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I don’t know why you might have to wait up to a year.
But on the costs. Many of my stratas, that I either chair or have been on the committee, will try to recover their actual administration costs for handling any renovation requests from owners. And fair enough too IMO.
Those costs might include the SM’s costs for arranging a meeting to approve the request (if the owner doesn’t want to wait until the next GM). They might include some legal costs: eg that might include the drafting and registering of a by-law or a rule to cover future maintenance costs. And perhaps the wording of the motion on which to vote and/or advice on what level of vote is needed (eg Special or Ordinary) to carry that motion.
$1,000 does seem a lot. But IME the costs when actually doing it have been at least $600 but sometimes more if the renovation was more complex/major.
Of course, if the committee alone has the authority to approve the works, there might be no cost at all. But by the sound of it, I doubt that’s the case for the renovations here.