THE Yellowwood Park and Woodhaven Residents and Ratepayers Association have taken a step towards enhancing municipal service delivery by initiating a new precinct initiative. The initiative aims at improving poor and substandard levels of service within the community in an orderly and systematic way with a focus on priority infrastructure and environmental concerns.

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The infrastructure and environment sub-committee of the association will take responsibility for liaising with city infrastructure to make sure municipal facilities meet community standards.

The project will have focus areas, which will include:

• Street lighting: There will be regular checks to identify and report faulty streetlights.
• Road and footpath maintenance: Pothole surveillance, deplorable road condition, excessively long weeds, blocked stormwater drains and encroaching overgrown vegetation.
• Verge maintenance: Providing contracted municipal verge services that make the scheduled eight verge cuts annually.
• Park maintenance: Maintaining municipal commitments to park maintenance, currently four cuts yearly.

The precinct project aims to provide a formal and thorough assessment of municipal service levels so that reports made to the municipality give a true picture of the state of infrastructure and maintenance needed.

To effectively manage over 30km of road through Yellowwood Park and Woodhaven, the association introduced a system of 12 precincts with assigned co-ordinators.

Responsibility of co-ordinators:

The co-ordinators will be responsible for:

• Conducting regular inspections within the area allocated to them.
• Recording and reporting municipal service deficiencies.
• Ensuring satisfactory completion of programmed maintenance, such as verge and park cutting.
• Reporting general observations which call for the intervention of the municipality.

Each precinct will be comprised of roads with a length of less than 3km, so that co-ordinators can undertake comprehensive inspections in one to two hours. The inspections will have photographic records to accompany reports to be submitted to the municipality.

The precincts:

• Precinct A: Bunting Place, Linnet Road, Gannet Road, Gallinule Road, Greenshank Close, Siskin Place
• Precinct B: Kenyon Howden Road, Whimbrel Place, Tern Way (east), Lourie Place, Pipit Avenue, Ibis Place, Coucal Close
• Precinct C: Tern Way (west), Finfoot Street, Oxpecker Road, Fiskaal Place, Kite Place, Teal Close, Francolin Close, Minnikin Place
• Precinct D: Old Mill Road, Coedmore Avenue (to Kingfisher Ave), Robin Road, Jacana Road, Redwing Crescent
• Precinct E: Kingfisher Avenue (to Pigeon Drive), Pigeon Drive, Dove Crescent, Woodpecker Circle
• Precinct F: Coedmore Avenue (to CROW), Warbler Way, Thrush Avenue, Eagle Hill, Sunbird Avenue
• Precinct G: Sparrow Road, Partridge Place, Hoopoe Lane, Curlew Crescent, Pelican Place, Swans Mile, Weaver Road (to Barbet Road), Barbet Road, Oriole Road
• Precinct H: Weaver Road (to Barbet Road), Snipe Crescent, Flamingo Grove, Sunbird Avenue (to Thrush Ave), Swallow Street
• Precinct I: Coedmore Avenue (south), Wagtail Walk, Warbler Way (to Thrush Ave), Egret Way, Starling Avenue
• Precinct J: Swift Way, Finch Street, Honeysucker Avenue, Cuckoo Circle, Hawk Street, Wren Way (south), Lark Lane, Sakabula Lane
• Precinct K: Sandpiper Street, Wren Way (to Sandpiper Street), Osprey Road, Kestrel Crescent
• Precinct L: Quail Road, Penguin Walk, Heron Way, Plover Place, Falcon Drive

The Association believes this project will provide a more systemised and efficient approach to municipal service participation, with issues recorded in a methodical manner and handled more successfully.

Residents who are interested in being a co-ordinator for their precinct can contact Nolwandle Gcaba on ‪064 374 0309, Sheila Philogene on 079 941 7499 or Mike Andrews on 083 288 8788.

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