RRVA installs cameras for the community’s safety.
RRVA – Putting their minds to it and accomplishing their goals.
The Randpark Ridge Village Association (RRVA) meeting was held on 29 November at Randpark Primary School where they addressed some of their members’ concerns and accomplishments.
Roderick Rankine, a new member of the RRVA committee, along with Wayne Kets who joined the RRVA the previous year, were named as directors.
Rankine was the speaker for the evening, addressing the agenda. One of the points on the agenda was to appoint new directors after they announced that three of their current directors were stepping down.
At the beginning of the meeting, Rankine addressed security issues. RRVA has a long-standing relationship with the Community Support Services (CSS), whereby they offer preferential rates for armed responses to the households in the RRVA operating areas, provided they are RRVA members.
Prior to 2003, they didn’t have any full-time patrol cars, with 38 crime incidents reported per month. Since 2003 they have one full-time patrol car and now the crime rates are between six and eight every month.
The RRVA has installed security cameras at various locations to monitor any suspicious actions or crime. One of the cameras that they installed is at the corner of Seder Street and Molope Road at the entrance of the suburb. Other surveillance cameras are installed at various other locations and they are planning on installing more cameras.
They currently have more than 500 paid-up members and they decided not to increase the annual subscription next year.
The RRVA recently painted the public picket fences throughout their suburb. The entrances to the suburbs have been cleaned up and weeded. They repainted the pavements and crash barriers.
The association also cut and cleaned the area at the Hymany Dam wetland, after they realised the possible risks of a fire breaking out and weeds polluting the area. The also fished out the rubbish that was floating in the dam. They managed to clean the embankment at Beyers Naude Drive that looks towards Northcliff after an overflow of litter.
Recently illegal dumping was carried out. On their surveillance cameras, they saw a car pull up and drop a large tree trunk in Randpark Ridge. They were unable to obtain sufficient information from the footage to catch the culprit.
Rankine is a registered professional engineer and concrete technologist specialising in the field of construction materials. He has pointed out numerous infrastructures that are busy crumbling and failing. He stated that the Hymany Dam’s side channel spillway concrete lining has failed and that the dam is at risk of breaking during a flood.
RRVA would like the following ‘champions’ to join them: A legal expert to advise them of their rights and obligations, a secretary to take meetings, a webmaster, a sales and marketing member, a recycling champion, an environmentalist, a security expert, a social events specialist and a community support sympathiser.
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