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Examining records
The board of directors has been given great powers by the Condominium
Act and as a check on these powers, the Act allows owners to examine
the corporation's records.
However, the owners' rights to examine the corporation's records, have
been steadily eroded over the years by different court decisions.
Lately, the courts have started to change direction and the owners started to get easier access to the corporation's records.
Since the end of 2017, disputes over condo corporation records are heard by the Condominium Authority Tribunal (CAT) and the process has proved successful.
McKay et al. v.
Waterloo North Condominium Corp. No. 23
[1992] O.J. No. 2435
Action No. 2820/92
Ontario Court (General Division),
Justice Cavarzan
10 November 1992
This is an early decision on the right of owners to examine the condo
corporation’s records and this decision has been under attack by the
boards, and their lawyers, ever since.
The issues
The issues raised by this application are whether Section 21 confers a
right to inspect all of the records of the corporation, whether the
corporation has the authority to restrict this right to inspect, and
whether the right to inspect comprehends the right to make photocopies
of the records.
The ruling
The underlying policy of the Condominium Act is that the affairs of the
corporation are to be an open book to the owners, and pursuant to
section 21 of the Act, an owner has a right to inspect all of the
records of the condominium corporation, subject only to an exception
for records for which a claim of privilege or confidentiality may
legitimately be made.
It is not within the powers of the board of the condominium corporation
to cut down by by-law or resolution the scope of the rights conferred
by Section 21.
Access to the records cannot be made subject to the condominium board's
approval, although the board may by by-law establish a procedure for
the orderly processing of requests for access to its records. The board
cannot deny the right of an owner to make photocopies at his or her own
expense.
Any owner or agent of an owner duly authorized in writing may inspect
the records on reasonable notice and at any reasonable time.
Guidance
The corporation asked the court to provide guidance as to how it is to
comply with its obligations under Section 21. In particular, it asks
the court to determine the records to be produced and what is
reasonable access.
As discussed above, all of the corporation's records are open to
inspection by owners under Section 21, subject only to records for
which a claim of privilege or confidentiality may legitimately be made.
By "reasonable access" the respondent must be referring to "reasonable
notice" and "at any reasonable time". What is "reasonable" depends, of
course, on the circumstances. A requirement of 48 hours' notice would
not be unreasonable, whether the notice given is oral or in writing.
Access during regular business hours, in this case the business hours
of the property manager, would comply with the "any reasonable time"
requirement.
The following advice in Loeb, Audrey, Condominium Law and
Administration, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1989) at p. 11-10 provides
some useful and practical guidance:
Any unit owner, or an agent duly authorized in writing by a unit owner,
is entitled to inspect the records on reasonable notice and at any
reasonable time. Since the corporation is required to keep "adequate"
records and since the records can be quite voluminous, they should be
kept in a permanent location which has adequate space and can be locked
when not in use.
It would be preferable to keep the records on the premises of the
condominium in case the board needs to refer to them or a unit owner
wants to inspect them. However, the corporation is not required to do
so.
Condominiums employing a property management company may find it more
convenient to store the records with it and arrange for the delivery of
certain records when requested.
Conclusion
The applicants have the right to inspect all of the records of the
corporation, including the right to make photocopies of any of those
records at the expense of the applicants, and orders that the
corporation allow the applicants to inspect all of the records at any
reasonable time and on reasonable notice and that the corporation to
allow the applicants to photocopy any such records at their expense.
Pretty straight forward, you would think.
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Refused
condo documents—condo directors must pay
N. Fortunato vs S. Sardar (aka Hussain), A. Karim & S.
Khan
Small Claims Court
File #: SC-12-00015580-0000
Deputy Judge L. J. Richardson
08 July 2013
Representing himself, Nicoló Fortunato won a judgment against
three directors of York Condominium Corporation # 42 for denying him
his right to examine the proxies that were submitted to elect a new
board.
This is both an interesting and unusual case because Mr. Fortunato did
not sue the corporation for denying his right to examine the
corporation’s records under Sections 55(3) and 55 (8-10) of the
Condominium Act but three individual directors:
Anver Karim
Shah Jahan Khan
Safdar Sardar
They were the three directors, out of five, who refused him the right
to inspect the proxies.
Mr.
Fortunato also cited Articles 52(7), 37(1a & b) and 38(2) of the
Act to state that the proxies needed to be retained for 90 days after
the election, the directors need to perform their duties and the
corporation should not pay when the directors have been found to be in
breach of their duty to act honesty and in good faith.
