NSW RSL president Don Rowe has flagged the possible sale of the Port Kembla RSL premises.
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The NSW RSL state council last month stood down the Port Kembla sub-branch RSL over "significant" breaches of the RSL constitution.
In addition, the state council appointed the RSL Custodian, which is run by the state branch, as sole trustee for the troubled Port Kembla RSL club.
Members of the sacked executive had raised concerns this was the first step in selling the premises.
Mr Rowe said yesterday that he could not say the club would not be sold.
"No, I can't give that commitment because if we're unable to get the club started or a proper lease on the property, I'm not sure what we're going to do with it then," he said.
"We certainly can't leave it there vacant.
"We have appointed an administrator to administer the sub-branch and they're working through the issues that have been facing the sub-branch and its property.
"At the moment there is some discussion with a number of groups about leasing the property but at the moment there's no formal approval being given to anybody, so we're still up in the air as to what we're going to do with the property."
Mr Rowe also said the sub-branch was still operating and there was no plan to wind that up.
"At the moment there's no thought of folding the sub-branch up," he said.
"All options are on the table at the moment. But the main thing is the administrator is in there running the sub-branch.
"Yesterday the administrator organised a Remembrance Day at the club there. So those sorts of things are still going ahead as normal.
"We're just carrying on as normal, except that we're not having a president, secretary and treasurer of the sub-branch, we have an administrator of the sub-branch."
The organisation was "certainly working very hard" to reach a stage where members could vote in a new executive.
"The administrator then will have the option, if he believes the time is right, to look at calling for an annual general meeting to elect an executive to the sub-branch," he said.
"But that's a little bit down the track because we've still got a lot of work to do to sort out the whole situation."
He refuted the suggestion that the state body should have contacted the executive to inform them of the issues in the first instance, rather than simply sacking them.
"The executive should have been aware of that because our staff have been down there two if not three times talking to the executive trying to find things out," he said.
"At least one them was certainly aware of the fact that there was a number of issues.
"We can't just mess around, we have to act swiftly to safeguard the name, the reputation, the assets and the liability of the sub-branch."
There is a meeting of the sub-branch in the Allan Street premises today at 4pm and one member of the sacked executive has been calling for more people to join as a way of safeguarding the sub-branch's existence.
However, Mr Rowe said there were more important issues to deal with than membership numbers.
"Membership is not the issue at the moment," he said.
"The issue is to see that the sub-branch is run in concordance with the constitution. I think that's the main thing at the moment, we've got to get that straightened out.
"Membership is always good, if people are willing to join the sub-branch that's very good news. But the issue is not so much on membership, it's about the executive and the powers the executive have in running the sub-branch."
