Its not often you get a discount offered from a lawyer on already agreed work. Elizabeth from Moores did that last week when she provided our revised rules to adjust for the Housing Registrar and our tax status as a PBI.
Here they are:
Servants Community Housing rules (draft) – marked up9 12 13
I have written to the Registrar to get their approval to proceed to adopt these.
Matt and I met with Peter and Alan this morning. Peter gave us an update on the council meeting. The majority of councilors present in the closed door meeting were in favor of the project, even without the champions, mayor Jack Wegmann and Philip ???? being present.
The meeting was rumored to be looking at 4 possible properties with 2 to be selected as proposed for further analysis.
They are now looking to sign a non disclosure agreement with Rotary and us so we can proceed. Things are starting to look serious from the council’s point of view.
I’m really pleased that Warren has opened this blog/site up to all now. I hope that it will be a tool that will prove useful to us all.
It was lovely to see so many folks at the Romana brekkie this morning. Thanks for coming. It was also lovely to hear your enthusiastic comments about the house itself. For me, it was lovely to look around the house knowing that the lease has finally been signed and that we will ACTUALLY be housing people there in the early part of next year.
Looking forward to the Romana Breakfast tomorrow morning. Pleased that many people will have their first look at the new house.
Thanks to all who have provided me with feedback to date of the draft document I circulated earlier this week re the LV/Servants leadership project overview. Feedback from the school teachers I have been liaising with has been enormously encouraging. I meet with LV next week to progress talks/visioning. Please keep your feedback/comments coming in.
Mike did a nice job today updating the Servants website and Facebook page. Nice to be all up to date. Had a very pleasing email in the week from an individual congratulating Servants on the content of the website. The updated website was also the first time we have shown the Team Servants ’14 design to the world! more nice work from Mike here with the design – I especially like the ‘running for respect. dignity. hope.’ bit of it.
A cheque from the recently held Trinity Year 11 Trivia Night was received in the mail on Thursday – a very welcome $561.
Warren and I joined the other 3 members of Operation Toshack today in the City today for lunch. The value that Andrew, Dom and Sam continue to add to Servants is significant. to have such people on board with us, believing in our model of housing – it’s pretty special.
Council are meeting behind closed doors to discuss 4 possible sites for a purpose built facility for Servants. They are looking to agree on two sites that could be purchased by a rotary/servants partnership.Makes it all seem very real
One councilor queried council officers about our performance at the second year of Canterbury. Matt was able to explain, cite our independent review and follow up with the housing registrar. This was all positively received by the council officer and subsequently the councilor.
CHFOV held a workshop on Friday with speakers from various groups that have adopted the general lease.
All of them have adopted the lease and believe they are better off on it. They also talked about the problem and opportunity areas:
We will need to convince the regulator that we can complete the required asset management. This is not trivial.
This is the first post in what I hope will become a constant stream of updates about all the stuff that is happening around Servants Community Housing. Warren.