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When you start to break it down, there are so few specific demands enshrined in the whole “enthusiastic amateurs” scenario it’s a wonder the system hasn’t collapsed completely before now. Or maybe it has, in a thousand examples that were too small for us to notice them individually.
The argument against compulsory strata training for committee members, or even just office-bearers, is that a lot of good people who are already time poor wouldn’t volunteer in the first place.
Similarly, putting a time limit on office-bearers’ incumbency would cut out a lot of good experienced people.
Meanwhile the law specifically excludes payment of committee members in advance, although they may be paid retrospectively for work done in the previous year.
There must be a mechanism that could be adopted within the parameters of the law as it stands. Perhaps it could be that the Owners Corp passes a by-law that, if an office bearer has attended a specific number of meetings in a year, and has undertaken at least one recognised strata training course, they may, then – and only then – submit an invoice for services rendered at the next AGM, which may be approved for payment, in total or in part, by a super-majority of owners at the meeting.
Rorters will always find a way of rorting, but this provides a way to reward people who go above and beyond, to the benefit of all the other owners. And if they didn’t do all they claimed they had, they wouldn’t get the votes.