FORUM - SUBJECT MATTER REQUEST

Dear BVV Owners,

Please use this section as our general forum, for you to submit questions or request for a subject matter to be created so that other BVV members could work on. For example, you would like all BVV members to specifically discuss on SECURITY related issues. With your request, I shall create a SECURITY posting for its purpose.

Regards
JMB Committee

Monthly Maintenance / Service Charges

Dear BVV Owners,

Please be informed that effective January 2009, all monthly maintenance / service charges are to paid to JMB joint community account. Particulars on will be announced soon. So tune in for more information in near future. Thank you.

JMB Committee

Good News,

Some of you have been asking pertaining to the budget airport to be built at Negeri Sembilan, which may be a booster to our Bay View Villas development in the future. So here it is.

AirAsia, Sime Darby to build new Malaysian budget airport: Report
Malaysia has approved plans by budget carrier Air Asia and conglomerate Sime Darby to build a new low cost terminal within reach of the capital, according to media reports. The new terminal, to be called "KLIA East @ Labu", will be built on a 2,800 hectare site (6,919 acres) in the central state of Negri Sembilan under a private finance initiative, costing 1.6 billion ringgit (461 million dollars), the New Straits Times said. It will also anchor Sime Darby's developments in nearby Labu, which include five new townships that will offer education, health, sports, high technology, recreation and entertainment services, the paper reported. Transport Minister Ong Tee Keat was quoted in the Star daily on Sunday as saying that plans to expand an existing low-cost terminal were insufficient to handle the projected 30 million passengers by 2014. Ong said he could not give a timeline on when work would start on the project but industry sources told the paper a groundbreaking ceremony was being planned for late January with construction expected to be completed in two years. "We want to ensure passengers will be able to move from both places speedily, smoothly and efficiently," he added.

The paper said the new terminal would be slightly closer to downtown Kuala Lumpur than the present low-cost terminal and will boast more road and rail links. An AirAsia official told the Star that the carrier's fares could drop by as much as 15 percent when the new terminal opens. AirAsia has been lobbying the government to build a bigger low-cost carrier terminal to meet increasing passenger capacity which is expected to rise despite the present global economic downturn.

Quick Summary of December 14, 2008 Gathering @ BVV

Greetings,

Once again, thank you All who have taken time off to be with us at this meeting. The attendance could have been better if our Singaporean friends were able to come. Well we hope to get in touch with them soon. While awaiting for our next minutes of meeting to be sent off, here are the key issues discussed.

a) Elected committee members were reminded to avail themselves at all future JMB meetings whilst all owners are most welcomed to join in. Notice of meeting will be made known to all through this site, http://www.bayviewvillascommunity.blogspot.com/
b) Members were informed to study financial reports prepared by Hokawai and forward questions (if any) to JMB
c) Improving of present financial standing is key to the success in maintaining & upkeep of BVV
d) Members are advised to make prompt monthly maintenance payment effective Jan 2009
e) Target to improve present 153 'quality' payers to ~200
f) Hokawai to ensure 'payment history' checked before issuing reminders/calls or removal of utilities meters
g) Hokawai to revert with recommendation on setting up of an 'In-house BVV' management office
h) BVV house rules will be implemented soon
i) To publish a complete list of owners to faciliate contact / network / collection
j) Next gathering likely in March 2009 when financial statement ending 2008 is ready.

regards

24 November, 2008

Inaugural Message from the Chairman of Bay View Villas Condominium Joint Management Body (JMB)

Greetings To All Owners,

To most of us, this has been a long awaited occasion for a JMB to be established. Well, it is finally here. The 1st Annual General Meeting of the Bay View Villas Condominium Joint Management Body (“JMB”) was convened on 10 May 2008 pursuant to the AKTA BANGUNAN DAN HARTA BERSAMA (maintenance & management) 2007 (AKTA663), sub-section 7(2) and was approved by the Commissioner of Buildings (COB) with the issuance of a certificate (Series No:005) dated 4 November 2008.

On behalf of the Joint Management Body (JMB), I take this opportunity to introduce to you the following office bearers (Joint Management Committee – “JMC”) whom we have put together in accordance to the provision stipulated in the same article as mentioned above at last election held on 10th May, 2008 at Port Dickson. As provided in the Act, JMC members are elected to perform the duties of the JMB. The JMC shall also consist of the Developer (in this case, the Liquidators) as a member.

To mention briefly, the duties of the JMB as set out in Section 8 of the Act includes the followings:-
(a) to properly maintain the common property and keep it in a state of good and serviceable repair;
(b) to determine and impose charges that are necessary for the repair and proper maintenance of the common property;
(c) to comply with any notices or orders given or made by local authorities or any competent public authority requiring the abatement of any nuisance on the common property, or ordering repairs or other work to be done in respect of the common property or other improvements to the property; and
(d) to ensure that the Building Maintenance Fund is audited and to provide audited financial statements to the purchasers.

The Act also provides the JMB with powers to collect from the purchasers the maintenance and management charges, and to recover from any purchasers any sums expended.

In brief, we had our first inaugural JMC meeting on 9 November 2008 at Port Dickson followed by our 2nd JMB meeting on November 21, 2008 at Hokawai’s Office, Kuala Lumpur. For more details, please refer attached minutes of meeting. Going forward, I am seeing this as a historic time for owners of Bay View Villas. For the first time, we are able to represent ourselves at this level so that our voices be heard and acted upon. Our unspeakable experiences with Cempaka Mewah Sdn Bhd – In Liquidation and the past Property Manager have not been forgotten but we believe that with much concerted effort from all of us as a community, this resort will be revived and be given a new lease of life.

On this note, I would also like to record my gratitude to KPMG (Liquidators) and Hokawai Sdn Bhd (Property Manager) for their supervision and safe-keeping to our properties since their participation in 2004, otherwise the condition could have been worse. Nevertheless, the JMC has affirmed to our Property Manager that much work has to been done, for example on GENERAL SECURITY to begin with. I would like to stress that in the interest of our family safety, and security from the intrusion of strangers trespassing into our compound, strict security measures and checks must be imposed at all times without compromise. A newly revised HOUSE RULES shall be implemented soon to further safe guard the common facilities from being vandalized, to contain ‘uninvited guests’ as well as unlawful activities within the premises. However we assure you that this will not burden owners who have engaged caretakers to maintain their respective units but nevertheless basic house rules must be adhered to.

To kickoff, I am delighted to inform you of our very first ‘OWNERS’ CARE MEETING CUM GATHERING to be held on 14 December 2008, Sunday 5.00pm, at Bay View Villas poolside.
You and your family members are cordially invited to meet up with fellow owners to further discuss and understand our future plan of actions inclusive of our many Singaporean friends. Refreshment will be served. Henceforth, I truly urge all owners to take time off to join us at this gathering so as to give your support and feedbacks in determining how you want this resort to be managed. I look forward welcoming professionals such as Lawyers, Accountants, Architects and others to be part of the team too. So if there’s going to be one overarching theme for this first inaugurated JMB, it's going to be to give all owners of Bay View Villas a reason for hope with aspiration in renewing and restoring our properties. So give yourself a chance simply because WE BELIEVE WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENT in transforming this resort into a better and a livable place for all.

Thank you again for your kind support and hope to see you all soon.


Yours sincerely

Chong Yee Wah
Chairman

JMC Bay View Villas