Dear property and business owners. Please take note of the attached security advisory regarding safety precautions on the N2 Freeway, especially near the Cape Town International Airport. To read the full document please click here.
Security Advisory: Safety Precautions on N2 Freeway
General Valuation 2012 – All property owners please take note
2012 General Valuation Roll (GV2012)
The City of Cape Town’s 2012 General Valuation Roll (GV2012) was certified by the City Manager on 31 January 2013.In terms of legislation, a valuation roll remains valid for the financial year in which it is produced, and then for one or more subsequent financial years as the municipality may decide but, in total, not for more than four financial years.
It is best to conduct regular valuations, as long periods between valuations result in significant shifts in values. Due to the fact that there have been shifts in the property market since the GV2009 valuation roll, the City decided to have its next General Valuation Roll – GV2012 – after only three years.The date of valuation of the GV2012 is 1 July 2012. All the properties have been valued as at the same date of valuation in order to ensure fairness. The City’s valuations are based on actual property transactions (sales) that have taken place in the open market around the date of valuation. The Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, no 6 of 2004, states that all properties on the valuation roll must be valued at market value. Market value is defined as “the amount the property would have realised if sold on the date of valuation in the open market by a willing buyer to a willing seller”.
Our social upliftment programme starts
It is a great achievement for the Maitland CID. Following extensive planning and consultation the Maitland CID has partnered with various NGO’s to assist the management of the CID in taking homeless people off the streets of Maitland. But simply putting people in a shelter without any means to sustain their stay at the shelter does not support a long term plan.
In turn Geocentric, the management company for the Maitland CID, employed a project manager and devised a social works programme. The programme is designed to provide gainful employment to previously homeless people now living at the various shelters in the area, thereby assisting them to remain off the streets and living in dignifying circumstances.
Each work team consist of three workers. With the consent of the City of Cape Town the team will perform urban maintenance tasks in the Maitland CID area including additional cleaning, the fixing of kerb stones, sidewalks, paving and road signs.
Please join our Recycling Project
Many o
f our businesses in the Maitland City Improvement District (Maitcid) area generate recyclable waste on a daily basis. It has become common practice for some of our businesses in the Maitland CID area to simply dump cardboard and other waste on the sidewalks in front of their businesses with the expectation that vagrants will collect the material. We urge all our businesses to please stop this practice and joint our recycling project in the Maitland CID.
In line with the goals of the Maitcid we approached the City of Cape Town to assist us in identifying a suitable recycling company to partner with the Maitcid to initiate a recycling project. Walker’s Recycling, a registered recycling service provider with the City of Cape Town has been selected to work with the property and business owners and the Maitcid to initiate and sustain this recycling initiative. Their core recycling services focuses on glass, cans, card board, paper and hard plastics.
Please support our efforts to formalize recycling in the area and keep Maitland clean. Please find the contact details for Walker’s Recycling below:
• Edward W. Walker Jr
• 083 508 1177
• walkersrecycling@mweb.co.za
Law Enforcement Joins the Maitland CID
Through the very kind assistance of the local ward councillor, Councillor Derrick America, the Maitland CID now has the assistance of two Law Enforcement Officers every day. The officers assist the Maitland CID in addressing By-law and non-moving violations in the area, thereby maintaining a high standard of public safety in the Maitland CID area.
Night-time operations brings results
The Maitland CID planned and executed a number of night-time operations with the Maitland SAPS during the festive season and into January 2013. Following some of these operations a number of persons were charged for traffic related offences sending a strong message to transgressors that the Maitland area is well policed. In two instances measurable quantities of drugs were also found.
Bag with “tik lollies” found
Dagga found
Have you seen our mobile command post?
Sinc
e December 2012 the Maitland CID deployed the mobile command post every day. The mobile command post was donated by the Department of Community Safety. The command post is used as a reporting point for our public safety patrollers and as a contact point for the public. Since its deployment the SAPS and other Law Enforcement agencies have used the command post as a mobile office during operations. It is also used to distribute public information pamphlets on safety issues.
Please feel free to visit our mobile command post should you need any assistance. A patrol officer is always in or near the command post and can assist you.
Spot our new look
We are very proud of our new look! Our MaitCID patrol officers now have a brand new and fresh look with high visibility reflective jackets. Geocentric, the appointed management company for the Maitland CID partnered with the Safety Lab and the Centre for Criminology at UCT to develop a training course for public safety patrol officers. This course was attended by the MaitCID patrol officers over a 6 week period. Following the extensive retraining programme our patrol officers were issued with their new high visibility clothing. The new look enhances public visibility and also promotes the public awareness of the patrollers.
New Cleaning Company Appointed
Essential Cleaning joins the Maitland CID from 1 January 2013. Essential will provide additional public cleaning in the Maitland CID. You will recognise our cleaning team with their brigh new reflective jackets. Essential Cleaning provides three staff members to the Maitland CID. They will follow a 5-day schedule that covers the entire Maitland CID. After every 5-day cycle a project day will follow. Project days will be used to deal with specific cleaning projects such as verge cutting or the cleaning of a specific open public space.
For more information please do not hesitate to contact the MAITCID Offices on 021 510 8059
