@Stevecro said:
Jimmy I never said that you’re ‘wrong’. I am just giving my point of view that’s all.
I was referring to an earlier discussion about EC agendas and how you can only make decisions on items that are listed on them. You were right, I was wrong, hence my reluctance to glove up and get into the ring again.
On the general discussion here, I am drawn to Peter C’s comment: ” … will the EC be praised for having got on with some beautification rather than endless talking about it, or will they be condemned by a loud pedant who says that buying a few pot plants for inside rather than outside should not be counted against the admin fund line item for ‘gardening’?”
In my estimation, 99 percent of strata schemes are non-compliant, admittedly in some small aspect of the law, 99 percent of the time. It doesn’t bother me when ECs, with the best intentions, go ahead and make decisions that stricly speaking, should be made at a general meeting.
If enough people are sufficiently upset, they can demand a general meeting, have the decision overturned and, while they’re at it, sack the executive committee and replace them with non-spending stratacrats and instruct them to pursue the hapless EC members for the cost of the decision they may not have been entitled to make.*
Otherwise, you wait for a year and make all your decisions at once.
Given that 99 percent of strata residents don’t read their EC minutes 99 percent of the time, I think any committee that just gets on with stuff is a good thing … provided it’s to the benefit of the whole community.
*Pursuing EC members for decisions made in good faith won’t fly anyway. You would have to prove they knew they weren’t entitled to make the decision and did so for some personal gain.