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Jimmy T said……the payments that aren’t allowed are for those for future work done.
……which mirrors my more oblique reference in post #2 to a permitted reimbursement for works performed and not for an “undertaking” to do so.
Peter C is also correct by observing that while it may be in some circumstances quicker and easier for a committee member to purchase something like a bag of lawn food and to have that expense reimbursed, it MUST be accompanied by a sales receipt, be booked to an appropriate account such as “gardening supplies” where sufficient budgeted funds must exist, and be used on the Common Property of the Scheme and not on any lot owner’s property.
A reimbursement of that type would not come under Cl.25 as it’s not a payment for work performed by an E/C Member as part of their role of say, Secretary. So prior consent via a resolution at a General Meeting would not be required, although some limitations on the amounts and types of such expenditures that may be in future permitted would be an apropriate resolution at your upcoming AGM in my opinion.
That’s a lot of prerequisites, which is why for those same reasons of quickness, ease, and one more that I’d add of transparency, I’ve never encouraged it or permitted any catch-all accounts such as “sundry expenses” and “general maintenance” in the Scheme that I was managing.