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Board Development Tips - The Perfect Minutess
My board minutes were always 6 pages long mostly to track word for word what everyone promised they would do. The key to writing the perfect minutes for your board meeting is keeping them somewhere between "minuscule" and "full of minutiae"; if you don't have enough information you may not be properly tracking board business and if you have too much information you could bore your board members to tears at the next meeting when minutes need to be approved. Early on, one of our new board members had chastised me and handed me a template to use (see left). And you can always add on a Notes section that doesn't have to be formerly approved but can still be used as "evidence" as needed :)
 
(Your Organization Name)
(Full Date) Board Minutes
A regular meeting of the (Your Organization Name) Board of Directors was held on (Full date and time) at the (Meeting location and city, state) for the purpose of transacting all proper business of the corporation.

The meeting was called by (Your Board Chair), President of the Board/Chairperson. Written notice of this meeting was faxed and/or mailed to all directors and potential directors on record. The following were present & or not at the meeting:

General Board Guests Staff
List the names of everyone in attendance)    

On motions duly made and carried by the affirmative vote of the majority of the Directors, the following resolutions were made:
(Briefly list the decisions made - no need to add exactly who did what - just a concise sentence for each decision)

Reports:
(1 sentence summary of each report given by committee chairs)

There being no further business to come before the meeting, it was adjourned on motion duly made and carried.
(This is the end of the official portion)

NOTES:
(Additional ideas / brainstorming / promises made! Keep it brief - try to keep the ENTIRE Official portion AND Notes to one page only.)

 
 
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