Ward 3 DA meeting - 30 September 2010

Minutes of a Ward 3 Democratic Alliance meeting held on the 30th September 2010.

Present
J Thiart (Chairperson) C Womersley, Dr. B Vosloo, J Davel, Councillor N Botha and H Thiart (Secretary)

Apologies
None

Opening and welcome
The chairman extended a word of welcome to all present and opened with a prayer.

Conformation of the minutes of 5th August 2010
The minutes were previously circulated and taken as read. Approved. Proposed: J Davel. Seconded: C Womersley.

Matters arising from the previous minutes
Ward 3 AGM could not take place as scheduled for the 27th August 2010. Unfortunately it coincided with an event in the NG Church Centre and the members who turned up did not constitute a quorum. A new date was set for the 14th October 2010 at 17 Tamarisk Square at 17:00.

Report back by Councillor Botha
(i) Ward 3 Tecoma voting station: 4079 voters. Approximately 1000 voters will have to re-register in the new word 8 ( NG Church).
(ii) The final delimitation of the wards were published in Provincial Gazette No 2438 dated 31th August 2010. The DA will have to work very hard and encourage every registered voter in wards 3,8 and 11 to vote en masse. Wards 2 and 14 (Pellsrus and Aston Bay/ Paradise Beach/Tokyo
Sexwale) will need a lot of work and motivation amongst the brown
and black voters to vote for the DA.
(iii) The pre-paid meter contract has been cancelled. Approximately R4.5 mil. is still outstanding. Hopefully the money will be recovered by the Municipality.
(iv) Eleven applications were received for wind farms in the Kouga area.

General
(i) To date 134 new DA members have been registered in Ward 3.
(ii) A House meeting was held on 11th August at 11 Chestnut Street. 10 people attended.
(iii) A branch committee meeting for the newly elected Ward 3
committee will be held on 26th October 2010.

J Thiart
Chairperson