Setia Marina 2 and 3 Owners Telegram Group
Dear Fellow Neighbours of Setia Marina 2 and 3,
As we are all in one JMB and fellow neghbours, I believe you would agree with me that it is paramount that we do not let recent events destroy the sense of community in our beautiful place we called homes, for ourselves as well as for our tenants for those who are renting out.
I wish to foremost communicate my appreciation to all those who have served and are serving as joint management committee members (JMC). The responsibilities of the JMC members, particularly the chairman and the office bearers are tremendous, and often the challenges that they need to endure are hard to be understood and often taken for granted, and often not being appreciated despite having to sacrifice precious time and energy.
Even though serving as JMC members is a volunteer work, JMC members must hold the highest integrity to serve for our common interest and there is no room for self-serving personnel and politicians, and we must always hold them accountable in all their dealing on our behalf. To achieve that, communication with fellow owners is very critical to ensure we are all together to ensure our properties are being managed well. For those owners who took the points to highlight issues in responsible and objective ways based on documented facts and with the right motive to be constructive rather than destructive, we must appreciate them, and not treat them like troublemakers, and the issues must be dealt with swiftly and fairly. On the other hand, every party must be given a fair chance to respond on matters concerning them if the issues merit such responses. On the other hand, it would not be fair to subject the JMC members and individuals to having to respond, explain and defend to every of their actions unnecessary.
I can observe that since before the AGM, there seems to be much animosity towards the previous JMC members for whatever reasons, and it needs to stop. Whatever issues being brought against any current or previous JMC members, the JMC is fully authorized, and in fact has the duty to investigate and act accordingly in a professional and fair manner, and not subject the individuals involved to be questioned, or even harassed, longer than necessary, and wrong doings must be dealt with accordingly with proper authorities as well. It is unfortunate that, instead of acting on its duty as fully empowered under the Strata Management Act 2013, the current JMC chose to ask the full JMB to micro-manage on such simple matters at yet another EGM in less than a month of previous EGM. This, I am sorry, cannot possibly be how a JMC should function. This needs to be said, however unpopular this is.
It seems to me there is a narrative that there are power struggles between owners of Setia Marina 2 and 3, inside and outside the JMC. Whether it is indeed the narrative is true or otherwise, this cannot possibly continue if we want a healthy community. The views and wills of owners in respect with their own parcels must be respected, and not being overruled just because we may be the majority. The welfare of our fellow neighbours should also be our concern, and owners of each parcel must be given a sense of self-determination on their own parcels. And JMC members, whichever parcels they are from, must be JMC members for all parcels.
I hope the current JMC would take the point, and exercise leadership, to unite and to ensure the community is being built and not being destroyed with too much unnecessary suspicion of each other.
Whatever shortcoming of the JMC, we must allow them space and time to act on our behalf, without imposing too many constraints on them, and we must on the other hand insist on transparency and accountability.
As I stated at the end of the previous EGM, I hope communication would be improved.
There is a need to put the owners of Setia Marina 2 and 3 to be in one communication platform together to share and connect and know each other as neighbours. For that, I have created a Telegram group, on top of a Telegram group we already have for the Grasmere owners.
A telegram group has the advantages over WhatsApp group as you get better privacy control including not having to expose your telephone numbers if you choose to, so you would not be spammed by unwanted parties. Telegram also allows you to control how much phone memory to be used while most of your chat history can be stored in the cloud and would come back to your phone while you scroll through your past messages. You may also use the Telegram across multiple devices including PCs at the same time. Telegram also enables you to categorize your various chats into folders for easier management. There are many other advantages as well and you would be surprised many of your friends may already be using it without you knowing.
To join the Setia Marina 2 & 3 Owners Group, please use the invite link below:
https://t.me/+_nYnjzIyNMBiMjI1
Please do not mass share this link, only share it to people or groups that consist of owners. The group is specially for owners and not mixed with tenants. You may add other members yourself at this point of time.
If you wish to message me privately, you may send me message at:
Thank you very much for hearing me out. Happy New Year to all of you.
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YP Wong @ Grasmere @ Setia Marina