None of the three defendants appeared in court to defend the action.
Mr. Fortunato won a judgment of $500.00 plus costs of $175.00. The
pre-judgment interest was set at 1.3% from 01 November 2012 and post
judgment interest was set at 3%.
We will have to see how successful Nicoló is in collecting his award.
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Stewart v. TSCC
No. 1591
Small Claims Court
Here is an interesting case that was published on the Condo Law News website:
Small Claims Court Dismisses Claim for
Disclosure of Draft Minutes
by Christy Allen on September 19, 2013
A unit owner recently brought a condominium corporation to court for
the alleged failure of the corporation to disclose records of the
corporation pursuant to section 55 of the Condominium Act in Stewart v.
Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 1591. In particular, the
owner claimed (under section 55) for the following:
Production of the minute-taker’s personal notes from the corporation’s
AGM;
That the AGM minutes were inaccurate and the minute-taker’s draft
minutes had been improperly revised by the Board;
A penalty of $500.
After a full trial on the matter, the claim was dismissed by the Court.
The Court said that “the notes of the note-taker are a work-product and
not a record” for the purposes of Section 55. The Court also said that
the term “records” does not include “drafts, work in progress, rough
copies, et cetera”.
The Court also said that the Board’s minor adjustments to the draft
minutes were not improper. The Court added the following; “the minutes
are intended to be an accurate summary of the events that took place
not a verbatim transcript.”
This case confirms that documents that are considered to be in draft
form, or that are otherwise a “work in progress”, do not constitute
“records” of the Corporation within the meaning of section 55 of the
Act. This would appear to suggest that only once a document is in
“final” form does it constitute a “record” of the Corporation. This
being said, in our view, it is nonetheless possible that some types of
“draft” documents (such as draft reserve fund studies) might be
considered to be records of the Corporation. This however, would depend
upon the situation.
The Court in this case also took issue with the fact that, “it also
became evident that being critical and looking for ways to find the
board to be negligent has become a sport for (the owner)”. The Court
said that the plaintiff’s requests amounted, in this case, to a “pure
fishing expedition, without evidence to support his suspicion of
impropriety by the members of the board of revising, to their benefit,
the minutes that were taken at the annual general meeting held on June
22nd, 2011”.
The Court awarded costs to the condominium corporation that were higher
than the normal costs permitted in Small Claims Court. The Court took
particular issue with the plaintiff’s behavior and conduct towards the
condominium corporation in the context of the claim and otherwise, and
found the following:
“They have the luxury of time to do
nothing but find ways to criticize the actions of the board. You know
what, instead of criticizing I would have had more respect for the
plaintiff if he had taken the initiative and perhaps had become a board
member, or come up with solutions on how to better run the board than
to stand on the sidelines and do nothing but criticize. So given that,
I am going to use my discretion to impose a higher amount than is
typically awarded because I do not want this behavior to continue… I
think it does interfere with the functioning and the proper running of
the board….”
The Court clearly decided to send a message to the plaintiff that
further unfounded and unsupported allegations against the board would
not be tolerated by the court.
This content is not intended to provide legal advice or opinion as
neither can be given without reference to specific events and
situations.
© 2014 Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP.
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Stewart v. TSCC No. 1591
Divisional Court File No : 353/12
Justices Lederman, Sachs and Nordheimer
Date: 03 February 2014
Mr. Stewart sought a judicial review of the above Small Claims decision
that ordered him to pay $2,000 in costs.
The appeals court decided that the conduct of the deputy judge did not
rise to the level required to find a reasonable apprehension of bias.
Nor was there a basis to conclude that there was any breach of natural
justice or breach of procedural fairness.
Mr. Stewart sought a ruling regarding his access to documents. He lost
that issue and is required to pay costs as a consequence. That did not,
however, give the deputy judge jurisdiction to penalize the applicant
because the deputy judge took a negative view of the applicant’s
conduct towards his condominium corporation.
The application was allowed and the award of costs was reduced to $150
under the provisions of rule 14.07 (given the unaccepted offer to
settle) plus the disbursements of $500.
No costs were awarded.
So who won?
So, the condominium won the right to withhold the draft minutes but it
cost them most of their legal fees for the small claims court action
plus all of their legal fees for the appeal.
