Toast Presidency and The Board

[jathanas]

Thank you 76woodenspooners

One of BigFooty’s all-time-favourite posters, Reykjavik , was all across the board level stuff. He once posted a list of the responsibilities of a Not-For-Profit board like that of Collingwood …

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NFP board responsibilities
Specific responsibilities of a not-for-profit (NFP) board include:

• Driving the strategic direction of the organisation
• Working with the CEO to enable the organisation to obtain the resources, funds and personnel necessary to implement the organisation's strategic objectives
• Implementing, maintaining and (as necessary) refining a system of good governance that is appropriate for the organisation
• Reviewing reports and monitoring the performance of the organisation
• Regularly reviewing the board's structure and composition, so that these are appropriate for the organisation
• Appointing – and managing the performance of – a suitable CEO
• Succession planning for the CEO

While the above points are also applicable to for-profit boards, NFP boards also face a unique range of issues, such as:

• Difficulties in defining and measuring organisational effectiveness
• Transgression of role boundaries
• The negative impact of the structural compositions of some NFP boards, including those arising from representative models
• Funding dependencies and constraints

In practice, the role of the board is to supervise an organisation's business in two broad areas:

1. Overall business performance - ensuring the organisation develops and implements strategies and supporting policies to enable it to fulfill the objectives set out in the organisation's constitution. The board delegates the day to day management of the organisation but remains accountable to the shareholders for the organisation's performance. The board monitors and supports management in an on-going way.
2. Overall compliance performance - ensuring the organisation develops and implements systems to enable it to comply with its legal and policy obligations (complying with statutes such as the Corporations Act 2001, adhering to accounting standards) and ensure the organisation's assets are protected through appropriate risk management.

http://www.companydirectors.com.au/...ctor/NFP-governance/The-role-of-the-NFP-board

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[76woodenspooners]

Ok, but why was the EGM required? Could it not have waited until the AGM?

IIRC (and I’m very hazy on it myself) some of the new board members (eg: Waitslitz) were not eligible for much the same reason Bridie and Wilson are not now, and they needed to get the constitution changed and a vote to allow them on the board.

 

[NMBB]

IIRC (and I’m very hazy on it myself) some of the new board members (eg: Waitslitz) were not eligible for much the same reason Bridie and Wilson are not now, and they needed to get the constitution changed and a vote to allow them on the board.

One guy Ed put up at some point- Brad Cooper? - was hastily withdrawn due to "issues"

 

[MagpieJoel]

One guy Ed put up at some point- Brad Cooper? - was hastily withdrawn due to "issues"

He was on the board at one point. Was involved in the HIH collapse.

 

[Jen2310]

 

[76woodenspooners]

So what happens now?

Murphy has kinda put the ball back in the ‘Browne camp’ court. They need to decide to either …

(a) Use the EGM petition to trigger a full spill of the board as his camp threatened last weekend. (Does he have control over the EGM petition? Is that petition legal as was questioned on FC recently? Are there enough signatures?)

(b) Write to the members to get them to sign a new petition. (Would he get the signatures?)

(c) Go through a normal process of challenging for a seat at the upcoming AGM? (And if so, does he bring others with him on a ticket? And which seat(s) would he / they challenge? And what would the EGM folks do … will they still force a full spill if they can? Or will they slip quietly into the night?)

(d) Pull the pin altogether. (And what would the EGM folks do, will they still force a full spill if they can? Or will they slip quietly into the night?)

 

[76woodenspooners]

And this is why we can’t have nice things

 

[Jen2310]

Four of the seven current board members were to face an election at the annual general meeting: Peter Murphy, Christine Holgate, Neil Wilson and O’Donnell.

Three of them had been due to face the election but Wilson, who was appointed to fill the vacancy created by McGuire’s resignation and was not due to be up for election for two years, had chosen to go to the election so that all board members could be elected by the members.



The resignation means that three current board members will go to the election, with a fourth place open to a new board member.
Challenger Browne will stand at the election and is highly likely to secure at least one of those places on the board. He is expected to stand with at least one other person.

Browne has said he wants to join the board and be president. The president of the club is not elected directly by members; board members are voted in and then the president is elected by the board from among their number.

 

[Kings_Gambit]

Ok, but why was the EGM required? Could it not have waited until the AGM?

Eddie had a team of three board members join with him. This included Alex Waislitz. My guess is for 4 new board members you need an EGM. The main difference from today is that the existing board was behind him and supported the EGM.

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

So Browne will seek election to the vacancy rather than challenge an existing Board member I assume.

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[parano1a]

So Bridie O'Donnell is finally gone. Should never have been involved with our club.

