Reef Resort Owners Association Digital Newsletter

Reef Resort Owners Association Incorporated
PO Box 6 Port Douglas, Queensland 4877
Digital Newsletter - 7 Jun 2023
***Please do not confuse this newsletter with the Body Corporate for Reef Terraces CTS 888 Committee.***

Pool temperature was 27.3 degrees yesterday despite one of two heating elements not working. A replacement element has been ordered.

The building in the background is the central facility before the 2017 sports bar was added at a cost of $385,600.00 excl GST* to Stage 1 owners.

*EGM 18 January 2017 Minutes refers.

At Sunday's Committee Meeting a few ideas came to light. One was, we now have 45 members and a lot of them are new to the scheme. We have 3 new owners on the committee alone. During this discussion one of the new owners told me that one of my explanations was clearest she had heard. I have repeated it below.
That idea was further reinforced by an email exchange I had with another new owner on Monday.
It is daunting to buy into a large scheme and hear about some of the problems. All schemes have problems from time to time but what is concerning to most of us is the body corporate (BC) committee is not well represented by resident owners and so for the most part the BC committee are unaware of them.

Extraordinary General Meeting(EGM)
Adjudication Application 1286-2022
As the Aplicant I am entitled to respond to submissions made by owners and the body corporate (BC) committee.
As I was going through the 41 page submission prepared by Hynes Legal on behalf of the BC committee. I noticed that the BC committee intends to hold an EGM to consider a motion by special resolution as to a fair and reasonable way to conduct the Committee election and then hold another EGM for a Committee election.
It seems the AGM's have not been conducted properly since 2016 when the scheme went from the accommodation module to the commercial module.

Adjudicator's Interim Order 1232 - 2020

Like most owners I receive Committee Meeting Minutes and I read them. I saw where a Vote Outside Committee Meeting (VOCM) was about to give $17,826.50 of our funds to Reef Resort Pty Ltd (RR-PL) on behalf of Stage 2 CTS 18180.
I was secretary of Stage 2 and we considered that Stage 2 did not owe any money to RR-PL.
I tried to rectify this with the Stage 1 Committee four times but it fell on deaf ears. I applied to the Commissioner of the Body Corporate and Community Management (BCCM) for an Interim Order to stop the payment. An Adjudicator agreed and made the order. The money was saved.

The interim order is a public document and can be found on the web:
http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/qld/QBCCMCmr/2020/641.html