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Some years back the common-area tiler at the time broke the in-situ garden watering reticulation system which has not yet been fixed (nor will he be pursued) and the gardens now all look terrible. Now the committee has recently sought an owner to seek the paid job of hand watering the gardens. I’m not sure that if this cost has not been budgeted for as an item on the approved AGM forward administration account that owner’s money can be used this way, especially as they are making no effort to fix the original issue? Can anyone comment on this please? The gardener once used to do this but for whatever reason he is no longer called on to do this. I’m in Qld.
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Sorry but I’m having trouble understanding the situation. Perhaps you have a typo in the sentence that includes both the words “sought” and “seek”. Please clarify what the Committee has asked one owner to do and who wants who to pay for what.
In general, it’s reasonable to assume that a Committee has discussed options for moving forward and pros and cons of each. So you can ask someone on the Committee what was discussed and how the Committee arrived at a decision. If there was no such discussion between Committee members, you’d have to wonder if there is a one-person show with conflicts of interest going on. But first, please clarify your question and then we can respond in a more useful way.
But first, please clarify your question and then we can respond in a more useful way.
What they said.
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I think Flame Tree is trying to say:
1. There used to be an automated system for watering the garden. It stopped working after some tiling work was done. No effort taken to repair / replace the watering system.
2. Until recently, a gardener was employed to water the garden. Now this gardener is no longer watering the garden.
3. Committee is now looking for an owner to water the garden and be paid for it.
4. Flame Tree wants to know:
(a) What kind of discussions were held by the Committee to take this course of action?
(b) Is the cost of paying an owner is in the budget or approved in an AGM?You should ask your strata manager or Committee. I can’t speak for Qld but it seems reasonable that owners receive the minutes of all meetings held. Owners should also have seen a proposed budget and then approved it a general meeting.
If your strata manager is not distributing meeting notices with proposed budgets, they are not doing their job. If the owners don’t read the meeting notices, they are not doing their job either.
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