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?

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