Technically there is no legal obligation to hold EC meetings (unlike AGMs) but that’s only if you don’t make any decisions. You sound like you have a lot of discussions that need to be had and your EC meeting minutes are the most important way for owners to know what’s going on. Failure to have meetings is irresponsible and reckless. A ‘father knows best’ benign dictator only works if they get it 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. And they don’t because that’s impossible.
Here’s a thought: Demand an EC meeting at which one item on the agenda should be declaring the role of chairman open and the election of a new chair. The chair is elected by the EC not the AGM and any proxies he may hold at a general meeting count for nothing in an EC vote.
Here’s the bit of strata law that says a meeting must be held if request by one-third of the mebers of the EC:
Executive committee meetings may be required to be convened
(1) The secretary of an owners corporation or, in the secretary’s absence, any member of the executive committee must convene a meeting of the executive committee if requested to do so by not less than one-third of the members of the executive committee, within the period of time, if any, specified in the request.
Perhaps the threat of such a public humiliation may make this autocrat stop and think about what he’s doing. Or it could make him worse … in which case you need to send a message to all the owners that the EC is not functioning as it should and that you collectively refuse to take any responsibility for decisions made without your input.