Hacienda Riquelme August 2014 newsletter

What a month:

• The lakes have at last been refilled!

• We have a new Resort President as Nigel stepped down due to the constant Committee infighting and back stapping.

• Resortalia have also been removed as the debt collectors which with 1.2 million of debtors and rising is hardly surprising!

• And the new president has clearly stated that he will not stand at next years AGM!

"By now you will probably have heard that I have taken over as Resort President. I never intended to ever do the role but have been persuaded to change my mind and have agreed to do it until the next AGM. This will provide continuity and allow time for someone else to be identified in time to take over at the next AGM."

 

 

• This together with finally publishing the security and gardening SLA's clearly shows times are a changing at last!

Obviously the Committee should be congratulated for stepping up to the mark and representing ALL Owners in their  best interests however,  anyone that raises their heads into these elected positions really should be aware of the “dog eat dog” culture within Hacienda Riquelme.

If the Committee is doing is dong such a great job, then why are there so many key problems across the resort. Where is the detailed case summary information of which 1.2 million debtors are in court and the stages of the court proceedings? 

 

Where is the information of how many debtors are untraceable, the key issue as confirmed by the previous resort president?

If owners then question the Committee on these matters then they classed by the Committee as trouble makers and are then named and shamed amongst all the fellow owners.

 

And finally as the Committee represents all owners interests then they clearly need to be aware that fundamental issues will be raised as and when required. If the heat becomes to hot in the kitchen then they can always stand aside, as the issues, and owners with these issues, will not go away. 

 

The committee may change overtime however we will not be it 5, 10, 15 years or whatever we will still be around to show the true Hacienda Riquelme Culture and spirit.

Liam Neeson in "Taken 3" films in Murcia airport.

If you happen to see a car chase on a road in Murcia this week… you could be in a Liam Neeson movie.

The Northern Irish actor has been in the city and local hills to shoot for his upcoming film ‘Taken 3’, in which he plays the part of Bryan Mills.

At the request of director Olivier Megaton police closed roads, including part of Murcia-San Javier airport, as chase scenes were shot.

The Cartagena fire brigade was put on standby.

Neeson  has been spotted in Murcia and at nearby La Manga Club with cast members, including Stephanie Kleine.

HRGR Golf Course Conditions Update

Greens

The growth of new grass on the greens continues at a pace with the arrival of the hotter daytime temperatures and the improved growing conditions for this type of paspalum grass. Treatment by the ground staff has continued constantly over the last month. 

The average percentage coverage of grass has risen from about 50% a month ago to nearer 80% now on many greens. 

The greens are looking significantly better and we are confident, looking at the recent growth and coverage improvements, that the greens will totally recover. However there is a down-side to this recovery process. Unfortunately the rolling of the ball over the greens surface is actually worse now than a month ago as this new grass has grown and the areas of less-strong grass still growing gives larger inconsistencies in levels of height. 

This rolling deviation should reduce significantly as the growing grass finally fills the gaps and a more even and consistent coverage of strong grass across the greens as a whole is achieved. We still feel that it will be several weeks minimum, at this rate of progress, before we have good playable conditions on the greens. The following picture shows the condition of the practice green, which is quite typical of the average condition of the other greens on the course.

 

IRM have confirmed that they have taken a positive step towards improvements in the condition of all their courses by employing a new Course Maintenance and Management company, to replace the previous company, Selprats

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Murcia to operate both San Javier AND Corvera until 2016

The Region of Murcia will see two airports in operation between 2014 and 2016.

Minister of Development Manuel Campos told the regional assembly how Corvera Airport will be opened before the end of 2014, however San Javier airport can not be closed before the end of 2016.

According to Campos, the smaller and older airport will not be closed sooner as the Spanish Airports Authority - AENA - will be required to operate the facility until such a time in order to justify the EU funding they received for development of the airport - specifically the EU25 Mln runway extension - in 2011.

Meanwhile, the decision by the European Commission to permit the opening of Corvera airport is due to be made later in July, with the legalities of the EU177 Mln loan guarantee by the regional government being under scrutiny.

EC approval of the loan guarantee would essentially allow the concession holder of Corvera airport, Aeromur, to guarantee their repayments between 2014 and 2023, and with a commitment to make repayments up to 2050 with an interest rate of 4.87%.

None of the major airlines currently flying into San Javier Airport have made any reference to when - or if - they will transfer operations to Corvera Airport.

Paramount Murcia gains 16M euros in EU subsidy

Premursa also announced that they had been successful in obtaining funding from the Regional Incentives Board of the Ministry of Works & Finance, in obtaining an EU subsidy to the value of almost EU17 Mln.

Latest estimations are that the park will open to the public sometime between December 2015 and January 2016.

Time for the Committee to stand aside!

After months and months of committee infighting and formal confirmation that the Resort President can no longer stand being in the same room as other committee members, then a number of questions need to be raised:

• Why didn't Committee minutes reflect what was actually going on?
• Shouldn't Resortalia have prepared formal minutes accurately?
• Can Resortalia now be trusted to accurately inform all owners and protect their interests?

• Should other Committee members now consider their positions especially for not telling the complete truth? The following response is one clear example:

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• Why are we not being correctly informed:

The honourable thing to do is for the complete committee to consider their positions and stand aside as they are now all tainted by the cover up and mess that has resulted.

Resort President resigns due to Committee in-fighting..

Time for action and change!

The writing was really on the wall....................

•  13.5M euros professional assessment for building repairs and only 1.35M euros awarded

• Now we have another 2M euros +++++ for ongoing maintenance! - more like 4M in reality. Only 250K euros budgeted!

• And increased substantial BAD DEBTS yet to be budgeted.

The writing was really on the wall....................