Hi Bev - Please contact me on [email protected] as soon as possible.... Thank you
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bev P Sent: 17 February 2010 11:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [obsnw] Radio license fees. Hi Trevor Thanks for your response, understanding and excellent suggestion (food-growing-wise). I do grow my own veg but have a postage stamp garden which curtails my boundless enthusiasm somewhat. Take a ride past my place and take a look at what's growing in pots on my verandah. I fear that "cookie jars" don't work for me........I constantly dip into them. I've never been good at keeping my fingers out of cookie jars and my Mum wudda told you so. I take your point, tho', about monthly contributions being administratively burdensome. Were I an administrator I wld find that burdensome too. Concerning my financial restraints on which you have commented..... I am not complaining. I don't live in a shack in Khayelitsha. However on "retiring" (.....about three years earlier than I had wished to due to phenomenal stresses in the work place) my sweet little house in Observatory was not paid for. Resolving this issue took a HUGE proportion of my pension cash payout to close the bond. Eating into an already far-from-adequate pension in this way inevitably substantially reduced my monthly pension payouts. So moving from employee to a 'retiree' has been quite an adjustment. Adjusting to a profoundly dysfunctional public health system has also been a shock to the system......opens one's eyes to how the other half live and have lived for so long...... In fact I think our public health (non-)system contributes more to ill health than to recovery from............. But I digress..... I have a number of light fittings not working which I would love to have fixed but simply no longer have the wherewithal. I am not pleading poverty but need to state my reality as it is. In my own kind of way I'm also pretty accepting of the way things are..... Hope this helps you see where I come from. For the next couple of years I will gladly contribute say R20 annually towards the licence fee....not sure for how much longer I'll be able to continue in this way though..... Life is never as simple as I would wish it to be. Ho-hum..... Bev On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Trevor Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Bev P <[email protected]> wrote: > What percentage of ONW 2-way radio holders have contributed to the licence > fee? Helen sent out invoices to all people with a call sign - inadvertantly - I still need to tell her which people should not have been billed. Perhaps Helen can provide this answer. > As a pensioner and active patroller I have paid my R50 but it was a tough > call for me..... > I also spend quite a bit on petrol doing patrols....... Ok Factors I guess I did not consider. The payment is certainly not inflexible. I just did not think that for anyone living in a house in Obs R50 for a year can be a big deal but I am obvioulsy not correct. Bev we will sort something out with you as you are one of the most active patrollers and have contributed a lot with out any compensation. > A suggestion..... > I wonder whether if the ONW continues taking licence fee money from > pensioners, whether they (the pensioners) might not be asked to contribute > what they can afford.......rather than hold them to R50. The R50 was already a reduction from the R100 for those who could afford. But I have taken what you say into consideration, and honestly if one can not afford it the fee can be waived entirely - I don't think anyone will object to that. > Also, perhaps pensioners who patrol actively might even have the call for > R50 waived in lieu of money spent on petrol for patrols ? I think this is also fair enough and I addressed it above for you. > Alternatively...... > Perhaps radio holders could contribute towards the licence fee on a monthly > basis to lessen the blow at crunch-time ? I think that would be a little burdensome on our adminisrators who also give freely of their time. Perhaps people could have a little money jar and put in R50 a month so when the time comes they have the cash. > I also think that when people are called on to purchase a radio they should > at the same time be told of the annual licence fee cost. Point Taken. I think we did try and levy the R100 fee in advance as each radio was purchased - We are now into the second year so hence the additional levy. However I know some people were not charged and this might have led to confusion. Also some people are using radios for which they did not pay so they would have been unaware of this. I think this has been adequately taken care of now, and I think everyone knows about it now! > > These days I don't go and buy a bag of tomatoes......I get one or two at a > time in the hope that the money I have will stretch to the end of a > month.........which it seldom does. > Finally, and please do mistake this for me being flippant or anything, grow your own! A small potted plant can produce a lot of tomatoes. Start one every second month and you should never run out! And you can have fun doing so. Trev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. 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