Meeting Records

 

Overview

Agendas for upcoming meetings, unfinished minutes that have been started but not yet adjourned, pending minutes that are complete but not yet accepted and fully completed and published minutes all reside on the Meetings page.

Meeting Status
Call to Order
Adjourn Meeting

Meeting Status

There are four statuses that a meeting’s minutes can fall under in SmarterTrails.

 

Agendas

Until a meeting has been called to session, it is still considered to be an agenda. Agendas are can be modified by anyone with Club Administration privileges. Public agendas can be seen by members in the Meeting page, while agendas filed as private remain invisible.

 

Unfinished Minutes

After a meeting has been called to session, it becomes an unfinished set of minutes. Unfinished Minutes can still be modified by anyone with administration privileges, but the members present can no longer be edited. Members who arrive late may still be marked as present while the meeting is listed as unfinished.

 

 Pending Minutes

A meeting in the Pending status is generally awaiting approval by the club’s members. A meeting in this state’s items and sections can no longer be modified, but they can be amended. Doing so requires selecting a member who suggested the move and another who seconded the idea. Items in this state are most often left as such until the next meeting when they are approved.

 

Published Minutes

After a member has moved to approve a pending meeting’s minutes and the motion has been seconded, the meeting is considered published. At this point, the meeting can no longer be edited in any fashion. 

 

Call to Order

Calling a meeting to order will change it from a mere agenda to an unfinished meeting. While the meeting remains in this status, its minutes will be listed in the Unfinished Minutes category.

To call a meeting to order, you need only:

• Select the members who are present at the meeting
• You may click "check all" to select or deselect all club members
• Clicking the Call to Order button on the meeting set the meeting minutes to the unfinished minutes status.

 

Adjourn Meeting

When a meeting is completed, you may mark it as such by clicking the Adjourn Meeting button at the bottom of the Meeting Minutes.

• Click the Adjourn Meeting button at the bottom of the page
• Enter the time the meeting was adjourned at in the confirmation window
• This time must be later than the meeting's start time
• Enter the date the meeting was adjourned on.
• While uncommon, some meetings may span from late one day to early the next.
• Click the Adjourn button
• Clicking this button will set the meeting's status to Pending, where it will wait until approved.