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Please can someone answer “strats all” question about what happens if you cant get volunteers for the Strata Committee Roles? I would love to know too.
We have never voted for the secretary, chairman or treasurer as its usually a difficult enough matter to get someone to grudgingly agree to do the job. So I guess its a vote by default.
We do get volunteers for the committee but they are usually the few people who bothered to turn up to the Owners AGM, so there is no one else but them to vote. But they don’t seem to feel the need to actually participate in doing anything for the committee apart from voting on issues (or complaining).
What happens if I refuse to be secretary (and chairperson) next year and no one else will volunteer? Can we get the Strata Manager to do the job for us?
It has been suggested to me by friends that the apathy about the whole thing may partly be due to the fact that people trust me and don’t feel the need to get involved themselves – but personally I cant understand why so many of the 18 owners in our scheme seem to have no interest in something so important to the management of such a major personal asset as their house!
I agreed to be secretary because I felt I should take a turn with taking a role – the previous secretary had been doing the job for ever and was totally fed up – but I didn’t consider how hard it was going to be to give it up again……