[Brandy]

@dech said:
“General business” has never been recognized as a valid agenda item (however common) and having it on an agenda creates a serious danger of resolutions being passed without due process.

Then how do the owners discuss current problems. I accept that no motions can be raised and passed. A AGM is often the only time we see some owners. I would have thought items of general business could be preannounced and/ or presented at the AGM for the advantage of all owners. Brandy

[Brandy]

@PeterC said:
This sounds oddly familiar. In the last few weeks I have been having trouble with our manager just trying to get a meeting notice out on time. We had nothing out of the ordinary to put on the agenda and it should have been easy. There were various typos to fix and some changes to wording. I would email a list of what I thought were uncontroversial edits and she would only do some of them. On being questioned she told me certain things had to be where or how they were on the notice because it was required by the UTMA (ACT Unit Titles Act). I knew the Act did not specify such detail in its requirements for a meeting notice and when this was combined with some other matters it got me rather riled. Finally, I was told that the strata manager had adopted a policy of using some ISO standard for its meeting notices and certain fields were locked down. I don’t know why she didn’t tell me that in the first place instead of unnecessary nonsense about requirements of the UTMA. It’s made all the more confusing because we had generally had favourable impressions of this manager. Our EC is just hoping she was having a bad week. 

Thanks PeterC sounds like our SM . Brandy

[Brandy]

@scotlandx said:
Having read your other query in relation to by-laws, your strata manager sounds really helpful, not … Perhaps you should get someone else to chair the meeting, and next time ask the SM to show you exactly where in the legislation it says that something can’t be done.

Thanks scotlandx, I appreciate your comment. I(the EC) struggle with the SM to do and give a better service. Regards, Brandy

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