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I’m assuming you want the Strata Committee to carry out some service around the building – such as organise a gardener to come regularly, or to paint the stair-well, for example?
Don’t underestimate the effort in organising these types of things. But if the Committee is dragging their feet, the best thing is to embarrass them into doing the job.
For example, you can email your strata manager to ask for an update on the work, pointing out, and quoting the agenda item and minute from the general meeting, and drawing their attention to the time that has elapsed?
The strata manager does work as the agent to the committee so their hands are tied if the committee won’t make decisions. Make sure they respond in writing (managers often tell you things on the phone they can’t put in writing, because it isn’t strictly legal, or might embarrass the committee members.) So make sure all correspondence is in writing – ie email. Keep a log, and keep up the regular correspondence.
Then at the next General Meeting, you submit an agenda item, pointing out that the task hasn’t been carried out, and laying out a time line of reminders, responses, and purported reasons and excuses. And request that the task now be done as an urgent task, and you can even suggest the approach – ie, that the strata manager should take on the role of selecting the contractors to do the job, that they should get 3 quotes within a month of the meeting, select the best one, and commence the work within 2 months, and report to the owners their success…
I bet, the strata manager will be encouraging the committee to do their job, and as soon as your agenda item arrives, the committee suddenly will organise the job… The strata manager and the committee is relying on the owners not paying attention, and letting the task lapse. Ten minutes every fortnight, for an email or two, and a time line, will let them know you won’t forget about it, and once they get this into their heads, they will do their jobs…
