Bully Strata Manager

I have been searching for a post of mine from April 2017 called “Bully Chairman” but I can’t find it.  This post is a follow up to that story and I need further advice.

After I took the Chair and the strata manager to mediation and found it to be very unsatisfactory and accomplished nothing, things continued as usual until the long-time Chairman suddenly sold his unit in June 2017, which came as a surprise to everyone.  The SC continued with the same members until late October when the Treasurer, probably burdened with a dual role, asked me to take on the Chairmanship.  We had an SC meeting and I was elected, also hoping to take the load off the other members, who all work, while I do not.

Unfortunately, the strata manager has made it clear she does not like me being Chairman at all and has been very unpleasant, eg, copying all SC members in on all of my correspondence to her, typing my name last on emails to the SC, refusing to take my complaints seriously (recently, a very serious one) without “logs” with times/dates and because her assistant sees all of these exchanges, she has started taking liberties with the way she responds to me.  It has become extremely difficult for me to continue and I think she is just waiting for me to resign.  And I might, because she has undermined me to the point where it has become just too stressful.

About a week ago, I sent the SC an email saying that I wanted to hold an EGM and replace this strata manager, who we engaged for one year in September 2016. I also asked if anyone had a copy of the Agency Agreement with this strata manager because I had not seen it.  The Treasurer immediately replied and said he would not support such a move because the strata manager was very good at her job (I believe he knows her from other buildings and was instrumental in getting her on board with our building). However, when he sent me a copy of the Agency Agreement, it is for a three-year agreement that was signed on 27 March 2017 (I would say following the AGM, for which I did not receive notice), and it was signed by the previous Chair, a current committee member and the “secretary”, also a current committee member, but who was unfinancial at the time of the last AGM (and often is).  My question now is, why was another three-year agreement signed six months into a one-year term and, because it was signed by an unfinancial member as “secretary”, is it valid?  And I would add here that I have no animosity toward any of the Committee members.