@JimmyT said:
I also don’t know where you get the idea that it has to be a unanimous decision to spend money on anything other than Common Property.
This is to prevent corruption. If the committee decided to spend money within it’s limits on maintaining say the private yards of the committee members ONLY anyone who objected to this would have a valid case against the committee for misuse of BC funds.
We recently repainted the whole complex and the BC paid for everything even though only half was BC responsibility (half was within private yards and owners responsibility). We held a No dissent vote to enable us to use BC funds for this and if anyone had voted against we wouldn’t have been able to do it. (this was in QLD).
I also agree I don’t know the details of the contract with the manager but I’m pretty sure he is not allowed to spend money on anything he likes unless he has a pretty good explanation.
Otherwise where do you draw the line a BC manager who owns a property within the complex could spend BC funds decorating the inside of his own property if he was given total discretion on spending BC funds.