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Taman Desaminium Rimba and Flora residents and Jusco AEON Taman Equine staffs had a great time together today in the carnival jointly sponsored by Jusco AEON Taman Equine and Surau Raudhatul Ilmi.

There were a lot of activities carried out and shown below are some of the photos taken during the day.

The Webmaster will post more photos and videos in the next few days with full reports from the committee.

The day started with an aerobic session for the residents.

Which were later joined by the group from Jusco AEON Taman Equine

We had gotong royong at the Surau Raudhatul Ilmi Taman Desaminium.

Group photo outside the Surau Raudhatul Ilmi Taman Desaminium.

We planted some fruit trees around the surau compound.

The children were having fun with colouring competition.

The residents were checking their health and Body Mass Index (BMI) at the booth setup by nurses from pusat kesihatan.

There was an information booth and display to educate the residents on the danger of aedes mosquitoes.

The clown had a busy day with the kids as well….

The residents and Jusco AEON staff showed their soccer skills in the street soccer competition…..

and coconut bowling competition…..

The highlight of the day was the Tarik Tali competition between the Taman Desaminium residents and the Jusco AEON Taman Equine personnel.

The videos are being edited and will be uploaded to YouTube as we progress and will be posted here as soon as possible.

We would like to thank the residents of Taman Desaminium, Surau Raudhatul Ilmi committee members, the staff of Jusco AEON Taman Equine and their management, and everyone involved in the carnival. We are hoping that similar events will be organized in the future to foster closer relationships among the residents and surrounding community members. We are also hoping more residents will join future activities organized by Surau Raudhatul Ilmi, Taman Desaminiumm Rimba.

MESYUARAT AGONG TAHUNAN PERSATUAN PENDUDUK TAMAN DESAMINIUM (RIMBA) KALI KE-3

TARIKH 29 JULAI 2007
MASA 10:00 PAGI

ATURCARA MAJLIS

A. Pendaftaran Ahli Persatuan

B. Ucapan Pengerusi Majlis

C. Bacaan Doa

D. Ucapan Pengerusi Persatuan Penduduk

E. Mesyuarat Bermula

AGENDA MESYUARAT

1. Membentangkan Minit Mesyuarat Agong Kali Ke-2

2. Mengesahkan minit mesyuarat agong Kali Ke-2

3. Membentangkan Penyata Tahunan Berakhir pada 31 Dis 2006

4. Mengesahkan Penyata Tahunan

5. Membentangkan Laporan Aktiviti Tahunan

6. Membincangkan Perkara-Perkara Berbangkit :-

a) Pemilihan Jawatan AJK

b) Pindaan Perlembagaan Persatuan

c) Lain-lain

7. Ucapan Penangguhan

F. Jamuan Ringan

G. Majlis Bersurai

SEMUA PENDUDUK FLORA DAN FLORA DI JEMPUT MENGHADIRI MESYUARAT AGONG TAHUNAN INI.
SILA PASTIKAN ANDA MEMBAYAR YURAN TAHUNAN (RM20) BAGI MEMBOLEHKAN ANDA BERHAK UNTUK MENGUNDI/ DIUNDI.

Thanks to PreMC and PPTD efforts which had sought MPSJ’s assistance for the removal of the horizontal steel bars at the main entrance, RapidKL buses now can enter Taman Desaminium all the way up to Desaminium Rimba blocks for the convenience of all residence. Well done.

I am sure all Desaminium owners agree that we are short changed by Desaminium with regards to the high maintenance charges. The facilities that are accorded to the residents are also very much to be desired, to say the least. We were promised condominium facilities and yet what do we get? Other condominiums have everything but our condominium has nothing. Even some medium cost apartments near our our place has more facilities… what a shame to have name such as Taman Desaminium. Maybe Desaminium Jaya should change this project to Taman DesaMINIMUM… that will be more appropriate.

PPTD and PreMC have long recognized this problem and had always been at the forefront in fighting for residents rights to fair charges. However, maybe some residents fail to realize that…. the reasons maybe because there is nothing seem to be done by either PPTD or PreMC.

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Well folks, this two-page letter from Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan (KPKT) is the proof that PreMC and the Chairman, despite being questioned in this very forum as not having high integrity and what not, cares about the residents and had done something about the high maintenance charges problem.

Because of the complaint lodged by PreMC, the Enforcement Division of KPKT had sent the letter of demand to Desaminium Jaya to furnish them with relevant documents related to the statement of expenses accounts and the audited accounts from Desaminium Jaya.

Once we receive the relevant document, we will publish the documents for all residents to see and judge how fair/reasonable or unfair/unreasonable these maintenance charges imposed by Desaminium on residents.

