Notice - Rental Of Car Parks

Here is a Notice from Management on the opening of car park bays for rental. Registration opens from 10.00 am, Saturday, 16th August 2008.

NOTICE

Ref No: G/Sutramas/2008/008

5^th August 2008

To all valued OWNERS/occupants

SUTRAMAS CONDOMINIUM

AVAILABLE CAR PARK BAYS FOR RENTAL

Please be informed that for the convenience of Owners/Occupants who require extra car park bays to park their vehicles, we have identified available car park bays in Sutramas and your Joint Management Committee has agreed to open available car park bays at LG3 for rental (‘Rental Car Park Bays”). Owners/Occupants who are interested to take up these Rental Car Park Bays can come forward to the Management Office to register for the Rental Car Park Bays starting from 16^th August 2008 (Saturday) from 10.00 am.

The terms & conditions for rental of the Rental Car Park Bays are as follows:-

1. The rental rate for one (1) Rental Car Park Bay is RM 150.00 per month or RM 120.00 per month depending on the location of the car park bays.

2. The Rental Car Park Bay will be rented out on first come first serve basis.

3. The rental period for each Rental Car Park Bay is one (1) year.

4. One (1) month rental deposit and three (3) months advance rental shall be paid upon confirmation of rental of the Rental Car Park Bays. Subsequently, the car park rental shall be paid promptly latest by 7^th day of each month.

5. Access card and car sticker will be issued upon confirmation of rental of Rental Car Park Bays.

6. The Rental Car Park Bays shall be used for the purpose of parking vehicles only.

Owners/Occupants who have extra vehicles (in excess of your car park allocation) are strongly advised to act promptly to take this opportunity to rent these Rental Car Park Bays to ensure that your extra vehicles are parked at authorized car park bays to avoid inconvenience of having your extra vehicles clamped as the number of car park bays in Sutramas is limited.

Should you require further clarification, kindly contact your Condo Manager at 03-6252 8118 or 03-6252 1966 during office hours.

Thank you.

The Building Management

Sutramas Condominium

Notice From Management - 29 July 2008

To all valued occupants

SUTRAMAS CONDOMINIUM

(1) REVISION OF RENTAL RATES FOR TABLES & CHAIRS,

(2) AVAILABLE LOCKERS FOR RENTAL; AND

(3) USE OF GAZEBO NEAR PUTTING GREEN

Please be informed that during the 5^th JMC Meeting held on 12^th July 2008, the Joint Management Committee (JMC) has discussed and agreed for the benefit of all occupants, the following:-

1. Revision of Rental Rates for Tables & Chairs.

The JMC has decided to reduce the rental rate for tables & chairs. This is to promote increased usage at favourable rates. With effect from 1^st August 2008, the rental rates will be revised downwards to RM 5.00 per table (inclusive of table cloth) and RM 1.00 per chair.

2. Lockers Available for Rental

With effect from 1^st August 2008, 15 lockers at both Male and Female Changing Rooms will be made available for rent at a monthly rate of RM 10.00 per locker. A refundable deposit of RM 30.00 per locker and a 3 months minimum rental period shall be required. The locker shall only be used as storage place. No illegal material, drug, combustible material and dangerous substance shall be stored inside the locker. No responsibility for the contents in the locker nor its safekeeping shall rest with the JMC or Management. Please visit Management Office for the process of renting the lockers.

3. Reservation of Gazebo for Small Function

With effect from 1^st August 2008, the end Gazebo next to the putting green will be made available for reservation for small functions. Occupants are only required to pay a refundable security deposit of RM 50.00 upon reservation. Tables & chairs are also available for rent for the functions to be held at the Gazebo.

We wish to inform that the revenue generated by these initiatives find its way to no other parties other than the residents of Sutramas itself as it would form part of the ancillary income of Sutramas. This will contribute towards meeting the cost of running the Condominium.

We hope that these initiatives would contribute to Occupants’ greater enjoyment of living at Sutramas.

Should you need further clarification on the above, kindly contact Management Office at 03-6252 8118 or 03-6252 1966 during office hours.

Thank you.

