Residents Association & Sewage Meeting for Option 3

13 Residents/Homeowners met half way down Wall Street on Sunday at 12pm to discuss and make a final decision on "Option 3" as proposed by Frank at the last meeting.

Of the 10 eligable households, 8 were in agreement with Frank's suggestion that we should all run the sewage system via an elected committee and make use of all of our skills. Unfortunately despite this landslide majority, the only two households that disagreed were Phil and Andy King, who between themselves had decided after the last meeting much to our dismay took things into their own hands and took control. Despite the fact that the last vote was not unanimous (see previous post).

We discussed Franks proposal, and there was a landslide majority - that we would all manage the pump - questions were asked about why people who don't reside have a key - Frank's wife made a very good point about why the key had been issued to Andy and his father in-law, and who had the right to make such a  decision  for all of us. This seemed to polarise attitudes for all residents and the meeting then seemed to turn on the current keyholders. At the end of the discussion we said that as it was quite clear that opinions had changed that we should take control asap - we then asked who had the key now, Andy King answered - the group then informed him that Andy H & Derek will need the keys immediately so we can examine the condition of the pump equipment and start making our analysis of the situation.

They stated to everyone that they would not hand over the keys to the new majority, citing that the owners of the pump room would not agree with it. Regrettably Andy left the proceedings, followed 20 minutes later by Phil, as things were clearly not going the way they had hoped.

The rest of us, the majority of 8 households - then formally proposed and voted on a residents comittee who would be formally in charge of pump management, and be accountable to all residents - first a treasurer, Puck (Mark Burgess) and Frank Bollu as chairman of the residents committee.

We stated that our first mission is to get the padlock removed so the elected comittee can run the sewage system in the way the majority of residents want it to be handled.

Talks are currently going on to this end with Puck and Andy King.