Hi Lantus
Before the 2 Residential Directors where appointed there where 2, 1 due to retire in 1 year and the other due to retire in 2 years. Our committee finally received and answer from the one of the residential directors and some clarity was given. Her response was in relation to needing more support, which is understandable given that our development is complex and in fairness we desperately need more support on the board also, in a very round about way, she informed the committee that the newly appointed directors would step down and offer themselves for re-election, so in that sense they where correctly co-opted, as this is permissible under the ODCE's Company Law Handbook on Residential Property Owners'....
I think the issue was just simply that they only approached 2 people, they claim it was because they have shown an interest in serving as a Director, however there are at least 20 other people who have shown and interest as well and so this has rattled some peoples cages....So as far I can see, they haven't contravened any laws and/ or legislation, it is just simply down to politics within our development.
Our Articles state we can have up to a maximum of 4 Directors per stakeholder but at all times must have 2 per stakeholder.
It will be interesting to see what comes of our AGM in relation to the Directorships, simply because within the private residential group, there are a lot of politics and differentiating agendas. But on top of that we still have issues with the Local Authority trying extricate themselves from the Management Company, Fire Services issues, Defects, Security Issues the list goes on and on and on....