Re: Strata Committee voting and deciding without telling owners

Thanks so much Lady Penelope for this advice.

I had already sent that link to our Committee. 

You see, they still say they don’t have meetings, because they don’t have formal motions or agendas or votes. They say their decision-making is just a series of emails with eventual agreement. 

Also the agent says it’s too expensive and time-consuming to let all owners know about Committee activities. It requires some emails but also some printed posted copies, Plus the noticeboard copy.

The agent won’t give the Committee the contact details of owners, so the Committee can’t send out emails, and the agent charges us for every email sent.

I’ll raise this issue in Other Business anyway on the basis of that Fair Trading link. But the practical difficulties of contacting owners will then be fired back at me and that’ll end that.

Is that Fair Trading link enough to force a complete change in their behaviour? Is each decision equivalent to an ‘in writing’ meeting? 

Your suggestion about requiring 3 meetings a year: where is that from? It could be very useful for the next General Meeting, thanks.

I don’t want to attend meetings myself as I get too stressed by now. (I did my time on the Committee and did everything, and got burnt out!) And just want to know what’s going on in the Committee’s heads. If I’d known earlier this year what was about to happen – a year of drilling noise and 5 months with no lift and I’m 140 stairs up – I would have moved out then. Plus $75000 in special levies in the past year being paid by each unit for future works they are probably planning but we have no detailed information.

But I love my view and position and want to stay for the months that are left to me! I actually engaged an expensive strata specialist lawyer who wrote to the Committee recently, but they just flicked it to the agent who wrote back without addressing any of my requests.

Thanks for listening and your help anyway