Reef Resort Owners Association Digital Newsletter

Reef Resort Villas Stage 1 Digital Newsletter - 29 March 2023
Prepared by Chris Dahlberg, co-owner Stage 1
This is not an official stage 1 newsletter, it is simply a newsletter from a Co-owner of a villa in stage 1 and member of Reef Resort Owners Association.
***Please do not confuse this newsletter with the Body Corporate for Reef Terraces CTS 888 Committee.***

Committee Meeting 28 February 2023
Lot Owners are becoming more aware of body corporate matters and are taking more of an interest in our affairs.
It is easy to do. Our manager notifies owners of a meeting and all you have to do is reply and ask for the joining instructions. Owners attend as "Observers" and are not allowed to speak unless they are asked.

The Minutes are now late:
Commercial Module Regulation 35 (4)(a) The copy must be given to the person (each lot owner who is not a committee member and each committee member) within 21 days after the holding of the meeting.

The Role of BCCM
"The Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management (BCCM) provides a range of information and services to those who live, invest or work in bodies corporate in Queensland. We are committed to giving body corporate members, committees, and industry groups information and tools to help them better understand body corporate legislation, and to avoid and resolve disputes."
(Queensland Government website.)

Invitation to make a submission to Adjudication Aplication 1286 - 2022.
Most owners would have received the invitation from the Body Coporate and Community Management (BCCM) on Wednesday 8 March 2023 by email via Archers and were totally mystified by it.
I don't blame them because there were mistakes in it. As the applicant I felt I had to step in.
When I submitted the application every attachment was seperate and had a label. When it reached owners the attachments were not labelled, they ran into each other, some were missing and there was significant duplication resulting in 281 pages?

More on the BCCM Invitation to make a submission: Update #2
Continuing from above, I contacted BCCM early Thursday 9th March morning and got an almost immediate apology from the senior case officer looking after the application. In an unusual step I was invited to label the attachments which I did. I went further and changed the Attachment Schedule to a "Contents and Schedule of Attachments" and allocated page numbers to all the items. It was sent back before business hours on Friday complying with urgency asked for in the apology.
The new invitation has not arrived leaving owners in the dark since Wednesday 8th March. It does not look like it will arrive?

Please Note: With the deadline of Tuesday 4 April 2023 fast approaching I think lot owners should prepare their submissions from the original 8 March Notice. You can support, oppose or make a general comment.
It is not compulsory to make a submission, but you may not be given another chance to have your views considered before a decision is made.

Historic Moment
Over at Stage 2 the module regulation changed from the Commercial Module to the Standard Module. Signed, sealed and delivered on Tuesday 14 March 2023. Firstly the change was voted on at a General Meeting (EGM 5 January 2022), signed and sealed on the Community Management Statement (CMS) then without even a fold in the paperwork, delivered to the Queensland Land Titles Office.
Some changes, now if you want to nominate for committee you must be a lot owner. The committee now has a spending limit ($200 X number of lots, 26 = $5,200) whereas before it was unlimited. New contracts are only for up to 5 years instead of up to 25 years as it was in the Commercial Module.