Just some comments:
- Code of conduct I think is something everyone will just agree to sign, and good luck with trying to achieve compliance. The majority of reasonable people already follow these – the troublemakers will never follow them and having them sign this won’t change that. They are bullies who ignore sanctions which have no teeth.
- A better strategy (and less reading) I think would be to have members agree to have committee meetings recorded. The possibility of having your rant / bullying shown on social media would curtail the worst behaviours, and reasonable people should have no objection.
- Standing orders are useful as a tool to pull out at meetings. However, number 11 (re members having one turn to speak until all have spoken) needs a time limit. We had one bully who was able to talk for up to 45 minutes on whatever his pet item was. Other members were too cowed by him to interrupt and the strata managers were not interested in intervening, and/or also afraid of him.