For a start why was it necessary at the vote counting for the developer to cast his extra votes at the vote counting office, and why was this not all explained to us at the beginning. Most likely because this is a contentious subject. Never have I heard of an election whereby this happens. Some of us are new to the estate. Of the fifteen nominees available for democratic election we had to choose seven. Some of these I believe have been for ever or were previous board members. I think there were only three new-blood elected trustees. Out of thirteen how strange?
On another point regarding proxy votes I have also never heard of people canvassing for proxy votes. May I suggested that in the future any member who is unable to attend an AGM and wishes to give their votes to a proxy, that this is limited to 2 proxy votes per attendee. For example, Joe Soap gets 30 proxy voting rights and wishes to vote for himself as a board member, he will do so.
With the estate expanding we will never achieve the percentage required to prevent the unreasonable hold that the developer has with his voting rights.
Any clues?
Gato