Mr. Stewart recovered $1,850 in small claims costs but had to pay his
legal costs to appeal the Small Claims decision.
Yet he may have done a service for future condo owners who go to small
claims court seeking to examine corporation documents.
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Jiakang Wu
v. PCC No. 245
Superior Court of Ontario
Court File No: CV-14-146-00
Before : Justice Lemon
Date: 06 May 2015
PCC 245 is a non-profit condominium corporation of 278 residential
units located at 3700 Kaneff Crescent in Mississauga.
Ms. Wu says that PCC 245 has failed to produce documents that she is
entitled to review. She asked for an order that:
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PCC 245 direct all engineers and
professionals involved with her unit,
including Valcoustics, to release any and all information and or
documents about her unit directly to her, and an Order directing PCC
245 to instruct its engineers and professionals to answer Ms. Wu’s
questions relating to their reports and recommendations; |
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PCC 245 pay a $500 penalty fee
to her in accordance with subsection
55(8) of the Condominium Act, 1998 for refusing to provide relevant
documents within a reasonable amount of time; |
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PCC 245 return the $150 payment
that she made relating to production of documents. |
Ms. Wu told the court that she followed up on multiple occasions with
Peel and the engineers directly in an attempt to secure copies of the
reports from the tests performed by the condo's engineers
On May 2, 2013, Valcoustics performed a second sound investigation in
the unit. The original report from the May 2013 sound test is dated May
27, 2013. However, Peel did not produce this report to Ms. Wu until
August 28, 2013. She submits that Peel had instructed its engineers to
alter the report and remove on-site observations and other data from
the report. The version of the report produced to Ms. Wu was
approximately the sixth version of the report. Ms. Wu believes that
Peel did not want her to see how they had edited the report.
The applicant's
postion
Ms. Wu says that Peel has refused to produce documents. It then
threatened to lien her unit unless she paid a $150.00 charge for
copying documents. She submits that Peel has a clear statutory
obligation to provide her the following corporate records:
(a)
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a complete and unaltered copy of
the Second Report prepared by Valcoustics on or about May 29, 2013.
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(b)
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complete and unaltered copies of
all correspondence and agreements
between Peel and Valcoustics in regards to sound and/or vibration
testing on Peel’s premises. |
(c)
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records or documents detailing
maintenance, repair or other work
completed, scheduled, proposed or otherwise contemplated in relation to
the building’s elevators, HVAC or mechanical systems. |
The Act
Section 55 of the Condominium Act, 1998 imposes a general obligation on
PCC 245 to prepare and maintain particular corporate records. This
section also entitles every owner to access these records “at a
reasonable time” for “all purposes reasonably related to the purposes
of this Act” provided the owner has given the condominium corporation
reasonable notice in writing. The penalty for non-compliance (failing
to produce a document) is $500.
“There is little ...
that would be exempt from right of inspection by unit owners.”
The rights of access conferred in section 55 are broad. There is little
that would be found in the files of the Corporation that would be
exempt from right of inspection by unit owners. This section should
receive broad interpretation to allow unit owners open and liberal
access to corporation documents and records.
Further, by consent order dated July 2, 2014, Peel was ordered to
produce documents no later than July 15, 2014. Four large cerelox
volumes of documents were delivered, in August and October, 2014. A
further report dated September 25, 2014 was produced in PCC 245’s
motion record for an order staying this application.
Ms. Wu submits that she is entitled to be compensated in the amount of
$500 for this non-compliance.
PCC 245 charged Ms. Wu a fee of $150.00 for production of documents,
which Ms. Wu paid to avoid a lien being placed against her unit, even
though Peel failed to produce all documents requested and instead
produced unsolicited duplicate and irrelevant documents;
Respondent's
postion
PCC 245 replies that even in circumstances where the right to examine
records did not apply, the condo has never denied Ms. Wu permission to
examine the corporate records.
On August 18, 2013, after this litigation matter had commenced, Ms.
Wu’s counsel requested copies of the following documents under
subsection 55(6) of the Act:
(a)
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All records relating to the
vibration/sound issue for Ms. Wu’s unit. |
(b)
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The agreement between Peel and
Valcoustics for the May 3 [ sic], 2013, sound test. |
(c)
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Minutes of all board meetings
since December 2009 at which this issue was discussed. |
Under subsection 55(6) of the Act, a pre-condition to providing records
is that the owner pays a reasonable fee to compensate the corporation
for the labour and copying charges. This payment was not provided along
with Ms. Wu’s counsel’s request.
