The Chair Man said:
Hi all, I'd like to know if anyone is aware about a strata which held 4 (or 3, for that matter) general meetings within less than a year. This is not a simple curiosity question. As you can guess, we are going to have our 4th GM. I read a lot of posts on this forum where decent members of ECs complain about unfair distribution of workload.
A large number of general meetings being held in one year can be both an indication of a dysfunctional EC or, indeed, one that's doing the right thing to sort out a number of pressing issues. There are certain things that can only be decided at general meetings – like taking legal action or changing strata managers – and if you happen to have a few issues running concurrently (as many new strata plans do) the worst accusation that can be thrown at you is bad planning for not scheduling them all at the same time (if indeed that was an option).
There are two ways to call a general meeting – the signatures of more than 25 percent of owners or a simple majority vote of the EC. The former tends to happen when there is dissent within the strata plan about the way it's being run, the later is usually a matter of required procedure to get things done.