Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: A question about meeting minutes

[David Heimann (heimann]

Hello Muriel (and others)

	One key item I make sure are prominent in the minutes are the 
decisions made and action items assigned.  They are either bolded (or 
italicized) in the minutes text and/or shown in a separate list.

Regards,
David Heimann
JP Cohousing


> On Sep 8, 2015, at 11:19 PM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I often take the minutes at our plenary meetings, and my minutes provide
> nearly verbatim accounts of what was said in the course of a discussion.
>
> I omit irrelevant and repetitive remarks and might simplify to a degree
> what each person said, but it's still a fairly detailed record of the
> meeting. My goal is that people not at the meeting, and people reading the
> minutes years later, will have a good understanding of the concerns and the
> issues and how they were addressed at that meeting, as well as the outcome
> if a decision was made.
>
> My question is, for those of you who take those kinds of minutes, do you
> cite who said each comment, or just show the comments? (Or if you don't do
> it yourself, if it's done this way in your community.)
>
> I have gone back and forth on this, sometimes thinking that the shyer
> people shouldn't feel constrained by knowing their name will be attached to
> all their remarks, and other times thinking that part of the record is who
> said what.
>
> I would love to know how you handle this and if there's anything
> controversial about however you do it, in your community.
>    Muriel at Shadowlake Village, Blacksburg, VA
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