General happenings:

• Our housing stats right now are even more spectacular than usual: Romana and Hamer have not had a vacancy since February and June respectively. Carrical has had 3 vacancies this new financial year for a total of 8 empty room nights.
• I spoke at the Boroondara Social Housing Advisory Committee this arvo – at this meeting I met the new manager of Ivy Grange ….. and was highly impressed with him.
• I met with our biggest donor –  by total funds donated (if I have my sums right this comes to $220,000 over the past 8 years) last week. He remains pleased with how we are utilizing the annual gift he gives us and will again be donating later this year.
• Some of you will have met Juan in person – if not you will have seen his story in Narrative. Yesterday he moved from Carrical to Parklands – an SRS located just behind Hamer in Childers Street in Kew. This is a very good move for Juan as he now requires proper care – but it was very sad to know that he could no longer cope in the environment of Carrical.
• Waiting list – at the present time we have a pretty tremendous waiting list of folks waiting, and keen, to be housed by us. What we really need is another house or two!!
• Solar power is now all systems go at Romana – 76 panels produced great amounts of electricity. I look forward to seeing the next couple of electricity bills for Romana to see what kind of savings are kicking in.