EPISODE · Jul 6, 2026 · 26 MIN
Your Questions Answered
from The Committee Room · host Kate Hartwig and Kate McPhee
Biased minutes. A chair ignoring a committee decision he disagrees with. A treasurer who resigned with no notice and took everything with them. A president who's been in the job for eleven years and nothing ever changes. Real questions from real committee members — and in this first Your Questions Answered special, Kate H and Kate M work through eleven of them in plain English. With the occasional Iced VoVo.Questions covered in this episode:Taking accurate minutes when the secretary is also the most argumentative person in the room?Whether you can require committee members to prepare for meetings?What happens when a chair refuses to act on a decision he disagrees with?Whether decisions made without a quorum are legally valid?What to do when a nominee won't supply a candidate statement?Handling a committee member who's breaching confidentiality?Whether your fundraising raffle needs a licence?Whether the committee can reject a nomination for personal reasons?What to do first when your treasurer resigns without notice and takes everything with them?How to move a club forward without offending the past?How to move on a long-serving president without causing a war?Got a question of your own? Submit it at thecommitteeroom.com.au — your question might shape a future episode.Full show notes and free downloads at The Committee Room
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Biased minutes. A chair ignoring a committee decision he disagrees with. A treasurer who resigned with no notice and took everything with them. A president who's been in the job for eleven years and nothing ever changes. Real questions from real committee members — and in this first Your Questions Answered special, Kate H and Kate M work through eleven of them in plain English. With the occasional Iced VoVo.Questions covered in this episode:Taking accurate minutes when the secretary is also the most argumentative person in the room?Whether you can require committee members to prepare for meetings?What happens when a chair refuses to act on a decision he disagrees with?Whether decisions made without a quorum are legally valid?What to do when a nominee won't supply a candidate statement?Handling a committee member who's breaching confidentiality?Whether your fundraising raffle needs a licence?Whether the committee can reject a nomination for personal reasons?What to do first when your treasurer resigns without notice and takes everything with them?How to move a club forward without offending the past?How to move on a long-serving president without causing a war?Got a question of your own? Submit it at thecommitteeroom.com.au — your question might shape a future episode.Full show notes and free downloads at The Committee Room
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