[committee] The Stairwell and SOC situation

[Matt Didcoe]

Hi Chris,

The Guild Council have elected a representative from the group of
ordinary guild councillors to be the Chair of the Tenancy Committee.

It may well have been the SOC VPs role back in the day, but I couldn't
speak on that given in the last three years, I've not seen the
committee meet once.

Regards,
Matt

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Christopher Bobridge
<stryker at tpgi.com.au> wrote:
> It's been a while and this probably highlights how much Tenancy Committee
> met when I was Soc VP, but am I correct in remembering that's a Soc VP role?
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Daniel Axtens <danielax at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ben,
>>
>> You raise a question that is probably of interest and relevant to everyone
>> on the committee list. I hope you don't mind me cc:ing them in.
>>
>> > I'm curious what exactly SOC council would/will/can do about it?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Ben Rampling
>>
>> The short answer is "Me too."
>>
>> The SOC president hasn't specified what she wishes to happen. I'm also not
>> able to answer with confidence because, due to the way this dispute has been
>> handled on the part of SOC/Tenancy Committee, we're in a somewhat anomalous
>> situation:
>>
>>  - the body considering the situation tomorrow is the Tenancy Committee,
>> not SOC. One would normally have expected to be contacted by the chair of
>> the Tenancy Committee (not the SOC president) about tenancy issues. As it
>> is, we've received no communication from the chair. The SOC president does,
>> however, sit on the tenancy committee. Make of all that what you will: I
>> don't know what to think of it.
>>
>>  - the tenancy committee is not, as far as I can tell, following the
>> grievance procedure laid out in the 2001 Tenancy Agreement for dealing with
>> alleged breaches. Under the agreement, the penalties aren't available until
>> a club is given an opportunity to rectify the breach. I'm not quite sure how
>> we would do that. So I'm not sure if they'll be seeking to rely on the
>> penalties available to them under that agreement.
>>
>> In theory, if the issue is escalated to SOC (the tenancy committee is a
>> SOC sub-committee), their powers are laid out in the SOC rules.[1]
>>
>> I guess I'll know after the meeting tomorrow!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel Axtens
>>
>> [1] http://www.guild.uwa.edu.au/home/subcouncils2/soc/rules?pageid=6469
>>
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