#29099
Jimmy-T
Keymaster

    I don’t want to get into get into a war of words over thisĀ  but your insistence that your personal experience of being chair of several schemes is a guide to what happens everywhere is well off the mark.

    I’m not disputing that committees make a lot of important decisions but there is a very strict limit in NSW (and elsewhere) on the kind of decisions they make (as there should be).

    If an important decision that I didn’t agree with was made under “any other business” at an AGM in NSW I would challenge it all the way to NCAT and I would win because it would have been in clear breach of regulations.

    If I was in a building where the SM set the agenda and budget without consulting the committee, I would have them removed at the first opportunity.

    And of course people feel excluded if they aren’t consulted. Expecting people to turn up for a meeting when no one has bothered to ask them if they have any issues that they want to have discussed is pretty much guaranteed to keep them away in droves.

    You may have as many discussions as you wish under “general” business but if you make any decisions based on items that are not specified in the agenda, in most states – and I include Victoria – you leave yourself wide open to a legal challenge by a disgruntled owner.

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