Burning Seed Restructure Stakeholders - [W03] BOARD SIZE & COMPOSITION

This workshop is for the matters relating to the BOARD OF THE CULTURAL ENTITY. The workshop for matters relating to the Operational entity can be found here.

The AFR recommendations relating to the Board are as follows:

Recommendation 3: The board of the new entity should contain no less than seven,  and no more than nine, directors.  

Recommendation 4: The board of the new entity should contain between 3 and 4 skills based directors, and between 4 and 5 representative directors.  

Recommendation 5: As far as possible, skills-based directors should collectively have  a mix of the following skills sets: Governance & leadership; finance; event management;  legal; risk management & OHS; community engagement; and marketing. 

Recommendation 6: Director terms should have a maximum time limit and that  mechanisms should be put in place to strike a balance between maintaining  organisational knowledge, and allowing new people to sit on the board.  

Recommendation 7: As far as possible, the board should be evenly split between  people from New South Wales, and people from Victoria, with some positions left for  directors from other states.  

Recommendation 8: All directors should be appointed by the entity’s membership. 

Beyond the AFR there may be other contributing factors to be discussed towards a constitutional brief. There is also now a clear direction for two entities to be established with distinct purposes so the recommendations above need to be analysed with each in mind.