Originally Posted by
triple70
You should try to volunteer as a council member to understand the issues involved.
The cash float in the MCST of small developments is very tight. Carpark areas suffer quite a lot of abuse, such as staddling 2 lots, or parking in handicapped lots. Some blur drivers also ram the autogate or park indicrimately. Are we saying let's start taking out legal action for every instance of violation to recover back?
What about ppl who keep losing car label or autogate remote? If we say.. let's charge $50 for each car label. That's revenue in the eyes of IRAS. Collecting as a security deposit is more tax efficient.
MCST accounts have to be audited. Any financial wrongdoings is subject to criminal action. It's naive to generally say that collecting security deposit is prone to abuse by the MCST or MA.
I rather have a clear fee schedule to keep the accounts healthy rather than rely on kopi $ to keep things in order.
Like I said. it's easy to boot out the MA/MC, but have u heard of situations where after that, no one wants to be in the MC? The existing MC is obligated by law, to remain if no one wants to volunteer after that.
Some AGMs.. SPs amended all the bylaws.. till it was almost impossible to run the estate properly. Imagine the last item on the agenda was to elect new council members. Who in his right mind would volunteer to be on that council with no power to keep things running smoothly.
I have seen MCST accounts.. with negative equity.. literally negative cash balance. Cleaner yet to be paid.. simply because some SPs were delibrately not paying their MCST contributions, so the estate would be run down.. to make the place unlivable so that the enbloc idea will be popular.
Therefore, it's important to understand the need to have bylaws to keep the development healthy, and a wonderful place to live. There are many others who don't share a similar vision, be it due to ignorance, or simply with another agenda. Relevant legislation are not all emcompassing, and bylaws are required on top of the BMSTA Act. For example.. spitting may be wrong on public property. But unless there is a bylaw that mirrors Sg common law, it is prefectly allowed to spit in private property.