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The Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings that are being distributed for our Strata Scheme are not a true and accurate record of what is taking place at meetings, plus meetings are being held, without an agenda being circulated and without notice of the meeting and without a quorum being reached. The Strata Manager is then ‘ratifying’ decisions taken at an ‘EC’ Meeting in their offices, when the SMA employee is the only person in attendance.
A request was put to the SMA/EC Secretary to add Motions to the next ECM Agenda, correcting what has been presented to the Owners Corporation.
The agenda for the next ECM has just been received – no Motions have been included.
The Strata Managing Agent-come-EC Secretary has placed a Motion on the Agenda which reads:
Motion No. such-and-such: Minutes of last meeting: THAT the minutes of the last Executive Committee Meeting held on __ December be confirmed as a true record of the proceedings of the Meeting. Explanation: Whilst this motion is not a requirement of the act we feel that it is prudent for the minutes of previous meeting(sic) to be confirmed.
I understood that it is a requirement of the NSW Strata Schemes Management Act, and probably every other ‘Act’ in this State, for the previous Minutes of a Meeting to be accepted and physically signed off as a ‘true and accurate‘ record of what transpired. Is this not the case?
From where I stand, it is impossible to keep up with the inventive ways our SMA/EC devise by way of deceiving Owners and manipulating what transpires within our scheme.
I just tried to email Fair Trading…their website seems not to be accepting inquiries