@tracer said:
Should we have some form of integrity audits? Or would it be just another layer of fairly mindless bureaucracy?
How would you audit integrity? I’m sure an auditor could find a few owners who have a low opinion of me though happily quite a few others have said nice appreciative things too. I expect it would be an expensive and petty bureaucratic check on mechanical process rather than addressing or uncovering anything serious.
The Act in the ACT specifies the penalties if the EC fails to do various things such as reporting on insurance to the AGM, keeping various records etc. The ACT Act contains a Code of Conduct for ECs. If an owner could demonstrate that a member of the EC or the EC as a whole had contravened that code they would have grounds to go to the ACAT (our local tribunal) to demonstrate that the EC had acted contrary to the interests of the OC, created a nuisance, failed to comply with the Act, failed to declare a conflict of interest in any matter before the committee, engaged in unconscionable conduct or any of the various other things listed.
Hmm. Should I have refused or somehow declared the nice bottle of wine a neighbour gave me at Christmas time along with a comment of appreciation for all the hard work I do around here?