At our AGM, eight owners were nominated for four ordinary committee member positions. A nominee withdrew two weeks before voting closed. Owners were not advised of this until votes were counted at the AGM. The number of votes received by the nominee was not declared. Does this require another election to be called?
As body corporate managers (BCM) and committee chairs are usually extremely close and the BMC depends on support from the committee for renewal of their contract, how can owners scrutinise committee or executive committee elections when votes are all via email to the BMC, with no scrutiny?
Our chairperson has been delegating the role of chair to the body corporate manager for the past four years. The manager has to attend all meetings, while the chairperson's involvement seems minimal. How can the committee address this situation to ensure effective leadership and meeting management?
Regulation 48(1)(b) of the Standard Module states that if the number of committee members falls below the number required for a quorum, the committee must call a general meeting of the body corporate to choose a person to fill the vacancy.
Is a VOC required to call the EGM? If yes and there has been no VOC or committee meeting, can the EGM proceed?
What if the entire committee resigns before holding a VOC?
I am a lot owner in a small complex of six units. One owner is an ATO Regulated Self-Managed Superannuation Fund for a family partnership business. Four trustees are listed. However, how do we know whether the person who participates in body corporate meetings, votes as "the owner" and, as of a recent EGM, is now the treasurer of the two-person committee is an owner? How can I verify they are entitled to occupy this position?
What steps can our body corporate take when a committee member is angry, confrontational or verbally abusive to our chairperson in particular but also to other members, including our offsite caretaker (who is onsite every day) at every meeting? They distort facts to suit themself and do not read minutes or reports.
I own a unit in a complex of 4 lots. There is a common property room behind the shared laundry room which is currently being used as a storage area by the owners.
One owner is taking up 60% of the space with items densely packed on top of each other, making it hard to access the common property. The other 3 owners utilise the remaining 40% of the space between themselves. There is no existing by-law justifying the one unit's unequal use of this common property.
I am in a lot owner in a NSW residential 3 floor unit block. We have a common area drying room on each floor. The building manager has taken over the drying room on the second floor, installed a lock and now uses this space as a storage room.
Can they owner take over the room and lock the door even though it was a common area? Can the manager change the room description and use without consulting all owners?