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HI Flat-Chat gurus, I’m in a 30-unit block where the Strata Committee claims they don’t have time for meetings, so they email each other to make decisions. However it means that owners do not know what is being proposed to go to a General Meeting until a General Meeting is held, which can be 11 months later. Also owners don’t hear about money being spent, and on what, until the AGM.
So, I’ve just received a 91-page agenda for our AGM next week. There are many issues to be discussed and voted on, one involving voting on spending a few million dollars. there are no details of amounts the SC has in mind, nor explanatory background to issues that are new to other owners.
What I really need to know is: Does the SC have the duty to make minutes and inform owners of their proposals and decisions, whether they have physical meetings or not? Fair Trading website suggests yes:
“minutes must include details of all resolutions passed, including those considered without holding a meeting“
but I can’t find it spelled out in the legislation that this means that votes of the SC must be minuted and distributed to all the owners.
I intend to raise this issue at the AGM as the lack of communication and transparency, by both the Committee and the agent, have been causing shock and tears for 2 years to some owners, specially me. (I was on the Committee for years, got too tired, new Committee started, then I got terminal cancer so please don’t suggest I re-join!)