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16/02/2023 at 4:14 pm in reply to: Questions re an uninvolved exec committee and liability (ACT Canberra) #67568
Thanks, Sir Humphrey.
I guess the issue we face is how the concerned owners can best “activate” or “educate” the 3 elected EC members who currently appear to be both unengaged and uncommunicative.
08/08/2022 at 1:30 pm in reply to: Committee approval of invoices BEFORE the strata manager can pay them #64536We are staggered by the level of performance of our SM. e.g. not informing the EC of a bad debtor (we only became aware of this at the AGM 1.5 years after it started). And now they are going for a 34% increase in their management fee. Tomorrow I will try the line that we pay the SM to collect OUR income and there is a 10% reduction in OUR income so perhaps they should take a 10% reduction in THEIR fee until they get the arears.
In Canberra Strata Managers DO NOT need to have any training or qualification. The company needs to be registered.
Auuuugh!
04/08/2022 at 4:34 pm in reply to: OC maintains hedge that only benefits one end of the block #64494Thanks Sir Humphrey … all your words are useful.
—Hacker : They have the right to know!
Sir Humphrey Appleby : No, they have the right to be ignorant. Knowledge implies complicity, ignorance has a certain Dignity.
03/08/2022 at 4:32 pm in reply to: Committee approval of invoices BEFORE the strata manager can pay them #64478Thanks sm-sydney
We are pretty unhappy with out sm … and they certainly do not provide information allowing us to see and understand OUR financials e.g.
In the urbanise GENERAL LEDGER I can see that certain invoices are paid on a given date and if I then look at the BALANCE SHEET around that date I can work out whether the payment was taken out of the GENERAL FUND or the SINKING FUND.
Wouldn’t it be better if there was a column in the GENERAL LEDGER showing what fund the money was taken out of?
Also I suspect that some invoices have been paid out of the GENERAL FUND (‘cos we were up to the line item in the SINKING FUND forecast) and then in preparation for the AGM they have been magically recategorized to come out of the SINKING FUND. Auuuugggh! This is not transparent financial management.
Very frustrating!
I better go for a walk now.
03/08/2022 at 4:31 pm in reply to: OC maintains hedge that only benefits one end of the block #64477(YouTube in it’s infinite wisdom has started putting “Yes Minister” clips into my YouTube feed and I am enjoying them.)
The west fence is internal to the block so is the responsibility of the adjoining neighbours. And the east hedge is on the nature strip and the ACT gov guideline says that immediate owner is responsible for the trimming of the hedge. I guess the question is:
Is the immediate owner the OC or the unit owner?
The consistent look suggests that the owner is the OC so it is done consistently. But it does seem unfair that the Westsiders have to contribute …oh well.
25/07/2022 at 12:44 am in reply to: Committee approval of invoices BEFORE the strata manager can pay them #64281Thanks Jimmy-T.
Does anyone who uses my-community from Urbanise know if it can be set up so that only invoices more than $50 need to be approved and standard invoices (e,g, sm fees, electricity, water) don’t need to be approved, and that 2 out of a 4 possible people can approve?24/07/2022 at 10:10 am in reply to: Filling a vacant position on the executive committee before the AGM (ACT) #64253Thanks Jimmy-T and Sir Humphery … now we just wait for them to resign (will happen very soon)
Thanks Sir Humphrey.
Our first step will be to find out exactly where the “requesting” owner wants the hedge planted and then work out how much of an “exclusive use” of common property that represents. As is the case in most things, open communication will help us.
WoodWalker
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