Updates? No, new website. And new Newsletter!

Lately too few updates on this site?

Yes, we're working on a completely refreshed website, expected to take over this one in March, let's say before the 1st of April. Meanwhile stay informed by reading the Minutes of the Rep-meetings.

Then you will see, we've quite moved forward organisationally speaking. This will also considerably affect the website.

The last Rep-meeting was Friday the 7th of March in which the Minutes of the former meeting have been approved. They were on this website that very afternoon. Next Rep-meeting is on Wednesday the 2nd of April.

You will receive within soon the next Newsletter, the MCC Info 3. It has been send Tuesday 20th of March. Also quite improved and we think quite informative.

However if you have suggestions? If you want to help or write something YOU think is important? Be our guest at 28/1 or send an e-mail to for instance MCCInfo@mazarron.cc

If you want to see the new Website developing, you can take a preview by clicking on the image below:

Outcome Elections Representatives

Questions of interest to all

Dear all,

As I presume we all might understand that many questions written to the Administrator are questions of interest to all of you, or at least many of you, we will from now on ‘publish’ some questions including our reply on our website.
Yes, we could have started this before, earlier. And if you have any suggestions how to improve it, please let us know. This is just a start, you’ve got to start somewhere…

Kind regards,

Emil J. Böttcher

Q. I wonder - could you please clarify something for me regarding voting for the reps? Will the reps, or anyone in fact, be told who has voted for whom? It’s just that it could be difficult not voting for friends because I don’t agree with their views but then again we’re friends!
R. You only fill in your 'numbers' on the voting form and only send or give it to the Administrator. The forms will be gathered in his office in Murcia Capital, where they all will be registered by those numbers. Then they will be checked on validity and counted. Not any rep, present nor future ones, will be informed about who voted for whom nor will it be published.

Voting return

Do you want to vote for the representatives?

• Click on the image
• Download it and
• Save it on your computer
• Print it out
• Fill it in
• Fax it to +34 968 205 398

Before Saturday 15th of December 2007

Candidates for the elections of Community Representatives

Chapman, Terry

I want the MCC to continue to develop as a pleasant, clean and safe place to live at reasonable cost and am willing to devote some of my time to help the Community of Owners, whose task this is, achieve this aim.
I do not believe the CoO should be used as another platform to attack Huma, this is not, nor should it become, its function. OF course the CoO should press for the completion of the infrastructure.
My career in business management includes 22 years running my own company and, at the same time, serving for 16 years as director and CEO of another.
I believe this background has given me the experience and ability to continue to work well as one of your team of Community Representatives.

Dennis, Dave

I would:-

• Endeavour to improve the MCC at an affordable cost; involving owners in management of our urbanisation
• Present your views fairly; strongly believing community information be available to all owners.
• Continue working voluntarily in the CoO Office assisting where required.
  Support whoever you elect; move the community forward.

Gassner, Colin

Married, rational, fair minded and a believer in listening to another’s point of view I believe that representing the residents as a group of individuals of paramount importance.
My representations/votes would be based upon an analysis of residents comments and wishes (if you do not tell me, I cannot vote!!) I will not entertain suppositions in this instance.
I believe in a representative being just that, a representative of informed residents.

Gatenby, Chris

Along with my partner Sandra I have lived full time on Mazarrón Country Club now for 2,5 years. I believe that managed in a responsible and sensible manner with due regard to costs that the MCC could be a beacon example of how an urbanisation should be run which will reflect in our quality of life here and the value of our properties. I have served on the voluntary committee since its inception and on the security committee before and am willing to commit my time and efforts to serving the community in the future.

Heaney, Andrew

No written profile, you know Andrew, as straight forward as he is. At the moment he is the Vice President of the voluntary representative committee.

Heppel, Martin

Lived here 3 years. A family man, former surveyor committed to the running of the development at a reasonable cost. Manzana representative volunteer also helping in the office for general queries. Achieved security and gardening contracts. Never a YES person am here to

do the best in your interests.

Jackman, Sheila

I have lived on the C.C. for 5+ years & seen it go from a 'building site' with few Residents, to now, with many Residents. During that time I have worked with other Owners attempting to achieve the facilities we all want.
If elected, I would continue to work on behalf of all Owners to make this the 'Village' we all want to live in, run honestly & efficiently.

