Our Executive Committee have gone feral.

The Owners Corporation (i.e. you and the other owners) is entitled to whatever information it regards as necessary to make an informed decision by way of a vote at the AGM.

You and like-minded Owners need to sign a letter to whoever it is that’s convening the AGM, likely the E/C Secretary or the Strata Manager, and tell them in order for any Motion on proposed major works to be properly considered, that you require “decent, understandable plans and quotes” (and indeed anything else that you deem necessary) to be provided to all Owners together with the Agenda.

If that’s not provided, then you and others in attendance at the AGM can again vote the proposal down –  but be mindful of the need for like minded Owners to attend the Meeting and of the need to be mindful that Members of your E/C may have gathered sufficient proxies to ram through their project.

Finally, depending upon the nature of the proposed major works, anything that could be regarded as an alteration, addition, or change to the Common Property needs a vote in favour by ≥75% of those in attendance at the AGM (incl. proxies), with that percentage determined by units of entitlement (a “poll vote”); that’s a Special Resolution as opposed to one determined by a simple majority.

Costa – thanks for the feedback; always good to receive by all on this Forum!

I assume that you’re not the only Owner who made the E/C aware of what’s needed to properly consider their proposal, but irrespective, the Members’ reaction indicates that you’ve rattled their cage; which is what was needed.

Depending upon the level of their victimisation and harassment, I suppose you could resort to legal action or at least a legal letter, but frankly I’d just be biding my time until next month’s AGM when you and like minded Owners can have a say and ensure that it’s properly minuted.

Between now and then, you must do your utmost to ensure that those Owners who you previously stated don’t trust the E/C grow a spine, and maintain that so they can support the collective position.

So, what is the project? I only have experience from the other side of the fence. That is, being on the EC trying to develop some good projects and trying to communicate about them to the owners while having to counter misrepresentation of our proposals by a few owners who object to making any improvements to the site. If the ideas are broadly ‘a good idea’ and your only concern is about process, say, insufficient quotes or project detail, why not talk to the EC members? Indicate that you are not necessarily opposed but would like to understand more about the proposal.