#28482
Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    The two questions – about surplus of proxies and excessive new by-laws – aren’t really related.

    I don’t think you can pass a by-law about what happens to excess proxies (I assume you men when one owner has filled their allowance of proxies and more people want to pass them on).  The official proxy form already has a second choice option.

    I also don’t think we should be encouraging a perpetuation of the “donkey votes” – giving proxies to the chair or secretary without even knowing who they are or what they think about issues.

    If people aren’t engaged enough in their community to make an effort to find out how people who will be attending the meeting intend to vote, then they shouldn’t be encouraged to offer “blind” votes to anyone.

    As for the 25 pages of by-laws, I suspect your strata manager is taking the mandatory review of by-laws seriously.  Just be careful that he doesn’t wrap them all up in vote vote, allowing some hidden nasties to slip through.

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