Hi,

As official Secretary, Treasurer, and acting-Chairperson of SP52948 EC,
I request the following to be addressed by you:

Without any special reason, Chairperson of the EC, who is now leaving complex
suddenly, registered domain name macquariegardens.com in 2010, without
any consultation or knowledge of the owners corporation.

He also claimed it back from common funds, without disclosing it.

The domain never brought any revenue (as Chairperson promised), and was
never used, and is now unregistered (expired on 7 October 2014)
and not owned by owners corporation any longer.

Two questions:

1. Why did owners corporation lose the domain without consultation with owners?

2. Why did not BCS Strata Management disclose it to owners?

One legal request:

Any document or other files that belongs to owners corporation must be retrieved
from Chairperson by BCS Strata Management and provided to owners upon request.


This was sent to Ex-Strata Manager Mr. Gary Webb four years ago, who never replied:

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Request for an official reply from the Chairperson: Strata Plan 52948 - 26 December 2011

In accordance with the NSW Strata Management laws, I submit
the following questions that have to be answered in written form.

(cut here for sake of brevity)

f) Who, and with what authority, approved that domain
parking for macquariegardens.com, which happened before
AGM 2010 and WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE? It has never been used, the "promise" it would bring
the complex profits from internet-related business never
eventuated (and it never would, as the committee and the
Chairperson have no expertise in internet services). By the same token,
when asked about it, the Chairperson responded that due to high cost
of domain management, the project was canceled. Nonsense,
I deal with more than 1,000 domain names for Fortune-100
companies, to universities, smaller corporations, and defense.
Domain name web management can be quite cheap and certainly
affordable by our complex.

On top of it, the Chairperson claimed back the cost of
domain registration (11 October 2010 on the amount of $35.45).
Why, when the domain name brings no benefits to owners corporation?
The amount of money is irrelevant, but the process of
not consulting others certainly brings strong feelings of
abuse of powers for a VOLUNTARY POSITION, where no-one is
worth more than others in the complex.

In addition, any decent managing agent would provide internet-enabled
payment and reporting services to owners' corporation for FREE (and
many agencies do it)!
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• Attachments-10/SP52948-double-renewal-domain-macquariegardens.com-12Sep2012-BCS4219532.pdf