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Todd Garsden, Hynes Legal Question: At a recent EGM, only one voting member was present physically, with 2 committee members attending via phone. For EGM attendance, is being ‘present by phone’ the same as being ‘present personally’?
ACT: Q&A AGM Recording. Chair insists on verifying the recording.
Christopher Kerin, Kerin Benson Lawyers Question: If an AGM recording is made, does the Chair have the right to insist any proposed amendment to the Minutes must be verified by his listening to the recording as proof?
SA: Q&A Is the Presiding Officer like a Chairperson?
Tony Johnson, Horner Management Question: What role does the Presiding Officer play? What can and can’t they do and is this role the same as a chairman at strata corporation meetings?
NSW: Q&A Can Common Property Tree Maintenance be Shifted to Lot Owners?
Andrew Terrell, Wellman Strata Question: Can the Owners Corporation vote to have tree maintenance transferred to a lot owner? The large planter box is currently common property.
WA: Q&A Liability and Improvements to Exclusive Use Areas
Leonie Milonas, PSC Property Lync Insurance Brokers If an exclusive use lot holder performs improvements to exclusive use areas that do not meet required safety standards or building codes etc, is strata liable?
Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal In strataland, a quorum is the minimum number of voters who must be present at any general meeting (be that the annual one or an extraordinary one) to have a valid meeting. Simply put, if you don’t have a quorum you don’t have a meeting.
Frank Higginson, Hynes Legal Question: One lot owner abuses our visitor parking by allowing their friends to park in the space all weekend or overnight. What right do we have to police this?
NSW: Buy and Sell with More Confidence
EYEON Property Inspections was created because we saw an opportunity to provide a better inspection service for property buyers and sellers. A property inspection is a lot more than just a report. It’s about helping people.
NSW: Make the right choices for your Building's future
We make disappointing works and services a thing of the past. SPS offers the expertise to help strata clients with services and issues within their strata community. This could involve building works, mediation, procurement, chair meetings etc and many others.
News of the Week
'Perth is evolving': WA on the precipice of strata title reform
David Allan-Petale, WA Today
Western Australia stands "on the precipice" of the most significant strata title reforms in 30 years, according to a peak industry body. The Urban Development Institute of Australia expects the state government's long-telegraphed reforms to strata title - individual ownership of part of a property - to go before parliament in the coming weeks.
VIC: EcoWorld introduces Tesla car-sharing for Yarra One Development
Property Observer
As well as Tesla cars being available for residents to use, residents will also have the option to include a charging point within their designated car space, as a means of future proofing the building.
State Member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, has launched a petition to have short term letting debated in NSW parliament. He needs 10,000 signatures. They must be original signatures so people need to print, sign, and mail/drop off to his office.
We urge NSW LookUpStrata readers to sign, put up in their lobbies, and share with their committees and other lot owners.
Independent MP Alex Greenwich: There has been a strong supportive response to my petition calling for owners corporations the authority to control short term letting in their building, including to place limits beyond state controls or to ban the practice outright. If you support this approach, please sign and collect signatures. Print petition HERE.
Before making any decisions about possible changes to the BUGT Act, the Queensland Government would like to hear your views about QUT’s recommendations.
You are invited to provide feedback on QUT’s recommendations to harmonise some provisions of the BUGT Act and the BCCM Act to provide bodies corporate operating under the BUGT Act with a more contemporary body corporate legislative framework.
NSW: Report a scheme not complying with window safety device requirements
To report a strata scheme that is not complying with the window safety device requirements, send an email to [email protected] along with the following information:
your name and contact details
the address of the strata scheme
the managing strata agent's name and contact details (or Secretary's details, if there is no managing agent).
Quick NSW Q&A
We sometimes receive interesting questions into the site which aren't quite long enough to create a post. We thought we'd share some here. We recently received the following question: Q: We are also having issues with the strata manager responding in what we believe to be a timely fashion (e.g. it took 6 weeks’ to respond to an email about a particular request). Is this normal? Andrew Terrell, Wellman Strata replied: A: The strata managers response time is not reasonable and they should look to address their concerns with the strata managers superior (and if they are unhappy with their response, look to the market to see who else is out there).