Under subsection 55(4)(b) of the Act, the right to examine
records does not apply to records relating to actual or pending
litigation. This dispute had already been submitted to mediation and
arbitration when the request was made. The requested records related to
this litigation dispute. When the request was made, Ms. Wu did not have
a court order requiring production.
Notwithstanding that the right to examine records did not apply, PCC
245 delivered to Ms. Wu 500-750 pages of documents relating to the
request. The requests were overly broad but the condo’s property
manager nevertheless performed a diligent search and prepared the
package of documents.
Ms. Wu refused to pick up the package of documents at the security
desk. Ms. Wu’s counsel received electronic copies via email but
repeatedly requested further documents despite Ms. Wu’s non-payment of
PPC 245’s reasonable labour and copying fees of $150.00. Eventually,
Ms. Wu paid under protest.
PCC 245 submits that it has never refused to produce documents except
where they were subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege.
The original package included copies of the draft Second Valcoustics
Report dated June 24, 2013, and board meeting minutes dated June 27,
2013, which reference the May 29, 2013, draft Second Valcoustics
Report. The disclosure of these documents belies any intention to
conceal the existence of correspondence or draft reports from
Valcoustics. Any omission of documents which may have occurred was not
intentional but due to the broadness of the request and the sheer
volume of documents to be searched in order to respond to the request.
Judgment
The judge stated: On this record, I cannot determine what was produced
and when. It appears that some of the production issues arose within
the contemplated litigation itself. That is a topic for costs and not a
free standing order. That claim is dismissed.
An expense of $150 to pick up the records is authorized by the Act and
is reasonable. Ms. Wu should have picked up the documents without
complaint. That claim is dismissed.
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Wu vs Carleton Condominium Corporation
Small Claims Court
Court File No: 15-SC - 134445
DATE: 20 April 2016
Deputy Judge I.G. Whitehall, Q.C.
Judgment
The plaintiff asked to see the board minutes for the previous eight
years and the owners' names and address for service. She was not
satisfied that she only received the mailing addresses of the owners,
she wanted to have the owners’ e-mail addresses as well. The plaintiff
also took issue with the fact that redactions would be made to the
minutes. She sought the $500.00 penalty under s. 55(8) of the Condo Act.
As noted by Mr. Justice Cavarzan in McKay v. Waterloo North Condominium
Corp the purpose the Condominium Act is provide owners and open
book to the affairs of the corporation.
However the court ruled that some reacting of the minutes was justified
and that the condo corporation did not have to provide the owners'
e-mail addresses.
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Wu vs Carleton Condominium Corporation
Small Claims Court
Court File No: 15-SC - 134445
DATE: 16 May 2016
Deputy Judge I.G. Whitehall, Q.C.
Costs
The plaintiff submits that each party should bear its costs. The
plaintiff’s primary points are that success was divided because some
documents were disclosed in the course of the trial and but for the
trial those documents would not have been produced.
Finally, the plaintiff argues that the case was one of first impression
clarifying whether e-mail addresses form Section 47(2) records and
therefore the result, clarifying the law benefited both parties.
The defendant seeks $21,290.90 costs and disbursements, including HST
on a full indemnity basis, chiefly on two grounds, the indemnity
provision of the Corporation's by-laws and the alleged unreasonable
behavior of the plaintiff in bringing the action. The by-laws provide
in part:
Each owner shall indemnify and save
harmless the Corporation from and against any loss, costs, damage,
injury, claim or liability whatsoever which the Corporation may
suffer or incur (including all related legal costs incurred by the
Corporation) resulting from or caused by a breach of the Act or the
Corporation’s Declaration, By-laws or Rules (as amended from time to
time). or by any act or omission, of such owner, his/her family,
guests, servant: agents or occupants of his/her unit.
In my view the Corporation defended because it did not wish to live
with a precedent which an agreement to produce the documents sought
would have entailed. In that sense it was its “act or omission” which
caused it to incur $20,000.00 costs, be it that the claim was initiated
by the plaintiff.
If co-owners were faced with thousands of dollars in costs in the event
they are unsuccessful in seeking to enforce their statutory rights the
purpose of the legislation would be frustrated. I say that in
particular where there is no evidence of bad faith or unreasonable
conduct on the part of the co-owner seeking the production of documents.
