Re: Strata Committee voting and deciding without telling owners

Thanks, but my question was about decisions of the Committee not being notified to other owners, not about notice of the AGM.

Our Committee says it doesn’t have meetings, so they have no need to inform owners of their decisions.

eg the Committee hasn’t reported to the owners corporation about a botched project early this year, that cost $91,000 instead of $70,000, and was stopped when the money ran out, with only a quarter of the work completed. It was already running 4 times longer than estimated. I know because I had the drilling noise for 4 months, but non-resident owners have no idea and were told only that ‘we need more money’ to complete the job.

Now they recommend the same company undertake a huge package of external renovations, to cost approx. $3 million and take 2 years. With no engineer’s advice about what actually needs to be done.

We won’t have time at the AGM to discuss or ask for any of their plans in detail as there are so many items to be voted on. And we ‘don’t know what we don’t know’ to ask about.

At least half owners are investor non-residents who just vote Yes to everything.

If we had prior knowledge of their decisions, we would have time to think about it and even have a bit of extra info or feedback before it goes to a vote at the AGM. And we might find out what’s going on and why.

 They say they’re too busy to have meetings so they just email each other to make decisions. But they’ve managed to put a lot of time into getting quotes and deciding on our new balustrades etc. without telling us residents or owners anything.

So Please, I want to find out if I’m entitled to be notified of decisions of the Committee, within 7 days of the decision, in this situation where the Committee doesn’t hold meetings.

This advice is needed before we get to Other Business next Tuesday 20th Nov. – at about midnight!

Thanks!