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NEPEAN COUNTRY CLUB Now Pet Friendly*
ISLAND PALMS RESORT
Re-Paint Project
Each levy year, at Island Palms Resort, we budget for a major
refurbishment project, and most of them require a lot of know-how and labour by Resort co-manager, John. This year the resort exterior will be repainted (last done in 1995) and it’s certainly no job for John! Obviously, it is a job that needed to be timed to avoid our humid tropical months. The contractors expect the job to take approximately 4 weeks and work is due to commence 5.8.2013.
Island Palms Resort has always worked to a 10 Year Plan for refurbishment and for the current levy year, we had already secured approximations of cost in time for our May 2013 budget meeting.
We approached two island painting companies and one mainland (Townsville) company. We only approached Island companies who had large enough staff numbers to tackle our job. We also knew that there could be an issue with Island companies being able to access or affordably quote for the inclusion of scaffolding and a cherry-picker to access our 10 meter building.
In typical ‘island’ style, only one island company quoted. After 10 years of managing Island Palms Resort, we also know we were lucky to find a mainland company that was willing to quote. Historically, town companies state it is not worth the effort travelling to the island for work, mostly due to the freight/ferry costs. Our Board of Directors opted to accept the quote offered by the Townsville company.
That long established company offers a broad range of property maintenance services throughout Australia and New Zealand. Our project’s expense will be paid off over a 7 year contract versus a once in-full payment. In addition, the contract involves a full external painted surface wash down annually for the subsequent 6 years,
along with repair to any damaged/scuffed external paintwork. This staged payment plan will greatly benefit our cash flow for this not insignificant expense.
Now we’re sure you’re wondering about colours ... so are we!
It’s been the biggest challenge of all (nearly the end of a successful management team, let alone a 33 year marriage!). Since 1995 the resort has been one colour - a very pale blue/green. We sought a professional recommendation from an Interior Designer who is very
Recently we had the pleasure of
staying at our favourite resort, Nepean Country Club in Rosebud Victoria.
Not only is the resort and its facilities fantastic but they have recently updated and designed a apartment specifically for dog owners. We are currently carers of a Vision Australia Labrador and the apartment suited us perfectly.
There has been a doggy door fitted which allows your dog to visit a purpose built grassed courtyard. The apartment
is on the ground floor and is beautifully presented. (The best we had stayed in for many years). Finally, we were delighted to find a welcome gift for our dog, a little doggy pack with a special dog rug and chewy dog biscuit in it.
Well done, Nepean, a real winner for responsible dog owners
and happy pups.
Kind regards
STUART ROME
BALWYN VICTORIA
RCI MEMBER
*A small additional fee is applicable to reserve this unit.
38 SPRING/SUMMER 2013
RCI MEMBER UPDATE