[NewyBoy]

tina wrote:

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CONTRACT TERMINATION: Have a look at your contract to determine the exact date it terminates and whether there are conditions imposed on earlier termination.

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Thanks Tina, the contract expires at the end of November and, without renewal, will terminate. It specifies that, on termination, the strata managers must hand over all documents, funds etc. within 7 days.

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SECRETARY: As secretary, you can call your own meeting of the owners at any time. You don’t even have to let the strata manager know. Refer to Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 . Schedule 1 Meeting procedures of owners corporation. NSW Legislation web site.
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With the support of the chair, I have called an EGM for Monday week 21/10 to address the issues of self-management and resolve them in time to allow the establishment of alternative methods for payment of levies before notices go out. We have informed the strata managers of that and asked they withhold the issue of notices. Their reply was accommodating. We should be able to get by with allowing the contract to lapse and invoke the 7 day transfer clause.

[NewyBoy]

Jimmy-T wrote:

NewyBoy wrote:

Forgive me for being cynical, but are they trying to hide something?

One of my favourite aphorisms: “Never ascribe to malice anything that can just as easily be explained by incompetence.”

Thank you Jimmy, yes of course. After 20 years of living in strata, I should never forget that.

[NewyBoy]

It’s funny you should mention the PICA group technology, Jimmy. They have recently put out an upgrade to their portal. It was never great; details of transactions were not classified by fund but at least they had a direct link to the invoice or associated document that would open up in the browser. Now the transactions are only available as a downloadable pdf and the link is broken. There is a list of invoices but they are just random file names with no indication of their contents and again if you want to see the contents they have to be downloaded. I have managed to download the invoices and associate most of the transactions with their invoice, but oddly enough, there are multiple invoices from our strata managers that are missing. Similarly, agenda and minutes of meetings have also gone missing. Forgive me for being cynical, but are they trying to hide something?

And thanks to you both, Jimmy and Tina, for your response; you have given me some heart and options  to pursue.

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