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You suggest that the SC be challenged in a future AGM. The SC members are in the positions for life (sitting on a small hill of proxies, replenished annually) as most residents are charmed by a couple of them and are clueless as to what is proposed.
That would be a very, very small hill. In a strata scheme the size that you have described, each committee member is only allowed to hold one proxy vote
My worries are as follows: a) The by law (or “code”) will enable the SC and agent not to acknowledge ANY correspondence they receive, so in the case of say overpaid or wrongly charged levies, the owner could take forever to get her money back.
As already said, the code is redundant and has no force. It’s entirely up to the committee members whether or not they respond and then they have to justify their inaction when they stand for election.
… the SC has not had a properly constituted SC meeting for the three years since the current mob were elected. Presumably they talk informally amongst themselves and choose not to hold SC meetings, but that is not what is required under the Act, isn’t it?
The only requirement under the Act is that an AGM must be held every year. However, if the committee is meeting and making decisions, then they must issue a notice of meeting, an agenda and minutes, under the terms of Schedule 2 of the Strata Act. If they are making decisions without due process, then it may be worth challenging them at Fair Trading and possibly even NCAT.