I hope the bees are prepared with a checklist for the planning meeting, I hate it when they don't do their prep work beforehand. Makes the meetings take so much longer.
The bees don't attend planning meetings during the winter. We relay all decisions by shouting through the hive entrance. It makes life so much simpler - taking 30,000 opinions into account per hive is a complete pain in the fundament. Especially if, as you say, they haven't done their prep work. "Too busy"? Yeah, whatever Ethel.