Sevillana Endesa and the I.C.P.

The electricity supplying company, Sevillana-Endesa, is now sending letters to you all for various reasons:

1) First, if your contract is for more than 10kw, you MUST select a supplier. You can continue with Endesa, or you could choose a different one. But you must act, otherwise your bill will increase.

If your contract is for less than 10kw, then you CAN select a different supplier if you want to, but if you don't do anything, you will remain with Endesa.

2) Second, they are requesting you to have an ICP. This is a switch that controls the maximum power you can use at a time. The first thing you have to do is check whether you already have one. Go to your electric box and check for a part, similar to others, called ICP. It must have those 3 letters somewhere. If you can't find those letters, it looks like you don't have one.

The letter you are receiving from Endesa says that you can:

a) Find your own electrician and have it fitted, but then you have to call Endesa to seal it
b) Accept endesa's offer to rent it for less than 10 cents euro/month.

We recommend this second option, because it is easier and cheaper.

In any case, our advice is that:

a) You go to your electric box, usually at the entrance of the house, and check whether you have an ICP

b) Get one of your latest bils, and with that in your hand...

c) Phone 902.50.88.50. Then, just say "english please", until you hear someone talking in english.

It is useless to call if you don't have your bill in your hands and you haven't checked the ICP beforehand.

NEXT EGM, possibly 22nd May 2010

Dear Owners,

As you will be aware, a decision was taken at the AGM on 14th March to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting, in order to consider several matters including the painting programme, the future on-site management of the urbanization and issues around the Administrator’s services to the community.

Since the AGM, there has been much discussion within the committee and investigation of costs. For me, this has been by telephone and email. The original intention was to try to hold the EGM in April but it proved impossible to obtain all the necessary information in sufficient time to assess everything thoroughly and to send out papers to owners.

The intended date for the EGM is now Saturday 22nd May, in the morning. This should allow for papers to be sent to owners in good time.

However, it will be impossible to confirm this date until the current problems with air travel resulting from the volcano in Iceland are resolved. I myself have flights booked and was expecting to be in Spain from 21st April to 28th April, to discuss the various issues and assess the information which is available with some members of the committee and to meet with the Administrator. In particular we were intending to address the concerns over the gardens. This trip is now looking in serious doubt and I understand that there are forecasts of possible disruption to air travel for some time to come.

I will, of course, contact you again when we can be more definite.

Yours sincerely,

Graham Walker
President

Roof works

The company whose quote was accepted to carry out the roof repairs has the work well underway. They had hoped to complete the work this week, but due to the return of the heavy rains, it is too dangerous to be up on the roof-tops. Neal has confirmed that, weather permitting, he will return to the community to complete the work at the beginning of next week, with the intention to complete on Tuesday 20th. Neal confirmed that he has managed to obtain the same tiles (despite the model being an old batch). On completion, he will invite Kevan up to inspect his work and see all the repairs and replacements that have been carried out.

Minutes AGM 2010 sent

The minutes of the AGM held 13th March 2010 have just been sent to all owners by email, in pdf format. If you can't read them, please ask for a copy in word or any other format.

The date for the EGM is still to be confirmed, possibly will be postdated to May so we have time to get more estimates for painting.

Works on going

Dear Owners,

There are 3 works currently under progress in FSA,

SCAFFOLDING:
The scaffolding has been erected by Colin Thackham at the president's request in order to investagate a problem with a gable-end window that affects Apartment 19, will be removed as soon as possible

ROOF REPAIRS:
The other work to repair the roofs, will be done from Wednesday 7th April onwards, and will consist of repairing all necessary areas of the four blocks in the community,thisis being carried out by: Total Building and Maintenance Solutions : www.buildinginspain.com The contact is Neal Toplis (m.660.659.857) email: Info@buildinginspain.com

GYM DOOR
Macosur has completed the installation of the doors in the Social Club/Gym and just need to return to finish off painting once the plaster has had time to dry out properly.

By the way, the swimming pool inspector has visited the community today and Kevan has assisted her in showing her the pools and toilet area in the community. We must await her report regarding the works that are needed to enable us to be issued with the opening license.

Garden areas

This is the plan done by Kevan on the garden areas of our community, to have a better organisation. You will see some references to the areas in the work-sheet that he sends every week.

New door for the gym

This Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th March, Lee Cashin from MACOSUR will be carrying out the work for the installation of the doors in the community Social Club. He expects to have completed the job by Thursday evening.

Lee has Kevan's details and will contact him to arrange opening up and bringing his materials on site.