Thank you Paddy, for your swift response.
I shall take a turn about your office soon.
No, I don't want to join any Board. I've spent 21 years running an NGO
and have had my fill of quorums!
best
Nodi
Dear Nodi,
I assist Councillor Herron. The Ward office is in the Observatory
Community Centre on the first floor. There is a free phone to Council
outside the office as well. The number at the office is 0214479630.
Naazneen is the PA who will answer the phone.
You can use 0860103089 to report your waste problems.
At present Obsid is restructuring. A new Operations Manager will be
announced soon. I believe that the Security Company that is currently
contracted is coming to the end of its contract and the tender will be
open to renegotiation. I am of the opinion that nothing curbs crime
better than bobbies on the beat but that is an operational matter for
the Board.
I will say that our relationship with Woodstock SAPS has taken a turn
for the better with the appointment of Constable Berry as our Sector
Commander. He is hardworking and responsive. However you probably have
his number via the ONW page.
You seem passionate about Obs. If possible I would suggest that you
join either the Obs Civic or the Obscid Board. Councillor Herron
regularly appears at both bodies.
Paddy Chapple
0835300265
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *Nodi Murphy
*Sent:* 08 June 2015 11:00 PM
*To:* Veronica Paulse; Yvette Coetzee; ONW; [email protected]
*Subject:* [obsnw] Fwd: Observatory
*Subject: *
Observatory
*Date: *
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:57:02 +0200
*From: *
Nodi Murphy <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
*To: *
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>,
[email protected] <mailto:[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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