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Upon reflection, we should have terminated the strata manager’s contract for this.
It is possible that the Committee might be prompted to start the process to do exactly that, although we don’t have any OC funds being involved.
One instance was wooden flooring which I believe is laid over the existing courtyard paving. That would amount to new flooring on top of a common property floor (according to the Strata Plan) inside the lot, and therefore comes under major works not affecting the common property but visible from outside the lot. The other involved ripping up the existing paving and replacing it, which is a change to the common property and is also visible from outside the lot. So that’s two EGM special resolutions and one by-law requirement just waved through by the SM. I want the S55 report to see exactly what was or wasn’t done in respect of those changes. It is just the latest in a long list of incompetencies.
(FWIW the plan says “Courtyards are restricted … in depth, except where paved, to 1 below the upper surface of the concrete floor of the dwelling to which they are attached”. I believe that exclusion means that the paved area (about 3/4 of the courtyard) is a common property floor.)