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As much as I like the idea of mass participation in the meeting, I can’t see how this can be made legal by the passing of a by-law. There are clearly defined processes for EC meetings and general meetings and different standards of validity for the decisions they make, not least the requirements of notice periods, etc. The law dictates the maximum number of members of an EC at nine with clear rules as described in previous posts, for participation of non-members.
This is all fine … until it isn’t. For instance, what happens when someone who is in a minority on the EC on an issue stacks the meeting with their supporters? The losing EC members would then, quite rightly, say the vote had no legal validity and you’d all be in it up to your eyeballs
If you want to keep the community involved, perhaps you can adopt “Standing Orders” that allow the EC members to take a poll of the owners present before the EC members only vote on the issue.
Or you can make your EC meetings General Meetings (although that restricts all decisions to items that are on the agenda).
But by-laws of an Owners Corp can’t supersede superior laws – in this case the strata Act itself – and if you go ahead with these mass vote all your decisions could be subject to legal challenges by any owner who doesn’t like the outcomes.