[SJAAboard] Do we need to tape the meetings?

[Gary Mitchell]

Rob Hawley (SJAA) wrote:

> I was wondering about this myself today.  Gary asked me a question about the
> September meeting.  I believe we discussed and acted on a decision to donate
> scope 24 (a Bushnell) to project astro.  It was probably a one sentence
> "does anyone object" type question.  The total discussion was probably about
> 30 seconds long. The minutes did not capture it, but I sent a message the
> next day to Bob saying "the board decided that..". I did not think to look
> for it in the draft minutes.

Do you mean keep an audio recording of the meetings as part of the
minutes?  I don't know about that.  We just need to be sure that
everything the board does gets properly recorded.  Sometimes we've been
too sloppy with the minutes taking.  Again: we don't need to record
everything that is said, but we do need to record what gets done or
decided.  This includes things that are agreed to without a formal
vote.

Gary