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I do a lot of work in our scheme on things like the courtyard garden, which includes providing plants and whole days hauling around bags of potting mix. I don’t expect any payment for it. If the owners want to do it, fine, but they shouldn’t be paid for it. In this case the nature strip isn’t even part of the common property and there is no way it would cost $300 to fuel and service a lawn mower for a year.
Note that in NSW payments of this type to committee members have to be approved retrospectively, i.e. for the previous period, section 46, and it has to be approved in a general meeting. I’m not sure if these residents are also committee members?
46 Payment of officers of owners corporation
An owners corporation may pay to a person who is an officer of the owners corporation or another member of the strata committee of the owners corporation an amount determined by the owners corporation at an annual general meeting in recognition of services performed by the person for the owners corporation in the period since the last annual general meeting.