| From: |
SP52948 owner |
| To: |
Peter Bone BCS Strata Management |
| CC: |
Bruce Copland, Moses Levitt, Stan Pogorelsky, Jeffery Wang, Maureen McDonald |
| Subject: |
OFFICIAL REQUEST FOR RESPONSE for EGM 2013 and CTTT: SP52948 Water and Gas Reimbursements in FY 2013 |
| Date: |
12/5/13, 12:01 am |
Hello,
Before I publish it for all owners and give to the CTTT, I am
officially asking you to respond as per:
NSW Strata Schemes Management Act
1996
Division 2 – Members and office
holders of the executive committee
22 What are the functions of the
secretary of an owners corporation?
(a) to prepare and distribute minutes
of meetings of the owners
corporation
of the minutes of any meeting of
the
owners corporation at the next such
meeting,
(c) to enable the inspection of
documents on behalf of the owners
corporation in accordance with section
108,
(d) to answer communications addressed
to the owners corporation
...
I do not have much patience or time to wait for your response. It
should come immediately since it will have to be given to all
owners for EGM 2013 and the CTTT.
I have just calculated water and gas reimbursements for FY 2003,
2004, and eight-month period in 2013. Your office still owns me the
data for other missing years, but that will certainly come in
time.
a) Please give me the name of the person(s) who approved these
rebates in FY 2013 when some owners claimed water and gas
reimbursements for periods as far behind as 2011 or charged
excessive "fees"?
At the present time, 16 owners in townhouses charged for water and
gas reimbursements around 12% of what the whole complex (218
owners) spent together on common property and buildings in the
first six months of FY 2013.
The figure for gas usage for the whole complex is only six-month
calculation, whilst the water is for eight-month calculation.
16 owners who claim water and gas reimbursements represent only
7.34% of the total number of owners.
Just one single townhouse owner claimed $1,166.69 for private water
expenses in the first half of FY 2013, and if we add their gas
usage of $251.72, this owner claimed already $1,418.41 alone!
b) Based on the "approved" Special-By Law, where are the equitable
rights of all owners (especially all lot owners in the buildings)
to share the costs?
The summary of water and gas invoices in FY 2013 show extreme abuse
of common funds by some townhouse owners and no member of the EC
and the Strata Manager took any actions to correct it.
I do support equitable rights for all owners, but certainly not
abuse of these kinds. Once we remove the Special By-Laws for these
reimbursements, if owners really want to share the costs, we will
have to come with some better calculations how to implement
them.
The one that the EC "implemented" for the last 14 years is
criminal. Not only all 192 owners in the buildings are abused, but
even those townhouse owners who use water and gas lightly and those
who do not claim it at all.