JPS & Partners 2017 Annual Report

Board of Directors Report Continued
Infrastructure and Development
The mandate of this Committee is to plan and implement
technical projects as set out and approved by the Board
of Directors and to provide technical assistance to the
Credit Union as it relates to both planned and unplanned
activities.
During the year, the committee worked on and
completed the following projects:
• The re-pavement and remarking of the car park at
the Half Way Tree Road Office.
• The acquisition and installation of an automatic
sliding security gate at the Half Way Tree Road office.
• The repainting and general facelift of the Ewarton
branch office.
• The scheduled full scale indoor air quality tests and
review of the Half Way Tree Road office and the
attendant monitoring and maintenance work to
ensure continued good indoor air quality environment
for our staff and members.
In addition to the above, the normal building and other
maintenance work were carried out at all our offices and
at our Lady Musgrave Road property.
For year 2018
The Committee will be actively pursuing the following:
• Formal modification of the restrictive covenants
governing the use of the Lady Musgrave Road
property. This is to pave the way for the future use
and development of the property in accordance with
the Credit Union's vision.
• The approval of and the reconfiguration of our water
supply infrastructure at the Lady Musgrave Road
property. The intention is to provide each tenant
with their own metered water supply.
• Continued remedial work to ensure that the air
quality within the head office building remains within
the applicable standards.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
With the merger of the former CG Credit
Union and the relocation of the office to the
new location in the Ocean Mall Shopping
Centre, Down Town Kingston in the first
Quarter of 2017, the IT team focused on
ensuring that the technology required to
operate seamlessly in a safe and secure
environment were in place.
With the completion of the merging of the databases in
the third quarter, our members are now able to access
their financial information and transact their business at
any of our branch locations.
During the year, the Credit Union acquired a new
automatic Teller Machine (ATM). This machine is based
at our Ewarton Branch. The procurement of this new
machine was to ensure that our card processing facility
was compliant with international security standards and
that our members card transaction processing were
done in a secured environment.
For 2018, focus will be on the upgrading of our servers,
the launching of our new website and the commencement
of a project to install a new cooling system in the IT room.
INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION
We believe that an investment in education pays the best
interest and as such, the Credit Union in 2017 continued
its thrust towards the advancement of student
achievement through the provision of the necessary
resources such as scholarships, learning material and
mentoring. Each activity has the underlying theme of
advancing education, making it easier for every child we
can assist to attain self-mobility. We achieve this by
ensuring that our annual financial budget carries a line
item to assist with this investment. Our partnership with
Central Branch All Age School goes beyond annual
scholarships. Our commitment to assist in the
improvement of their literacy level sees us participating
in reading programmes at the institution and the
distribution of 100 copies of the Children’s Own
newspaper on a weekly basis. This is another of our
initiative to ensure that children at this institution are
provided with reading material.
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