{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Committee Room","title":"Your Questions Answered","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1606,"description":"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.\nQuestions covered in this episode:\nTaking 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?\nGot a question of your own? Submit it at thecommitteeroom.com.au — your question might shape a future episode.\nFull show notes and free downloads at The Committee Room","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3KhiTf_Rg9u2Mabpnojtt9QRRB8v_oHBmz7df_bAv4w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNTAy/YTFiMTEyNTI0ZGE0/YzBlNDIyMTkwNjE3/ZGRjYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}