The award
Costs
The judge
concluded that this case continued to be governed by section 29 of
the Courts of Justice Act and the principle of proportionality. The
amount in issue was $1,000. Accordingly, the corporation should receive
the sum of $150 in costs plus disbursement which I would fix at $340
including HST for a total of $490.
So the owner(s) are out $490 and the corporation $20,802.90.
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Senchire v Summerhill Property Management
Superior Court of Justice
Docket: CV-14-511552
Before: Justice S.F. Dunphy
Date: 03 June 2016
This dispute had three parts. The two owners/directors disputed the
condo corporation's right to charge a monthly maintenance fee for a
purchased parking spot when the corporation slept on their rights for
many a year (they can), there was an application by the owners to
remove them from the board so they asked for an injunction to stop the
requisition meeting and that application failed. The part I wish to
focus on here is on the right to examine the corporation's records.
When the dispute over fees for the Parking Units came to the surface in
2014, the two applicants were directors of MTCC 856. They requested
access to documentary information including minutes, financial
statements, cheques etc. All or substantially all of what they
requested, they had access to whether as directors or owners under the
Condominium Act
MTCC 856 was willing to provide the Applicants with access to the
documents they wish to view as long as they attend at Summerhill’s head
office for this purpose and specify the documents they wish to view
including the year and date. They may have copies of such documents
upon payment of the reasonable cost of photocopying. Only those
documents not prohibited from disclosure pursuant to the Condominium
Act may be viewed. This arrangement was declared by the Applicants to
be acceptable.
At this third hearing, one of the issues remaining in dispute was what
rights to information can the applicants demand on an on-going basis?
The applicants take objection to the fact that the documents are only
being made available at Summerhill's head office rather than at MTCC 856’s management office.
Justice Dunphy ruled that this objection strikes him as a reasonable
one. After some discussion among the parties, the respondent MTCC 856
explained that the originals of documents are kept at Summerhill’s
offices but agreed that copies of the requested documents would be made
available for inspection at the management office in the condominium
itself if demanded. It appears that the applicants are content to have
access to copies of documents at the condominium itself and will
arrange to inspect the originals at the management company’s office if
and when they feel a need to have access to original documents.
MTCC 856 agreed to make copies of the financial statements and
directors minutes and other documents that are subject to inspection
under the Condominium Act available for inspection on site and to
permit copies thereof to be made subject to reasonable copying expenses
in accordance with existing policies. These will be made available in a
timely way with reasonable advance notice.
Costs
The corporation filed an outline of costs for the entire proceeding
(including before Justice Myers and Justice Stewart of $24,611.88 on a
partial indemnity basis as compared to a “full rate” of $29,855.08. The
“full rate” reflects a discount on counsel’s hourly rate offered to
MTCC 856. All figures are inclusive of disbursements and HST.
In the judge's view, success has been somewhat divided on this
application although the respondents have clearly won the main point.
The applicants brought the application to obtain access to the
information they needed to press home their “main” dispute about the
Parking Unit issue. While the respondent has eventually come to a
reasonable accommodation on access, it is apparent that the initial
response to this brewing dispute was to treat the applicants as a
hostile camp and a reasonable compromise on access to information was
only reached in court rather than outside of it.
After due consideration of all of the circumstances, I find that I must
give somewhat greater weight to the quasi-class action nature of the
proceeding from the applicants’ perspective, the failure of the
respondents to have headed the access to information issues off early
by timely admissions while not losing sight of the aggravating fact of
the applicants’ non-cooperation in settling the orders. I have
determined to fix costs in the amount of $7,000 all-inclusive payable
by the applicants to the respondents on a several basis (i.e. $3,500
each).
The law firm Clifton Kok LLP wrote an interesting paper on this case.
http://bit.ly/28Nzf00
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Association Required to Provide Names and Addresses
of Delinquent Owners (Kansas)
Condo Law Grp Blog
By Aalerie Farris Oman
22 April 2016
The Kansas Court of Appeals held that Kansas law requires a homeowners
association to disclose the names and addresses of delinquent
homeowners. Although this case was decided in Kansas, it could be an
indication of how a Washington court might decide a similar issue.
The recent case of Frobish v. Cedar Lakes Village Condominium
Association concerned the Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of
Rights Act, which required that a homeowners association maintain
accounting records for five years and make records public, with the
option to withhold certain records for privacy reasons. The Cedar Lakes
Association’s board decided that the names and addresses of delinquent
owners were records that did not have to be disclosed.
