Annual General Meeting

Dear Residents

Please remember our Annual General Meeting on the 25^th June 2019 at 1845 for 1900 at Benoni Lake Club.

Audited Financials are available to contributing members – please just send in a request – full presentation of details on the night.

Attached is a nomination form for Committee members to serve in the coming year – please feel free to nominate yourself or someone you think is suitable.  Remember they MUST be contributors of at least 6 months in standing; they must be able to attend at least 60% of Committee meetings which are held once monthly and commit to the work allocated to them.

We also need new blood in Directors, however you must serve at least two years on Committee before you can be a Director.

It is June and chilly out there so we want matters to go ahead as quickly as possible.  In the interests of a” to the point” meeting please submit your questions to us timeously so that the correct responsible person can attend to a full detailed response.

Lakewest Residents Association

Residents Meeting

Dear Residents

Many thanks to those of you who made time to come to the Residents meeting on Tuesday evening.  A particular thanks to those who volunteered to start paying; sponsor new initiatives and sponsor Sher Gate! 

A very lively discussion ensued and there are lots of ideas the Committee will look into – further info will be forthcoming shortly.  We have two new volunteers too for the Committee and a couple of folk who will help out where they can – always a great way to get Community together.

Please do review all the attached docs so you are up to date with that is currently happening.  Specially sent to you on Friday so you have the whole weekend to review them all!)   You will receive two mails as the presentation with history and background is quite a large attachment.  Thank you for your patience.

If you have any great ideas to add – please send us a mail detailing exactly what you suggest – bearing in mind – we do not own the streets of LWRA and have to abide by the laws and by laws of the Country and the Council.  Many suggestions were received that we have investigated over the years but most we know go against our agreement with Council or Council have turned down our requests.

But we will continue to do our best.

We look forward to bringing you more news in the near future.  Our AGM will be in April this year – we will give you plenty of time and warning – please make an effort to be there this year so we can vote on new ideas and get them implemented!

News Letter

Dear Residents

We have such exciting news to share with you – please read the Announcement first then the details of what ANPR is all about (both documents in the documents list bellow). We spent the whole of last year investigating this to ensure we can give you the best deal available.

Just to give you an example of what the ANPR is capable of we would like to share a short story of our experiment in December.

The Committee installed upgraded cameras at the Sunny Road boom late in November that are capable of working with the Syntel system.  These cameras are very hi-tech and capable of gathering much more info that our current cameras can

Syntel very kindly loaned us their system for a trial period over December and connected it to the new cameras

During this trial period a young man was followed into our area by a few hooligans from the far East Rand.  They knew we had cameras etc so put their lights on bright in order to blur the images we would normally recover, and then proceeded to beat this young badly

The guard had called for backup and being the cowards they are – they fled the scene!

Fortunately our new system recorded the details and we were able to give the victims and SAPS excellent info of registration and face recognition = we were informed recently that two arrests have now been made!

Please do consider being a sponsor or donor – we can give you a full tax deductible invoice for advertising or sponsorship which you can use at your discretion.

Level Seven will be our Fibre provider and have offered LWRA a special rate plus a commission to LWRA – if we get enough support from Residents it will assist us with monthly overheads related to the new system. – please see form (in the document list below) to complete and send back to us and Scott in order for us to arrange.  scottymeredith001@gmail.com

Thank you

LWRA Chairman and Committee

News Letter

Dear Residents

Many thanks to those of you who supported us last Tuesday night!  We also thank everyone who continues to support us with their monthly contributions.

As you will see from the attached minutes – we are now looking at Proactive solutions to stop crime before it happens- in the past we were more reactive.

This, as always, costs money- so please do continue to support us – we know times are tough – if you are having any financial difficulties feel free to contact us to find a solution – we much rather have you on board than not at all.

Some of our new innovations might be confusing if you were not at the meeting – do feel free to contact with any queries and concerns you have – along with any positive solutions.  If you do have a comment to make reply to this email address so that we can direct your concern to the relevant person.

(Our Committee this past year has had some lovely young new blood who are implementing lots of clever new ideas!)

If you are not yet a contributor – please do go to our web page for a full  overview of what LWRA is and does – there is an application on the web you can complete and join our community!

Kind regards

The Chair, Directors and Committee

AGM 16 Oct 2018

Winners of the Holiday prize

We’d like to congratulate Muhammed, Anisa and Rufaidah Rawat of LWRA for having won the stunning Umhlanga Sands holiday prize.

The draw was conducted at our Committee meeting in March by our Accountant who does not live in our area – thank you Aslam.

The prize is a week holiday for four at Umhlanga Sands resort which was donated by one of our active Community Families. We thank you.

Everyone who contributed an extra month during October to February was entered along with new signups from October to January.