Jay, Roger

I have lived on MCC for 3 years and I have served on the volunteer committee since its inception. My aim is to ensure that MCC continues to be a pleasant place to live, but at a reasonable cost to all home owners. I hope to use my 8 years experience as a Parish Councillor to further these ends.

Klein, Peter

By profession official. A special concern to me is the representation of the Country Club towards the wide public, and especially in the relation to its own Residents. Extraordinarily important is the external image of the total, like neatness and security. Naturally the work of the group comprises much more. Looking forward to an active cooperation.

Miller, Sandra

I believe … dissemination of information is crucial for a well run Community. Owners should be involved in the decision making process. Quarterly public meetings should be held to discuss issues facing the Community (difficulties arising, proposed changes, the way forward, etc.). As a Community Representative I believe in being open, just and fair in our management.

Schlömer, Karl-Heinz

Married to Anita Schlömer, retired Railway official, 66 years old. Since 02.04.2002 living almost continuously permanent on the Country Club. In my working days I’ve been for many years the representative of the handicapped in the board of personnel. Lately I’ve been the only German representative. I wish to continue with more German support on my site.

Schmitz, Hannelore

MCC 9-10. Age: 57 Occupations: Teacher
For 6 years resident in the MCC, 3 years with Arno Meyer for the concerns of the CoO
Secretary May 2005 until May 2006, 1 year for the CoO in the office. Secretary 2007
My wish: An impressive well functioning clean, international Urbanisation!!

Smith, Barry

I have lived on MCC since April 2005, I was involved in the defunct security committee as a volunteer, I wish to represent the community with a more influential mandate as an elected representative in this newly formed CoO that has the responsibility of ensuring a progressively improving MCC environment.

Taylor, Jack

Lived on MCC since February 2004 and served as a non elected member of the current committee and on the Security committee.
I am still Managing Director of an international railway engineering company and have served 2 terms on the board of the local Chamber of Commerce. I feel I can use this experience to help the Community continue to move forward and make MCC a great place to be which will benefit all owners.

Wilmot, Jane

I have lived here for over three years. MCC is a beautiful urbanisation and I want it to remain so without huge and unnecessary costs. I will do my best to help solve residents problems. Teamwork is the key to success. Nothing is achieved by divisiveness.

Pay your dues

All who have been at the EGM have received a list of unpaid fees.
Yes, paid is in Spanish ‘pagado’ and not paid ‘impagado’ and the plural of that ‘impagados’, the non-paid. In that EGM has been said the Administration has still 11 payments we don’t know to whom they belong. We are all only human, meaning not all on that list really know they are on it and it doesn’t even matter who’s fault it is.
For example an awful lot of people don’t know fees are due to be paid monthly in advance. And some pay once a year or every half a year, but not in advance. Or monthly, but not in advance. Then for some reason in September the payment was not made and you’re 2 months behind and on the list shown at the EGM.

Please, check the list and help us improve the administration. You also can contact someone else you see is on that list and ask if he or she is aware of that and/or explain, persuade, convince or whatever it takes to help us make that list as small as possible. Please take that responsibility, it is not the administrator’s, we already contact all, but many just do not respond. We neither want to take anybody to court, nobody!

HOW TO PAY YOUR COMMUNITY FEES:

Always mention your block and plot number!!!

We do not accept cheques.
We do not accept cash money.
We do accept direct debits.

1. You have a Spanish bank account

A. You give us a direct debit to allow us to take the necessary payments of your account and we will take care of the rest i.e. every first week of the month we ask your bank to transfer your monthly fee to us and in case of differences we will settle them. You can always contact us about any differences or irregularities you don’t trust and we will try together with you to find out what’s wrong and if so settle them.

B. You give a standing order to your bank, that they should pay what you tell them to
2090 0074 12 0040255839
Holder of the account: CDAD PR MAZARRON COUNTRY CLUB
Murcia, España
Any irregularities you should tell your bank within 30 days.

