The Tenants' committee submitted a list of demands to the Dorms management

Somewhere around a month ago the Tenants' committee has been formed in order to diplomatically interface with the University on the most important matters of Dorms Tenants. The main group amounts to 200 people.

In particular, the committee has monitored and collected data from Broshim and Einstein Dorms, reaching a pool of approximately 100 respondents. Then, it went through the various reports made by these people and listed a series of common problems and demands.

There is so much work to do that the very first action has been directed towards changing the terms of the contract: the committee went through the points of the current contract (updated 2018) and highlighted the most problematic ones, which conflict with the demands of the tenants.

NOTE: these are proposals, still need to be evaluated by the dorm managements and the University!

At the start of July, the following demands have been submitted:

1) Allow bringing in personal furniture and to hang items on walls, including furniture that helps disabled tenants deal with their disability*. At the end of the contract the room has to be in the initial condition including all original furniture, white walls with no holes. Any furniture brought in and removed end of year needs to be completely evacuated from dorms grounds 

    *win this case, disability means any physical/medical problem that one is facing (e.g. backpain, ambulatory impairments, items for treatments...). The right to have special furniture will be better supported with medical certification.

2) Increasing the number of guests per person to 5, increasing the number of nights for guests staying after 22:00 to 14 a month, and the possibility of defining one permanent guest who doesn’t have to ID each time they enter.

3) The initial disciplinary committee will be run by the university, not the dormitory manager on behalf of Shikun and Binui.

4) It will be possible to bring in therapeutic assistance animals, for example a guide dog or an animal for mental support.

5) It will be mandatory to repair urgent defects within 3 days and non-urgent defects within 30 days. Pests will also be considered defects, urgency depending on severity of the situation.

6) Creating a new key due to loss will cost 10 Shekels*.

    * from the survey and the informal knowledge the committee had, right now the price and the fine for losing the keys depend on the situation (whether you lost just your keys, or your keys and your entrance badge), and  they can go up to a total of 140 shekels. On the survey, people stated having paid 90 or 40 shekels for losing their keys.

7) Make it prohibited for the dormitory staff to enter the apartments for repairs or renovations without prior notice of 3 days* in advance, stating a two-hour window.

     

    *the urgent calls and needs should be repaired within 3 days, which means that the management personnel should call the tenant as soon as possible to have the permission to enter the apartment.

8) Dorms management has the responsibility to make sure common grounds are clean and without pests.

9) If the management refuses a request from a tenant, the latter can appeal to someone from the university*.

    *this person should be a specific referee appointed by the university.

10) Broshim tenants can enter and exit from both gates*.

    *the second gate is the carousel on the side of the complex.

11) Ability to trade apartments between tenants as long as apartments are the same.

As of now, we are waiting for the official answers from the Management, considering that the demands were welcomed and the Management itself is interested in improving the service.

Other important issues will be discussed later on. These specific demands had the priority because on July the 4th there was an important meeting between the Student's Union (Agudat HaStudentim) and the university regarding changes to the dorms' terms and rules, the occasion where the Tenants' committee presented these demands (above).

Diplomacy is not the only weapon: in order to denounce the occurring episodes in the dorms, the committee has opened a page called "TAU Dorms Confessions" where people can anonymously tell their personal experience in the Dorms, describing a specific fact that they had to deal with.

Click HERE to reach the page. 

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