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1_Mrs Hillgarth along with some other lessees (including myself and my co-directors) were not aware of any additional works requested/required/expected, such as Emergency Lighting, new light fitments, new electrics, auto sensors etc, a lift refurb etc etc.
.....in other words that is what Mrs Hillgarth is claiming - right or wrong? If right, we AGREE...!
2_Mrs Hillgarth refuses to accept our insistence that following her own sourced quotes from Hemi & Wade which outlined in detail these additional works, and which were approved at the meeting she called on 13 June 2012 by an alleged majority of lessees, we considered these additional workings to be requested/required/expected.
.....in other words that is what Mrs Hillgarth is claiming - right or wrong? If right, we AGREE...! Hardly a contradiction if you had read the context correctly!!! A simple list of what we (you and I as Mrs Hillgarth is incapable of agreeing anything) can agree that Mrs Hillgarth is claiming!!!
Fair enough, you may have changed your minds. ln fact it is a revelation that your co-directors,
who have remained stubbornly mute throughout this process, had any involvement in these
matters at all. But unless you clarify how much was spent on these additional electrics, you
simply confuse the issue. Subsequently in your letter of 1 November 2016 you claim — openly
and transparently as you would now have us believe - to have informed lessees "how these
additional works were to be financed"' in "correspondence", by which l take it you mean your e-mail of 11 September 2014 to Mrs Hillgarth, from which I have quoted above, and which, I repeat, was only writ- ten after your cover had been blown.
(comment/reply) now “electrics:..?” (what relevance are “electrics now?”) .”cover had been blown”. I’m afraid you’ve got me there as I haven’t the faintest idea to what you refer - what cover? I think my email of 13th September (13 days into the works schedule) does the best job, repeated here for the last time I hope (or 11th Sept email which simply evidences the situation yet again):
Mrs Hillgarth’s reference to the 13 Sept 2014 email is basically “game set and match” as both you and she cannot possibly be making the various accusations you have been making to date:
One third down the email is 3_Notes on the WORKS to date:
“Since the scaffolding commenced installation on Sunday 31st August, exactly two weeks ago, dead on schedule, Management have already saved Lessees £1177.56 OFF the agreed and budgeted £105, 019.
This has been accomplished by Management doing various workings which could be done at a more economical cost (in brief, shop signage (COSTED (Contingency) BY A.R. LAWRENCE FOR £800 plus vat which Management have produced for £125.......and tidying up visible wiring and making Meter Cupboards which A.R.Lawrence costed at £922 plus Vat for 3 meter cupboards and Management have produced same for £648 incl vat but TO ALSO INCLUDE BOXING IN THE (some) LOOSE INTERNAL WIRING on all three floors).
This initial saving of £1177.56 will not however be reimbursed to lessees at the end of the works, as Management will utilise this first of many savings, to progress works on the interior NOT included in the Surveyor's Specifications (such as the lift workings).
In brief, Management are attempting, and will succeed, in presenting the interior decor of Mitre House to a standard not even envisaged by most lessees, at no additional cost to lessees over and above the agreed £105,019 budget. This will be achieved by making small savings where possible, common sense, hard work and a great deal of thought.
The only proviso to that statement is so long as no EXTERIOR WORKINGS (over which Management has little or no control) require additional contingency monies which is, of course, why all lessees received the September Quarterly Demands with the additional non-voluntary contribution of £2000 each, so enabling reserves to amply fund any additional expenditures.
If Management can be accused of anything, it's that we have failed to throw a terminal knock-out blow to finally silence a few very ill-informed, troublesome and thoroughly vindictive lessees, none of whom reside at Mitre House, some of whom have advanced the most silly ideas and opinions and indeed have been proved wrong on almost every occasion, the RTM, the various quotes they thought acceptable/affordable and worst of all their gerrymandering of fellow lessees to constantly bicker and question Management's exemplary husbandry of Mitre House since 1st January 2012.