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SIMBITHI ECO ESTATE AND COUNTRY CLUB From: Jeff Gilmour Hi all • We hold monthly meetings at different venues Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 I am the Executive Manager for the HOA at Eagle on a rotational basis. 11:41 AM Canyon Golf Estate. We have a dedicated board To: [email protected];re@gdainfern. of trustees and our Chairman has requested It would be great if we all have our Chairperson co.za; [email protected]; that we initiate a process to form a networking (or any trustee); the estate manager and the [email protected]; forum to discuss issues of common interest and security manager at this initial meeting and then [email protected]; [email protected]; cross pollination. We are sure we could learn a we can decide who in the future should attend. [email protected]; j.kruger@ lot from each other and of course, we suspect Please confirm by return mail and indicate pecanwoodhoa.co.za; gm@woodhill. that we all have similar issues around security, whether you will be able to attend or not. co.za; [email protected]; charl@fwg. the environment and communications etc. Thus co.za; [email protected]; boet@ we propose the following: Kind Regards, Cc: ‘Sean Wolfe-Coote’; ‘Steve McNair’; • We hold a meeting at Eagle Canyon at 17h00 Regards Jeff Gilmour ‘Andrea Schubach’; [email protected]; on the 3rd of October 2007. ‘Nico Richter’ • At that meeting we agree on an agenda and Subject: Residential Estate Benchmarking terms of reference. cedarlake.co.za Thank you to all of the following people: T o the eleven founder members, their To Alan Warrener, Chris van der Merwe and AJ Thank you to our business partners that homeowners associations, directors and the van Rensburg for your expert legal assistance. have teamed up with us over the last six estate managers; Paul Burchell, Tobie Kloppers, To Dave Goddard, my friend and partner, for years; Servest Security, Four Seasons Group, Hannes Hendriks, Johan Kruger, Gary Lees, your inspiration in the formation of “an idea Bidvest, Pam Golding properties, Secsyst, John Dare, Boet Grobler , Roddy Wakeford, Harry whose time has come.” Impro Technologies, Enermatics, Universal White,Steve van Greunen, Duncan Holmes,Sean Projects, James Wright, Eaton Towers, MTN, Wolf Coote, Shantelle Walters, Sarika Somia, To Tom Skiba, Dawn Bauman and Mike Packard Vodacom, NIC Insurance Brokers, Trafalgar Trevor Payne, Willem Marx and Mark Williams. from the CAI U.S.A. for giving us the opportunity Property Management, Glovent and Estate to contribute to global best practices. Living ( Phoenix Creative Communication). and the estate managers who have remained loyal To the ARC team Andrea Schubach, Sandy Mc Jeff Gilmourovent and the Estate portal, to the association from the start. To our regional Cann and Peggy Gilmour for their loyalty and Estate living, The Centre of Reserve chapter leaders; Nicol Erasmus, Glynis Coetzee, passion. Excellence, Liana from Status Quo, NIC insurance, Sanlam, Santam, MTN and Vodacom. To every homeowners association, the directors Willem Zeederberg, Johan van Schalkwyk, Andre Coleski, Wiekie Smit, Jaco Venter, Stephan Vorster, To my wife Peggy for her support and allowing Johan Kurger and Richard Kelland. me the opportunity to spend invaluable time with our members. To Johan Kruger and Brian Anderson for 07