Reply To: Three owners charged $2586 for demanding a General Meeting (ACT)

Thanks Sir Humphery.

Your suggestion is a good one. Given that 25% of members requesting a General Meeting to discuss an issue is a provision of the Act, it (probably) should not be regarded as a “billable offence” under section 31 i.e. “a wilful or negligent act or omission or … a breach of its rules”.

All that said, with only 10 owners, and if the 3 owners wanted an update on a cost recovery action, was it not possible to just informally ask the members of the EC how things were going? Were they not forthcoming? Was it suspected that they were not acting and this was a move to force some action? It sounds like there might have been more to this story.

There was much more to the story (as there almost always is). We asked but did not receive any information. The Act requires the EC to monitor the financial operation of the OC, but as far as we were aware it had no such oversight, or if they did, it was not communicated to other owners.

We are now in a much better place.