Dear Nodi, I assist Councillor Herron. The Ward office is in the Observatory Community Centre on the first floor. There is a free phone to Council outside the office as well. The number at the office is 0214479630. Naazneen is the PA who will answer the phone.
You can use 0860103089 to report your waste problems. At present Obsid is restructuring. A new Operations Manager will be announced soon. I believe that the Security Company that is currently contracted is coming to the end of its contract and the tender will be open to renegotiation. I am of the opinion that nothing curbs crime better than bobbies on the beat but that is an operational matter for the Board. I will say that our relationship with Woodstock SAPS has taken a turn for the better with the appointment of Constable Berry as our Sector Commander. He is hardworking and responsive. However you probably have his number via the ONW page. You seem passionate about Obs. If possible I would suggest that you join either the Obs Civic or the Obscid Board. Councillor Herron regularly appears at both bodies. Paddy Chapple 0835300265 From: obsnw@googlegroups.com [mailto:obsnw@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nodi Murphy Sent: 08 June 2015 11:00 PM To: Veronica Paulse; Yvette Coetzee; ONW; obsnw@googlegroups.com Subject: [obsnw] Fwd: Observatory Subject: Observatory Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:57:02 +0200 From: Nodi Murphy <n...@oia.co.za><mailto:n...@oia.co.za> To: brett.her...@capetown.gov.za<mailto:brett.her...@capetown.gov.za>, obsnw@googlegroups.com<mailto:obsnw@googlegroups.com> Mr Herron, you are the ward Councillor for my area, Observatory. However I see from the website, wherein I found your address, that you have many CT suburbs under your remit. You must be a busy man. I have recently joined the Observatory Neighbourhood Watch (ONW) and am a subscriber to both the ONW WhatsApp and URGENT group. I rue the day. It never stops! Mine was a quiet life - only 4 attempts to steal my car (a Nissan 1400, very popular) and some R4,000 to replace locks (doors, ignition and gear lock) all told. And then there was that time that I had to relay 16 bricks that had been prised out of my driveway to support my neighbours' car when all four wheels were stolen... That's over a 4 year period. Not much to complain about, really. I haven't been accosted at my front door, as was my other neighbour a year ago. Well, not yet. So, back to the ONW... it is a litany of woes. I used to have a quiet life, but now I am privy to every disaster (an elderly woman held up at knife point in her bed only yesterday in the block opposite the swimming pool, a young woman being held up at knife point outside her house at 5pm today in Bellevliet - still light, you understand - to mention only 2 recent incidents) that happen in the streets around me on a daily basis. We ONW members are talking about funding some kind of 'response' team walking our streets every day and night. Neither the City nor the "improvement district", to which I contribute (without choice, you understand) R106.16 a month, are managing the situation. Then there's my bin. I put it out every Monday. My street (Duke) is narrow, so the rubbish men drag the bins to either end of the street, sometimes emptying the one into the other so as to drag fewer bins. It's random, but from time to time my bin is ignored, or passed over by mistake, or... I receive my rates bill with monotonous regularity. I'd really like my rubbish to be removed at the same pace... It takes precious time and humour out of my day to call the City to say 'I'm not feeling the love... the love I pay for.. " I recycle, the amount I put out of a week is small, but I want it taken away - when I put it out. I call the City... they'll send out a truck to fetch my rubbish. Really?! One whole truck to fetch just my overlooked rubbish? How ridiculous! It's that, or I must contact the waste disposal unit myself to ask them to remember my bin...I pay a bill to the City, why should I now have to spend my time and the cost of another call (no doubt as lengthy as the call to the City as I listen to 'your call is important to us, we are experiencing high volumes of calls..' for 15 minutes...). I recycle.. I pay for my paper and some plastic to fetched from my doorstep to be recycled weekly, and other plastic goes for the eco-brick project run by Montebello, so I have little in my bin. Can I negotiate and pay for a bi-monthly removal? Once a month, perhaps? No. All or nothing! That being so, I'd like my bin to be emptied... every week. Surely you have an office of sorts in this Ward. Where is it? When are you here? Do you hold clinics for your constituents? When are those times? I would like to be sent the schedule of when you are in the neighbourhood. 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