2. You don't have a Spanish bank account

A. You are in Spain? You go to any CAM and put the money straight on account number:
2090 0074 12 0040255839
Holder of the account CDAD PR MAZARRON COUNTRY CLUB Murcia, España

B. You are not a Spain? Then transfer the money to the
International Bank Account Number:
ES08 2090 0074 12 0040255839
Bank Identifier Code: CAAMES2108M
Holder of the account: CDAD PR MAZARRON COUNTRY CLUB
Murcia, Spain

Bank commission

The latter one is of course the most expensive way to pay, because the bank in your country and the receiving bank in Spain both will charge commission.

Only 1.A. and 2.A. are guaranteed the cheapest way to pay, because they are without bank commission, without any further costs.

The less hassle is absolutely 1.A. So what should you do?

Direct Debit

Just give us the 20 digits of your Spanish bank account number and the name of the account holder and block and plot number and we take care of the rest. In order to do so, click on the image, save it on your computer, print it out (on half a page), fill it in and fax it to (+34) 968 205 398. We will take every first week of the month the necessary amount from your account, if there’s enough money on it.

You still owe us several months or a different sum or you don’t know if the fees will change, or how much it will be? It does not matter, it does not make a difference. We will take care of it if we have those 20 digits.

What happens if something goes wrong or you don’t understand. We’re all human, so contact us. Let us know by e-mail or fax or come to the office and together we’ll sort it out. You paid too much? We’ll put it back on your account or whatever other way we agree upon.

Questions? administrador@mazarron.cc

COMMUNITY REPS ELECTIONS

I. Candidates should be properly nominated at least twice (not by themselves).
II. Nominations can only be done with the consent of the candidate.
III. Candidates must provide a brief profile of about 50 words for publication.
IV. Nominations should be received by 30th of October.
V. Nominations must include the manzana and plot number of the candidate and of the person doing the nominating, the nominee.
VI. Nominators and nominees should be paid up members of the Community of Owners.
VII. Candidates should be residing at MCC, in order to guarantee attendance rate at monthly meetings of least 8 meetings per annum.
VIII. The 12 candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be considered to have been elected, subject to a minimum of 5 votes.
IX. If there are only 8 candidates with that minimum, the new board will only consist of 8 members, which would even be more workable than 12.
X. The new Board of Owners/Directors will consist of a minimum of 4 members.

Nominations can be made by email to nominations@mazarron.cc, by fax to (+34) 968 205 398 or by regular post to:

MCC Nomination
A/A Don Francisco Domingo Frutos
Plaza Santo Domingo 2,
Edificio Cerdá 6° C
30008 MURCIA - SPAIN

1) The list of candidates including their profiles will be made known on http://www.mazarron.cc/ and in the 2nd Newsletter (± end of November).
2) In this 2nd Newsletter a voting list will be enclosed.
3) Voting will also be done by email, fax or regular post like mentioned above and will have to be received by a date to be decided (± mid December).
4) Votes must be accompanied by the name and the manzana and plot number of the member casting the votes.
5) Only members having paid up and to November their contribution to the Community of Owners will then be able to vote for up to a maximum of 12 candidates from the list.
6) If more than 1 filled in voting list is received per plot number or if more than 12 candidates are voted for, these votes will be considered to be invalidated and will be discounted.

The new Representatives will be made known on the 1st of January on http://www.mazarron.cc/ and in the 3rd Newsletter of around that date.

The first meeting with the new Representatives will take place on the 11th of January 2008.

In order to be able to convert the committee of Representatives into a real Board of Directors, their priority is to prepare a General Meeting in which their duties and functioning scheme can be determined, as you all can read in the By-laws of the CoO of MCC, elsewhere on this website.

Until then they are not a Board of Directors.

As Board of Directors they can

1. vote decisively on all matters regarding the CoO,
2. they can prepare and approve budgets,
3. they can prepare changes and approve or reform the statutes and determine rules of interior regime (the latter one I still not have in my posession or do not exist {yet}),
4. they can remove and appoint Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries and Administrators

only if and when these rights have been approved by a General Meeting. Practise is they will not be given all power, but theoretically, yes, they can be given all power. The highest organ allways stays the General Meeting.

