Mazarrón Country Club has a Board, elected by the owners, to look after the interests of the Community ensuring that all communal areas are looked after including waste water treatment, security and cameras, rubbish collection, street lighting, gardening and general upkeep of the Urbanisation.
It is worth noting that under Spanish Law, If no one volunteers to be President, someone can be assigned to serve based on a rotation of the owners or based on a rotation by lot number. In practice, if there are no volunteers, one property will be chosen by lottery to begin the rotation and the decided upon order will be followed thereafter.
The community has two paid staff members and contracts others when needed.
John Weller
President
I served in the armed forces and on leaving found myself doing some landscape gardening, attending Hadlow College in Kent and gaining certificates in Horticulture. I worked mainly on larger jobs ideally housing developments and actually won London in Bloom and a merit award. I also worked on highways work where new roads were constructed which was the A 20 that ran through to Dover port. My career then took me to policing where I spent 25 years full time as a police officer. I started my service on general patrol where I found myself responding to all manner of calls from incidents within the home, road traffic incidents and incidents that occur in public. I moved into community policing where I worked with the community on all manner of projects within their area with the hope of reducing crime. I worked with our architecture liaison officer and between us we would make efforts to design out crime, by this I mean look at physical infrastructure and see what changes could be made to buildings, gardens, roads etc to make them less vulnerable to crime. I also offered crime reduction advice to home owners and business. I would execute warrants where necessary to premises involved in drugs with many seizures of both class A and class B drugs. Following on from this I moved into crime investigation looking at everything from shop theft to fraud, damage to burglary, carrying out interviews with an eventual outcome of a prosecution. I retired from policing last March at 59 years of age as my age restricted me from much more service.
Sonia Bennett
Vice President
I am British. I have lived on MCC for a number of years, joining the Board over 5 years ago. I took on the role of vice president to provide support to the current president. There is a lot of work done by the Board and President which is carried out in the background which I felt I could assist with. The work I do on the Board is very much finance, and problems. I come from a banking background with over 33 years experience in finance. I enjoy the work the Board does and find it interesting
Eric Vlasman
Treasurer
In 2018 my wife and I moved to Spain and have lived since that time at the Mazarron Country Club. As there was a position as treasurer and I wanted to become active for the community I applied for this position and was appointed in 2019 by the agm. As treasurer I keep the books, manage the community fees and invoices. Also I am the system administrator of the computer program we use to manage the urbanizacion. As a board member I try to keep improving the urbanizacion for all that own property here.
John Ross
Board member / waste and gardens
I am an ex HGV Tanker driver. I retired early and moved to Spain in 2008 to MCC. I joined the board approx 10 years ago under the then president Barry Smith, who gave me the role of Gardening & Waste. All the roles were a new venture back then and we all learned as we went along. I enjoy my role and have a good rapport with the garden and waste company MCC use. I consider I get along well with all board members plus Aitor, our site manager, who is always available when I need him.
Ruth Jackson
Board member / building
I have lived on MCC for 11 years. My motivation for joining the board was to keep the standards on Mcc set by the board. I was a qualified worker in the health sector in the UK. My hobbies are: counted cross stitch, involved with a local choir for charity, walking, knitting. I am British and I have one son. Something good at: looking after my husband.
Glenys Golding
Board member
I am British, I speak French and Spanish and have worked in various roles including banking, sales, accounts and events during my working life. I have 2 children and have lived on Mazarrón Country Club since 2010
Debby Rossel
Staff / Office Manager
She manages the office of the MCC. Office hours are on Monday from 10 tot 12 and on Friday from 10 to 12. On official holidays the office will be closed.
Joost Jonkers
My name is Joost Jonkers, I was born in Helmond, the Netherlands, and I am 60 years old. During my working life, I worked as an accountant for several companies and also ran my own business selling motorsport equipment and motorcycles for five years. In 2021, I bought a house on the MCC and have been a permanent (retired) resident since 2024. After volunteering last year to assist in replacing the water meters and checking afterwards to ensure that everything had been done correctly for the residents, I saw in an email from the current president that they were looking for board members. I would like to contribute to the community and believe that my input as a team player could be a welcome addition.