Reflection

The meeting was on March 19 2013 at 12:40 pm. The meeting was about solving the issue of car parking in the Higher Colleges of Technology, the Abu Dhabi Men’s College. The meeting was opened by Hamad, the chair of the group, by talking about the problem with his group and he talked about the 1^st way to solve the issue is to build a multi-storey car park beside the F-block on the sand part. Mr. Hedley was asking and worried if that place belongs to the college or no. Then Mohammed talked about the 2^nd way to solve the problem, by building a normal parking in the same place beside the F-block. And later Abdulla gave us a 3^rd way to solve the issue which is to have a valet service for the students.

Then they all talked about the disadvantages about each way to solve the problem; the disadvantage of building a multistorey parking is that it will take time to build it and it is too expensive to build it; the disadvantage of building a normal parking is just that it will be far for the students; and the disadvantage of having a valet service is that it will be expensive for students to pay every day for the valet service and it will need a yearly agreement with a valet company.

At last the group agreed to build a normal car park near the F-block because it has the fewest disadvantages.

Report

In class meeting: agenda, minutes & recommendations

Problem: The parking problem at ADMC

Date of meeting: 19 March 2013

Time of meeting: 12:40pm

Venue: J12

Group members:

Chair: Hamad Al Mehairbi

Recording : Mubarak Al Mazrouei

Secretary: Mohammed Al Qubaisi

Participant: Abdullah Al Mehairbi

Agenda:

Parking problems at ADMC

Multi-storey parking at the F-block

Build a new parking lot at the F-block

Service of valet parking

 

The chairmen Hamad opened the meeting at 12:40pm

1. Build a multi-storey car park near the F-block.

Hamad said it is a very good idea to build multi-storey parking

Mohammed and Abdullah said it’s a very good idea to build the multi-storey parking but it will take a lot of time and it will be very expensive to build it. Hedley worried about the piece of land and wondered if the ADMC college does own the land or not. If not then it will be too expensive because the cost will be buying the piece of land and building multi-storey car park.

The disadvantages  of building multi-storey parking is that it will take time to build it ; it’s too far and it is too expensive. 

2. Mohammed the secretary talked about the idea of building a new parking lot near the F-block.

We all agreed about this idea because it can take a lot of cars in it and there will be no parking problems here. Abdullah said it will cheaper to build a new parking lot than to build multi-storey parking and we all agreed with it. Hedley asked a good question and it was hard to answer; he said if we build a new parking lot will the students park there rather than park in the old parking lot. We said they will because it will be easier to park there.

The only disadvantage of building a new parking beside the F-block is that it is too far from the classes.

3. Abdulla gave us a nice idea that is to have a valet parking.

Hamad and Mohammed said that it is a nice idea but it will be expensive and we need to have a contract agreement with a valet parking company; also it will be very expensive because the company will have too many drivers because there are many students in the college plus it will cost students to pay money for the service.

The disadvantage of having valet parking is that it is expensive. It needs a yearly contract with the company and it will be expensive for students to pay every day for the valet service.

At last after a long arguments and negotiations we have agreed that the best solution is to build a new parking lot near the F-block .