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I suggest that if you’re on the committee, you should be notified of everything that is spent. This will help you get a feeling for what the issues are and who are the more active owners / residents. It might be more convenient to let the strata manager take care of everything costing less than $500 but you won’t learn much about your own strata plan. You should be more than a rubber stamp for someone else’s decisions.
My previous strata manager contract allowed the strata manager to spend up to $500 of owners corp money without contacting the strata committee. It was remarkable how many jobs cost us $495.
For urgent/emergency matters, there was no limit to what they could spend. We found expenditure running into thousands of dolllars because they were “urgent”. Without a proper definition of “urgent”, it’s urgent because the owners says so.