Meeting Minutes For Company In Minnesota
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Meeting minutes should be distributed promptly after the meeting, ideally within 24 to 48 hours. Timely distribution ensures that participants have a fresh understanding of discussions, decisions, and action items.
State-level requirements: In most states, minutes are required for all corporate meetings, including board meetings. Corporate boards must know, understand and abide by their state laws regarding meeting minutes. It's part of their fiduciary duties; not knowing the law doesn't excuse them from following it.
What Should Be Included in Meeting Minutes? Date and time of the meeting. Names of the meeting participants and those unable to attend (e.g., “regrets”) Acceptance or corrections/amendments to previous meeting minutes. Decisions made about each agenda item, for example: Actions taken or agreed to be taken. Next steps.
Are board meeting minutes confidential? Yes. The board should assume the minutes are confidential and, in most cases, they will remain so.
Other Items of Business: The template includes space to record any additional items of business conducted at the meeting. Signatures: Members sign the meeting minutes. The secretary who recorded the minutes also provides a final signature.
What to include Meeting date, time and location. Names of the committee or other group holding the meeting, the Chair and Secretary. List of those present, including guests in attendance, and any recorded regrets/absences. A record of formal motions and outcomes.
The minutes should follow the order of the agenda, with a basic, almost vague, summary sentence or two for each item, along with the name of the person who presented it. Votes taken should appear in their place of order in the agenda. Generally, don't include names.
Robert's Rules (Section -16) state that “the minutes should contain mainly a record of what was done at the meeting, not what was said by the members.” Minutes are not transcripts of meetings; rather, the document contains a record of actions taken by the body, organized by the meeting's order of business (agenda).
CSSA's stated position is that the company secretary will take notes at board meetings from which they will write up the minutes. Minutes need to be written in such a way that someone who was not present at the meeting can follow the decisions that were made.
Who is responsible for taking minutes for a meeting? The corporate secretary generally takes notes and prepares meeting minutes. If there is no specific role for this in your company, the job should rotate between people who know how to take notes for a meeting.
