News: Jardines II - TOPICS OF GENERAL INTEREST. VERY IMPORTANT.

Dear residents of Jardines 2,

As 2025 draws to a close and my term as president of Jardines 2 comes to an end, I would like to address you all to say goodbye as president of our community and to review and discuss some issues and matters that I believe are of general interest to all of you, some of which are of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE.

Firstly, I would like to express my utmost respect and appreciation to those individuals, neighbours, who in one way or another have collaborated or contributed to the various issues.

Secondly, as I have been announcing for some time, I have no intention of representing our community in 2026, mainly because one or two people alone cannot bear the entire burden of managing a community of 976 homes, with all that this entails. From the presidency of Jardines 2, we have repeatedly asked and invited more neighbours to join us and lead different areas of work, or simply to help, but this has not been as successful as we had hoped and we have therefore been unable to put together a group of responsible and dedicated neighbours who would like to take a step forward in this regard.

I will not be taking on any responsibilities at level 2 of our community this year, but I will be available to the new chairperson of Jardines 2 if they need anything, especially as they get started in their new role.

Jardines 2 embarked on a path of cost containment and savings, which we believe was an appropriate way to manage our community's affairs, initiated by the previous chairperson and continued by myself as far as possible. I hope I have lived up to the expectations of most of you, and at the very least, achieved the goal we set ourselves in 2025, which was to maintain what we had achieved up to that point and improve as much as possible. In any case, I can rest assured that I have done everything in my power, within my means and knowledge, for the good of all.

If, on occasion, we have not been successful in this endeavour, believe me, it has been largely due to external factors beyond our control. Things do not always turn out the way we want them to. Even so, I take responsibility for everything I have not been able to resolve.

Thirdly, dear neighbours, I strongly advise you to take action and pay more attention to the issues affecting your community, our community, your own homes and your surroundings, because ultimately, what happens outside has an impact on what happens inside our properties. The value of a property is not measured solely by the market value of that home, but by how well or poorly the rest of the community is doing. A degraded and poorly managed community means that the economic value of a home is not the same.

In Condado de Alhama in general, and in Jardines 2 in particular, we are experiencing a very specific situation, which I will summarise below and which will be explained in more detail in the information pack that we will send you together with the notice of the annual general meeting.

This situation is the result of several factors.

The change in the Level 1 board of directors in September 2025, the change in the board of directors of the Urban Development Entity at the end of October 2025, the departure of several veteran Inmho employees, who left us at different times between the summer and mid-October 2025, in addition to the constant construction of new buildings and communities, and now, supposedly in 2026, the start of construction on a five-star hotel with its own commercial area, as well as two football pitches as part of a sports city project that someone will finalise and announce at some point in the future.

Both the new Level 1 board of directors and the Urban Development Authority board have had very few months to discover and learn about what was behind the previous management, as there was no handover between outgoing and incoming presidents at either Level 1 or the Urban Development Authority.

Despite all this, during these few months between September-October 2025 and January 2026, a huge amount of work has been done to review and manage many and varied issues, with the greatest possible transparency, with many challenges to face, with a debt inherited from the previous board of directors of the Urban Development Entity of more than €700,000, as well as a growing monthly deficit in terms of permanent monthly expenses versus the Entity's income, especially due to the lack of sufficient income from some members of the Urban Development Entity, who have not paid what they are supposed to pay for years, mainly because they do not agree with the amount to be paid monthly.

Due to this situation, and the lack of decision-making on the part of the previous board of directors of the Urban Development Entity, which failed to take legal action to claim payment of the debt owed to the Entity, plus the claim for payment that the company STV is now making, and not before, for a debt accumulated since 2022, without the previous board of directors taking any action on the matter, the current board of directors of the Urban Development Entity, of which I myself am vice-chairman until March, will have no choice but to apply drastic and unpopular measures to resolve or mitigate the situation of financial bankruptcy that we inherited from the previous board of directors.

One of the first measures taken by the new board of directors of the Urban Development Entity was to immediately initiate a process of legal consultations and notices to debtors and to the Alhama Town Council itself, all with the aim of initiating, as quickly as possible, a formal claim for ALL the debt owed to said Entity. Currently, the Community's solicitor, together with the administrators of Condado, are taking the necessary steps to comply with these legal actions, which should have been initiated years ago, rather than now, when the Urban Development Entity's accumulated debt is very high.

