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Firstly, what do you mean Jimmy by properly compensating the owners corp for its use? Can the OC legally agree to lease a visitor spot?
Secondly, the Strata Manager agreed that these particular workers were visitors! Not much help there. And, as we are trying to stop employees from parking here, they would, theoretically, be excluded. But thanks for your comment S.
So succinctly put, oh wise one. Just how it really is.
Rewriting our Visitor Parking Bylaw appears utterly pointless though. I doubt it could say: “Workers in the commercial lots cannot park here!”
BTW the Strata Committee refused mediation re the issue some months ago so it could go straight to NCAT. I don’t like my chances there either.
Ah, the ongoing saga… at last night’s AGM, a motion to issue a Notice to Comply to the owner whose workers park in visitor spots was defeated. The owners decided that those workers were visitors. This is despite the fact that these “visitors” have remote keys and fobs to get into the building and park wherever they like.
Surely, this will now open the flood gates to anyone who wants to park here. Where is the security?
So what is a bona fide visitor? What bylaw can define that properly?
Some weeks later… the Secretary of the Strata Committee has again said I have to find an abseiler to fix the crack in a common property wall. The Strata Manager, having sent someone out to look at it, is not responding to my emails asking what is happening about the issue.
Raising the SSMA section 106 has little effect.
Meanwhile, other residents have had their water ingress problems seen to and have not had to resort to finding plumbers/abseilers/roofers.
So, can the Secretary, on their own volition, dictate what I’m to do? No other Sc member has agreed with this. Can the SM refuse to carry the matter any further despite having sent out a work order?
And there are still a number of owners and tenants complaining about water ingress. Summer is set to be wet and the integrity of the building is at stake.
How do I prove this may be a personal vendetta against me? Or is it plain as day!
Thanks so much Newb for your sage advice.
I am on the committee and doing my best, as Don Chipp said, “to keep the bastards honest”. I would like any Strata Committee to act with due care and diligence; to be accountable and transparent; to refrain from personal attacks and remain unbiased; to act in a timely manner; to answer all communications from owners; and to perform all duties required in “good faith”.
is there such a beast?
Years ago I emailed the SC about adopting a code of conduct and I never heard back. Funny about that!
So, where to from now? Other than placing a motion on the AGM? But 1) what do I write, other than the obvious SSMA regulations, and 2) what’s to stop the same people getting back on? Of the 40 odd owners, only 9 turn up at the AGM. If we’re lucky!
Great. Thanks so much Jimmy.
I’m sorry Jimmy about the “new thread” but I wasn’t double-dipping but trying to understand the process of declining mediation at Fair Trading, and then having to go to NCAT. In other words, is there a process required by the Strata Committee to decline mediation? Do they need to hold a meeting? Am I meant to be on that meeting? Are all the owners required to respond? Is there any paper work required?
Thanks Jimmy. Various solutions about bollards and other methods re changing fobs, adding key pads etc etc have been discussed to stop illegal parking but not acted on.
We have CCTV and I’m taking photos on a regular basis of all repeat offenders.
Despite my continued effort to move things along, nothing is being done.
So it looks like Fair Trading then.
Thanks Jimmy. Yes, I’ve been down that road before on another matter. It wasn’t only the neighbours, it was the Strata Manager who hurled abuse at me. Currently this one says my illegal height balustrade has nothing to do with this case! In other words, bugger off!
How I wish I were a lawyer!
Has there been any comeback re NCATs decision to renew balustrades and to bring them into compliance with the current requirements of the BCA?
I’ve been fighting my Strata Committee and Owners Corporation about this for years now concerning my illegal height balustrades with dangerous footholds.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Strata Committee members should not be paid. In my opinion and from bitter experience most SC members do bugger all. They never respond to emails, they lie, they gang up against certain members of the SC, they don’t contribute to matters, they know little about strata law, or the role of the Strata Manager, they’re always too busy working to bother etc etc.
So no, is my answer.
Hi Jimmy, you mean the Strata Manager who has refused to do, say or suggest anything to the SC about the renovations?
Re the Unit Entitlements, I read somewhere that size didn’t matter (so to speak); it was the value that did. So thanks for clearing that up.
I’ll do as you suggest re the current level of levies. I did that a few AGMs ago but the the Treasurer of the SC (the one who did the recent renos) said we couldn’t afford it. Mmmmmm.
Thanks Jimmy. Despite being advised that the renovations were taking place, should the SM have asked the SC to issue a notice to comply to the owner? Surely an SM would have some role to play in this.
The level one balustrades were replaced…
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