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We had our AGM recently and did not get a quorum. So we now have an adjourned AGM coming up. The original chairperson was the strata manager, is it possible to change chairperson at the adjourned meeting to an owner who attends the adjourned meeting even if the original chairperson is at the adjourned meeting?
Regards,
Blueman
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The Executive committee chooses the chair so just make sure you have enough members on the EC who support your nominee.
By the way, the correct process is that the meeting decides how many members the EC should have (maximum 9) and then the EC holds a meeting after the AGM to elect office-bearers.
The strata manager can’t use proxies to elect him or herself on to the EC.
One person can fill all three roles – chair, secretary and treasurer – if that’s what the committee wants.
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I believe in those circumstances when the adjourned meeting is held you can move a motion that the other person be chair of the meeting.
In the ACT, perhaps elsewhere there are similar provisions, the chair of the EC is also automatically the chair for general meetings unless that person is unavailable or declines to do it. In that situation the meeting has to elect a chair from among the members present. That situation could occur at the start of a meeting (chair hit by a bus on the way to the meeting), or at a resumption of an adjourned meeting (chair can’t make it on the later date) or part way through (chair suddenly taken ill or storms off in a huff).
I think the problem here (which I missed the first time around) is that the strata manager IS the chair, if only by default. I am not sure of the mechanism for choosing a new chair on the hoof, so to speak, as suggested by Scottie. But if there are a majority of people at the meeting in favour, then it should be do-able.
As with most things in strata, it’s a question of getting the numbers sorted out before the meeting.
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