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| From: | SP52948 owner |
|---|---|
| To: | Peter Bone BCS Strata Management |
| CC: | Greg Freeman Pica Group, Paul Banoob Pica Group |
| Subject: | Re: OFFICIAL REQUEST: SP52948 Names of authorised signatories and Management Fees |
| Date: | 11/5/13, 9:18 am |
Hello,
Almost one month after I asked this question, you are still failing to satisfy the requirements as defined for your job in the SSMA 1996 and your Strata Management Contract 1999.
For the pending CTTT case SCS 12/50460 address these requests now.
Regards,
On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 07:43 +1000, SP52948 owner wrote:
A clarification to ensure that my question is understood properly. The Secretary of the EC must answer the following sub-questions:
b.2) What is the EXACT percentage that Raine & Horne Strata Epping collects for their own business from levies in our Strata Plan 52948?
b.3) Apart from levies, does Raine & Horne Strata Epping collect money for their own business from other income that the Strata Plan 52948 generates (key deposits, issue of extra keys for access to common property, legal fees from late levy payments, and others)?
I REQUEST the responses to these questions and 30-odd other inquiries that I have submitted over the last four months to be tabled and officially responded at the next EC meeting (supposedly happening on 26 of April 2013).
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 21:06 +1000, SP52948 owner wrote:
Hello,
In accordance with:
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 and submit a motion for confirmation 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
...
... Please forward my request to Secretary of the committee (according to the Solicitor's submission to the CTTT yesterday, it is YOU, the Strata Manager) to provide the following evidence:
a) The names of the authorised signatories for Strata Plan 52948 in FY 2012 and FY 2013.
b) For the second time, (asked on 30 January 2013 but it was never answered), provide clear details of these expenses that were paid to Strata Agency in FY 2012:
Disbursements $6,857.23
Tax/BAS Generation Fee $725.00
Inspections $618.32
Sundry Expenses $444.00
Any other that I did not detect yet?
From the cashbook payments by account code I can see that Account 270 (Disbursements) includes three expenses:
Bundled disbursements (what are they?)
Archive retrieval
Printing supplies
A4 Paper
Note that you must abide by Strata Community Australia Code of Ethics, Part 2.1:
BEGIN QUOTE
Strata Managing Agents must not charge fees or disbursements that are not permitted under the si00002400002461-0010nt or any variation of it without the consent of the Owners Corporation.
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Apart from the Management Fee, are there any other charges by the Strata Agency Raine & Horne Epping per quarter?
c) Are any member of the Executive Committee paid for the work in the complex (either directly or through their associations with other business or family trusts)?