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Gilgal1
Flatchatter

    JimmyT said:

    Peter’s right, you can only correct minutes of a general meeting at another general meeting and for most strata blocks that’s the next AGM.

    However, if you think the decisions of a meeting have been seriously misrepresented in the minutes, then you can have this noted at an Executive Committee meeting  – it will then at least be on the record – and then, if need be, call an Extraordinary General Meeting, to correct them (and sack the person responsible, perhaps?). 

    We did just as Jimmy said: at our meeting, the Executive Committee noted the error in our AGM minutes, then we corrected them at an EGM a couple of months ago. We made a formal complaint (not just about the AGM minutes) to our then strata manager, who we later sacked at the EGM. Hopefully our new strata manager will actually follow up on what they’re asked to do.

    One thing I’ve noticed in strata land is that many unit owners don’t actually bother to read their AGM minutes – and, in many cases, find them hard to understand.

    In our complex failure to check the accuracy of AGM minutes over several years resulted in disagreements between the owners’ corporation and the then strata manager – who revelled in telling owners what’s technically their fault, while not lifting a finger to help solve the resulting problems.

    Now we may have a new strata manager, but we also have some huge maintenance jobs to sort out. Had we been more proactive about the record keeping, we may not have ended up in our current position where we’ll either have to raise a special levy or get a loan for the strata scheme.