In parallel with this action against the Urban Development Entity's debtors, negotiations began with STV for the payment of the debt owed to that company, which the previous board of directors had accumulated since 2022, without STV claiming full payment of that debt until now, nor the previous board of directors taking measures to satisfy the payment of that debt, before it accumulated to the current amount of more than €700,000.

The agreement reached with STV was to make an initial payment of €300,000 now, and pay the rest of the debt monthly, starting in March, until December 2026. STV has not accepted any other possible solution, at the risk of us being sued if we did not start paying the debt, with the risk of having to bear the costs of the trial, the payment of €89,000 that they are also claiming from us for interest on arrears on the debt, and very possibly the payment of the total or most of the total debt, depending on the ruling of the judge in the case.

Now, after consulting both the administrators and the Community's solicitor, as well as exploring other possible temporary solutions to try to resolve this situation, we have no choice but to charge all members of the Urban Development Entity, including the entire Community, an increase in the quarterly fee that Level 2 communities contribute to the Entity, the calculation of which is still being assessed by Inmho's accounting department.

This is what the management of the previous board of directors of the Urban Development Entity has led us to.

At Level 1, although they do not have the same financial problems as the Urban Development Entity, they have also been discovering some things that we were completely unaware of regarding the management of the previous board of directors. The current board of directors will give a full account of this, both in the corresponding information package and at the information meeting that will take place, FOR ALL THE COMMUNITIES OF ALHAMA COUNTY AT THE SAME TIME, on Friday, 13 March 2026.

Having given this brief overview of the most important issues affecting our community in general, I will now review some aspects of our own community of Jardines 2:

- Status of Jardines 2 accounts as of 31 December 2025.

After the annual management and expenses incurred by Jardines 2 during 2025, which will be detailed in the financial report provided in the general meeting information pack, the year closes with a surplus of €558,973.24. This surplus is still being used to pay outstanding bills for maintenance work or repairs that have been pending since 2025, in addition to an accumulated debt with STV, which we were unaware of until the end of 2025, amounting to €76,238.77.

- Annual General Meeting.

Last year, in 2025, we organised our general meeting over two weekends. The first weekend was for an assembly or informative meeting to discuss all the items on the agenda that were to be voted on, WITHOUT VOTING ON THEM, so that all the owners present in the room where the informative meeting was held could ask questions and receive answers without rushing and without having to jump from one item to another, with hardly any prior discussion, as had been the case in meetings prior to 2025.

And a second weekend, solely for voting in the chamber on the agenda items already presented and discussed during the previous weekend, as well as electing the new board of directors for Jardines 2, saying farewell to the outgoing president and welcoming the incoming one, and addressing any final questions or concerns that had not been dealt with previously.

This year, we will repeat the format, as many residents appreciated this way of holding the Annual General Meeting because it allowed more time to deal with everything.

The communities of El Mirador, La Isla, and Naranjos 1 also seem to have embraced this initiative and model, considering it to be of interest to their communities.

The dates of the meetings will be the weekend of 13-15 March for the information meetings of those Level 2 communities that have so decided, and the weekend of 20-22 March for the voting meetings.

This year, the date of the assemblies had to be postponed from February to March in order to allow more time for proper preparation, given the number of issues that have had to be addressed since September and October 2025.

Furthermore, we would like to inform you in advance that our Level 2 meetings will be held at the Casa de la Cultura in Alhama or at the El Praico sports hall in Alhama, as we no longer have a suitable venue for these meetings in Condado de Alhama. The SHOW ROOM, which was the venue used until now, has been acquired by one of the owners of Al Kasar, and we have not received a formal response to our request to hold these meetings there.

The venue for the Level 1 and Urban Development Entity assembly or information meeting will also be in Alhama, at a location to be determined as soon as we have confirmation.

