Meeting Tips

To do:

• Incorporate the facilitator's duties
• Incorporate example meeting minutes snippets

Call the meeting to order

• Scribe:
  • Record the name of the meeting and the date
  • List everyone in attendance (for some meetings, list if they were late). Ask for people's names if you don't know them.

• Facilitator:
  • Just make sure there's a scribe taking attendance

Check in

• Ask how everyone's doing -- usually requires no notes

Committments from Previous Meeting

• Record the status of each item
  • Did it change owners?
  • Is it finished?
  • Is it a carryover? (If so, re-enter in the future committments section)

Old Business

• Record item names
  • Key points from discussion
  • Proposals (at least loose wording)
  • Decisions -- Mark them as decisions -- Make sure the wording is accurate

New Business

• Same pints at Old Business

Future Committments

• Record the item, its owner, and a deadline

Next Meeting

• Record scribe
• Record facilitator
• Record reporter (i.e. to Council Meeting or Staff Meeting)
• Record next time and place of meeting