Subject: Observatory
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:57:02 +0200
From: Nodi Murphy <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Mr Herron,
you are the ward Councillor for my area, Observatory. However I see from
the website, wherein I found your address, that you have many CT suburbs
under your remit. You must be a busy man.
I have recently joined the Observatory Neighbourhood Watch (ONW) and am
a subscriber to both the ONW WhatsApp and URGENT group. I rue the day.
It never stops!
Mine was a quiet life - only 4 attempts to steal my car (a Nissan 1400,
very popular) and some R4,000 to replace locks (doors, ignition and gear
lock) all told. And then there was that time that I had to relay 16
bricks that had been prised out of my driveway to support my neighbours'
car when all four wheels were stolen... That's over a 4 year period. Not
much to complain about, really. I haven't been accosted at my front
door, as was my other neighbour a year ago. Well, not yet.
So, back to the ONW... it is a litany of woes. I used to have a quiet
life, but now I am privy to every disaster (an elderly woman held up at
knife point in her bed only yesterday in the block opposite the swimming
pool, a young woman being held up at knife point outside her house at
5pm today in Bellevliet - still light, you understand - to mention only
2 recent incidents) that happen in the streets around me on a daily
basis. We ONW members are talking about funding some kind of 'response'
team walking our streets every day and night. Neither the City nor the
"improvement district", to which I contribute (without choice, you
understand) R106.16 a month, are managing the situation.
Then there's my bin. I put it out every Monday. My street (Duke) is
narrow, so the rubbish men drag the bins to either end of the street,
sometimes emptying the one into the other so as to drag fewer bins. It's
random, but from time to time my bin is ignored, or passed over by
mistake, or...
I receive my rates bill with monotonous regularity. I'd really like my
rubbish to be removed at the same pace... It takes precious time and
humour out of my day to call the City to say 'I'm not feeling the
love... the love I pay for.. "
I recycle, the amount I put out of a week is small, but I want it taken
away - when I put it out. I call the City... they'll send out a truck to
fetch my rubbish. Really?! One whole truck to fetch just my overlooked
rubbish? How ridiculous! It's that, or I must contact the waste disposal
unit myself to ask them to remember my bin...I pay a bill to the City,
why should I now have to spend my time and the cost of another call (no
doubt as lengthy as the call to the City as I listen to 'your call is
important to us, we are experiencing high volumes of calls..' for 15
minutes...).
I recycle.. I *pay* for my paper and some plastic to fetched from my
doorstep to be recycled weekly, and other plastic goes for the eco-brick
project run by Montebello, so I have little in my bin. Can I negotiate
and pay for a bi-monthly removal? Once a month, perhaps? No. All or
nothing! That being so, I'd like my bin to be emptied... every week.
Surely you have an office of sorts in this Ward. Where is it? When are
you here? Do you hold clinics for your constituents? When are those
times? I would like to be sent the schedule of when you are in the
neighbourhood.
Faithfully,
Nodi Murphy
15 Duke Street
Observatory 7925.
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