The schedule for the 2026 meetings is as follows:

Friday, 13 March, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Urban Development Entity and Level 1

Saturday, 14 March, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: La Isla

Saturday 14/03, 12:00 – 14:30: Naranjos 1

Saturday 14/03, 16:00 – 18:30: Jardines 2

Saturday 14/03, 19:00 – 21:30: Mirador

Sunday 15/03, 09:00 – 11:30: Alhama Nature 1

Sunday 15/03, 12:00 – 14:30: Naranjos 2 (Meeting Without Information, AGM 2026)

Sunday 15 March, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Jardines 1 (We believe that the 2026 General Assembly needs to speak with the Level 3 presidents)

Sunday 15 March, 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.: Atenea

AGM 2026 Meetings (20–22 March)

Friday 20/03, 16:00 – 18:30: Mirador

Friday 20/03, 19:00 – 21:30: Alhama Nature 1

Saturday 21/03, 09:00 – 11:30: La Isla

Saturday 21/03, 12:00 – 14:30: Naranjos 2

Saturday 21/03, 16:00 – 18:30: Jardines 1

Sunday 22 March, 9:00am – 11:30am: Atenea

Sunday 22 March, 12:00pm – 2:30pm: Naranjos 1

Sunday 22 March, 4:00pm – 6:30pm: Jardines 2

- Pago de deuda acumulada a STV y no comunicada por el anterior Jefe de la Oficina de Inmho, el señor Juan Francisco.

- Payment of accumulated debt to STV not reported by the former Head of the Inmho Office, Mr. Juan Francisco.

The new director of the Inmho office in Condado, who replaced Mr. Juan Francisco on 16 October 2025, detected the presence of unpaid invoices to STV from all Level 2 communities, including ours.

According to Mr Juan Francisco, most of the unpaid invoices to STV were for an item that the Level 2 presidents refused to pay at the time (CHLORINE SHORTFALL), pending clarification. However, of the 15 unpaid invoices from Jardines 2, only 4 of them corresponded to the item mentioned by Mr Juan Francisco. Attached is a table showing the list of unpaid bills, which, for some unknown reason, Mr Juan Francisco has been unable to explain to us, nor did he send it to us until the end of 2025.

This debt to STV, which amounted to €76,238.77, has now been paid in full, which has reduced our community's surplus overnight.

- Incidents involving rainwater leaks.

We currently have a list of 20 incidents involving water leaks in different homes in Jardines 2, reported at different times in 2025, following the torrential rains on 6 March and 14 December 2025.

Since 6 March, we have been working and fighting to get the expert from the Community's previous insurer, which was in force until 14 May 2025, to send us his assessment reports on several of the open incidents, since for internal community purposes, it is the report of the community insurance expert that must govern the process of repairing the source of the leak, before proceeding to repair the damage caused to the homes.

The new insurer with whom we took out the insurance policy for a period of one year, from 14 May 2025 to 14 May 2026, has not performed very well in terms of the speed with which it has responded to the incidents reported, and this has meant a constant struggle for us with emails and phone calls, especially after the rains on 14 December.

A waterproofing company has now been instructed to repair the source of the rainwater leaks in 11 of the open cases, as well as to speed up the assessment process for four other homes.

Further progress is expected between now and the March meeting.

- Blockages in drainage pipes.

We have also had several incidents related to blockages in sewage pipes throughout 2025. One very serious incident was detected in early April 2025 in the drain in the courtyard of one of the homes, and we are still working with the owner, whom we have tried to help as much as possible, understanding all their complaints in this regard, as well as others with less impact on private homes because they were detected in time, before the damage was more serious.

Currently, ALL known cases of blockages, except for the one in the aforementioned property, have been resolved.

Due to this type of incident, which is not always detected in time, several communications were sent out by the president of Jardines 2, reminding all owners of their obligation to keep their homes in a suitable condition and to take extreme care with what they throw into toilets or sinks, etc.

It is also strongly recommended that all properties have their own home insurance to facilitate and expedite matters related to domestic incidents.

- Swimming pools.

A report prepared by the administrators on the current state of the swimming pools and their surroundings will be included in the information package for the annual general meeting.

- Delinquency.

As of 31 December 2025, the delinquency debt in Jardines 2 amounted to €414,323.72. An annual report on arrears will be attached, covering the most relevant aspects related to these arrears.

- Maintenance and gardening.

