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SUMMARY:Community meeting June 2021
DESCRIPTION:This community meeting hosted by the Tenants & Residents Association (TRA) committee aims to celebrate the community which already exists on Kings Crescent and look for ways to develop this further. \nIt’s a chance for residents to discuss what events and activities we want to have here\, meet your neighbours etc.  \nLet us know if you have any ideas!  \nThis meeting will be held online via Zoom \nPlease email KingsCrescentN4@gmail.com to be sent the Zoom link to access the meeting \n  \nMinutes:\nChair of meeting: Emley Pine (KCTRA) \nResidents of Kings Crescent Estate present: 6 \nIn attendance:                From: \n\n\n\nNina Love\nHackney Showroom\n\n\nJohn Morris\nSource Partnership\n\n\nCllr Clare Potter\nBrownswood Ward Councillor\n\n\n\nApologies recieved from 6 residents \n  \n\n\n\n \nAgenda Item\nAction\n\n\n1\nWelcome and Introductions \n·        Clare proposes to approve the minutes from March 2021\, Emley seconds.\n\n\n\n2\nResidents Group (TRA) Committee Updates by Emley \n·        Upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) – Next community meeting is in September\, a few members are stepping down so if anyone is interested to join the committee\, please come forward. The position of secretary will be vacant but if anyone is interested to any other named roles (being Chair\, Vice-Chair and Treasurer) all current members holding these positions are happy to change role. It would be good to have a hand-over so if anyone wants to join the committee please do come forward soon so that we can start this process. Please contact the committee if you are interested or want to ask any questions about the role (KingsCrescentN4@gmail.com) \n·        The next “in-person” meetings are likely to still have a Zoom option and perhaps a film being played in the second room of Unit C with a volunteer to look after children for residents who would like to attend the meetings but cannot due to child care responsibilities. \n·        Work has started at Unit C! \n·        Homework club is restarting in the Vince Murrain Community Centre. Once Unit C is ready\, it will move there. The TRA still has budget from the original grant (for running it last year but it was cancelled due to Covid restrictions) so this can be used this to run the club until December. If the club is popular the TRA will apply for further grants to continue the homework club next year. \n·        The TRA has now taken control of the allotments located in the middle courtyard. All plot holders have been written to to inform them of the change of management. Hackney has commissioned the construction of eight new plots which are now built. Unattended plots will also be reallocated and so in total about 11 plots will be given to people on the waiting list.  Four plots will be retained as communal plots for kids (and adults) to plant seeds during gardening events and for a planting a communal herb garden. \n·        On 20 June there will be a seeds swap gardening event. The TRA is hoping to instigate a monthly gardening event for every gardener on the estate\, not just allotment holders. All information will be on the website. \n·        The Black Live Matters film project ran by a resident and partly funded by the TRA has started\, the trailer will be shared once ready. \n·        An art event for kids should happen in October half term. Gustavo\, an artist from Lisbon will be coming to deliver this with Andrew. Further funding is being applied for to add to the money already allocated from the 20/21 ‘community development fund’. \n·        Update on Hackney Resident Participation Team – The team is still in the process of restructure and are recruiting for the new positions. Siovhan has now left the team and Emma Harrison is  back from maternity leave. To contact their team email: Get.Involved@hackney.gov.uk\n\n\n\n3\nHackney Showroom Update by Nina\n\n\n\n \n·        Work started at Unit C on 8 June and is going fast. The contractor is very friendly and professional. Work should take 4 to 6 weeks. There will be drilling works but the contractor is aware that residents from that particular building may be sensitive because they have had issues before. Nina will try to let the TRA and Clissold Quarter Facebook group know when that work is planned so residents are aware. \n·        HS has started a newsletter for Kings Crescent and the wider community and invites the TRA to let them know if they want to advertise any events through that channel. \n·        There will be a Street Party on 14 August with live bands and DJs\, soft play outside\, food stalls\, a bar. HS is looking for volunteers on the day but also in the days leading to the event for making decorations: anyone with a sewing machine or just willing to do some craft is welcomed to help. HS is also looking for volunteers to come for one hour in the morning for the party to help