Minutes for Meeting - English

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Watchful Neighbors Altos de Cerro Azul
Minutes from the meeting of August 21, 2013

The meeting started at 1:10 p.m. with the participation of all the neighborhood of
“Altos de Cerro Azul” The meeting was conducted by Leslie Lieurance with the
assistance of Mrs. Elia Recuero de Zechiel, Mrs. Nelva Brown acting as interpreter and Secretary Guillermo Angulo.
· Leslie made a summary of the last event in “Los Altos de Cerro Azul”, and his personal experience as a victim of one of the assaults. He thanked
everyone who contributed to the capture of the delinquents. He also was grateful to all of those who expressed their solidarity. He explained that
is the reason it was decided to implement the program “Watchful Neighbors” sponsored by the National Police who have had a great success in other communities.

· Leslie and Elia proposed to change the agenda and proceed to do the workshop before the presentation of the National Police since the police
force was late due to a homicide and all those present seconded the motion.

· We divided into small groups and each group presented their concerns.
· A leader spokesperson was chosen from each group.
· Presentation of the concerns by the groups:

a. Improving the control of access to the community.
b. Prohibit the access of taxis and buses.
c. More control of worker and guests.
d. Better control of people camping in the common areas and swimming holes
e. Property owners should abstain from open new path with four wheelers that later the delinquent use it to enter in the community.
f. No deliver truck should be allowed after 6:00 p.m. The property owner should receive the delivery truck at the gate, guide it to his home and following him out to the gate.
g. More communication between Administrators and the owner and between the owners and other neighbors, especially when have to deal with security. Perhaps the second assault could have been avoided.
h. Improve the communication system since not everyone has a home phone or cellular and the cell phone service is deficient,
i. The gate is useless if we have five to six trails that are not patroled or supervised.
j. More control of people loitering and cutting through our property. There are business of rental houses and cabins that bring clients inside without given the proper notification to the Administration.
h. Must investigate the people who come in and used our facilities and said they had paid to enter.

(The police arrived and we proceed to introduce the National Police
with the Secretary Edith Gonzalez)

The National Police gave us the following number for us to call them
anytime we need help.

Cerro Azul 297-0156 24 hours
Sub- Comisionar Castillo 6088-9392
Teniente Pimentel 6075-6278
Sub- Teniente Rodríguez ?

The following are suggestions made by the groups:

· Forbid camping in common areas and swimming areas.
· Forbid enter or deliver trucks after 6:00 p.m.
· The creation of alternative system of communication with the police with radios.
· Create an emergency number system using cell phones.
· Install security cameras in sensitive areas.
· Increase the security equipment and the frequency of surveillance patrols.
· Create a telephone directory of owners.
· Increase the security on cul-de-sacs.
· Every worker must wear a visible I.D. (Cedula) .
· Prohibit the formation of new paths by owners of four-wheelers and to find the way to block the existing one at the same time, installing sign prohibiting passing through.
· Each owner must hand a list of his guests with his I.D. number and license plate of the vehicles and inform how long they will stay and what time they depart.

· The meeting was finished by questions and answers and suggestions by the police officers.

Your participation and cooperation made this meeting a BIG SUCCESS we couldn’t have done this without your help! We are sure the next reunion will be as successful as this meeting.



“THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE SEPTEMBER 20 AT 1:00 P.M.”
THANKS
To the organizers Mr. Leslie Lieurance and Mrs. Elia Zechiel for the time they spent organizing the meeting to make this meeting successfully.
To Mrs. Ericka Espinosa for helping to distribute the agenda to workers and helping us during the meeting.
To Mrs. Nelva Brown for her cooperation and patience as the translator.
To the National Police for offering their support to meet our challenges.
To the Engineer Gabriel Correa for his support and ideas that they
already are working to put in practice.
To Rosa and Migdalia and all the personnel of the Club for their cooperation.
To Yovana Nunez for making the precious cookies for Watchful Neighbors.
To Mr. Guillermo Angulo the secretary, who did an excellent job.
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTENDED WHO HELPED MAKE
AN HARMONIOUS MEETING AND OFFERED MANY SOLUTIONS
TO PUT IN PRACTICE.

[Marco]

The phone numbers for police have been corrected in the earlier message. Only the offices are available for 24 hours.

The next meeting is Friday 20 September 2013.

Sorry for the confusion.