Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: approval of plenary minutes

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

One thing we do to make it easier to locate previous decisions is that we
have always maintained a Decision Log. I'm the current maintainer of that
Log. 4x/year I look back at the previous 3 months' worth of plenary minutes
to see what our consensed-on decisions were (the Meeting Summary at the top
of the minutes makes them easy to spot), and I add those to the Log. All I
put in is the meeting date and a very brief, preferably 1-sentence summary
of what it was. People who want the full proposal and/or the meeting
details know which minutes to go back to.

I occasionally search for something in the Decision Log and find it very
handy. A google drive search is much less satisfactory as you can't be sure
what to search on and will get many irrelevant search results.
   Muriel @ Shadowlake Village