Fruitful talks at Razak Mansion


26 January 2012 | last updated at 12:44AM

By OLIVIA PETER 
KUALA LUMPUR
streets@nst.com.my 

TO address the woes of the Razak Mansion flats, the residents have come to a conclusion to form a joint management body.

 They arrived at this decision after a dialogue session at its multipurpose hall held recently.

   The three-hour dialogue session was held by the MCA Federal Territory 1Malaysia task force  to solve problems faced by residents.

   Present to hear out the issues were City Hall's housing management and community development department deputy director  Anwar Mohd Zain as well as health and environment department officer Abd Razak Abd Kadil.

   MCA FT 1Malaysia team leader Banie Chin Yen Foo suggested that 12 committee members in the joint management  body  liaise  with the Kuala Lumpur Commissioner Of Building  after Chinese New Year.

   "Each representative will report  issues at different blocks to the commissioner," said Chin, adding that they are 15 blocks with 667 units.

   Razak Mansion was established  about 50 years ago. Only 100 units are City Hall's property and are rented out to the public for between RM94 to RM124 per month.

   The remaining units are privately owned and they each have to pay a RM35 monthly management fee  to City Hall.

    "We can settle all problems with the help of Tabung Penyelenggaraan 1Malaysia.

   "However, we can only get 90 per cent funding for the total building maintenance cost. That's why we need a joint management body to fund the rest."

   At the dialogue were more than 100 residents, mostly made up of  senior citizens who have lived there for at least 35 years.

    A resident, who only wanted to be known as May,  voiced her fears over issues such as the presence of  drug addicts and  triad gang members at the flats.

    "Recently, my house was broken into," she said,  adding she had also been  living in a "flooded" house as water has been seeping into her home from  the rooftop for the past several months.

   Razak Mansion Residents' Association president, Kamarulzaman Mohammad Sharif, expressed  worry over  the uncollected rubbish and clogged drains.

   "There are also incidents of snakes entering houses," he said.
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More than 100 residents of the Razak Mansion flats attended the dialogue session, which gave them the opportunity to highlight problems in the area. Pic by Adib Rawi

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