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Most committees are short of members, and most owners who consider joining talk themselves out of it — because they assume it means unpaid property management, evening meetings and being the person everybody complains to. It does not have to. The role is governance: deciding, on behalf of the owners, what the building does with its money. The admin around it is a tooling problem, and that part is solved.
In Western Australia the committee is called the council of owners, and in very small schemes all the owners together form it. Elected at the AGM, the council runs the strata company between general meetings. WA's 2020 reforms clarified duties across the board, including what a strata manager owes the scheme — useful context for a council deciding how much to delegate.
Governed by the Strata Titles Act 1985, administered by Landgate.
Arrears affect voting and standing in WA.
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.
Notice goes to owners and first mortgagees at least 14 days out; nominations close before.
A council with unclear delegated authority spends its year going back to general meetings.
For larger schemes this is the document that shapes the next decade of levies.
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.
WA's 50% threshold is the reason good motions fail. Council members are best placed to organise proxies.
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.
Part of the strata company's insurance. Check before you take a role.
In Quarter: Upload the policy and Quarter reads the insurer, policy number, dates, premium and broker straight off it, then puts the renewal on the calendar far enough ahead that you can go to market rather than accept a rollover.
Straightforward to fix and easy to overlook.
The council's decisions are only as good as its authority to make them.
A council that inherits this gap should treat it as the first job.
A council of owners makes decisions between general meetings, within the authority the strata company has given it. It is not a landlord, not a caretaker and not a manager. Understanding that boundary is most of what makes the job sustainable.
The reason people will not join a committee is almost never the decisions. It is the admin nobody else is doing. Quarter takes that away, which is the difference between a committee that turns over every year and one that keeps its people.
Finances, documents, maintenance, decisions and correspondence — so you can answer a question without a two-hour search.
Proposals, discussion and votes captured as they happen, so a decision made in March is still explicable in November.
Owners ask Quarter about balances, documents and decisions and get an answer immediately, instead of adding to the committee's inbox.
Insurance renewals, the AGM, the reserve fund review — visible in advance rather than remembered late.
When your term ends, the next person inherits a system, not a folder of email attachments.
General information about Western Australia, not legal or financial advice for your building. Legislation is amended and grant programmes open and close — check the current position with Landgate or the administering body before you act on anything here.
Tell us about your building in Western Australia and we will show you exactly how Quarter would run it.