with putting the decorations up. HS is also looking for volunteers to slow down the traffic on the day\, the job would be to stand with a hi-vis and invite motorists to go around the estate or to help them cross the Play Street  safely. \n·        Nina invites the TRA to have a stall on the street during the Street Party to advertise themselves and recruit new committee members. \n·        There will be a free Disco Loco children’s library run by a volunteer from the estate. Weekly lending book event but also activities relating to literature\, this will be officially launched during the Street Party. \n·        A week of activity for 8- to 11-year-olds will be happening during the summer holidays. Funding is being requested to extend the project to two weeks. Different artists will be entertaining the children and activities such as den-building and canoeing will be taking place. \n·        In the Autumn will start a weekly lunch club for over 50s on Fridays. HS is recruiting volunteers to help for this lunch club and to join a befriending scheme. \n·        In September there will be a community meal happening to replace the one that got cancelled last year due to the Covid restrictions: ‘Kings Feast’ with activities such as quiz\, bingo\, live acts etc. HS hopes to repeat the event in December and March. \n·        HS is currently raising money to have a youth street worker to get to know the local kids and find out what activities and events they would want to have running here. \n·        HS has got funding to run 2 sets of activities for teenagers’\, with a view to getting more funding to extend this project. \n·        The young actor’s programme will re-start in autumn. \n·        HS has also got funding for pre-school Disco Loco on Friday mornings\, there will be soft play and a disco. One session for under 1’s and another for 1-5 year olds.\nNina to let the TRA and Clissold Quarter Facebook group know when the drilling work is planned. \n \n\n\n4\nOpen Conversation\n\n\n\n \nIdeas discussed:  A leaflet could be done for advertising the TRA during the Street Party\, tote bag with the Kings Crescent Estate picture designed by the lady who designed our logo could also be distributed. Jill will ask her daughter if she can arrange this and will come back with prices for different options. \nMenekse will ask the Turkish community if there is anything they would like to see happening during this Street Party and will let Emley know. \nHS will soon have a Turkish speaking person who can take call and answer emails in Turkish!\nJill to share prices and options from her daughter in regard to KCE branded stuff to hand-out during Street Party. \nMenekse to share with the TRA if the Turkish community would like to see anything in particular during Street Party\n\n\n5\nSource Partnership Update by John Morris\n\n\n\n \nTwo meetings with contractors tendering for the next phase of the regeneration have taken place. The contractors’ social value team met with Emley and Hackney Showroom who explained to them what we are doing here so that they can come up with a good community plan to submit with their tender. Both contractors are very willing and have lots of good ideas. One contractor should be chosen by the end of the summer but the choice needs to go through internal approval so the contract should be signed in November with works starting in March 2022. \nSP is going back to the Vince Murrain Centre on Mondays 1-3pm from 21 June and on Wednesdays 4-6pm  until 26 July during a slightly staggered period. A newsletter is going out next week with the details.\n\n\n\n6\nAny other business \nJill will be doing a charity sky-dive for Mind in August/September and ask if she can share her giving page on the facebook page. Emley agrees. Some of the money will go to Mind Hackney. \nNina mentions that next year HS would like to hold a KC conference for local artists\, businesses etc. to discuss dreams and vision for the community. They hope to run this activity every year. \nClare chairs the Finsbury Park Trust who is also running a conference about bringing the Finsbury Park community together. KC may want to engage with this kind of conference. Claire will let the TRA know once more details are available. \nEmley is attending an event next week organised by Hackney CVS (#FairerHackney) on emotional health:  https://crm.hcvs.org.uk/civicrm/event/info \nDates of next meetings & close \n20 June – Gardening Event 11.30am-1.30pm \n30 June @ 7pm – Service Charge Meeting (Zoom) \n14 July @7pm – ETRA Meeting with Hackney Representatives (Zoom) \n14 August – Disco Loco Street Party 12-6pm \n11 September – Kings Crescent Feast (indoor) \n15 September – TRA Community Meeting and AGM (committee will be elected) \nAll details of meetings and events can be found here: https:/events-and-meetings/\n\n\n\n\n  \nAdditional information: \n\nPlease note that the next meeting for discussing estate related issues with Hackney is in July 2021.