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It’s a classic strata committee coup: on the TV show Survivor, it would be called a blindside.
Obviously, someone in our Flatchatter’s strata scheme didn’t like the way things were run, or the people who were running it.
They couldn’t risk the same people being voted on to the committee and then electing the usual suspects as office-bearers. So they pulled a swifty and quite legally had the number of committee members reduced from eight to five.
That meant there had to be an election and, lo and behold, the previous office-bearers didn’t get enough votes.
How does that work? Let’s say, hypthetically, that the previous committee comprised all the owners who wanted to be on it. And let’s say the dominant group had five committee votes to the others’ three.
They could then elect whomever they wanted as chair and secretary. But then, this time around, no one was paying attention when the committee was reduced from eight to five.
And at the ensuing election the dominant group doesn’t get enough votes and they are suddenly in a minority of two against three.
Result, new office-bearers and the previous incumbents have a year in which to lick their wounds and plot a comeback.
If they want to polish up their tactics, they could do worse than watch Survivor Australia, which is currently on Channel 10 and Tenplay). You can read about the real not-quite-bloodless coup HERE
Elsewhere in the Forum
- How do you appoint a building manager? That’s HERE.
- Am I really insured against accidental flooding? That’s HERE.
- Is a committee meeting without an actual meeting legal? That’s HERE.
- How do we get rid of a committee chair who bullies and harasses anyone who dares to question them? That’s HERE.
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