We would like to stress again, controrary to some popular belief, PreMC and PPTD are two functioning bodies representing all Taman Desaminium residents, although the two associations appear to be run by certain individuals only… but that is because not all elected office bearers are committed enough to work within the team.

If only ALL residents are also committed in supporting the PPTD and PreMC…. we could have achieved much more.

Updated 12th May 2007 by Webmaster : Further comments on this post will not be approved.

Pihak PreMC ingin membuat permohonan dari pihak Desaminium Jaya dan YBR, agar dapat membuat bumbung bagi tempat letak motorsikal. Ini bagi mengelakkan motorsikal kita rosak akibat dari terkena panas dan hujan. Untuk merialisasikan cadangan ini, pihak PPTD and PreMC memohon agar anda semua dapat menurunkan tandatangan dalam petisyen yang telah saya buat. Anda diminta hadir ke Dewan Serbaguna Desaminium Rimba pada hari Sabtu ini (17 Mac 2007) jam 10:00 pagi – 12:00 tengahari.

Kerjasama dari semua penduduk amat kami hargai.

Terima kasih

Pengerusi
Pra-Perbadanan Pengurusan.

p/s: Sila maklumkan kepada jiran-jiran untuk menjayakan kempen ini. Penduduk dari Desaminium Flora turut dijemput.

Webmaster had received the following suggestion by a resident which I think is good for all. Please read and let us know yout thoughts. I hope PreMC and PPTD will follow up on the suggestion and feedbacks. TQ

I want to suggest that we create a list to identify what are the MOST IMPORTANT issues affecting ALL OF US. We can shortlist it to between 3 to 5 MOST IMPORTANT issues and discuss / share ideas how to solve it (NON IMPORTANT issues can be discussed later).

Probably we can take a poll to list which are the MOST IMPORTANT issues. Let me start the list which I think is MOST IMPORTANT to all of us.

1. Maintenance Charges (MC)
I feel that we are paying very high MC since pratically there are no facilities provided which are costlly to maintain like swimming pool, excellent landscape, GYM, etc.

2. IMPROVE THE LANDSCAPE
This will impress our visitors and hope fully will also improve the market value in the future.

3. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL
We need this schools badlly, this will motivate many house owners to shift to Tmn Desaminum. And also increase the market value for our property.

4. HIGHWAY INTERCHANGE
The PUTRAJAYA Highway should provide access for us to travel to and from KL.

These are issues which are important to me, which I belive are also
important to many others.

Please let us know what is important to you, remember to make it short to TOP 5 issues only.

Thanks to Eddie for this suggestion.

Reminder from Webmaster: Please discuss issues and suggestions with respect. Do not use words and sentences that can hurt your neighbours.

By K.W. MAK

STRATA titles are important because they grant ownership to individual purchasers, who are not recognised as owners by the Land Office until the titles are issued.

This loophole is worrisome, for should a developer ever go bankrupt, the property’s ownership could be transferred to a fresh developer’s company with a new set of requirements requiring purchasers to pay extra costs or even have the property taken away in default.

Since the issue of ownership is not addressed specifically in any of the Acts, it would be a costly court battle for owners to prove otherwise.

By right, the developer is supposed to apply for strata titles within six months of receiving certificates of fitness.

Section 20(1) of the Strata Title Act states this while Section 20(1a) allows for an extension of a further three months.

Failure to comply with this is covered by Section 22A of the Act, where the developer is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding RM5,000 and a further fine not exceeding RM1,000 for each day the offence continues.

In Penang, the Auditor General pointed out that the Land Office only prosecuted 13 developers for failing to submit the applications, despite sending 144 reminders. (The Star, Oct 7).

The reason for the lack of prosecution given by Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Abdul Rashid Abdullah was that the Land Office only prepares the cases for prosecution to be undertaken by the State Legal advisor, but it was not mentioned how many cases the Land Office had prepared to be acted upon nor was it stated if any of the developers were fined for failing to comply with the Act.

The Housing and Local Government Ministry will be tabling some amendments to the Act to address the concerns of ownership soon.

The Condominium, Appart-ment and High-rise Committee (CAHC), however, asks if the amendments would truly address the issue because strata titles are supposed to be legal documents that spell out ownership.

“While we applaud the amendments, there are some grey areas that need to be clarified,” said CAHC pro tem chairman Tengku Nazaruddin Zainuddin.

“The question involves the delivery system, compliance by the developers and, of course, enforcement.

“There seems to be no enforcement and developers are taking advantage of this. One can amend the Act yearly but if the delivery system, compliance and enforcement are absent, it does not change anything,” said Nazaruddin.

