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| From: | SP52948 owner |
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| To: | Peter Bone BCS Strata Management |
| CC: | Bruce Copland, Maureen McDonald, Stan Pogorelsky, Moses Levitt, John Ward |
| Subject: | OFFICIAL Submission for next EC and General Meeting: SP52948 Roll-call for attendance at EC meetings on 9 Aug 2013 |
| Date: | 9/8/13, 7:21 pm |
Hello,
Another item that requires our attention both at the next EC meeting and certainly at the General Meeting.
a) Proxy harvesting
Even in well-run buildings, democracy becomes autocracy when proxy votes are collected and give too much power to minority.
And then, when mistakes are made, holding on to power becomes even more important to the members of the Executive Committee.
When excessive numbers of proxy votes are used to get to the position where there are "no brakes" on the behavior of the Strata Manager and the Executive Committee, some drastic actions are required. For example, if any party lodging an application for the CTTT adjudication can provide evidence of proxy harvesting and in doing so, also demonstrates that these activities are having a detrimental and dysfunctional impact on the functioning of the scheme, the CTTT can make statutory appointment of the strata manager.
NSW Fair Trading assures us proxy harvesting is being looked at in the review of strata laws (due to become official sometime next year).
b) Dormant members of the Executive Committee (those that seldom or never attend meetings). Such members simply prevent others to become active and ensure that certain agendas are carried out through cohesive group of people on the committee...
Being a member of the Executive Committee carries serious obligations and duties. Because it is supposed to be a voluntary role (unless some members are paid, which must be approved at a general meeting!), no-one is required to perform such duties unless they are prepared for hard work in accordance with the law.
The EC is asked to comment about attendance at the meetings and provide justification why some members should stay on the committee and what steps do they propose to avoid proxy harvesting (like collection of proxy papers through non-prescribed and illegal proxy form at the AGM 2012) and ensure that all members of the EC attend at least 50% of the meetings during the year.
The statistics for the last three years provides good examples of "meeting truancy".