The O.C. would have voted the E.C. a maximum spending amount at an AGM.
Our small (11 villa) O.C. votes the amount every year and last year was $1,000.
Our E.C. organises regular quarterly ‘clean=ups’ and ‘handy man’ visits. Owners are asked by email or note in the letter boxes if there is any work around the property needed.
We have a regular lawn mowing gardener.
E.C. meetings are organised to discuss Agenda Items that have arisen since the last AGM or E.C. meeting. There are only three people on our E.C. and two members work in the city so it can take a couple of weeks to organise the meeting time. (It must be very hard with larger E.C.’s).
We can approach the Strata Manager direct but have a ‘Secretary’ letter box for written requests. I discovered that ‘written’ needed to be on paper and signed, not by email, but I guess I only need one page of paper, where the Secretary would have higher expenses if he printed everything sent to him.