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@PeterC said:
However, not everything would be ‘up for grabs’; only the matters that were notified in the meeting notice, which would be only the matter that was the subject of the petition, and perhaps other matters if the EC chose to take the opportunity to deal with some other matters. A motion to elect a new EC would only be on the agenda if that was included in the petition matters.
Just a couple of points on “up for grabs”. You are 100 percent correct about only items that are on the agenda being permitted for discussion.
But what you say you could do and what you actually do when you are dealing with a recalcitrant committee need not be the same thing.
So telling them “everything will be up for grabs” is basically just warning them that if they force you to get the signatures for an EGM, they are opening a can of worms because you can then take this any way you like.
In NSW, like the ACT, 25 percent of owners can demand an EGM but I don’t think they have to declare the matter for discussion until the agenda is released.
In fact, before you even call the EGM you can request that certain items be discussed at the next general meeting and they have to be included as a motion.
So you could put up a motion to discuss the paint and another motion to declare all the seats on the EC vacant and have a new election. Then you can go to the chairman and ask him if he wants to discuss this or trigger an EGM at which these motions must, by law, be on the agenda.
However that is an extreme scenario, and highly confrontational. But it sounds like we are dealing with an EC chair who plays fast and loose with the rules anyway.
Forcing them to check strata law might be a major step forward in itself.