Child safety locks – still not installed….

Hi,

The budgeting and implementing of the child safety locks that were raised & minuted in November’s AGM, and in several follow-up emails by the S/C to the Strata Manager thereafter, have not been addressed.  The deadline for the locks were 13 March 2018 and we still haven’t had any notice from the Strata Manager that anything has been organised. So presently the building is essentially non-compliant.

The S/C has been requesting the Strata Manager act on outstanding issues for six months now – garden rejuvenation, building doors fixed (to alleviate several break enter and steal offences), external common property painting, roof/guttering repairs etc.  

As advised by the Strata Manager, we have a build up of excess admin funds – so the above items were agreed upon to do in the AGM.  Also at the same AGM the Strata Manager ‘recommended’ we change the fire protection company, to a company he suggested, we agreed to.

Now six months down the track, nothing on the S/C list has been done, (and yes there were countless emails sent with no replies, some had vague descriptions of when work was suppose to commence but never did) and we receive an 80 page document from the ‘recommended’ fire protection company from an audit they conducted – with several quotes to the tune of $25,000! 

Other than submitting a complaint to OFT (which I have already done, their present wait time is 12 weeks) can you provide any other advice on what to do?

I’m in NSW.

Thank you.