I agree with JimmyT ” that it’s hard enough to get unqualified people to stand for committees, without expecting them to turn up at evening classes and get a piece of paper with their name inscribed on it.” My ‘person specification’ for a new SC member in our small-medium (<40 units) strata is ‘young to middle-aged committed owner occupier with a background in business or a profession’. Unfortunately most of the people who meet that standard are committed to building careers and their relationships, and are difficult to persuade. When you omit the absent investors, the pool of available talent tends to become rather shallow. I probably just squeaked into my specification when I joined over 15 years ago as a strata neophyte, but I did come from a background of compliance-related work in senior management and had the benefit of learning on the job from experienced predecessors and strata managers. I think that I can claim that my experience compensates to some extent for my now-advanced age. Our current committee does benefit from blending long-standing owner-occupiers with some promisingly keen and well-qualified newcomers. If anyone seems rusted-on, it is because they are committed and there are no willing replacements in sight.