It might depend on where the OP lives, but Special Levies do not need a Special Resolution in Victoria if they raise less than double the annual budget. I suspect other states could be similar – in that there is a limit before a Special Levy needs a Special Resolution?
Jimmy, is it possible to make the Location field in user profiles compulsory? At least then we’d have a better chance of knowing where the poster comes from and which state law applies.
Also, the committee has quite wide powers regarding the use of common property. If you don’t like what the committee does then vote them out or arrange for an EM to be held – if you can get the numbers to do that – to overrule them. If the OC buys a flag pole and erects it on common property the flag pole itself becomes common property and has to be repaired and maintained (or removed if it’s later voted to do that) by the OC into the future.