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Muizenberg Improvement District

AGM

Monday 23 January 2012 at 19h00
George Whitefield College - corner Atlantic/Alexander Rds, Muizenberg

The current directors are available for re-election:
Janet Annandale, Anthony Dietrich, Steven Frankal, Mark Robinson, Mike Romyn, Elizabeth Milne and Peter Wright.

We want to introduce six new Portfolios and are looking to appoint Directors to fill them: Urban Development; Buildings Renewal; Events; Fundraising; Social & Welfare; and Commercial. We are also adding Human Resources to the Financial portfolio. If you want to nominate someone (yourself or another) please download and complete the Nomination Form below.

Note: It is unlikely that we will achieve a quorum for this meeting in which case the meeting will roll over to 23 January 2012, same time same place. Please diarise this date as the date that the AGM will actually take place.

Downloads

Agenda

Draft minutes from April 2011 AGM

Implementation Plan and Proxy & Nomination form

Membership Database (Excel spreadsheet)

The Board meets on the first Tuesday of each month and community meetings are held periodically as required where the public is invited to raise or discuss any pertinent matters with the Directors.

MID Success

At least fifty new businesses have been drawn to Muizenberg since the inception of the MID, and there are a host of coffee shops, restaurants, specialty shops and businesses that now draw custom to the area. Muizenberg has also become sought after as an area for property development and there have been extensive renovations and new developments throughout the MID area and greater Muizenberg in recent times.

The development of the beachfront by Faircape and associates has made an enormous difference to the type of visitors attracted to the area and once the last two phases are complete, we can look forward to a complete renaissance. The turn around in Muizenberg has been dramatic so far, but could not have been achieved had it not been for the co-operative efforts of all the community organisations and so many individuals who have dedicated, and continue to dedicate, time, money and energy to working together to make this charming town the success it deserves to be.

Projects for 2010/ 2011

Contracts have been awarded to GRIT Security Services as well as with Living Hope Community Centre to provide street cleaners. The MID Board will continue to monitor service levels and ensure these partnerships continue to be of benefit to all.

Tackling crime and grime remain the most important challenges for the MID, and our focus will remain on fostering a safer, cleaner environment.

A gardening competition was launched in September with the aim of making Muizenberg a more cheerful, brighter and nicer place for all of us to live.

An application to CTCC has been made for controlled parking on the beach front, in an effort to get rid of the unruly car guards and associated criminal elements, as well as to provide an additional source of income which MID will use to further improve safety, our environment and facilities in Muizenberg to the benefit of all.

In order to open up our CBD and create a link between the beachfront and the Palmer Road precinct, several initiatives are underway to have the electricity department trucks park elsewhere in the southern peninsula, so that the parking area can be used for a commercial enterprise that benefits the CBD.

The recently launched bi-monthly Muizenberg Network News email newsletter, which is also posted in the library and is available on www.muizenberg.info, is proving popular and will continue to be sent to as many residents as possible to ensure good communication.

The MID remains focused on, and dedicated to a safer, cleaner Muizenberg.

The MID Business Plan

The Muizenberg Improvement District, like other City Improvement Districts in the Cape Town area, share the core aim of ensuring top-up services to Council with regards to Safety and Security, and Cleanliness of the streets and environment. The major items to be funded on the MID budget remain the payment of security and street-cleaning services. The 2010/2011 budget of the MID is in the region of R979 000 of which R420 000 will be spent on security provided by GRIT Security Services and R110 000 on street cleaning provided by street people employed through the Living Hope Community Centre.

The budget is raised by approximately 8-10 % per annum to correspond with the annual cost of living increase applied to the rates by Council. The problem remains a percentage of non-payment by levy payers and Council thus retains a portion of monies to cover bad debt. We urge community members who are in arrears either with their rates or with their levies, to contact Council to come to some arrangement for payment. Payment of MID levies is of benefit to all.

The Establishment of the Muizenberg Improvement District

The process of setting up the Muizenberg Improvement was initiated by a group of concerned residents in April 2000. By December 2000, the situation in the village had deteriorated to such an extent with gangsters, crime and grime, that the committee took the risk of starting up the proposed business plan with security and management on the basis of donations in order to stem the tide of crime. The legislative procedures of establishing the municipal or city improvement district were completed officially in November of 2001. During the interim period, the services of security and management were provided to the community free of charge and the committee, to support the project, raised approximately R250 000. This included a start up grant from the council of R100 000.

The Structure of the MID

The model of the improvement district comes from the United States where some 1200 city improvement districts have been formed to combat inner city decay. The concept is simple but effective. An area is demarcated, a business plan and budget is proposed to the ratepayers in this precinct and a majority vote of 51% establishes the project. The MID is legislated under council by-law. The owners in the MID are levied a special MID levy on the rates bill which is collected by council and paid over to the section 21 (non-profit company) which constitutes the vehicle for the MID. The MID therefore is a legal entity and complies with the by-law on Implementation of Improvement Districts under council and the South African Companies Act. The payment of levies in the precinct is also obligatory for the ratepayer. As with unpaid rates, the transfer on a property sale will not be given until the outstanding MID levies are paid up.

(Association Incorporated under Section 21 of the Companies Act, 1973, No 2001/018176/08)

85 Main Road Muizenberg 7945 (opp. BP Service Station)
PO Box 138 Muizenberg 7950

Telephone/Fax: 021 788-1196
Mobile: 082 463 1525
email: info@mid.org.za

Karen Jordi
(Manager)
Email here

Michael Romyn
(Chairperson)
Email here

Mark Robinson
(Marketing & Communication)
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Anthony Dietrich
(Finance & Governance)
Email here

Steven Frankal
(Business Development)
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Tony Rosemeyer
(Police & Prosecution)
Email here

Peter Wright
(Beachfront & Muizenberg Park)
Email here

Janet Annandale
(Cleaning & Greening)
Email here

Elizabeth Milne
(Safety & Security)
Email here

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SPECIAL RATING AREA

COMPANY BUSINESS