Hi Bluie,
Have you offered your expertise to the Committee to help them navigate what needs to done? Committee’s are volunteers and are not necessarily engineers, lawyers, accountants etc. I am sure they would welcome your help with your idea of a plan of how to tackle the issue.
My guess is they are stuck on “who is responsible” which requires an interpretation of the plan. This needs to be done by a lawyer or land surveyor. This advice will cost anywhere from $2,000 – $10.000 depending on how large and complex the plan is.
Once the boundaries are defined and using the engineers report a clear responsibility and who benefits analysis can be done. Again, this may need legal advice to determine the basis of “benefit”. This advice will cost between $2,000 – $5,000 (but could be more if complex).
With this information, the committee can seek quotes from project managers – who can identify the scope of works, draw up tender, request for proposal or simple quotes depending on the size of the project, obtain tender/quote, assess the tenders/quotes and make a recommendation to the committee for the works. Seeking quotes from PM will cost if the strata manager is undertaking the task (hourly rate), unless the committee does it.
Then the committee needs to consider the funding methods for the Project Manager cost, plus the repair cost and voting thresholds. Hold the meeting, pass the resolutions and start to raise the necessary levies based on the legal advice in step 2.
I don’t know how frequently your committee meets. If is a large scheme it might meet monthly, if small it might only meet quarterly. To navigate this process and achieve the necessary funds could take more than 12 months.
If you have a funded Maintenace Plan, then funding the works may be quicker.
Hope that helps.