Dan – I could suggest that if you’d used wording even similar to that put forward in post #7 then the current impasse would have been avoided, but then that wouldn’t be very helpful would it?
So in an effort to be helpful …..
Your previous Strata Manager was doubtless aggrieved by the whole process, and that may have prompted their autonomous decision to rule an amendment to the Motion out-of-order.
Those present at the AGM could have challenged that decision and overruled the Strata Manager as it’s quite legal for a Motion to be amended “on the floor” so long as its intent is not altered (and it would not have been), but I’m afraid it’s too late now as the Meeting’s concluded.
So as you now suggest, an Extraordinary General Meeting is a means to specifically appoint the new Strata Manager, but an alternate means would be for an Executive Committee Meeting to vote on a Motion to do so and to concurrently execute the Agency Agreement PROVIDED the AGM Motion to appoint a person as opposed to the specific person most favoured by a majority of Owners was still properly resolved and minuted.