This will be included in the information pack. It should be noted that, after several meetings and exchanges of messages throughout 2025, actions are being coordinated with STV-Jardinería staff.

Issues relating to the maintenance and repair of internal roads between gardens, the painting of road markings on the roads in Gardens 2, repairs to water, electricity and fibre optic manhole covers, etc. will also be addressed.

- New rubbish collection fee.

The Alhama Town Council has imposed a new rubbish collection fee, effective from January 2026, which will amount to around €100, almost doubling the cost of what we were being charged until the end of 2025. The council has offered discounts on this fee, provided that certain criteria are met, such as having a composting machine at home, taking bulky waste to the Alhama recycling centre, located in the industrial estate, or having specific community waste containers for different types of waste, etc. To apply for these discounts, it is essential to be registered as a resident of Alhama de Murcia, which means that no one who owns property in Condado but is not registered with the Alhama council will be able to benefit from any of these discounts.

That is how things stand.

- Communications from the presidency of Jardines 2 in 2025.

During 2025, a total of 21 communications were published by the presidency of Jardines 2 to provide timely information on matters of general interest, as part of a policy of transparency.

- Protocol for collecting household items.

Given the incidence of cases in which residents leave items abandoned in places that are not authorised for this purpose, without following the protocol for collecting items, this section once again outlines the current protocol in force, which has already been reported on several occasions. Residents are kindly requested to comply with this and other protocols on other matters, which were established for the proper coexistence of all.

For the collection of household items, which takes place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, please call or send a message to the following telephone number: +34603566419 (available between 9am and 2pm).

Or send an email to the following address: enseres@condadoalhama.com

Items will be collected directly from your home.

Important:

Any items that are not considered bulky items or household goods (furniture) must be taken to the nearest Council waste disposal area:

Council waste disposal address:

ECOPARQUE DE ALHAMA

• Parque Industrial de Alhama, Sector Servicios, Parcela 1. Telephone: 638162512

Reminder Regarding Use of Underground Containers

Only the following sorted household items may be deposited in the underground containers, as indicated on the front of each container:

• General household waste
• Cardboard and paper
• Glass containers
• Plastic containers

Please do not leave items next to the bins. Ensure that the bag is completely inside the underground container so that the next neighbour can use it! Let's work together to keep our community clean and tidy!

- New waste collection schedule.

Below is a transcript of a statement from the administrators informing residents of the new waste collection schedule, i.e. waste deposited in underground containers.

Please be advised of the new waste collection schedule. We kindly ask for your cooperation in keeping the resort in good condition by placing your bags out on collection days.

If you find the container full, please place your waste in the nearest container to maintain the cleanliness and health of the resort.

NOTE ON RESIDUAL WASTE.

We remind you that the general waste bin is suitable for disposing of any waste classified as ‘RESIDUAL’ and included in the following definition:

Residual waste is the fraction of domestic waste obtained after separate collection in some areas. It is also referred to as refuse or, erroneously, ‘organic’ and may still contain recoverable materials in varying quantities depending on the levels of separate collection considered for the other fractions. The materials that should be included in this fraction are, among others:

1. Sanitary textiles: diapers, pads and tampons, ear buds, breast pads, wet wipes, dental floss and small household waste such as bandages, tape, bandages, gauze and cotton.
2. Other toiletries such as razors, toothbrushes, files, condoms, etc.
3. Household cleaning residues such as sweeping dust and vacuum cleaner bags.
4. Plates, cups and other ceramic elements.
5. Cigarette butts and ashes.
6. Ash from fireplaces or stoves
7. Photographs, credit cards or similar and in general:
8. All waste that is not subject to separate collection by local authorities

- Future projects.

The information pack will provide further details on some of the projects that will be brought before the annual general meeting as voting items or information items. Some of these projects are:

• Painting of road markings on the roads in Jardines 2.
• Repair of water, electricity and fibre optic manhole covers.
• Cracks in the interior walkways of Jardines 2.
• Condition of the swimming pools, grates and pools themselves.
• Project to install individual letterboxes for the 976 homes in Jardines 2.
• Ideas for the plot of land in garden 13 Prima.

You can download the content of this official communication at the following LINK

Kind regards.

Juan Manuel Pérez Suárez. President of Jardines 2.