[200William-EC] Levy increase for 2014 - strata plan 67851

Tue Jul 2 19:17:06 EST 2013

Hello Rob and all,Apologies for not responding sooner but have been
enroute to London.  Wont be able to make it to the meeting on Monday
but glad that several of you understood my concern with the increase
in levies.  I did think it unusual that we agreed to the budget
without any discussion on increasing levies.
Maxine, I did send you when I q ueried the levy increase a couple of 
questions regarding the budget for 2014 being lower than the actual
for 2013 but you didn't respond to my question (these figures were
contained in the annual accounts passed out to us all at the AGM).
Please respond to that enquiry.
Rob, I don't believe I passed you my proxy, but happy to do so this
time for the upcoming EGM in order to vote on this particular matter
of levies. Cheers, Craig

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Willett" 
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Sent:Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:29:25 +1000
Subject:[200William-EC] Levy increase for 2014 - strata plan 67851

Hi All
I also have Craig's proxy in this case. 
So we have an agreement to discuss the levies. 
Any chance we can get together quickly, this week? Maybe we can meet
in the lobby of the 200 William Street? 
Or alternatively next Monday ( 8th July )
Please advise 

On 01/07/2013, at 1:25 PM, "Rowan Holloway"  wrote:
I understood that we approved the increase at the AGM as mentioned by
below Maxine as that was the prudent option. The reasoning was that we
were sharing the load over time through all the owners as opposed to
leaving ourselves exposed to special levies at the time when a special
levy hit.

	 I’m more than happy to talk it over again if everyone else
understood differently.

	 Rowan

	 FROM: ec-bounces at 200william.com
[2] [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com [3]] ON BEHALF OF Rob Willett
SENT: Monday, 1 July 2013 12:20 PM
TO: ec at 200william.com [4] ec at 200william.com [5]
SUBJECT: [200William-EC] Fwd: Levy increase for 2014 - strata plan
67851

	 So be it, if we get a majority from the EC saying yes, we should do
it asap if possible. 

	 Begin forwarded message:

	FROM: Maxine Wickey 

	SUBJECT: RE: [200WILLIAM-EC] LEVY INCREASE FOR 2014 - STRATA PLAN
67851

	DATE: 1 July 2013 12:17:22 PM AEST

	TO: 'Rob Willett' , "ec at 200william.com [8]ec at 200william.com [9]" 

	 Hi Rob,

	For this to happen an EGM would need to be called.

	Regards,

	MAXINE WICKEY

	Strata Manager

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	FROM: ec-bounces at 200william.com
[18] [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com [19]] ON BEHALF OF Rob
Willett
SENT: Monday, 1 July 2013 12:14 PM
TO: ec at 200william.com [20] ec at 200william.com [21]
SUBJECT: [200William-EC] Levy increase for 2014 - strata plan 67851

	Thanks Maxine for the explanation. I am not sure it was clear that
the actual levies would increase because of the budgets. Having said
that I would like to propose we meet again to discuss the budgets and
reallocate ( reduce ) in areas where we can ) so we can get the levies
back to the level they were. Quite frankly, the building of this type
does not warrant such extravagant fees as there are no facilities (
pool / doormen / gym etc ) Equally, it would appear we are subsidising
the Commercial owners quite heavily and maybe it is time for this to
be addressed. Could we please have a vote on whether we need to
re-meet to discuss the budgets 

	Many thanks 

	Begin forwarded message:

	FROM: Maxine Wickey 

	SUBJECT: RE: [200WILLIAM-EC] LEVY INCREASE FOR 2014 - STRATA PLAN
67851

	DATE: 1 July 2013 10:18:55 AM AEST

	TO: "'Diana Dennison'" , CSCL 

	CC: "" 

	Dear Committee,

	The levy that was discussed at the AGM was:

	Administration          $213,000.00 plus GST

	Sinking                   $  38,147.77 plus GST

	The previous year was:

	Administration          $196,000.00 plus GST

	Sinking                   $   5,000.00 plus GST

	The Administration has increased due to the levy contributions to the
BMC as electricity costs and insurance costs have increased.

	The Sinking amount was adopted as per what the sinking fund plan
proposed.  It was discussed that last year we only contributed to the
sinking fund $5,000.00 and I advised that we have to propose what the
sinking fund plan has stated but it is up to the owners corporation as
to whether you adopt that amount, which was passed at the meeting.

	It was discussed that painting will need to be done in the next few
years and that the funds need to be built up for this rather than
raising special levies.

	Regards,

	MAXINE WICKEY

	Strata Manager

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	FROM: ec-bounces at 200william.com
[34] [mailto:ec-bounces at 200william.com [35]] ON BEHALF OF Diana
Dennison
SENT: Sunday, 30 June 2013 7:23 PM
TO: CSCL
CC: 
SUBJECT: Re: [200William-EC] Levy increase for 2014 - strata plan
67851

	I too was shocked, but could it include the sinking levy
contribution? Remember a couple of years ago when we had all those
extra amounts to pay for just that?

	Di

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On 30/06/2013, at 3:56 PM, "CSCL"  wrote:

	Hello All,

	I ran into Rob this afternoon and questioned why we had received levy
increases for the quarter June 1 through August 31.  To my knowledge,
we did not pass a motion at the AGM to increase the levy charges from
June 1.

	Maxine, I received my levies, for the period above, in the mail on
Tuesday and noted a sizeable increase for each of my lots.  Would you
please explain why the levy increase was made.  The actual total
Admin charge for the year ending 28/02/13 was $250,464.79, whereas the
budget for the year ending 28/02/14 is only $214,027.

	Thank you and regards,
Craig Laforest

	Apt 601

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