\nSee https:/ for details of upcoming events and minutes of previous meetings.\nTo get in touch with the committee: Email KingsCrescentN4@gmail.com call/text/WhatsApp 07925668497 Social Media: @KingsCrescentN4\n\n\nPrevious information:\nFeaturing: \n\nUpdates from the TRA committee\nUpdates from Hackney Showroom\, Source Partnership and Hackney’s Resident Participation Team\nAn opportunity to share your opinion and ideas\n\nPlease note these community focused meetings take place in March\, June\, September and December each year. \nThere are separate meetings to discuss estate related issues (with Hackney representatives attending) in January\, April\, July\, October. \n  \nAGENDA\n\n\n\n \nAgenda Item\nSuggested \nTiming\nLead\n\n\n1\nWelcome and Introductions \n·        Approve minutes from March 2021\n5 mins\nEmley\n\n\n2\nResidents Group (TRA) Committee Updates \n·        Upcoming AGM \n·        Planed events & activities \n·        Update on Hackney Resident Participation Team\n15 mins\nEmley\n\n\n3\nHackney Showroom Update\n15 mins\nH.S\n\n\n \n·        Progress on building work to transform the space \n·        Planned events and activities\n\n\n\n\n4\nOpen Conversation\n40 mins\nResidents\n\n\n \nOpportunity for residents to share ideas and suggestions for community building activities and events on Kings Crescent.\n\n\n\n\n5\nSource Partnership Update\n5 mins\nS.P\n\n\n \nRecent activity and latest plans for phases 3&4 of KC development\n\n\n\n\n6\nAny other business \nDates of next meetings & close\n10 mins\nEmley
URL:https://kingscrescent.org/calendar/community-meeting-june-2021/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:residents group meeting
ORGANIZER;CN="KC TRA Committee":MAILTO:kingscrescentn4@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210620T113000
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SUMMARY:Seed swap event in allotment courtyard
DESCRIPTION:We have just bought some seeds\, tools and compost and planning to have an informal ‘seed swap’ event on Sunday 20th June from 11.30am. Come along to the allotment courtyard to meet fellow gardeners\, discuss gardening tips\, and take some seeds to plant – either in your allotment plot or in pots to take home and grow! This is an outdoor event but please maintain social distancing to reduce the risk of Covid-19. \nThe TRA has recently taken over management of the allotments from Hackney’s New Build team so we will be reallocating the unused plots as well as the allocating 6 of the new plots to those who have been on the waiting list for a long time. \nIn addition we will keep a few community plots to use for gardening events and to create a communal herb garden. \nWe have been awarded £600 of Hackney’s ‘Community Development fund’ to spend on gardening related equipment and events. These events are intended to build community around gardening and are open to anyone\, not just residents with allotment plots.
URL:https://kingscrescent.org/calendar/seed-swap-event-in-allotment-courtyard/
LOCATION:Allotments area\, In courtyard between Therfield\, Barley\, Chipping and Redbourne Courts
CATEGORIES:community event,Gardening
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ORGANIZER;CN="KC TRA Committee":MAILTO:kingscrescentn4@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Service Charges Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Judith Morrision (Head of Hackney Leasehold & RTB Services)\, who joined the last ETRA meeting back in April has agreed to have a separate meeting to take residents’ questions on service charges. (This meeting is likely only relevant to leaseholders).\n\n\nPhil McKee (leaseholder) will chair this meeting and collate questions to send to Judith at least 1 week before the meeting. So if you have a specific question that you’d like to ask then please email KingsCrescentN4@gmail.com and we will pass the questions to Phil.\nPlease keep to one question if possible and they need to be relating to service charges in general and not individual dwellings.\n\nThe meeting will take place on Zoom\, please email KingsCrescentN4@gmail.com if you would like the link to attend.\n\nAGENDA & Questions for JM\n\nQuestions to Judith Morrison for 30th June Service Charge Meeting with residents of King’s Crescent Estate\, N4 \n(Main focus of questions relate to newer buildings) \nProposed Agenda: \n\nIntros\nJudith Morrison\nResponse to questions\nAny other business\nClose\n\n  \nResident Questions related to Service Charges \n\nCan you explain how the service charges actual vs estimation works? For example\, how can you provide estimations for the upcoming year before you have provided residents with the actuals for the year just passed? 10 minutes\n\n  \n\nWhy does the charge vary so greatly year on year?  The charge has doubled since we moved in 3 years ago with no evident improvement in services.  For example\, one resident has seen their charges increase 40% in 3.5 years – from £160/month in 2017 to £220/month in 2021.  