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The AGM is where the budget is struck, the management committee is elected and the year's spending is authorised. It is also the meeting most buildings run late, under-attended and under-recorded — which is how a strata corporation ends up with decisions it cannot evidence and owners who feel it was decided without them. Almost all of the fix happens before the day.
South Australia requires at least 14 days' written notice of a general meeting, and requires the AGM to be held at least once in each calendar year and within 15 months of the last one. That 15-month rule is the one worth diarising: a corporation that lets one AGM slip late can find the next one out of time before it notices.
Governed by the Strata Titles Act 1988 and Community Titles Act 1996, administered by Consumer and Business Services.
It is the constraint that actually binds, and it is easy to drift past.
In Quarter: Book the year's meetings once — the AGM and the committee meetings around it — and Quarter carries the notice periods, the agendas and the invitations from there. The insurance renewal and the plan review sit on the same calendar, so the year is visible rather than remembered.
Meeting procedure and voting differ between strata and community corporations.
With the agenda and the financial papers.
In Quarter: Build the motion from the quotes and the budget, send the notice to every owner off the ownership register on the statutory clock, and record the vote as it is cast — a decision carries its majority automatically and emails the outcome to whoever raised it.
South Australia does not mandate a 10-year plan, so the AGM is the only moment the fund gets examined at all.
In Quarter: Upload the plan you already have and Quarter reads it into a costed schedule of items, lifecycles and due years. From there it projects the fund thirty years out and tells you the annual contribution that actually funds it.
What the committee may decide alone, and what comes back to the corporation.
In Quarter: Committee roles and who holds them are recorded against the building, so notices, voting rights and permissions follow the position rather than one person's inbox.
Records are the corporation's own responsibility here.
In Quarter: Announce it to every owner and resident in a single send — email, and posted to the residents' portal at the same time.
A late AGM compounds — the next one is late before you start.
With no statutory plan requirement, if the AGM does not look at it, nothing does.
If the committee's authority is not recorded, its decisions are contestable.
The legal requirement is a floor. A meeting run well does four things a compliant one might not: it authorises the year's money, it fills the committee, it settles the questions that would otherwise fill your inbox, and it leaves a record that answers them again next year.
The work is the notice, the agenda, the quorum, the votes and the minutes. Quarter does all five, and the committee does the deciding.
The agenda and papers sent to every owner with the notice period the legislation actually requires, from the register rather than from somebody's contact list.
Open decisions, unresolved maintenance, the budget and the motions owners submitted — assembled rather than remembered.
Proxies and electronic voting, so quorum stops depending on who happens to be free on a Tuesday evening.
Each resolution, who moved it, the count, and the outcome — captured as it happens.
Not written from memory a fortnight later. Reviewed, published to owners, and filed where the next committee will find them.
General information about South Australia, not legal or financial advice for your building. Legislation is amended and grant programmes open and close — check the current position with Consumer and Business Services or the administering body before you act on anything here.
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