CAHC currently has more than 40 condominium and apartment residents associations under its wing and has managed to solve several issues involving members.

Currently, CAHC is working on problems faced by members ranging from harassment of vocal condominium owners to unexplained rate hikes by management corporations.

Nazaruddin said the committee is working hard to fight for the rights of condominium dwellers using the law, following procedures and documenting the process.

The efforts have yielded results, but Nazaruddin said the government should be the one taking responsibility for the problems caused by a lack of enforcement.

The committee was formed under the All PJ Pro Action Committee (APPAC) banner and consists of members from the APPAC group.

Residents who would like to get in touch with CAHC can call Tengku Nazaruddin at 012-284 9146, Chong Cheng Lai at 012-230 3639, Khong Chee Seng at 017-878 2881 and Koh Kheng Hoon at 03-7880 3084.

Failed Solutions

The Selangor Land and Mines Office tried to fix the problem of management corporations (MC) by coming up with a Pre MC solution where developers and owners form the MC prior to the issuance of strata titles in early 2005.

Koh…‘There is little we can do.’
The initiative was meant to allow residsents to learn the finer points of running a condominium while preparing them to take over management when the strata titles are issued.

Many developers do not support this and a government officer’s reply to the Kelana D’ Putera Residents Association when they tried to set up a Pre-MC was that the developers cannot be forced to agree.

“There is little we can do because the developer refused to endorse it and we have a useless piece of paper,” said Kelana D’ Putera Residents Association president Francis Koh.

Afer trying for the past seven years to get their strata titles, the Kelana D’ Putera RA was promised its titles at a meeting on Dec 9, 2005.

Selangor housing and property board executive director Alinah Ahmad chaired the meeting, with Land and Mines Office strata and development policy management committee director Dr Azimuddin Bahari and officers from related departments present.

The promise that strata titles would be issued to residents in June 2006 remains unfulfilled.

Follow up attempts by the association went unanswered until recently, with a meeting scheduled for today.

“We don’t know what else to do when the government is either ineffective or unable to process the strata titles for residents,” said Koh.

Source [The Star]

Condominiums are a statement of luxury, but behind the facade, residents complain of the lack of services from their management companies (MCs) while MCs complain that the residents who refuse to pay management fees are the ones preventing such services from being provided.

This “chicken and egg” scenario is causing a lot of dissent among condominium property owners, so much so that a group of such affected owners decided to form the Condominium, Apartment and High-rise Committee (CAHC) to champion the rights of condominium owners.

There are no quick fixes to the problems, however, as residents who got together to fight their issues discover numerous hurdles and obstacles before them.

“There is a lack of transparency in the way things are done presently and residents are tired of being taken for a ride,” said CAHC pro tem chairman Tengku Nazaruddin Zainuddin.

Arguments between residents and MCs are often the result of money matters. Residents are already paying a premium on their service charges and when such services are not up to expectations, complaints would ensue.

Most MCs do not make the matter any easier to resolve because they do not allow the management accounts and the sinking fund accounts to be viewed, citing excuses that the accounts could not be shown.

“Don’t let them cheat you. Withholding such accounts from residents is a violation of the Housing and Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 that many MCs and condominium owners themselves are not aware of,” said CAHC pro tem assistant chairman Khong Chee Seng.

Section 19 of the Act states that the developer shall provide the purchaser with a copy of the Annual Audited Accounts for the expenses incurred for the provision of the said services.

Section 20 (sub-clauses 3 and 4) meanwhile provides for the Sinking Fund accounts to be made available to the purchaser.

CAHC through the residents associations has used this Act to apply for the accounts from two MCs of condominiums located in Petaling Jaya and Klang. However, they have yet to provide a copy to owners.

Part of the reason MCs do not want to disclose their accounts is the fact that some of them charge management fees illegally.

Prior to the acquisition of the strata title, the developer is either supposed to manage the condominium or outsource the management to another person or corporation.

“Any person who undertakes property management practice is required by law to register with the Board of Valuers, Appraisers and Estate Agents,” said Board of Valuers, Appraisers and Estate Agents registrar R. Mahaletchumi in reply to a query on management fee charges.

“Nevertheless, if the condominium concerned has not been issued with strata titles, then the developer may manage the condo himself, provided he does not charge property management fees.”

The right to charge such fees lies with those registered with the Board, as stated in Section 21 of the Valuers, Appraisers and Estate Agents Act 1981.

Developers who outsource the management to a third party must ensure that the person or company is registered with the Board.

Tomorrow: Read the second part on the problem faced by condominium and apartment owners in obtaining strata titles.

