Ability for sub-meter services accounts to be included in the meeting arrears calculation.
This is an issue in that the legislation is clear in stating that any moneys recoverable by the Act (due at the time the Notice is issued) are to be paid before the meeting for an owner to be financial. I have checked with one of our lawyers here to confirm what they mean by recoverable by the Act and it would seem that if a by-law is registered on the Strata Plan, then that forms part of the legislation for that scheme and is therefore recoverable same would apply if there is a by-law registered allowing for recovery of debt proceedings. I think it is extremely important that this is remedied on the SM database as a matter of urgency because we are relying on the Meeting Attendance Register produced by the database for our quorum calculations and it is not correct for our sub-metered complexes which can lead to SAT overturning decisions reached by meetings because we are not doing it right (in some cases, the voting count can be extremely close). The easiest suggestion I have as a way around this (if possible) is that a tick box button is installed on the dataset that allows the user (when inputting or updating a scheme) to check the box if there is a recoveries by-law or a sub-metered by-law which then means that any other charges to the scheme (other than levies) must be included by the system in the quorum calculation. The complex sizes in WA are increasing in lot numbers and the longer this is left, the more likely we are to look at alternatives because we cannot afford to lose a management simply because of a wrong quorum count.