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For The Scrap Heap - Abolish Paper Notifications
Paper notifications for strata meetings create unnecessary delays, added costs, and inefficiencies, often due to outdated legal requirements or strata managers benefiting financially from paper-based processes. A simple amendment to strata laws—requiring owners who can't use electronic communication to appoint an agent—could eliminate these disruptions and modernize strata management.
Paper notifications for strata meetings and other issues persist. This makes strata management harder, and results in unnecessary complexity and costs for owners corporations.
This happens either because some people lack skills in electronic communication, or, more sinisterly, because strata managers derive income for producing paper. Neither end justifies the means.
If just one owner requires a paper notice for a meeting, timeframes and processes for calling a meeting are disrupted because of the postal rule about providing clear notice. This can extend minimum meeting notice periods by as much as 8 – 10 days.
An amendment to strata laws can fix this problem. The section should provide that a person must appoint an agent to receive strata communications if they can’t use or access a means of electronic communication.
Scrap it or does it stay?