10 minutes\n\n  \n\nPlease fully explain the recent mishaps in service charge direct debits. It is not a coincidence that there was system failure two months in a row and this can’t be related to the cyber attack.  What happened and who was responsible? 10 minutes\n\n  \n\nTender process – at no point has it ever been explained how HC looks for value. All we’ve been told is that you just pay bills and pass them on to us.  This is why we’ve had really high electricity bills year on year.  Can we get more transparency on the vendor selection process?  For each support contract per year? 5 minutes\n\n  \n\nWill we be reimbursed for the services not received last year\, e.g. gardening and maintenance? But the most obvious one is window cleaning.  We pay for window cleaning and you try and get unqualified cleaners to do this job.  And cleaning itself is a big issue – mainly because you require the cleaning staff do so much in so little time\, with little equipment to do the job properly. 10 minutes\n\n  \n\nHow much money is in the reserve fund and when is the time that we can stop paying into it? Is it comparable to other private housing in London and can you provide evidence?  We are legally obligated to see evidence of this as it is a protected fund and they are not allowed to dip into it. 5 minutes\n\n  \n\nNo one at HC has ever responded to residents’ requests on excessive electric charges in Kimpton Court. 5 minutes\n\n  \n\nSpecific question on early overcharge issue:\n\n  \nI obtained the details from Ewalina Sorbjan of all charges for both the estate and our block\, Sandon Court\, for the period April 2017 to March 2018. Note that the block was completed in late November 2017 and thus only became habitable then. \n  \nOf the 68 work orders paid for during this period\, 32 of them have a recorded date of payment of 1/4/17\, and six of them have a recorded date of payment of 6/4/17\, for work which presumably and sometimes explicitly took place in the previous financial year (e.g.\, work order 01599070 Capital Roads & Footways 2016-2017 Phase 1\, payment dated 6/4/17 and costing £9166.26). The recording of the payments on these dates was convenient for Hackney Council because Hackney Council apparently believed it meant that the tenants who moved in during the financial year 1/4/17 – 31/3/18 became liable for the cost (I presume the recording of the 6/4/17 dates of payment was performed by someone who thought that Hackney Council’s financial year is the same as the usual one\, which in itself is extremely suspicious). \n  \nIt seems that Hackney Council have deliberately recorded these dates of payment (or waited until these dates to make the payment) in order to pass the costs on to new residents\, in order to exploit the Agreed Terms of the lease\, Clause 3\, Payment of Management Charges to the Lessor (A). Perhaps somewhat fortunately for us\, our block was completed eight months late\, so we only incurred a third of these charges. \n  \nHowever\, in order for this clause of the lease to apply\, the costs and expenses must have been incurred within that financial year: given that invoices are generally submitted after work is complete\, and given that my previous request for the dates of the completed works was never responded to\, I can only presume that these dates are incorrect and were entered for the purpose of overcharging new residents – 38 out of 68 falling on these essential days would be an uncanny coincidence. To counter this accusation\, Hackney Council should provide the previously requested evidence\, should it exist\, for all 32 payments that fall on 1/4/17 and for all six that fall on 6/4/17. Hackney Council may argue that this clause of the Agreed Terms allows costs from a previous year to be carried over to the following year if the amount remains unpaid. However\, since in the year 2016/17 the lease did not exist\, such charges cannot remain unpaid\, since they were not the responsibility of new residents. This is likely why Hackney Council recorded the payment dates as they did. \n  \nFurthermore\, all 20 block-specific charges were paid on 1/4/17 (besides cleaning\, which is not dated but remains far too high for three hours work per week). The block was only certified as habitable in late November 2017\, so any payments made simply can not form part of the management charges as these were activities (if they are real) that would have been covered by Higgins during the building of the block. Residents can not be expected to pay for the preparation and completion of a building for which they each paid over half a million pound to move into as new. \n  \nWhat does Ms Morrison have to say about the legitimacy of these charges and why was the requested evidence never supplied\, despite several requests?  15 minutes \n\n 
URL:https://kingscrescent.org/calendar/service-charges-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Online
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