Sander, Karen, Claire, Jan Appreciations: Discussion Items: 1. PCG/site meeting report. (Rainer) * Distribution Board: the electrician advised, through S&W, that they are unlikely to provide a quote for shifting the distribution board before Christmas, due to heavy workload. * Roof shout (minute of record) * Common house spouting needs cleaning out * New common house door at Montpellier street, quote $3467 ? 2. BCG report/ contingency. (Rainer, Min) Items that need to come out of contingency: * D-unit floor/sound insulation & vinyl planking change * Alva Street curbing and angle parking * Heritage fence essentials, cut gate ways, (budgeted are $25,000) Zeal steel quote $115,200 excl painting and concrete cutting, but including new gates * fix sagging ceiling in common house lounge area * electrical cable to wash-house container * electric infrastructure for car charging * Entry covers for D-units? 3. EV charging / car park allocation or leased car parks? (Rainer). Bike shed and charging 4. Alva Street angle parking and road marking/curbing. (Frances, Maria, Tim) 5. House Numbering. (Maria) 6. Colours on the back of stairwells. (Maria) 7. F&P fridges. (Sara) 8. Bathroom floors vinyl/tiles. (Juan) 9. Site visits with current preferences scheduled as follows. * Friday afternoon 2.00pm (Rainer to host, +7) - Min, Sue T, Gay, Adelyn and her mum, Anne & Ian. * Saturday 9.00am (Maria to host, +7) - Sander, Karen, Sandy, Maia, Camila, Miriam & Donald * Saturday 9.45am (Tim to host, +8) - Susan + 3, Liz +3, James & Jess * Saturday 10.30 am (Rainer to host, +3), Sara, Amelia, Marianne 10. PR Proposal by the PR group (attached) 11. Report from Body Corporate Rules. - please read over January (Min) 12. Changing from synthetic to wool carpet. Deferred to next year (Marianne, Frances) 13. Old letter box and Lilliput library (Gay) 14. request from Sophie Briggs, Oamaru for input ( Friday 20th Dec 1pm onwards) 15. Open Forum * Next Meeting - (9TH January). Chair and note taker?? * Meeting schedule for 2020 commencing Thursday 9th January (weekly?) Reminder - Christmas potluck and Secret Santa at Anne's place from 6pm on Saturday 21st December. Meeting closed Marianne Quinn Level 3, 115 Stuart Street, Dunedin P.O. Box 20, Dunedin 9054 ph +6434773115 or 0211612050

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Tongs, anyone?
by Anne Thomson 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Thanks to all who came last night - great food, great company, high quality Secret Santa, and so many dishes done! A pair of mini-tongs (as pictured below) are still at our place . Let me know if they are yours. Merry Christmas to all! Anne

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2020 UCOL Meeting Roster for Chairs/Notetakers
by Anne Thomson (via Google Sheets) 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

I've shared an item with you: 2020 UCOL Meeting Roster for Chairs/Notetakers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10NpsPLrrWAlxRK5SUkVPki5H08WjP06H0rG… It's not an attachment -- it's stored online. To open this item, just click the link above.

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Fwd: Confirm your Twitter account, High St Passive House Cohousing
by High Street Cohousing 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

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Draft roster for meetings 2020
by High Street Cohousing 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Hi all, Here is a first draft of chairs/note-takers for meetings in 2020. Please get back to me with any changes that are necessary. Anne

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relay for life
by michael.rosemary＠xtra.co.nz 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Do we have the 'I want to chat' address yet? notice this one being used for anything and everything so will use it anyway. Heard an advert today for relay for life the cancer fundraising walk. we will be away overseas but wondered if ucol would be interested in organising a team? I am happy to be a centre point if people want to register their interest but would need someone to take control. Michael and I have done two or three and they are fun, specially if the weather is kind. https://otago-southland.cancernz.org.nz/how-to-get-involved/take-part/relay- for-life/

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Heritage Fence, end of year status report.
by Rosemarie Smith 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

Hi all, it seemed it would be useful to give a bit more detail on where things stand. This has been a frustrating year, with much energy going into pursuing people who were very difficult to pin down, and/or forgetful of the information we had already supplied. Sadly we failed to find a trust or incorporated society willing to take us under their wing for purposes of obtaining grants from the likes of the Otago Trust of Lotteries, and haven’t been keen to take up the option of establishing a new trust for this purpose. (Any volunteers to be trustees if we did, finally, opt for this?) However the DCC Heritage Fund WILL fund private projects like ours, and has finally come to the party with a $5440 grant towards scoping the work required, plus the inference of more to come. Also good news is that Lawrie Forbes of Zeal Steel is finally free of commitments and very keen to do the work. He selected a section on Alva Street that will test all elements the work (big post, panels, other posts and two new gateways, and quoted $4,681.25 for the fence and $6,198.75 for the gates, i.e. $10,880.00 plus GST Both Lawrie and another potential contractor Frank Scurr ( who has looked at the gates under the arch and adjacent fence as a sub-project) report that the exact requirements of the work can’t be known beforehand, which is why the scoping project will be so valuable. We can’t know in advance for example whether it’s less expensive to repurpose panels as gates thank making entirely new ones. Meantime, DCC Heritage planner Andrea Farminer has been trying to organise the new manager of Heritage NZ Denise Anderson into a round-table discussion with all interested parties. Denise has proved very elusive, and possibly we should now wait until Zeal Steel has done the scoping work. Note that Heritage NZ has signed off on Tim’s plan, but retains a controlling interest in the work, as does the DCC. The steering group is very clear that the priority of work (and the UCOL budget of $25,000) should be getting functional gateway entrances to all units, especially those on High Street, where at least one owner of a one-person unit has said she would feel insecure without an actual gate. Consequently, just how we should stage all this will depend on input from Zeal Steel after the scoping project, and ‘advice' from the DCC and Heritage NZ. The memorial arch, the gates and five metres of fence could be an entirely separate project, for which community funding should be sought. The work has no functional necessity— apart from aesthetics — and it’s very reasonable to appeal for public funds. There’s historical precedent. But we will have to lead it, and be imaginative in how we ask for money from the likes of neighbours and ex-pupils.

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re draft notes of meeting thurs 12th Dec 2019
by mariannequinn＠xtra.co.nz 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Hi team: see attached. We had a full and productive meeting, as you can see from the notes. Any comments/ changes, please send on to me - preferably before 20th Dec. And as of this morning, many of us have had the opportunity to walk around the High St and Common House units and appreciate anew these spaces and how we might live in them!! Its wonderful to have the tent down and to see just how HUGE the garden space(s) will be. Room for everything - ! Best wishes to those who will be already away on 20th Dec, and looking forward to sharing a meal with all those who are around to do so. Wishing you all some peaceful time with family and friends over thee next few weeks - Marianne ( Meeting note taker for Dec 19) Marianne Quinn Level 3, 115 Stuart Street, Dunedin P.O. Box 20, Dunedin 9054 ph +6434773115 or 0211612050

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Merry Christmas from Stevenson & Williams
by Rainer Beneke 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Rob Cunningham left this for UCOL at Tim’s office. I will bring it to the potluck dinner next Saturday (21st) at Anne’s. Please call me if you need an urgent reply. Rainer Beneke +64 21 144 7700

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