Source [The Star]

Condominium, Apartment and High-rise Committee (CAHC) pro tem assistant chairman Khong Chee Seng said there are many stories of management committees (MCs) using strong-armed tactics to bully residents into paying up the management fees.

One of the tactics employed is the clamping of water meters – a penalty which some MCs have included in the in-house rules and regulations for not paying management fees.

What many MCs do not take into account, however, is that Section 35 of the Strata Title Act 1985 specifically states that condo residents have the right to support, service and shelter, which includes access to water, and that any attempt to clamp water meters is in violation of the Act.

CAHC is trying to get around this deadlock by getting the Selangor state government to legislate a law forcing MCs to hand over the water meters to Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas).

Syabas is willing to let condominium dwellers pay domestic rates, but they must first control the meters, and they cannot take control of it presently due to the ambiguity in the law on water meters governing joint-ownership properties like condominiums.

Syabas has already submitted the proposal to the state government and it would take some three months for the state government to implement, if it agrees to such a suggestion.

Other tactics include lawyers’ letters with threats of lawsuits.

Khong himself has been slapped with several lawsuits amounting to RM5mil for fighting on behalf of condominium residents.

But residents are not the only victims here. Bungah Raya Management Corporation secretary Somasundaram Venkates-waran said from his experience, MCs use water clamping to enforce payment of arrears by defaulters.

“Though this is certainly not a fair thing to do (access to drinking water is a basic human right), it has been found to be a practical, cost-effective and quick recovery method,” said Venkateswaran.

“Legal recovery procedures are expensive and time-consuming. MCs may have to wait a long time to obtain judgment from our courts, all the more so with our appellate courts system.

“In the meantime, core services including corridor and car park lighting and lift operations have to be disrupted or even stopped altogether due to the lack of collections from owners. This will obviously anger owners who are good paymasters who may also stop payment until services are restored. It is a ‘chicken and egg’ situation.”

Source [The Star]

PUTRAJAYA 28 Nov. – Kerajaan negeri akan diberi kuasa untuk melantik pesuruhjaya bangunan bagi melindungi kepentingan pembeli bangunan bertingkat daripada tarikh serah kunci hingga penyerahan Hak Milik Strata, kata Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Menurut Timbalan Perdana Menteri, perkara berkenaan terkandung dalam Rang Undang-Undang Bangunan dan Harta Bersama yang akan dibentangkan di Parlimen, bulan depan.

Beliau berkata, melalui Rang Undang-Undang Bangunan dan Harta Bersama, ia akan membolehkan pihak berkuasa negeri melantik pesuruhjaya bangunan sebelum perbadanan pengurusan diwujudkan.

‘‘Jika selepas ini kunci sesebuah projek telah diserahkan kepada penghuni dan didapati penyelenggaraan projek menimbulkan banyak masalah, maka keadaan itu boleh diatasi dengan kerajaan negeri melantik seorang pesuruhjaya bangunan bagi menentukan pengendalian bangunan dengan sempurna,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas mempengerusikan Mesyuarat Majlis Negara Bagi Kerajaan Tempatan kali ke-56 di sini, hari ini.

Hadir sama ialah Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting.

Mengenai pelantikan pesuruhjaya bangunan, Najib berkata, kerajaan negeri akan membuat keputusan mengenainya dan ia juga boleh melibatkan yang dipertua pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) atau seseorang yang layak.

Namun, katanya, jika yang dipertua dilantik sebagai pesuruhjaya bangunan, ia perlu mempunyai pasukan di bawahnya yang akan memeriksa bangunan bertingkat itu.

Pesuruhjaya bangunan itu, kata Timbalan Perdana Menteri, akan membantu menyelesaikan apa juga perkara yang menimbulkan ketidakpuasan di kalangan pembeli.

Pada sidang akhbar itu juga, Najib berkata, enam rang undang-undang yang berkaitan akan dibentang di Parlimen bulan depan bagi membolehkan kerajaan menguatkuasakan Sijil Penyiapan dan Pematuhan (CCC).

Enam undang-undang itu terletak di bawah tiga kementerian iaitu Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Kementerian Kerja Raya dan Kementerian Alam Sekitar dan Sumber Asli.

Menurutnya, CCC yang dijangka dilaksanakan dalam tempoh 18 bulan selepas enam rang undang-undang itu diwartakan, akan menggantikan Sijil Kelayakan Menduduki (CFO) yang diguna pakai sebelum ini.

Bagaimanapun, katanya, CFO akan terus digunakan untuk projek yang sedang berjalan dan bagi menentukan CCC berkesan, semua kerajaan negeri diingatkan syarat-syarat seperti kuota bumiputera bagi perumahan kos rendah hendaklah diputuskan sebelum pelan bangunan diluluskan.