Money Collected and Initial Cut.

So the initial cut has been done and things are looking a lot better :-)

Just to update you on the costs, the final cost per follow on cuts, is now €185 per cut excluding VAT.
Coffees agreed to fund the initial cut so that has helped things a lot.


Several residents in Caislean Oir and Dun Ri volunteered to collect money.
Casilean Oir has raised €1080 so far.  This is based on one collection effort and represents a 50% payment rate across the estate.  While not too bad for a first run, an effort will be made in the next few weeks to collect as much of the remaining money as is possible.  
Naturally some of the delay is with trying to get in contact with landlords, etc.

I don't have an up to date figure for how much has been collected by Dun Ri residents but as soon as I have this, I will post it on the site too.

The plan is simply to pass this money over to Eddie Fox to fund subsequent cuts.

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Estimated Costs Of Grass Cutting.

These are based on a quote from Eddie Fox Grass Cutting.


Eddie has said that he used to do around 16 cuts a year.  As we are trying to manage costs and also as it is so far into the grass growing season already I am hoping to limit this to 10/12 cuts.


So based on 10 cuts:


1st Cutting Estimated at ~500 Euro                ->  €500
9 Subsequent Cuts @170 Each.                      ->  €1530
                                                                                    ----------
Minimum Total Cost (Excluding VAT)     ->  €2030
                                                                                   274




As Dun Ri only has one Grass area adjacent to it, Dun Ri residents are only asked to pay 50% of the costs that Caislean Oir residents are.


There are 55 dwellings in Dun Ri and  72 in Caislean Oir.


We are also going to factor in that I will not be able to get money off 15% of residents.  Hopefully that's not too optimistic.


So with the above factored in (and some rounding) the costs per household are as follows:


Dun Ri Houses : €15 Each
(55 x 12.50 = 687.5)


Caislean Oir Houses : €30 Each
(72 x 25 = 1800)




We will keep this money in an account and will publish the balance and payments made from this account on this website.


We plan to collect the money twice over the summer but obviously the more we can collect on the first run the easier it is to manage.


Fintan Hynes (Not posting my address online)

This Blog will be used to keep Caislean Oir and Dun Ri residents up to date on the grass cutting in the estate.