facilities upgrading projects started....

committee have a regular meeting last Wednesday, after much discussion & consideration, we decide to go ahead with 3 upgrading project which will be mentioned below, but anyway the other 2 projects which have been discussed much in the past got to put on hold at the moment as the cost involved are too high, the 2 projects to be put on hold are gym (need abt 20K to convert the toilet to be gym room, haven't include the equipment yet) & multipurpose half basketball court (also need more than 20k).

the 3 upgrading projects are given a go ahead mainly because of the safety concern, property value & also it's long lasting effect such as cost saving...

1) we will change 150 sets of T5 tube soon, in fact some of the faulty light already been replaced by T5 lights, we expect longer (abt twice) life span of T5 compare to the existing T8 tube, and save 25% to 30% of energy consumption, another reason we replacing the light now is we manage to get the good offer from supplier, Malaysia made T5 with SIRIM certification only cost RM20 per set plus installation, one year warranty, so at the moment we go ahead with 150 set, and expecting ROI (return of investment) in 14 months' time.

For residents' information, the total T8 fluorescent tube we have is abt 400 set, but we would like to repalce it phase by phase so that it won't create too huge burden on the finance.

2) swimming pool grates (drain cover) - this is for the safety of pool users (especially kids) & also for beautification, which may help to boost Vista Condo's property value. Again, we would not change all the grates, but to replemish the missing one, even so, it's abt 200 ft of grates needed, which as now the best price we get from vendor is RM29 with reasonable quality, but as one Vista resident willing to sponsor part of the cost, RM1000 as he promised, so from the management account may just need to contribute less than 4K.

We understand that the pool has became one of the selling point for vista, especially both our neighbors (villa & desa relau 2) are without this pool facility at the moment, so perhaps to beautify it may add a few thousand in Vista's property value :)

3) high resolution camera, our vendor is kind enough to upgrade for Vista for free for 8 of our existing 18 cameras, as an token of appreciation for our long term support for their business for past few years on both CCTV & entrance TnG barrier. These 8 high reso cameras will be placed at main entrance (2x), all the lifts (4x), and lobby of both block (2x), we expect they will complete it this coming week, we also negotiating with them now for the remaining 10 cameras, if they willing to give very good discount (we aim at 40%) then we may want to upgrade it as well, budget should be less than 3k in total.

the main reason for this is safety, as now the crime rate still high, and with the price hike due to increase of petrol, TNB, etc, we don't see in anytime soon the crime cases will drop, and we also ask the guard to be more alert when carrying out their duties, recently we heard some complaints from residents & asked their company to change one of the guard as the person too easily to let outsiders to enter our place, hope that our residents will continue to help us to monitor the performance of vendors.

thanks.