[committee] With regards to incorporation and allegations of bank and insurance fraud

[Elliot Nunn]

This allegation — more of a nasty rumour — got too much oxygen. Those who repeated it should reflect on their reasons for doing so.

> On 14 Aug 2019, at 8:56 am, Tom Almeida <tommoa at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
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> Dear all,
> 
> There have, from the start of this year, been allegations of misconduct in 2010 with regards to bank and insurance fraud. After having reviewed everything I can from that time period, I believe I currently have enough information to comment on the matter.
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> Let us start with incorporation.
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> UCC incorporated as a result of an SGM on the 16th of December, 2010. This SGM was called by this email, stating that the UCC Executive has called for an SGM with the topic of club incorporation. You can find an agenda for this meeting here and minutes here. Discussion for incorporation had previously been mentioned in this thread, as well as these threads and these committee meetings (1, 2). It has been previously believed that incorporation occurred due to this email, however that email did not actually end up leading to the SGM which caused incorporation, and it is my understanding that the documents required by Westpac actually turned out to be proof of address documents. Interestingly enough, while I was researching this I found that SOC actually wanted UCC to become incorporated in 2001, however it ended up falling through.
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> From there, lets move to the creation of the UCC Westpac account. There have been a number of allegations specifying that the bank account was opened with the claim that we were a non-profit despite not officially having that label due to the amount of money claimed from insurance. The Westpac bank account was actually opened by the committee from the year before the storms occurred, as seen in these minutes, while the storm actually occurred on the 21st and 22nd of March. As previously stated, the only additional information that was required by Westpac after opening the bank account was proof of address, and as such I believe I can state that no misconduct occurred.
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> With regards to possible insurance fraud, I actually have a list in my Treasurer draw from 2010 listing all the possible items that can be claimed, as well as quotes from suppliers. More than a third of the items listed as claimable are actually marked as "probably repairable", which means that they were not claimed for. As such, UCC potentially could have claimed significantly more money from insurance than we did. Once again, the committee minutes from March 26th until the money came was received in mid-August, as well as emails from the ucc@ and committee@ mailing lists for that time period provide plenty of information about the situation. Again, I believe I can state that no misconduct occurred with regards to the insurance claim.
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> I hope this helps clear everything up.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tom Almeida [THA]
> UCC Treasurer
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