{"id":11,"date":"2018-02-19T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2020-10-06T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:49:15","slug":"new-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Barbeque Downs Community doing for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Here is a short description of the daily activities of the voluntary community. Although funds get collected from the residents in the area for upgrades, clean-ups etc, the members freely volunteer their time to attend meetings and perform the following tasks on behalf of the residents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Report potholes, road signs, traffic lights faded\/missing road markings;<\/li>\n<li>Report crime\/suspicious suspects, accidents, fires, etc;<\/li>\n<li>Report electricity, water outages and revert info to residents via Twitter and Facebook;<\/li>\n<li>Request for grass to be cut, pruning of trees and staking of trees (City Parks or Barbeque Downs provides the funds where required);<\/li>\n<li>Apply for upgrades to services in the area like Telkom, Eskom, Street lights (Erected recently in suburb), tarring, fibre optics, widening\/resurfacing of Main, new intersection at Jubie Road and booming off;<\/li>\n<li>Monitor all building activity, ensure building compliance and prevent any unauthorised\/illegal buildings to be erected. (E.g. a few developments were stopped due to incorrect high density housing being built without any approval from municipality! This would have had a very negative effect on property values in the entire area.);<\/li>\n<li>Establishing two Wetland public parks for the residents\u2019, one at the corner of Jubie and Candican and the other at the corner of Kipling and Candican road.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Employ people to collect litter in the area. We collect as much as 12 orange bags per week!<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Submit comments and suggestions on behalf of all residents to the council and follow up;<\/li>\n<li>Manage and maintain the community Facebook page, Whatsapp group, Twitter and website regularly with events, news and general information;<\/li>\n<li>Send emails pertaining to the area to all complexes managing agents and chairpersons. If you would like to be added to this group and\/or don\u2019t receive the information from your managing agents, please send your request to environment@bbqdowns.com<\/li>\n<li>Erected sign boards on the corner of Shakespeare and Main Road and another on Malindi Road with the community details; and<\/li>\n<li>Actively involved and represent owners at the monthly CPF meetings.<br \/>\nOn request, we attend annual complex AGM\u2019s to update all residents on initiatives and happenings.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Barbeque Downs Community doing for you? Here is a short description of the daily activities of the voluntary community. Although funds get collected from the residents in the area for upgrades, clean-ups etc, the members freely volunteer their time to attend meetings and perform the following tasks on behalf of the residents: Report &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/?p=11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbqdowns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}