#26131
aqua
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    thanks for responding, appreciate it.

    To clarify, the one guy has all 3 titles, the chairperson, secretary and treasurer and is on the executive committee. the EC is made up of 3 ppl. the above mentioned guy, another owner who has recently completed a renovation and an owner who resides overseas. they all work together and dominate proxies, so they make descisions together how they will vote.

    The recent renovations were infact done without any by laws, yet they are being so particular about our by laws and every aspect of our renovations.

    We have put a formal application and requested an EGM in Oct, Nov and Dec. in October they said it would cost 230.00 to call an egm. but we have to wait until new strata managers are in place, in November they came back with a list of aprox 15 questions reqarding our renovations, some of which were we would be required to get a hydraullic engineer, an acoustic engineer, another independant structural engineer that they would choose and we have to pay for and so on. In Dec they ignored our email for just under 2 weeks until mid Dec when they said its too late before the christmas break to arrange an EGM- it cant be called until an owner on OC gets back from holiday mid jan, but he will need time to get back into things so cant be called until end of jan-

    They are also saying we have to agree in writing to all costs of egm. they are ignoring our email request to be given a total cost as we they previously advised us it would cost 230.00 Now that they have changed strata, they wont give us a price, they are saying it would be 150.00 an hour for the strata manager to arrange meeting, attend meeting and her time to travel, plus the time it takes for secretary to do all the paperwork and photocopying. Therefore we have to agree in writing to all costs based on time it all takes. And they are forewarning us they will not allow any structural work. they will all vote against it with their proxies. because they dont want to set a precedent for others to do similar works and at the most recent meeting with the secretary he said he thinks we have used a friend engineer so doesnt trust it. he said where are the engineers calculations? where is the engineers certificate for the works? (we have provided a report, plans and engineers indemnity. When they expressed concern of external structural defects to building, we called our structural engineer out again to assess the external of building – we provided them with a detailed external structural engineer report with pictures and drawings) he went on to say the engineer is probably our friend how could he have done the first site visit for just half an hour?  we are shocked- hes absolutely not our friend and have never worked with him before.

    He also says that he cant put anything in writing because his english is not good. he’s the secretary!

    Regarding council we have spoken to council and we do require council approval before starting works. and we have lined up a private certifier to apply to council for us if the oc will approve the works at an EGM. we provided the OC this information in our application.

    we feel like we are being bullied and treated unreasonably.