Ward 8 Committee Meeting - 29 June 2010

Present

Dr. Nico Botha
Mr. Dave Aldendorff
Mr. Faan Louw
Mr. Theo Landman
Mrs. Denise Moyles
Dr. Barry Vosloo

Apologies

Mr. Gerrie Botes
Mr. Varge Stanley

Opening

F. Louw opened the meeting with a prayer.

Apologies

Apologies were received from G. Botes and V. Stanley. G. Botes would be advising the Chairman whether he would be available to continue working on the Ward 8 Committee.

Minutes of previous meeting

The minutes of the Progress Meeting held on 25 May was taken as READ. Proposed by T Landman and seconded by F Louw.

Matters arising from the minutes

DAtanet
A copy of the DAtanet was TABLED by B Vosloo.

B. Vosloo REPORTED that the new blogspot for the DA Jeffreys Bay Region had been developed on the internet. The address is www.da-jbayregion.blogspot.com

B. Vosloo EXPLAINED that the DAtanet had been developed with the purpose of
• being the mouthpiece of the DA in the Jeffreys Bay region;
• being a column for each ward and zone to communicate with each other;
• general DA news.

He APPEALED to the Works Committee to appoint a ‘scribe’ that would e-mail him copies of the minutes of meetings, newsletters and any information that would be of interest to Ward 8 members. His e-mail address is vosloobj@telkomsa.net

House meetings

Committee members were REQUESTED to ensure that at least one house meeting took place in each of the 4 blocks in Ward 8 during July 2010.

Membership

A list featuring the statistics of Ward 8 Block 6 was TABLED and circulated.

The Chairman reported that there were some 1268 houses in Wavecrest belonging to Ward 8, excluding Eedenglen. These had been divided into 12 Blocks of which
• 333 addresses had residents who were registered;
• 427 addresses had residents who needed to be re-registered;
• 508 addresses had residents who had not been registered.

T Landman was given responsibility for following up on this information in Block 1,
F Louw, Block 3, D Moyles Block 6, and D Aldendorff, Block 5. More volunteers were needed for the other Blocks.

It was NOTED that 228 members had been recruited to date and Ward 8 was challenged to achieve their target of 300 members by end November 2010.

The IEC would be approached to make themselves available to re-register households that were presently in Ward 3 and had to be transferred to Ward 8.

It was PROPOSED that self-addressed postcards be distributed through the Post Office and during the door-to-door visits in order to update personal details for the voters roll and help identify those residents who needed to register.

Reportback by Clr. Botha

N Botha INFORMED the meeting that the Demarcation Board has not yet finalized the voting areas.

Next meeting

It was NOTED that the next Ward 8 committee meeting would be convened at 14:00 on Tuesday, 27 July 2010, at the Jeffreys Bay Golf Club.

Closure

The meeting closed at 15:45.