I found a series of complaints from other owners about landscaping and decks, but could not, however, find the letter from the anonamous owner referenced in the minutes and requested repeatedly. Nor could I find my various deck requests from over the years or my November 2009 letters to council. The 2003 insurance cover/policy, and the landscape architect's material, which I have been repeatedly requesting for the past several years, were nowhere to be found.
Furthermore, with respect to strata records that I could still not find, Ruth at Teamwork, who was supervising my access to the records, advised me that she had checked Teamwork's storate facility and the missing records were not in it. She said that between half a dozen and a dozen boxes of Sunridge records were at another storage locker, which Mr Mac had the key to, and when the strata records were provided to Teamwork records in that locker, the deck binder being but one example, were not included.
I have been in a position to review the available strata records only once before. That was when Gary Strong was the strata's secretary, and at that time I reviewed the records provided to the him as secretary and the rest of the records with Joan MacDougall at her office.
When I arranged for that previous review I had to wait, because Mr Mac had taken the strata records home after he resigned and did not return them - for either days or weeks - I'm not sure which, and Joan MacDougall, the strata manager, who was sending him blind carbon copies of council email when he was no longer a member, repeatedly obstructed the strata secretay's access to the records at her office - for either weeks or months - I'm not sure which.
Although Joan MacDougall assurred me that all of the strata records had been provided for my review, they were not. Gary Strong reviewed the records to provide them for the strata's leaky condo litigation, and to do his job as the strata secretary, but material records that we had no way of knowing the existence of were withheld from both him and myself.
During my March 2010 review I discovered strata records that I had not seen before, including previously withheld correspondence and certain quotes on landscaping and decks.
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It looks like my ability to access strata records has been sabotaged for reasons beyond foiling my attempts to resolve problems and hiding evidence of misconduct. During my review I found out something about why it is no wonder my reputation and credibility seem to have been so badly damaged.
My correspondence was missing from the files while unjustified derogatory comments about me were there instead, such that an impartial person reviewing the strata records could not help but have concerns.In addition to defamatory actions previously noted, such as the minutes and email from strata manager, Joan MacDougall, advising all the new council members that I was "impossible" to satisfy, a couple of other examples include:
1 - an email in the strata files from councillor, Mae Reid, saying that she had a "stalking" file, which she put my name in. This, when my entire contact with Ms Reid was, and still is, limited to my writing to her twice and her phoning me twice.
In my first contact with Ms Reid I drove to unit 510 and placed in her mailslot the bylaw proposals requested by the strata along with a complaint about a dog in her unit barking constantly from 7 to 7:30 am. She phoned me in response and said that her dog, "Sage", was quiet and that she could muzzle "Annie", the yappy little dog who was doing all the barking.
The second time I contacted Ms Reid I sent a single email to her asking what had set her off when she verbally attacked me and called me a bitch at a hearing before council. She never replied to that email, so I am still waiting for an answer.
My 4th and final contact with Ms Reid was not until years later when she phoned and left a message on my answering machine suggesting that she and her dog were some kind of neighbourhood watch heroes. I did not respond to that call at all.
If Ms Reid thinks my response to her conduct is stalking, then she is acting strangely, to say the least. If she does not think it is stalking, then she is acting maliciously. Either way, Mae, if you are reading this blog, please explain to me how you figure me to be stalking you, how you imagine yourself to be worth stalking, and how many people do you actually have in that file?
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2 - defamatory attacks by strata lawyer, Adrienne Murray, including written accusations, made in a very strong voice of authority, that my complaints were "harassment" and "inappropriate" with respect to resolving my concerns - calling my requests for remedies "demands" - all without adequate due diligence in letters Mr Mac attached to the minutes and delivered to the owners.
Having written the letters she did, Ms Murray then admitted to council that she wrote them not knowing (or bothering to find out) if there was merit to the concerns I raised. She told council that the strata corporation may have difficulty explaining to a court why it failed to fully and frankly address my concerns.
Ms Murray's letters are kept in the strata records (permanently I think) and supplemented by her further claim to council that it would cost the strata corporation more to replace our bylaws should I contribute as I did when asked.
Ms Murray, if you are reading this blog, please explain to me how you figure that misrepresentations, errors, and ommisions made by you do less harm to others and cost the strata corporation less than my contributions to the bylaws. How do you take responsibility for the foreseeable damage you cause to others by acting in a probable and potentially perpetual conflict of interest?
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