Greetings and happy New Year all
It’s apologies again from Anthony and me. We’re looking forward, though, to coming down for meetings in March and April, when there are some reasonably priced air fares. By then we also hope to have sold our house and found ourselves a place to live until the build is complete and we’ve left our workplaces (anyone know of any jobs going in journalism and public health?). It’s shaping up to be an exciting year.
Regards
Anna
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> Greetings, and Happy New Year, everyone!
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> Hope you all have been able to have a (I'm certain!) well deserved break during the festive season!
> To get back into the swing of things, we have UCOL's first meeting of the year of 2020 already tomorrow!
> Please send items for discussion and any eventual apologies latest 4p.m. tomorrow please.
> Kind regards,
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> Sara
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> Agenda UCOL Meeting 7.30pm Thursday 9th January, 2020
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> Centre for Sustainability Seminar Room – 563 Castle Street
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> Chair: Sara Ferreira Note taker: Frances Ross
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> Present: Sara, Frances
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> Appreciations:
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> 1. Changing from synthetic to wool carpet. (Marianne, Frances)
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> 2. Open Forum
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> Next Meeting – (23rd January)
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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, …
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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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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
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/
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 …
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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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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 …
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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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