Can a resident manager influence votes against a committee candidate?
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Leading up to our AGM, the Resident Manager spoke to and also called Lot Owners and advised/encouraged them to not vote for my motions or for my nomination as a Committee Member. The basis was that I was a trouble maker.
Over the past five years, as a Lot owner I was successful in forcing the Committee to replace missing street signs, raised motions to stop Committee Members from claiming up to $1,000 for attending meetings and I'm in the process of stopping payment of $8,400 annually to the Resident Manager for reading 168 water meters every six months.
Can a resident manager lobby owners for votes in a strata scheme?
Can the Resident Manager vote farm to achieve the composition of committee members that best suits them?
I am not referring to proxy voting. The Resident Manager may be emailing investors to farm votes For or Against motions that favour the Resident Manager. e.g. Management Contract extension and a Motion that would significantly reduce payments for services that are not in the Management Agreement.
Does using the wrong returning officer envelope invalidate an AGM ballot?
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Our strata management company sent a secret ballot for committee nominations with a wrong building's returning officer envelopes.
We are not sure how many owners returned the ballots in the wrong building's envelopes without even noticing that the return envelope was not for our building.
Is the whole AGM invalid?
Are AGM votes invalid if owners hand them to another lot owner instead of posting them?
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Voting forms for our AGM were sent out by our Strata Manager.
We were Instructed to send votes to a post box.
Considering the unreliable delivery of the mail service, some residents who could not attend the AGM asked a committee member to take their votes in sealed envelopes to the meeting.
The scrutineer rejected these votes as invalid. Is this correct?
Is it legal for a letting agent to tell owners how to vote?
Our caretaker/letting agent is asking all owners under their letting agency to not read the body corporate committee’s monthly newsletter nor to vote with the committee.
While I appreciate that the caretaker is free to communicate with owners, the content of most of the communication is to direct owners on how to vote. This makes me wonder if their behaviour is professional. How can we deal with this situation?