“Let’s say, a General Meeting chaired by the SM was stacked with proxies, all in favour of having an outdoor community spa and mini bar put on an otherwise quiet lawn and garden at the back of our strata at the Owners Corporation’s expense. Yet no quotes, costings had been circulated with the agenda”.
To be in accordance with “the Act” this would at least require a special resolution which may alert some apathetic owners. Otherwise my understanding is that it would be quite legitimate. The requirement for the agenda of an EC specifies a detailed agenda which would appear to include some indication of cost but this doesn’t apply to GM’s; so would “Improve resident facilities in south garden area” allow spending of the entire sinking and admin. funds if approved. I would think so. If some charasmatic political organisation were elected as the federal government with a promise of greatly improving hospital services they could legally strip or shut down many other government services to achieve the goal, perhaps to the increasing horror of those who didn’t ask where the money was coming from.