The Building Management

Sutramas Condominium

Syabas Water Rates For Condominiums

You might know, rather unhappily, that condo dwellers are charged commercial rates for water they consume. This is RM1.38 per cubic meter. Residential landed properties are charged RM0.57 per cubic meter.

Why you may ask is this the case? The rather improbable response proffered is that commercial activity may be ongoing in the condo.

Happily though, you might also know that Syabas, the water concessionaire for Klang Valley and Selangor , has initiated an avenue for applications by condo dwellers to convert bulk metering to individual metering, thus paving the way for the levying of the lower residential rate for water consumption.

Unfortunately, and also obviously unhappily, you might also know that Syabas has laid down some rules/compliances before such applications are approved, amongst them (quite unreasonably) being that the Management of the Condominium has no objections to the application and that all residents of the condo agrees to the migration exercise.

Taking the theme of this posting to its hilt, the conclusion to the current position is :-

Happily, the Management of the Condo has no issues with this,
Obviously, all residents would agree to this,
Incredibly, there is no format set as to how residents' consent is to be secured and produced,
Comfortingly, Management has initiated discussions with Syabas and is awaiting the outcome.

We too will await, with bated breath and guarded cheque books ;-).

Sutramas (KL) JMB Bank Accounts Opened

A notice has been put up informing that two banks account have been opened under the name of Sutramas (KL) JMB. The accounts are maintained at CIMB Bank at Solaris Mont' Kiara. The signatories are selected members of the JMC.

With the opening of these accounts, all funds are slated to be transferred by the developer to the hands of residents shortly.

Beginning 1st July 2008, cheques are requested to be made out to "SUTRAMAS (KL) JMB". For residents who have standing instructions through credit card debiting, it shall be informed shortly if the current arrangement will still stand as it may be required to switch the current debiting bank from HSBC to CIMB.

Should residents have any queries, please send an email to sutramas.kl@gmail.com.

Hike In Electricity Tariff - Sutramas Energy Expenditure

In the posting "Letter of 15th May 2008 from the Chairman of the JMC", cost cutting measures were introduced. The first of these was regulated illumination with the primary goal of reducing the monthly electricity bill from the current RM15,000 to RM17,000 range. The results following these changes are eagerly anticipated.

But, the recent hike in electricity tariff has indeed been a set back. See The Star at "Electricity Rates Go Up" and Bernama at "Mixed Reaction At New Electricity Tariff Structure".

The effect of these hikes will most certainly extinguish the planned savings from the regulated illumination. However, the bright side (pun certainly intended) to this is that there are many more ways to approach cost management while continuing with the plan already in place.

Assessment For Individual Units

Related to the posting immediately before this, residents are informed that Sutramas Management had also recently appealed to DBKL on behalf of all residents of Sutramas over the comparatively high assessment rate imposed for Sutramas, in comparison to the surrounding condominium complexes.

This appeal is undertaken as a further complementary appeal to any appeal undertaken by residents themselves, which is the proper appeal process.

As it is likely that any decision by DBKL would be communicated to residents directly, it is requested that if any resident is in reciept of such favourable communication, kindly inform by way of an email to sutramas.kl@gmail.com in order that a coordinated approach can be undertaken to extend such decision to all residents.

Thanks!

Waiver of Assessment for G15 and G20

Following from a recent appeal by Sutramas over the assessment imposed by DBKL for Lot G15 and G20, DBKL had advised by way of their letter dated 30 May 2008, that the previously imposed assessment had been waived.

The background to the matter is that Lot G15, which is the previous daycare/tadika centre (in front of Management Office) and Lot G20 which is the Reading Room, were previously assessed to have commercial value. This is because G15 is a daycare and G20 was previously intended as a business centre. As the tadika is now moved to 2 retail lots at the front of Sutramas, G15 is no longer to be ulitised for this purpose. On the same footing, the plan for the business centre did not take off at all, hence the Reading Room. The appeal to DBKL had proceeded on the basis that, for now, these 2 lots are no longer intended to be of commercial use and is intended solely for the use of residents. DBKL recently visited Sutramas to run a verification and being satisfied, the assessment rates were waived. As such, the Sutramas fund has one less expense.