› Flat Chat Strata Forum › Common Property › CP and the Strata Committee › Can the SC approve to replace CP door locks › Current Page
While most are probably good ideas, it just appears that the decisions and approvals are not being done correctly, and not allowing most owners to have any input into the decisions.
Any decsions to be made by the strata committee have to be listed on the agenda of the next strata committee meeting. Owners have an opportunity to express their opinions there, and even block the decisions from being discussed, if one-third of them object.
Once a decision has been minuted, owners have the opportunity to take action to overturn the decision, especially if they think it’s not valid, via orders at NCAT.
The problem would arise if the proposals weren’t being itemised on the agenda or minuted.
As for the noticeboard, that’s different as a noticeboard, if it exists, may be part of the official notifications process of a small strata scheme, and therefore it should be established in a by-law whether or not it is an official strata committee notice-board or just a community facility. If it is an official notice board, then the owners corp has partial responsibility for notices pinned to it.
As for the locks on letter-boxes and doors, the owners corp has a duty to maintain and repair common property and it could be argued that bringing locks up to date to reflect the present-day threats to security was simply maintaining security.
That would certainly be my view.