Context specific wording

When a scribe records a decision or commitment at a meeting, it is essential that the wording make sense to people who are not at the meeting or people who were there but are looking at the minutes several months later on in a different light.

Sometimes there is extensive discussion around an issue that clarifies it in the attendees' minds. When the decision is written down it may seem to be clear to everyone there. But the next day people who were not at the meeting cannot tell what transpired by reading the minutes.