Daphne – regarding your Motion to remove the Strata Manager, remember that any Owners who submit proxies must specifically indicate their instruction (to their appointee) with regard to that Motion. Furthermore, most Strata Management Agreements stipulate that an Owners Corporation (O/C) must provide its Strata Manager with three (3) months written notice of its decision to terminate that Agreement.
The only exception to that period of notice is in circumstances where the Strata Manager has been negligent, but even then the O/C has to give them a period of time to rectify that (usually 28 days) before then deciding (or not) to put a Motion to terminate the Agreement before a General Meeting.
So if the Secretary of the Executive Committee hasn’t informed the Strata Manager of any allegations of negligence or non compliance with the terms of the Agreement prior to your Motion being discussed, and that Strata Manager wants to play hardball, then you may find termination a difficult task.
You still have a few days before your AGM, so perhaps take your Strata Manager up on their offer to talk – even if you don’t accept whatever it is they say, and try to obtain a copy of the Agreement; forewarned etc.
ps. 1930hrs Oops…just realised that your General Meeting’s tomorrow; us retirees do loose track of the date. Sorry, and again….good luck!