 

[MagpieJoel]

Wow, a little bit of scrutiny and she's gone. What a schemozzle.

 

[sideswipe]

Wow, a little bit of scrutiny and she folds. What a schemozzle.

She is taking up a new role in Vic's Covid response team. Hope she doesn't have any anti-vax t-shirt snaps on her Insta page.

 

[76woodenspooners]

Wow, a little bit of scrutiny and she's gone. What a schemozzle.

She cited her promotion last week to a key role in handling Victoria’s response to Covid.

Not unreasonable?

 

[Apples]

The President represents the Board so they can change it anytime. The voting members vote for the individual directors not the president so whether it is 4 spots or 7 spots, the 13,000 voting members will decide . Murphy is correct to say that the correct process is to see who is on the Board after the AGM and the question is then who is the right president for the club from those 7 individuals.

The Browne campaign (a.k.a Footy Classified on Wednesday nights/Herald Sun) wanted a deal which had nothing to do with democracy for members but instead sought to circumvent it. A week ago a Browne presidency via a deal was said by them cheerfully to be inevitable with Korda agreeing to resign altogether from the Board. Caro condemned Board members for being fickle in allegedly changing allegiances and this week those same Board members are condemned for not agreeing to the change. Their reports of a handover to Murphy are already proven false. It is clear that Browne continues to do his PR through them and balanced journalism is absent.

Murphy’s on the record comments today seem to be saying that they prefer to go to the vote at the AGM. They have not taken the Browne offer of a deal. Browne will have to stand for election like anyone else.

We don’t know how reasonable Browne was being in his proposed “deal”. Perhaps the Board thinks it better to risk a full spill than agree to it. Perhaps they genuinely believe that the members should decide on who is on the Board first and a deal was inconsistent with that.

I am disappointed that Murphy is not agreeing to step up. He has helped with whatever he has turned his mind to for the club and by all accounts was well-liked by the staff and players. Perhaps he has personal reasons for not taking it on.

Time for Browne to come out of the shadows and go to the polls.

Maybe a third option will prevail as a consequence of the AGM.

When I watched Footy Classified last night, I'm pretty sure Caro quoted the Herald-Sun story. She did not have any knowledge other than that. Ed's questions to Caro suggested he had no knowledge, but was clearly disappointed by the news that an EGM would be the result. Eddie has always said this; he thinks a spill would be a disaster. It's your right to express any opinion you wish in here, but if you suggest that perhaps the most decorated footy journalist ever and our ex-president are working for the Browne camp, then you deserve to be challenged.

I wondered why this story didn't appear elsewhere yesterday. Why didn't The Age have knowledge? SEN? AFL.com? Now we know why.
Presumably, a story was leaked to the Herald Sun by somebody with an agenda. It was probably somebody on the board. How much more embarrassment can this group bring upon itself? Murphy must be filthy at these shenanigans. What a bloody shambles.

 

[76woodenspooners]

So Bridie O'Donnell is finally gone. Should never have been involved with our club.

Bit harsh there.

We are a broad church.

 

[MagpieJoel]

She cited her promotion last week to a key role in handling Victoria’s response to Covid.

Not unreasonable?

Christine Holgate is running Toll, and was in charge of Aus Post while on the board. It's a convenient excuse.

 

[unplugged]

I mean you can't tell me they didn't suggest she stands down...

 

[raymond35]

I can buy my membership now.
Thank god and good riddance.

 

[JOELY]

Love some of the replies, especially the "good riddance grub". Really bringing out the best of us isn't it.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

 

[AmericanMustard]

I’m so happy none of these board members are in my rocket league squad. So many own goals

 

[Apples]

And now it's even more of a shambles. Bridie has obviously been pushed. She had to go. She is obviously a very smart person, but she demonstrated very poor judgement on more than one occassion. We now look a total shambles. If this board had any chance of surviving, it has now gone up in smoke.

 

[AmericanMustard]

And now it's even more of a shambles. Bridie has obviously been pushed. She had to go. She is obviously a very smart person, but she demonstrated very poor judgement on more than one occassion. We now look a total shambles. If this board had any chance of surviving, it has now gone up in smoke.

Why? Because they’ve put out the person most people wanted pushed out anyway?

I do agree it’s a shambles, I really don’t see how this changes the landscape at all personally.

 

[Markfs]

there was always going to be a new board post AGM.....

 

[NMBB]

And now it's even more of a shambles. Bridie has obviously been pushed. She had to go. She is obviously a very smart person, but she demonstrated very poor judgement on more than one occassion. We now look a total shambles. If this board had any chance of surviving, it has now gone up in smoke.

Graham Wright and Mark Anderson thinking.... will this ever end??