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| From: | SP52948 owner |
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| To: | Gary Mills BCS Strata Management |
| CC: | Mike Smythe BCS Strata Management, Greg Freeman Pica Group |
| Subject: | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Why did SP52948 Lost domain macquariegardens.com and paid EC member for it in the past - 24Apr2016 |
| Date: | 22/4/16, 6:08 pm |
Hi,
As official Secretary, Treasurer, and acting-Chairperson of SP52948 EC, I request the following to be addressed by you:
Without any special reason, an EC member Bruce Copland, registered domain name macquariegardens.com in 2010, without any consultation or knowledge of the owners corporation.
He also claimed it back from common funds, without disclosing it.
The domain never brought any revenue (as promised), and was never used, and is now unregistered (expired on 7 October 2014) and not owned by owners corporation any longer.
Two questions:
1. Why did owners corporation lose the domain without consultation with owners?
2. Why did not BCS Strata Management disclose it to owners?
One legal request:
Any document or other files that belongs to owners corporation must be retrieved from EC members by BCS Strata Management and provided to owners upon request.
This was sent to Ex-Strata Manager Mr. Gary Webb four years ago, who never replied:
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Request for an official reply: Strata Plan 52948 - 26 December 2011
In accordance with the NSW Strata Management laws, I submit the following questions that have to be answered in written form.
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f) Who, and with what authority, approved that domain parking for macquariegardens.com, which happened before AGM 2010 and WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE? It has never been used, the "promise" it would bring the complex profits from internet-related business never eventuated (and it never would, as the committee and the EC members have no expertise in internet services). By the same token, when asked about it, the EC responded that due to high cost of domain management, the project was canceled. Nonsense, I deal with more than 1,000 domain names for Fortune-100 companies, to universities, smaller corporations, and defense. Domain name web management can be quite cheap and certainly affordable by our complex.
On top of it, Bruce Copland claimed back the cost of domain registration (11 October 2010 on the amount of $35.45). Why, when the domain name brings no benefits to owners corporation? The amount of money is irrelevant, but the process of not consulting others certainly brings strong feelings of abuse of powers for a VOLUNTARY POSITION, where no-one is worth more than others in the complex.
In addition, any decent managing agent would provide internet-enabled payment and reporting services to owners' corporation for FREE (and many agencies do it)!
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