Question: We have been waiting for about 2 months for an extraordinary meeting to appoint a new Strata Manager. There is still no date set. Can you please advise what we can do to push our committee along?
We are currently without a Strata Manager as our strata committee with the support of residents dismissed the previous Manager. We have been waiting for the date of an extraordinary meeting to choose and confirm the new Strata Manager however we have been waiting for around two months and there is still no date set.
Can you please advise what we can do to accelerate things? Our strata committee of three are not easy to deal with as only one member tends to be active and he can be challenging to deal with while the other two members take a step back.
Answer: The fastest way to have a general meeting set would be to follow the procedure set out in Section 19 of the Strata Schemes Management Act
The fastest way (as mediation & NCAT proceedings would take longer) to have a meeting set would be to follow the procedure set out below in Section 19 of the Strata Schemes Management Act, 2015 (NSW) by way of a “qualified request” ie by having at least ¼ of the unit entitlements demand a general meeting:
This post appears in the June 2021 edition of The NSW Strata Magazine.
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