I do like the idea of asking nominees to present what they’ve done in the last year / what they can bring in the new year. I assume this would happen during the AGM? And then everyone votes for their favourite candidates?
To avoid the candidates from being over-prepared, I would simply ask at the beginning of the election part of the proceedings, that everyone who is nominating introduce themselves to the owners and outline brieflky what they’ve done and what they plan to do.
Speaking of voting in this case, how would that work? For any agenda item during the AGM? Does every owner in attendance equal 1 vote?
Voting for ordinary motions are on one vote per lot unless someone calls for a poll vote, which would done based on unit entitlements. Votes on special resolutions and elections should be done on unit entitlements.
And what about owners with multiple lots – is it 1 vote per lot, or just 1 for the owner?
It’s a vote or votes per lot.
We also have a developer/builder that still owns 15 lots – so would they have 15 ‘votes’ as well?
That depends on how many lots there are in the building. If the developer still has more than 50 percent of the unit entitlements, their voting power is reduced to one-third of its previous value.
And can each owner bring 3 proxies, or is it just 1? I have received all sorts of conflicting info about the above, so I’m well and truly muddled!
For schemes of up to 20 units, each owner can carry one proxy. After that, it’s one proxy vote per 20 lots, which means, in effect, its actually only one proxy vote per owner up to 39 lots. From 40 to 59 lots it’s two proxies. From 60 to 79 lots it’s three proxies per owner, and so on. Why? Because you can’t have fractions of lot owners.