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| From: | SP52948 owner |
|---|---|
| To: | Robert Crosbie, Heath Crosbie |
| CC: | City of Ryde Council, Fire and Rescue |
| CC: | Committee members: Stan Pogorelsky, Genelle Godbee, Ramesh Desai, Kathryn Cutler, Carlos Fornieles Montoya, Andrew Ip, Jeffery Wang, Basil Gionea |
| CC: | Uniqueco Property Services: Steve Carbone |
| Subject: | UPDATED PROBLEM REPORT SP52948 persistent fire and OH&S safety issues on 27Mar2024 |
| Date: | 27/3/24, 13:30 |
Dear City of Ryde Council and Fire Services,
1) Three general meetings occurred since my last report and none of them had any information for owners about fire safety orders and continuous delays strata manager, building manager and committee members cause:
The delays are not coincidental. They are deliberate,
premeditated, and designed to avoid compliance with fire safety.
One of the reasons for their delays is lack of proper financial
planning (as of today, Admin Fund has negative balance (deficit)
in amount of $190,700.41).
2) At Annual General Meeting on 26 October 2023, a committee
member, Mrs. Marianna Paltikian, publicly voiced concerns why
this complex should spend money on fire safety.
3) At Extraordinary General Meeting on 22 February 2024,
committee member Mr. Stan Pogorelsky also voiced the same
concerns, lamenting the need to implement fire safety
remediation works, stating that some of the regulations did not
exist 34 years ago!
4) On 13 February 2024, through two NSW Fair Trading cases, I
finally obtained access to some strata documents, including
evidence of Council fire orders and show cause orders.
My document search uncovered that, at least in 2022, Mr. Simon Wicks was assigned to SP52948 fire safety project, without owners corporation knowledge.
Mr. Wicks was actually removed from managing this complex two times - due to poor performance and misconduct whilst working as strata manager for BCS Strata Management and later whilst working as strata manager for Waratah Strata Management.
5) Apart from major issues, which City of Ryde and NSW Rural Fire Services are still waiting for a resolution for several years, even smaller fire safety problems are a huge problem and here are just few of easily-visible items neglected by Uniqueco Property Services, Waratah Strata Management, and committee members, deliberately risking lives and property:
SP52948-Block-C-ground-floor-faulty-light-fire-exit-door-26Mar2024.mp4
SP52948-Block-C-fire-exit-faulty-light-for-several-months-20Feb2024.mp4
SP52948-faulty-emergency-exit-light-behind-Block-C-video-1Aug2023.mp4
SP52948-Block-C-ground-floor-damaged-fire-exit-door-11Mar2024.mp4
SP52948-destroyed-garden-lighting-pole-near-townhouse-199-11Mar2024.mp4
SP52948-Block-A-ground-floor-jamming-fire-exit-23Feb2024.mp4
That is directly confirmed by the email on 30 November 2020.
6) Email from Uniqueco Property Services to Waratah Strata Management on 4 February 2021 shows their determination to ignore fire safety UNLESS they are forced to do it.
7) As of today, 27 March 2024, Waratah Strata Management on their website lists 16 open orders for various rectification works, of which seven are related to fire safety:
Regards,
Hello
Council has issued the order and a show cause order – if you are an owner you can request these from your Strata Manager.
Council has also received a satisfactory AFSS this year a copy was also sent to fire & rescue.
Problems within the building and outstanding issues should be followed up with your strata manager or owners corporation.
I have also sent you a website below that may be of assistance.
Building defect complaints | NSW Fair Trading
I will follow up the strata manager as to any outstanding items that were identified in the fire engineering report.
Kind regards
