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Thankyou, All, for yr time and suggested ways forward…  

Perhaps we might go with the special resolution at an EGM and see how that works.  Mediation at CTTT won’t help with the triad.  They will say whatever sounds good on the day and then go back to their blocking act the second we walk out the door.

We do have a good Strata Management company and they cld certainly take over, for a while.  I’d be happy with that.  But one of the the main reasons the triad are convening dodgy meetings and writing rubbish minutes of their dodgy meetings is a concerted effort, on their part, to sack the current SM and put in any other company that they think they can better control.

What a waste of time and energy, eh?  We cld all be at the beach, sipping chilled beverages, thinking beautiful thoughts, rather than dealing with this chaos.

I will keep you posted! 

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Tku, Roo and Cobra, for yr responses.

We have a loaded EC because our AGM didn’t have a quorum, so at the reconvened AGM an EC member turned up with a bunch of proxies and stacked the committee.

So we ended up with 7 EC members, 4 of whom voted always in a block.  One has since realised what a problem that creates, and stood down.  So now we have 3 who vote in a block against all proposals.  Every single one that involves money.  No garden maintenance to be done, repairs and maintenance on hold while they deliberate, endlessly, without a resolution.

Our biggest problem, as we speak, is that the building has quite a few major defects.  AT the AGM it was agreed to allocate $5000 for an expert report.  Since the reconvened AGM, and subsequent coup, this report has been vetoed, by the triad. Meanwhile louvres are banging in the wind (we are on a peninsula – BIG winds), or gaff taped together, so they don’t function; calcification is working it’s way thru-out the building; the intercom/security system does or doesn’t work, depending on the day; and some of the exhaust fans over the stoves run 24/7 because one poor apartment owner has no exhaust at all, it seems, and has all the cigarette and cooking smells from the rest of the building pumped into their apartment.

I had an email from one triad member, on Friday, saying i was f***d in the head.  That was distressing!

I have been on a community committee for the last 30 years and have never experienced anything like this.  We run that little organisation by consensus.  This EC set up is a big shock. There is so much aggravation!  

We, the non triad EC members, don’t know what to do.  Seriously, anyone who has any ideas – we’d really like to hear them.

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