@slicendice you wrote that ” I intend to put a series of resolutions to the meeting….. requested she give me notice. She has told me the meeting will be held in June (our FY ends May 31) ….I … intend to send her the resolutions before the end of the FY”.
First of all, may I correct you it’s motions not resolutions that you will send the strata manager.
You are thinking like a reasonable person. Not everyone is. She has the power to corner you.
1. You say you asked her to give you notice of a meeting, i.e. a heads up (ideally long) before the official notice of meeting is circulated presumably several weeks’ notice. I do not see that she agreed. And even if she did, what if she later decided not to give the notice? Or forgets? As Jimmy often says and I can prove it…”there are no strata kops” on the beat to police such behaviour; and
2. While the SSM Act requires her to give a minimum notice of 14 days of the AGM, some strata schemes give more notice. Much more in some cases. The only reason I can think of is to catch owners out by shutting down the opportunity to provide motions. This happened to me a few years ago. Owners were given the notice, from memory, 8 weeks before the meeting was held. It stopped me in my tracks submitting any motion.
3. Fact: You have no idea when in June the AGM will be held (if indeed it’s in June, maybe it’ll be in May or July) or how early the notice will be sent out.
I suggest you spend this w/end writing the motions. Then either on Sunday or Monday email them to the strata manager and copy in the committee Secretary.
That maximises the chance that your motions will be listed in the agenda. By that I mean they cannot shut the door on your motions claiming the agenda was sent out already or she was working on it (so far out from the AGM’s due date).
If developments come to pass that you want to withdraw the motion, you can do so before the agenda is sent out (it’ll be like they never existed) and in the event that the strata manager claims they are already listed in the agenda, you can a I did, withdraw them at the AGM or amend them at the AGM.
Show her you’re alert to what’s going on and you’re no sucker.
Good luck!