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BUCCLEUCH RESIDENTS ACTION COMMUNITY(BRACE)
MINUTES OF MEETING
Meeting Subject: Annual General Meeting
Chairperson: Dave Tennant
Venue: Cesco’s Kelvin
Date: 04/08/2009
Time: 18h30 – to – 20h00
PRESENT:
Dave Tennant Maria Gerondoudis Chris Bown
Gerard Deeb Peter Gallon Peter Berner
Barbara Tennant Gary Clarke Sandy Goodall
Moriti Rasefate Mike Kingaby Kevin McCraw
Jo McCraw Andrew McMurray David Ofentse Malatji
Veronica Kotze Samora Sipatala Arthur Pentz
Sue Pentz Shane Mohabier Tebogo Sithathu
Ellie Whitcutt Julia Haywood Stephen Gibbs
Gerard von Schendel Alister Mamabar Ralph Varathaiah
Derek Judson
APOLOGIES:
Jac Messersmidt Chantelle McGourty Dumisa Dlamini
Lapo Dlamini Sadik Khan Linda Wilkins
Clive Cohrain Dr. R Samsunder
DISTRIBUTION:
BRACe Members
MINUTES:
Item Action Resp.
Dave welcomes and thanks all for coming. Declares a
1. Welcome quorum.
2. Chairman’s Dave presents the accomplishments of BRACe to date
Report highlighting:
Legal status – Section 21 company established
Dave informs the meeting that the Memorandum and
Articles of Association of BRACe were taken out of the
Companies Act (1973).
Document number: Approved by: Buccleuch Residents Action Community Prepared by: Maria Gerondoudis
Title: Minutes Of Meeting Approval date: Page 1 of 4
In light of the new Companies Act signed by the president
recently and certain changes directors feel will be in the
interests of members of BRACe, the steering committee will
be reviewing the Memorandum and Articles of BRACe
within the next 6 months to ensure full compliance with the
new Companies Act and other improvements for the benefit
of the members of BRACe.
These proposed changes will be presented to members for
approval.
Service Level Agreement with ADT
Only community block-watch in Sandton
Buccleuch Police Station - REMAINS OPEN
First ever IDP submission for Buccleuch to COJ
Community signboards
Website
Newsletter
Upgrade of Gibson Drive / Old Pretoria Rd approved
BRACe membership growing - 83 (debit orders signed)
Parkville road widened & tarred
Undesirable development blocked
Participation in SAPS, CPF, Region A ratepayers
meetings
Introduction of domestic watch
He presents the crime statistics and challenges facing
BRACe:
Service Delivery
Report & Follow up
Water & Sewerage
Potholes & Road Markings
Street lights
Grass Cutting
Cleaner Suburb
Recycling
Clean up business sites & streets
Enforce by-laws – street vendors, squatting, dumping,
littering, illegal structures
Grass cutting & planting trees in open areas
Improved Property Values
Object to & stop undesirable developments
Promote & encourage worthwhile development
Reduced crime & cleaner suburb
Traffic
Road rules – law enforcement
Access roads to be changed
Speed bumps & traffic circles
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Title: Minutes Of Meeting Approval date: Page 2 of 4
Other
Develop recreational facility
Lobby for High School
Raise level of Bridge Road bridge
Expand membership, commitment & funding
Dave thanks Peter Berner for his personal contribution to
reduce the crime in the suburb.
Peter thanks and adds that trio crimes in the Sandton area
have decreased by 31.5%.
He highlights challenges to combat crime and announces
the relocation of the fire-arm registration unit of Gallo Manor
police station to Buccleuch. This means increased police
presence and visibility.
He adds that the cluster’s central police station will be Gallo
Manor housing various task teams and police personnel will
increase to 350 in the sector. CAC and SCPF will contribute
two more vehicles to the sector.
Peter urges residents to ensure domestics are legally
working in South Africa.
Dave presents the financial statements. Calls for
acceptance.
Peter Berner proposes. Gary Clarke seconds.
3. Councillor’s Cllr Annette Deppe addresses the meeting highlighting
Address issues of:
Crime
Water
Service delivery
Infrastructure
Frankenwald
Traffic violations
Residents raise water problems – some areas of Buccleuch
had no water for one week. Others still have extremely low
pressure. One resident highlighted municipal strikers who
sabotaged water deliver and threatened private contractors
who were employed to reconnect supply.
Cllr informs residents of water trucks available from
Zandfontein depot in case of outages.
Cllr to give Maria details of relevant person to contact re
investigation into outages.
Cllr to request engineers to come out next week to inspect
infrastructure.
Cllr supports mixed use development of Frankenwald giving
access into Buccleuch.
Cllr highlights the need of a precinct plan to outline a
framework of development for Buccleuch and Frankenwald.
Residents complained about traffic violations particularly by
taxi drivers but also members of the public.
Cllr suggests a blitz by JMPD or calming measures.
Another resident suggests we contact the taxi associations.
Cllr Deppe to follow up on robots at Maxwell Drive.
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Title: Minutes Of Meeting Approval date: Page 3 of 4
4. Domestic Watch Chris Bown presents the domestic watch programme. 22
people were present including Peter Berner of SAPS and
Dave Tennant who both addressed the meeting.
Chris outlines the advantages and urges all to send their
domestic employees and to attend themselves.
The next one is on 19th August and 11h30.
Cllr informs of packages available to domestics and urges
residents to protect them and their future as they protect
employers.
5. Membership Dave thanks Julia Haywood for her contribution to forming
Election of the section 21 company and her valuable legal advice.
Directors Membership and membership fees were discussed. Further
Appointment of deliberation is required on the subject.
Auditors Resolution was passed to extend section 21 membership to
all members of BRACe.
Peter Berner proposes, Julia Haywood seconds.
Resolution was passed to extend the number of directors to
three. PB proposes and JH seconds.
Current directors resign, but are eligible for re-election.
New directors proposed: Dave Tennant, Maria Gerondoudis
and Gerard Deeb.
All three carried unanimously.
Maria to contact remaining BRACe members for debit order
activation.
Re-appointment of auditor: N.Nicolaou. Proposed by PB and
seconded by JH.
Dave informs the meeting that ADT will provide a further
reduction in Armed Response fees to their clients in
Buccleuch. Our original fee was to be R313.50 for those
clients contributing to BRACE. The new rate will be R296.40
(Incl. VAT).
6. AOB Mike Kingaby addresses the meeting outlining his
involvement in CAER to protect the interests of Buccleuch.
All agree that he should continue his good work under the
BRACe umbrella.
7. Closing Dave closes the meeting and thanks all for attending.
and thanks
Meeting adjourned at 20h00.
Next meeting: Wed 03 September 2009, Cescos
Document number: Approved by: Buccleuch Residents Action Community Prepared by: Maria Gerondoudis
Title: Minutes Of Meeting Approval date: Page 4 of 4
