water charge for sectional title schemes in Cape Town

[saturnz]

Anyone else affected by the City of Cape Town's budget and how it affects sectional titles?

Our own Body Corporate is 25% over budget for the year because the City of Cape Town is charging the Body Corporate for water usage as if its one user and not recognising the individual units in the building- in effect individual units now are paying 600% more for their water consumption.

We are now forced to up the levy for next year by 25% because the City is stating that because the budget has already been approved the water charge will not be reversed so the only time this can be challenged is at the next budgetary process.

A really bad move on the part of the City given the amount of BCs that will be impacted by this which can't be good for the DA if they want to win more votes.

 

[Kidkaroo]

This is from the latest draft budget from the city of Cape Town, as printed in today's newspaper (incl. free sheets) "Sectional title units get an allowance of 6 kl per unit per month at zero cost, upon submission of affidavits stating the number of units." I've lived in many sectional title developments in Cape Town and have ALWAYS received the rebate.

 

[noxibox]

Sounds like the same as their sectional title electricity pricing scam. But voting in some other party won't make any difference.

This is from the latest draft budget from the city of Cape Town, as printed in today's newspaper (incl. free sheets) "Sectional title units get an allowance of 6 kl per unit per month at zero cost, upon submission of affidavits stating the number of units." I've lived in many sectional title developments in Cape Town and have ALWAYS received the rebate.

Yes, but are you charged on a sliding scale for the rest?

 

[saturnz]

Sounds like the same as their sectional title electricity pricing scam. But voting in some other party won't make any difference.


Yes, but are you charged on a sliding scale for the rest?

thats the point, the water you do get charged for is 6 times more than what equivalent residential units would have to pay

 

[Kidkaroo]

Yes, but are you charged on a sliding scale for the rest?

Yes. Also, water and sewerage are charged at different rates for clusters and single dwellings.

 

[Kidkaroo]

thats the point, the water you do get charged for is 6 times more than what equivalent residential units would have to pay

6 times? Not according to the double page adverts announcing Cape Town's 2014/15 draft budget.

 

[HavocXphere]

Pretty sure its the same here in pta.

 

[Venomous]

Wait until eishkom tells your complex the same thing about electricity...

 

[saturnz]

6 times? Not according to the double page adverts announcing Cape Town's 2014/15 draft budget.

we are 25% over budget simply due to this charge alone, its real even if it is not reflected in the budget and I suspect other sectional titles are paying it.

I made this thread in an attempt to confirm if other sectional titles are experiencing the same budgetary pressures.

 

[StrontiumDog]

We only recently got individual water meters installed in our small complex in Parklands, CPT. An external company takes monthly readings. Right now it appears as if each unit is getting the free 6 kilo litres allowed per household. I can't confirm how long this has been the case though.

 

[saturnz]

We only recently got individual water meters installed in our small complex in Parklands, CPT. An external company takes monthly readings. Right now it appears as if each unit is getting the free 6 kilo litres allowed per household. I can't confirm how long this has been the case though.

ja we were considering installing water meters, but I think they cost R2500 each and there are 97 units in our complex.

Also it won't matter to us, the water still would go through the buildings meter and we would be charged as if one "user", so we would have to still charge individual owners a higher water tariff to recover the water cost.

Nevertheless there are some queries I will raise as a result of the responses here so I will see how far I get.