Lower Rates For High Rise-Cheaper water under new guidelines
For your info, from The Star newspaper today 12/04/2007: Thanks to a guideline recently approved by the state government that will allow the migration from bulk meters to individual meters, highrise residential unit owners in Selangor will finally be able to enjoy lower water rates. The change will allow flats, apartments and condominium owners to pay only 57 sen per cu m instead of the RM1.38 per cu m for apartments and condominiums and 80 sen per cu m for low-cost flats, that they now pay. It will also mean residents will no longer have to worry about water cuts resulting from the management companies’ failure to settle their bills. Under the current practice, Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) issues bulk meters to the management companies for highrise units and the companies then install their own meters for the individual units and charge unit owners accordingly. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Khir Toyo said Syabas would soon start installing individual meters for units where there were no problems of outstanding debts over the management fees. “In cases where there are pending problems over such debts, the state Housing And Real Property Board will meet with the management companies, developers and unit owners to mediate negotiations and resolve the problem so that individual meters can be issued,” he said. He said, however, that this did not mean that unit owners would no longer have to pay for water used at the common areas for purposes like cleaning, maintaining swimming pools and also washing their cars. A separate meter, he said, would be installed for management companies to use at the common areas and the bill too would have to be footed, on a shared basis, by all the dwellers. “We will also ask management companies to come up with controls so that a person who only has a motorcycle does not end up paying the same amount as the person who washes two cars every day,” he said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Called PUSPEL - Syabas customer service to enquire on the above. The Officer, Khalijah said that the Management Office has to get the resident's approval and then proceed to Syabas to apply for individual meters for everyone in Jalil Damai so that we can enjoy the cheaper rates of 57 sen per cu m. Currently, our meters are blue in colour which means those are Management meters. Syabas meters are orange or grey in colour. She said normally for apartments only the main meter are Syabas meter. So if the Management Office do not get their butt moving, we pay: RM 1.38 per cu m = RM0.57 per cu m goes to Syabas and the balance RM0.81 per cu m goes to Bukit Jalil Development Sdn Bhd to support their Jalil Sutera almost abandoned project. I have not pay my water bills since Oct 2006. I have also stop paying maintenance fees and sinking fund from 2007 onwards...........will not pay until our own Jalil Damai Apartment Accounts has been open for me to remit my payment to the correct source rather than continue to being con and rob under broad daylight by Bukit Jalil Development Sdn Bhd.
For your info, from The Star newspaper today 12/04/2007: Thanks to a guideline recently approved by the state government that will allow the migration from bulk meters to individual meters, highrise residential unit owners in Selangor will finally be able to enjoy lower water rates. The change will allow flats, apartments and condominium owners to pay only 57 sen per cu m instead of the RM1.38 per cu m for apartments and condominiums and 80 sen per cu m for low-cost flats, that they now pay. It will also mean residents will no longer have to worry about water cuts resulting from the management companies’ failure to settle their bills. Under the current practice, Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) issues bulk meters to the management companies for highrise units and the companies then install their own meters for the individual units and charge unit owners accordingly. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Khir Toyo said Syabas would soon start installing individual meters for units where there were no problems of outstanding debts over the management fees. “In cases where there are pending problems over such debts, the state Housing And Real Property Board will meet with the management companies, developers and unit owners to mediate negotiations and resolve the problem so that individual meters can be issued,” he said. He said, however, that this did not mean that unit owners would no longer have to pay for water used at the common areas for purposes like cleaning, maintaining swimming pools and also washing their cars. A separate meter, he said, would be installed for management companies to use at the common areas and the bill too would have to be footed, on a shared basis, by all the dwellers. “We will also ask management companies to come up with controls so that a person who only has a motorcycle does not end up paying the same amount as the person who washes two cars every day,” he said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Called PUSPEL - Syabas customer service to enquire on the above. The Officer, Khalijah said that the Management Office has to get the resident's approval and then proceed to Syabas to apply for individual meters for everyone in Jalil Damai so that we can enjoy the cheaper rates of 57 sen per cu m. Currently, our meters are blue in colour which means those are Management meters. Syabas meters are orange or grey in colour. She said normally for apartments only the main meter are Syabas meter. So if the Management Office do not get their butt moving, we pay: RM 1.38 per cu m = RM0.57 per cu m goes to Syabas and the balance RM0.81 per cu m goes to Bukit Jalil Development Sdn Bhd to support their Jalil Sutera almost abandoned project. I have not pay my water bills since Oct 2006. I have also stop paying maintenance fees and sinking fund from 2007 onwards...........will not pay until our own Jalil Damai Apartment Accounts has been open for me to remit my payment to the correct source rather than continue to being con and rob under broad daylight by Bukit Jalil Development Sdn Bhd.