Jimmy – always feel free to nit-pick; after all you’re the man!
To explain my logic though, I was suggesting that whilst the O/C may have made an expedient decision to do works that would otherwise be the responsibility of residents, if it included the costs of those “private” works in its administrative fund budget, then it may be seen as accepting the legal responsibility for those works and any consequences arising from them, for all time.
It’s analogous to what I do with pest inspections and treatments at my Plan, where I arrange for the contractors working on the Common Property to quote for and provide a concurrent service to my Proprietors on their Lots.
The O/C and its Proprietors both get a cheaper service whilst the contractor’s on-site, but as I don’t want the O/C to be forever lumbered with works that are the legal responsibility of residents, I pay the contractor and then include each Proprietors’ share of the costs as a separate line-item on their Levy Contributions Invoice.
What do you all think about that approach?