For those who could not make it to the AGM this year, here are the minutes from the meeting, including the chair's report about activities, issues and news from within the Kom community.
About 90 Kom residents attended the meeting, which was held at the Kommetjie Christian Church, who kindly let KRRA use their venue. After a brief icebreaker by Gerard Tanesse (top right), which had people greeting each like a long lost friend, the audience heard reportbacks from a range of volunteer team leaders.
Topics included the Swan Lodge development, or lack thereof, baboons, alien and waterway clearing, indigenous planting, buildings and development, media and comms, social fabric, resilience, financial report and road safety.
The social fabric team presented Chair Patrick Dowling with a special award for his "outstanding contribution to the social fabric of the Kommetjie community and surrounding communities in the southern peninsula".
The team at KRRA work without renumeration, but we do require funds to pay for the many fixed costs we incur, such as labour and other expertise (occasionally legal fees), as well as other hard costs such as equipment hire, fuel, printing and more, in the course of all the activities we are involved in to keep, for instance, walkways maintained, steps built for access, aliens cleared, trees and fynbos planted, signage and more.
Thankyou for your donation!
Consider a monthly or one-off EFT payment at details below, or via Snapscan here
Include your name and the code below for the volunteer KRRA work you wish to support!
General 1, Parks and Open Spaces 2, Alien clearing 3, Beach Cleanup 4, Waterways Maintenance 5, Indigenous Planting 6, Walkways Maintenance 7, Traffic & Roads 8, Social Fabric 9, Development & Infrastructure 10, Media & Communications 11, Local Enterprise 12, Resilience 13
KRRA
Standard BankFish Hoek (036009)
Account number 374221065
Why?
The KRRA has existed for eight decades and is run by volunteers who work on issues from spatial planning, road safety, social fabric, resilience (disaster mitigation), and environmental integrity such as alien clearing, indigenous planting, beach cleanups, and the restoration of our rivers and wetlands. We get walkways fixed and look at better access. We monitor building and development, and put together alerts and updates via newsletter and social media. We deal with issues that benefit you.We would ask for some reciprocation financially (as well as ideas or volunteers) to enable the above work, which sometimes includes serious issues with legal fees attached. If every Kommetjie household donated just R50 a month (less than R2 per day), the KRRA would have a healthy enough budget to tackle almost anything thrown our way.
Contact Patrick Dowling on 084 966-1249 for additional information.
We follow legal procedure with monthly agendas and an AGM where a treasurer’s report is presented and we report back to the community. We encourage Kom residents to attend the next AGM. You will be notified via email, social media and a banner as you enter Kom.
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