I love this thread.
I wish I could upload every set of minutes from our EC for the last 8 years or so.
Take our last EC meeting for example. Under general business you will find literally a dozen motions relating to matters not on the agenda. Every meeting for the last 5 years (except maybe one) has this defect.
Now before you all start thinking about having the resolutions invalidated or some other action through the legends at NCAT I will have you note that the matter has been to NCAT (CTTT at the time) as a part of a s162 application and nothing was said about it by the Senior Member who dealt with the matter. That Senior Member was a former member of the Strata Schemes Board.
As recently March the 6th 2014 the Secretary of this SP told Member Vrabac that the EC was entitled to introduce matters under general business, this occured at an appeal of a matter that involved another issue. The Member did not flinch. That the Member said nothing is what could be deemed “enabling”. An enabler being someone who does nothing when they know there is a wrong and so enables the wrong to continue.
It is just a laughable situation when one considers two former Secretaries of this SP were told by OFTs top strata man that the business of the EC meeting is the agenda. This SP’s EC’s have been sent expert comment from a top shelf strata lawyer who makes it clear an EC meeting is confined to the agenda. SCA make it clear.
Yet CTTT do nothing when given 3 years of minutes that show a complete failure to understand that concept and a Senior Member says nothing when a Secretary claims the EC has a right to introduce what it likes.
General business is not chit chat in this SP and that position has been “enabled” by CTTT and NCAT and that position is protected by a prevailing clique who protect their non compliance culture with vigor.
FYI the agenda for the next meeting is 3 items.
Motions for 2014 AGM
Ongoing implementation of AGM resolutions
Report on wall sealing and bird proofing of Hall.
None of these item even need a meeting but you can bet that under general bussiness in the EC meeting minutes there will be numerous resolutions relating to other matters.
Chit chat – no around these parts it aint.