Food for thought

In order to have you informed more completely especially if you can't make it personally to attend the EGM, I have written some thoughts that might be helpful to make up your mind.

If you're interested, please read those "Thoughts to vote", as I've called them.

We're here for you,

Emil J. Böttcher

News

Office Administrator

For several reasons the office of the Community of Owners has moved to 28 - 1.
Office hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11.00 till 13.00 hours.
Carmen, who worked in the former office, is not working anymore with us. Now she works at the main-office of the promoter. In the new office you will be attended by Emil J. Böttcher and/or one of the representatives.


Next Meeting will be an

Extraordinary General Meeting!!!

As you probably might have heard there were plans to keep an Info Meeting, at the end of September, to inform anyone who'd like to attend such a meeting. But what were you going to be informed about? The main issue was the new budget and people kept coming back about "outstanding debts and gentleman agreements about it". So we decided to let you decide yourself.

Therefore the next meeting, which will be held the

26th of October 2007
starting at 17.00 hours
in Hotel Playa Grande
Puerto de Mazarrón

will be an Extraordinary General Meeting to be attended by all owners. All owners who paid their community fees up to and including September 2007 may vote about ... money, divided into 2 points at the agenda: Past & Future.


Newsletter

There will be sent a Newsletter soon. This Newsletter will be send by normal post to the directions known at the administration. You will be asked all to let us know where you'd like to receive our writings and also your e-mail. Once again we hope to update all directions of all owners. We need everyone's cooperation in this, so the next newsletter can be sent electronically i.e. by e-mail as much as possible to save costs (thousands of Euros). So please let us know your email-address.
This newsletter is mainly to inform all owners, because the most common complaint is the lack of information. Also in this newsletter we ask for candidates to be representative to have them elected before the end of this year. This is very important; they represent YOU!


To pay or not to pay; what's the difference?

As too many envelops, sent to owners, still are coming back to the administrator, it is obvious that we do not have everyone's address correct. This is very annoying and a waste of money. It is also impossible to inform those, that from the first of October owners who still have not paid up their community-fees will be charged extra costs. As, for example, a mailing to all owners is being paid by the Community of Owners (means paid by all), you might understand that all extra effort made to reach these debtors are on their account and not on the account of owners that do pay.
As the Community of Owners is not responsable for trying to find owners (as according to Spanish Law any owner is obliged to let us know how to reach them) we kindly ask everybody to contact his fellow-owner and inform them about this procedure and if in doubt to contact the administrator: administrador@mazarron.cc.


How to read the Minutes

When you are being granted access, this is done by sending you a standard e-mail. In this e-mail there is a link you have to click on. By doing so, you will see a log-in page. The only thing is, you do not have to log in, you must not log in. If you read on on that page you find on the right, below, that you can enter as a guest.

As the mail with the link is an invitation, that is what you should do. By clicking on that link, you inmediately will see the Minutes.
As nowadays firewalls, sweep- and clean-programms try to help you, sometimes they 'help' you at the wrong moment and they prevent you to get in (a second time), and the link does not work.
We understand this is not a very nice situation and it is being worked on to improve this or to move the site entirely to another platform. Please come back to http://www.mazarron.cc/ to keep yourself informed about this matter. Thanks for your cooperation and your understanding.

Welcome

... to the internet site of the Community of Owners "Mazarrón Country Club". This site is maintained by the administrator of the Community. If you have any suggestion or simply would like to contact him, feel free to write an e-mail to administrador@mazarron.cc.

If you have a nice photo of our urbanization that represents nicely the 'common sense' of our Community of Owners, send it to him so it can be used on these pages.

In order to be able to read the Minutes on these pages you need to get in contact with the administrator by e-mail, because not all information is as public as the internet is. That is, there are no secrets for any of our co-owners but certain internal affairs are not really the business of people outside the Mazarrón Country Club.

Hopefully these pages will be quite helpful to get everybody up to date about what's going on in your Community of Owners. If you want to add something or you have a question, just write to the administrator, that's what he's there for.

Last but not least, if you'd like to show the world you are part of or live on the Mazarrón Country Club you can get an e-mail address ending in @mazarron.cc, for free! How about that !?! Click right away on the chapter "Your e-mail".