Ucol-shareholders April 2021

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draft notes from last night's meeting
by Jan Burch 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Morena Toiora After all that sun yesterday our grass is going to be enjoying a bit more rain. I've taken responsibility for getting these jobshare-notes from the meeting last night out so please send me corrections. Thanks Jan

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Phone system and internet.
by Alex King 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

*Phone system** * I propose to have a common (landline) phone system for those who want to subscribe. It would cost ~ $5 per month for an extenstion line, and ~ $10 per month for a line with an external number. You would be able to move your current landline number to this system. Those prices would include a reasonable amount of call time to landlines, cellphones and common international destinations. You would need a SIP phone to access it (I have a bunch of them to lend), or a small converter box to plug in a regular phone. Or you can plug your phone into the ONTs that are installed in your unit, but that entails an extra chorus charge of $5+GST per month on top of the above prices. I am happy to advise on the gear needed. The system also needs an internet connection, it plugs straight into your broadband if you have it, or I can arrange a wireless connection to the common house internet if you don't. I am happy to set up this phone system personally and you can pay me for it, or to set it up under the body corporate and do it that way, depending on whether we prefer the BC to manage it. *Common internet* The common internet is installed, there is a temporary setup under the network name 'king'. I will change this to Toiora. The access point is temporarily in the common house window but needs to be moved to the external black wall above where it is currently, and the gear in the common house tidied away. I need to find a longer lead, and also help to bring the cable through the ceiling space and wall cladding. At our previous meeting we discussed that use of this access would be covered by the body corp fee so no extra charge for accessing this. The password is (not what I thought it was) "valleyworkspace" Thanks, Alex

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Re: [Ucol-shareholders] FW: associate membership
by Y Lee 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hello all I wanted to publicly answer Roz's questions, and am aware this is going out a bit late for inclusion in meeting tonight My responses in RED On 1/04/2021 3:09 pm, Roz Wilson wrote: > > Hi min, we won’t be there tonight but these are some thoughts I sent > to directors. Not heard back from any of them yet and wasn’t sure if > you were going to be doing it. regds roz > > *From:*Roz Wilson <michael.rosemary(a)xtra.co.nz> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 March 2021 8:14 pm > *To:* Anne Thomson <e.anne.thomson(a)gmail.com>; Catherine Spencer > <cmspencer.nz(a)zoho.com>; alex king (alex(a)king.net.nz) > <alex(a)king.net.nz>; Susan Jack <susanjjack(a)gmail.com> > *Subject:* associate membership > > Hi, not sure if we will make it tomorrow night. we have had some > thoughts about this over the years so would like to list them. not > sure what this committee is rosemarie refers to or if it even exists > so am hoping if it is a committee decision one of you will be on it. > > Our thoughts have been: > > * We need rules for all possible ass members, not just those at no. 31 > Min: I propose Rosemary & Maurice join as full Toiora members, with all the rights and obligations of other full members as practicable. They cease to be members when they leave their property for good. And obviously there will be no automatic transfer of ownership to the next owner of their property. > > * > > > * We should be doing our own maths not relying on what earthsong > charges. We know they haven’t been happy with every decision they > have made. > Min: Yes, I have done our own maths, and will present it tonight. Will provide a copy to be attached to the minutes later. > > * > > > * If there is an annual fee does this cover one member, one couple > or one household > Min: Annual fee is per household, like it is for the rest of the (non-tenant) members. > * > > > * While we still had the use of the common house think rosemarie > booked it out for a family event about once a year. > Min: Rosemary would have the same rights and obligations as other full members and tenant members. Including booking the common house if members can do that. > > * > > > * Rainer said (I think) he estimated the cohousing component of his > unit price was about a hundred thousand dollars. Which would be > take a long time to work off at $1000 a year. > Min: The Cohousing component of our unit price does not apply to Rosemary, since she does not own a unit. However, Rainer may also be wrong. I know people who would pay LESS for the restrictions co-housing puts on our units - and our difficulty in getting mortgages implies the banks agree. Note: Properties on the Waiheke Island Eco Village that Lisa Barlev came from sell at about 20% less compared to the rest of Auckland. Because the banks won't give mortgages on them. > > * > > > * Would ass membership be identical to full membership? If ass > members were allowed to be on committees or lead teams their > decisions could affect the full members’ ‘investment’ long term. > Min: I recommend full membership for Rosemary and Maurice, so not thinking about what Associate Memberships will look like yet. > > * > > > * would ass members be allowed to vote at meetings?See above > * What would it cover? Use of laundry, car parking, guest rooms etc etc > > Some of you know we have raised this once or twice before and from the > responses we felt it was in the too hard basket. No wonder!!! Regds > roz and michael > Regards Min

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Blinds
by Tim Ross 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi All, If you are interested in seeing how the honey comb blinds work with our windows Active have installed their blinds on 5 of our windows. Feel free to pop in and see how they work/look. -- *Tim Ross* Director BArch, ANZIA Registered Architect Certified Passivhaus Designer Architype Ltd. ASB House, Level 6 248 Cumberland Street PO Box 5510, Dunedin 9058 (m) 021 069 2404 (t) 03 552 0621 www.architype.co.nz

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5% thing
by Roz Wilson 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Did this disappear completely? If not how would it affect r and m if they are full members when they sell? rgds roz

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Agenda for tonight's meeting (1st April 2021)
by sara ferreira 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi everyone, please find it attached.Will we need zoom for anyone? See you (somewhere) at Toiora at 7:30.Regards, Sara

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