Frobish, a property owner at Cedar Lakes, made several requests to the
association for the names and addresses of delinquent owners, but the
association denied his requests. Frobish sued the association, and the
case ultimately made its way to the appeals court.
The appeals court held that Kansas law required that the association
keep a record of dues payments, including who has paid and who has not.
The information that could be withheld under the law included documents
that were protected by privacy rules already. However, there were no
privacy protections for delinquent owners, especially when any lawsuit
against a delinquent owner for nonpayment would be public record.
The court also stated that the payment of dues was very important to
the operation of an association, and disclosure helps the association
function by holding owners accountable. For these reasons, the court
held that the names and addresses of delinquent owners were not the
type of information that could be withheld.
If you have any questions we can answer, please feel free to leave a comment or contact us directly. We look forward to continuing this conversation with you in our future posts!
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Patterson v YCC No. 70
Small Claims Court
SC-0000-5063-0000
L-K. Hum, Deputy Judge
Released: 05 February 2018
The plaintiff, Ms. Catherine Patterson, seeks $800, which is comprised
of the $500 penalty under section 55(8) of the Act, plus costs and
disbursements.
There is no further dispute about the actual records that are the
subject of the claim, which have been largely satisfied as of January
2017. The only question is whether Ms. Patterson is entitled to the
penalty payable under section 55(8) of the Act.
YCC #70 asks that Ms. Patterson’s claim for $800 dismissed.
Ms. Patterson is a condominium unit owner, and has resided in this unit
for over 35 years. YCC #70 consists of two high-rise towers of about
300 condominium units and about 25 townhouses, on Driftwood Avenue in
North York, in the area of Jane and Finch.
I have reviewed the voluminous materials filed by Ms. Patterson in her
three-volume trial brief, much of which relates to background and
historic issues, including serious discord between Ms. Patterson and
the Board or individual members of the present Board. Many of the
disagreements relate to grave issues of a lack of reserve funds, an
audit, budget deficits, and need for repairs that go back many years.
Ms. Patterson claims that YCC #70 has acted in bad faith and there was
undue delay in providing her with the condominium corporation records
that she requested, starting in or about March 2016 and regularly
ongoing, and YCC #70 should therefore pay her a penalty.
Ms. Nurmohamed testified that Royale Grande Property Management Ltd.
replaced CLM Inc as the property managers in August 2016. She testified
that the files were in a disastrous state and they were not in receipt
of passwords to computers, amongst other things.
She also testified that there were outstanding requests for records and
outstanding issues relating to repairs. One of the big changes that
they implemented was reducing the cost of records access and making
records available to all to review in the office.
I find that, in light of the turnover at the Board, evidence of
disastrous file management, and the change in property management, YCC
#70 responded with delay but still within a reasonable time.
Importantly, YCC #70 did not ever refuse to permit Ms. Patterson an
examination of the Corporation records or a copy of those records.
I was provided a copy of Justice Wright’s reasons on an application by
the previous Board, of which Ms. Patterson was then a member, dated
December 11, 2015. The application sought a declaration that a
requisition by unit owners to remove three members of the Board of
Directors was invalid and that no meeting should be held pursuant to
the requisition. The decision is not relevant to a determination of the
issues here, but in dismissing the application, Justice Wright’s
concluding comments about healthy communications bear
repeating:
[….. ] community living, by its nature, requires a high level of tolerance by all of those involved.
And I think that is what is desperately needed here.
It seems to me that everyone has kind
of gotten bogged down in this pettiness and perhaps has not been the
best version of themselves on any given day.
I think that the unit owners and the
board members all need to take a hard look at how they are behaving and
remind themselves that we are all different from one another. We
all have different needs. We all have different
expectations. In the end, healthy communication is the key to a
peaceful and successful living environment. And that just has to
be the goal. Everyone has to want to let go of their bad
feelings, the things that have happened in the past.
My advice would be to try to let go
of the past, deal with the present and move on with the future in the
most positive way that you can.
"I could not have said it better. I cannot order the parties to get
along, but for the good of this condominium community, I certainly hope
they do so even if they have differing opinions about how the
condominium corporation should be run."
The plaintiff’s claim is dismissed. I find it fair and reasonable in the interests of justice not to order costs.
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