Roo, I think you’re being a bit hard on Peta. It’s not difficult to imagine the situation she’s in and it’s a fair question, asked in desperation I suspect. It is my experience that sometimes an Executive Committee and its office bearers can get themselves into position through inappropriate means (proxy gathering) to feather their own nests in a variety of ways to improve their lot (double entered intended). And they do this at the expense of other owners and residents who don’t know the way the system works. By neglecting their duties as well as pushing their own, private barrows ahead of the interests of the strata.
That’s not to say you don’t make some valid points, Roo.
But importantly, anyone can put an item on an agenda for a General Meeting so long as they know a General Meeting is coming up and hey, Roo, isn’t that one of the tricks? Don’t flag a meeting is coming up and ask if anyone wants to put something on the agenda?
When it comes to Executive Committee Meetings, the type of Executive Committee poor Peta’s having to deal with probably just ignores anything she says whether it be in writing or by word of mouth. That’s the way it is where I live.
I suggest Peta seeks mediation through the NSW Office of Fair Trading if she’s in NSW.