Hi Girl and JimmyT.
Of course you should be able to contact your Executive Committee members by email. The ‘privacy issue’ mentioned by your Strata Manager is a ruse. He’s just trying to protect his turf.
I suspect your problem is the same as ours where the the situation is very similar. We are not supposed to contact individual members of the committee, just the Strata Manager. But the Strata Manager always says he cannot do anything without the commttee’s say so. The result is nothing much gets done and if it does it’s painfully SLOW.
So… does the SM always give the committee ALL the information? I would guess not, just what suits him. Does he put his own spin on it? Of course he does. Does he act fast and oversee things. No.
Who oversees things? Well the committee is supposed to; but do they? No. It’s like a Joseph Heller’s Catch 22.
Will you be marked as a rabble rouser by the SM for your actions? Yep. Will he convey this sentiment to the committee. Yep, so do be careful.
JimmyT, in reference to your new Executive Committee Corner, the sort of Executive Committee members who SHOULD be reading it, won’t be. They’ll just be deferring everything to Strata Managers, not many of whom have the best interests of the strata at to-of-mind. It is a big problem.