Upkeep of the estate – Page 3

Annual General Meeting – Ashefield Residents Association

The 2014 Annual General Meeting of Ashefield Residents Assocation will be held on Wednesday 11 June at 8pm in the Newbury Hotel, Green Bridge, Mullingar

All residents of the estate are welcome

Items for discussion

Presentation of the 2013 accounts – available on this website
Discussion of the maintenance and remedial works in the coming year
Election of the new committee for 2014

Dear Resident,

Thanks for your support in 2013 and we are sure that you will be as supportive in the coming year. As outlined above, we are holding our AGM on June 11th in the Newbury. We would welcome your attendance to bring you up to date on the work completed over the past few months.

With a view to continuing the work that your contribution has paid for, members of the Residents Assocication will be circulating in the coming weeks – requesting a contribution of €20 per household ( reduced from €30 in 2013 ). To make things easier, we can also accept payments via our Paypal account on this website.

It cost approximately €1345 to cut the grass and do other repairs to the common areas in the estate in 2013. Details of these and the full accounts are available on this website.

The collection has been well supported in the past and we are sure that we can rely on your support once again this year. We realise that we all have extra pressures due to Property Tax, etc. However, despite home owners paying this, the County Councils are not providing any additional services. It therefore requires us, the residents, to maintain the common areas and look after the upkeep of the estate common areas.

This request is being made to all residents; either renting their home or homeowner. However if you are renting your home and feel that this request is better directed to your landlord, we would appreciate if you forwarded this message to your landlord.

We would you can attend the AGM on June 11th and look forward to meeting you.

With Kind Regards,
Ashefield Residents Association

Illegal dumping – update

Am happy to post that Westmeath Co. Co. got straight onto this and dealt with the issue (thanks!). The areas continue to be monitored. Residents are encouraged to report any further instances of illegal dumping.

Residents Association – 2013 Financial Accounts Now Available

Happy New Year to all.

Ashefield Residents Association financial accounts for 2013 are now available to download. This document lists the collected donations from each house, bank transactions and a summary of the financial status of the association.

Many thanks to everyone who have donated and helped with association activities during the year. For 2014, we hope that you will continue to offer your much-needed support. If you would like to contribute towards the upkeep of the estate common areas or have not yet been able to do so, we can accept payments by Paypal. The link is on the right hand side bar of the website. The yearly household donation is €30. Thank you again and best wishes for the New Year.

Update on green area adjacent to C-Link road – Cllr. Glynn and Westmeath Co. Co.

One of the action items from the 2013 AGM of the Ashefield Residents Association was in relation to the green area along the C-Link road. In December’s meeting of Mullingar Town Council, Cllr. Ken Glynn submitted the following question:

2.7 Cllr.Glynn: To ask Westmeath County Council to provide funding in the upcoming budget to carry out extensive works on the green area along the Western By-Pass in Ashefield as once these works have been carried out, the residents association will be in a position to maintain the green area.

Reply:

Westmeath County Council has been liaising with Mullingar Tidy Towns Committee with a view to having areas such as these upgraded in 2014 by their workers.

Thank you again for following up on this action item, Cllr. Glynn.

Cllr. Glynn’s website:
www.kenglynn.blogspot.com

Footpath repairs – completed

As an update to the footpath repairs highlighted previously, these appear to have been completed. Before and after photos are below. Thanks to Westmeath County Council for their fast response to this.

Before Before After After

Wall repairs update

Repairs to the boundary wall adjacent to the apartments near the entrance to the estate have been carried out. As discussed in the recent AGM, the planned scope of work involved the repair of blockwork and replacement of pier cappings. Thanks to Cllr. Ken Glynn, Westmeath County Council is also carrying out repairs to the sunken footpath sections next to this wall.

Boundary wall repairs

Green area adjacent to C-Link road

One of the action items from this year’s AGM was to invite a Westmeath County Council staff member to examine the green area adjacent to the C-link road to help find out who is responsible for this area and to discuss what measures can be taken. Thanks to Cllr. Ken Glynn, he and members of the residents association brought a Westmeath Co. Co. staff member to examine the area. We’ll post any further updates and outcomes on this website when available.

Laneway clean-up

Volunteer members of Ashefield Residents Association recently carried out a clean-up of a closed-off laneway within the estate. Many thanks to Joe, John and Dave who kindly gave up some of their spare time to do this. If anyone has some spare time to help with similar efforts, it would be greatly appreciated – feel free to get in contact by email if you might be able to help [info@165.227.235.101]

Joe and John working on the laneway

Joe and Dave after cleaning up the laneway

Bank Account Statement for Ashefield Residents Association (2012)

All, thank you to everyone who contributed to the upkeep of the estate during 2012. These contributions are used to pay a contractor to maintain the common green areas of the estate that are the responsibility of the residents and not the council, to repair/replace signage, and to address any other maintenance issues that are of benefit to the entire estate and residents. We present the 2012 accounts for Ashefield Residents Association.

Ashefield Residents Association Bank Statement for 2012
Date	Transaction Type	Total Amount (€)	Balance (€)
01-Jan-12	Opening Balance		2335.69

12-May-12	Lodgement	520	2855.69
19-May-12	Lodgement	120	2975.69
26-May-12	Lodgement	30	3005.69
02-Jun-12	Lodgement	90	3095.69
02-Jun-12	Withdrawal	-540	2555.69
07-Jun-12	Lodgement	140	2695.69
14-Jun-12	Lodgement	200	2895.69
23-Jun-12	Lodgement	90	2985.69
18-Aug-12	Lodgement	60	3045.69
18-Aug-12	Withdrawal	-270	2775.69
25-Aug-12	Lodgement	30	2805.69
08-Sept-12	Lodgement	400	3205.69
13-Oct-12	Withdrawal	360	2845.69

13-Oct-12	Closing balance:		2845.69

During 2013, the accounts were split between the Credit Union and Ulster Bank. As of July of this year, the current balance in the Credit Union is €1520 and the current balance in our Ulster Bank account is €1264.

Reinstating the green area at the entrance to Ashefield

At the March meeting of the Westmeath County Council Mullingar Area Committee, Cllr. Ken Glynn proposed a motion that Westmeath County Council immediately take steps to have the broadband company reinstate the green area at the entrance to Ashefield Estate to its original condition and that works are carried out to rectify this matter to the satisfaction of all local residents.

Westmeath County Council replied that they received a cash bond from the broadband installers and that this bond will not be refunded until all works are satisfactorily completed.