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This situation goes from bad to worse. Yes one of the three owners wants the lift. He is also chairman of the BC, so you can see our problem. A quick background. He called a snap meeting of our committee. Our committee has five members plus the chairman, one member was not present being overseas.
He chaired the meeting our strata manager was not present. He asked our views on the matter, then called for a vote. 2 votes for 2 votes against, he then voted making the vote 3 -2 in favour. On Monday we received from the strata manager an email with an attachment. It contained voting papers for a paper general meeting to pass this lift. We have until October8th to vote. The wording of this motion is unbelievable. I wish I could repeat word for word but a brief idea is we must have this lift to provide access for family, friends, loved ones, contractors and visitors.
It also states the strata committee unanimously endorsed the project, only 4 members agreed to a contribution from the strata. I forgot to say I am on the committee and our AGM is on November 5th so why the rush.
We have also been told as this is an accessibility infrastructure resolution the amount of votes is different. I have asked for advice from the sponsoring solicitors on this site but have not had any replies to my calls.
We are a block of oldies and many feel we are being railroaded. We feel we should use our strata fees on residents not outsiders. But many are so old they will either not vote or get coerced into voting yes. Where do we go from here, any ideas we are grateful for.