› Flat Chat Strata Forum › Strata Committees › White Collar Crime in Strata; how can it be stopped? › Current Page
A crime is a crime, whether it is white collar or not. Gaining financial advantage by deception would be a crime. Paving an area for a barbecue that nobody else wants is just bad politics – if enough people don’t want it badly enough then they get rid of the committee and remove the offending structure.
The scenario you describe – and other issues like it – are examples of what happens when too few people get involved in the running of a strata scheme.
What you can do in the meantime is to toughen up the procedures in your scheme by making sure the EC meets regularly, minutes its decisions, is answerable to the AGM and cracks down on people who thisnk they can do as they please on common property.