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Thanks Whale – Greatly appreciated; 

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Scotlandx raised a very valid point in that “An owner has no right to request Phone Numbers and E-mail addresses of other Owners. (NSW)

However:

1) That I can accept, however when one wants to contact a member of the Executive Committee, without a phone number it is a little difficult if you are a non- resident owner, and not living in the same city.    Even more difficult if the EC members do not provide / notify their contact details when elected. The only way to get contact is to ask the Strata Manager to ask them to contact by providing your phone No  / E-mail address.

Any comments ?

2) The large Owners Corps (100 units or more) must E-Mail all owners details of Executive Committee (EC) Meeting agenda’s and the EC Minutes as they would not normally have a Strata Notice Board.

For this Owners need to provide their E-Mail address, which as a group E-Mail would list all Owners E-mail addresses.

Equally if the OC (<100 Owners) decides at a General Meeting to permit Notices to be sent by E-Mail, and an owner wants to contact another who’s E-Mail address is part of that Group would that then breach the Privacy Act.

To me some EC Committee members use the Privacy Act to avoid people they do not want to deal with. 

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While people (and Fair Trading) are concentrating on saving lives of children from falling out of windows above ground level, they really (in my opinion) have not thought the matter through sufficiently. 

If you talk to someone in the FIRE BRIGADE they will tell you that by locking windows (and worse if the opening mechanism (key) is lost / faulty) YOU HAVE ELIMINATED A MEANS OF ESCAPE IN CASE OF A FIRE.

Such an event would cost more than one child’s life I suspect.

Pity submissions closed on 27/4/2015>

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@tharra said:
Which state are you in?

In NSW you should be notified of the meeting & be sent a copy of the minutes – have a peek @:

https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ssma1996242/sch3.html

Maybe a gentle reminder of the EC’s responsibilities to the secretary & ask for the minutes of the EC meetings. If it’s a resourcing issue ask how you can help the EC fulfil their obligations. If the meetings are happening via ‘circulation’ because it’s tough to get the EC in the same place, perhaps suggest video conferencing the meetings so others can attend. If that doesn’t work put it on the agenda for the AGM – or get yourself elected to the EC & right the processes from within.

I have zero experience with dud ECs, from my reading here ours runs like a idealistic happy fairy tale, not that we haven’t had our share of dramas. Maybe it’s the wine & nibbles at our meetings?

Winston says:   Thanks   response appreciated- Yes in NSW  –

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