Hi Roz, I'll set aside some time
to discuss this at the workshop.
However, while all owners
legally have a right to participate in the Body Corp,
I don't think there is a law that excludes the option
of inviting non owners into the body Corp meetings, so
long as the owners agree.
It becomes a matter of how
inclusive the co-housing community wants to be, as
opposed to a standard, ordinary unit title
development. In fact making decision by consensus
only is already not the normal process for passing bc
resolutions.
We can also waive or change the
need for a body Corp committee if the owners agree. We
could end up with many small commitees like co-housing
groups Jan saw in America, rather than one
administrating committee that is the norm.
Am resending this as seems to have been
misunderstood. More reading below:
https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/unit-titles?gclid=Cj0KCQjwgJv4BRCrARIsAB17JI7YRyAYQ9mPwWCnhxZRrbny-y3zzT9AhcPThfp6NIwCBQzW5JaoPSEaAhSUEALw_wcB
https://www.unittitles.govt.nz/body-corporate-how-it-works/#:~:text=Every%20unit%20title%20property%20has,issues%20and%20vote%20on%20decisions.
If earthsong are managing with
only one ‘committee’ either they aren’t unit titles
or they are breaking the law. Have a feeling I have
heard something to suggest it is the former. Regds
roz
Have been reading up about body
corporates and how ucol will be run.
Definition of a body corporate: A Body Corporate is a
legal entity made up of all the unit owners within
a unit titled property.
Definition of a committee: a person or group of persons elected or
appointed to perform some service or function, as
to investigate, report on, or act upon a
particular matter.
Seems we will have two governing bodies,
neither of which are actually committees.
The body corp looks after the rules,
makes changes to them, polices them if necessary
and does the management type tasks. Unless
something comes up, maybe a request for a
variation, the body corp meets only once a year.
It is not a committee because membership is
limited to people actually named as owners.
An organising committee, which for us
would not be a committee either as membership is
looser and no one is actually elected, can include
owners, owner’s children, tenants etc and looks
after the day to day running of the whole
property. Eg when to have working bees, what to do
for Christmas and do we really need an ice cream
machine.
so can we please discuss membership of
the body corp on the 26th as
the bit at the bottom of min’s flowchart seems to
be contrary to the laws about body corps. Thanks
roz