Dear BVC
friends,
I’m
truly and sincerely in appreciation of members and ex-LC members who have taken
up so much of their personal time to participate, raise awareness, write,
discuss, suggest, propose, argue, brain-storm, criticise etc etc on our many
issues at hand which are unsatisfactory membership benefits, unfair treatment by
BVC, “unethical” attitude of BVC and arrogance of the Trustees etc etc.
Personally
I feel that the AMF increase of >5% issue has been resolved by way of the
Trustees giving us the undertaking letter which states that they will seek LC’s
consent before approving any future increase of >5%. For the record, I’m not
being forgiving but rather I’m just trying to be rational about it and move
forward.
In
addition, I’m very thankful that Mr. Sien who has also made the Trustees’ life
even easier by proposing that they incorporate a further process of letting the
members decide at the next AGM should the LC can’t agree to such increase. Thank
you Mr. Sien!
Recently,
a few of us met up to discuss the issues that we should bring up at the coming
AGM on 24th Sept 2011, 10am at Kelab Darul Ehsan, Taman TAR.
Personally
I feel that we should do this constructively and not “argue” or “scold” or “make
noise” at the AGM for the sake of doing it. Lest we forget, our common target is
BVC or Trustees, not each other. As Mr. Chan Yat Hee has said before, we should
aim for win-win solutions and settlement. After all, we are all adults and
professionals in our own rights.......no one has ever pointed a gun to our heads
to buy a BVC membership.
I
humbly summarized the issues below for our careful consideration, thoughts,
deliberation, argument, critique and the like: -
1)
What are our membership benefits to date? We ask BVC to update
2)
Surcharge of affiliate resorts belonging to Berjaya Group e.g. London, Sri
Lanka, Spore, Seychelles, Colmar Bukit Tinggi, Times Sq – We can try to ask them
to waive or reduce surcharges
3)
AMF future increase – personally I would ask BVC to defer for another 2-3 years
in view of the loss of resorts, increase in surcharge and the current
unhappiness among members
4)
Langkawi – increase the inventory from the present 10 rooms to 20-30 rooms since
it’s a very popular destination
5)
Any replacement for the resorts which were sold? e.g. Kota Kinabalu, Mauritius,
Fiji, Spore etc
6)
Redang Beach Resort, members are no longer allowed to book and also not allowed
access into the Resort or its beach – any replacement of beach access? We can
now only book Redang Island Resort which has no beach.
7)
KL Plaza, non-staying members are no longer allowed to use the club facilities
like pool and gym – any replacement?
8) KL Plaza, staying members do not enjoy
privilege or flat parking rate anymore since the building has been sold to
Fahrenheit 88 – any replacement for this facility?
9)
We need to know how the BVC utilize the maintenance fees collected for members’
benefits
10)
We need to know how’s their scheduled refurbishment of the home resorts e.g.
Georgetown, Meranti Park, Camerons, Paradise Lagoon, KL Plaza, Langkawi, Tioman,
Redang etc.
Further
to the discussion among the 6 of us, we unanimously support Mr. Sien’s proposal
that every member should try to participate at the AGM to show our 1 voice and
to drill into BVC that we mean business and the seriousness of these issues. In
other words, our strategy is – even if 1 member has already stood up to voice
out 1 issue, another member can still stand up to voice again on the same issue
by adding some points or to discuss it in his/her own way. This will show to BVC
or Trustees that we are united and focussed.
Meanwhile,
pls help to forward this message to all your contacts or friends who are BVC
members. We need high attendance at the AGM so that the members' voices are
heard by BVC.
P/S.
Pls ensure that members update their maintenance fees coz BVC has the right to
refuse our voting right.
Thank
you & see u at the AGM.
Regards,
Ann
Choo