minutes

[John G]

Should minutes from a staff meeting, be read at the general membership meeting?

[Rev Ed]

If the general membership orders it, yes.

[David A Foulkes]

Should minutes from a staff meeting, be read at the general membership meeting?

RONR recognizes two typical bodies in an organization, the general membership and the Board. In most cases, the membership is superior to the Board. The meeting minutes of each are generally read only at subsequent meetings of each body, although the membership can adopt a motion to have the Board minutes read at a membership meeting.

Presuming a staff that has meetings, it would be likely that the reading of those minutes is done only at staff meetings. Whatever the staff entity is, and what body might be superior to it, we can't know.

[Josh Martin]

Should minutes from a staff meeting, be read at the general membership meeting?

No, unless it is so ordered or there is a rule or custom to this effect.

Presuming a staff that has meetings, it would be likely that the reading of those minutes is done only at staff meetings. Whatever the staff entity is, and what body might be superior to it, we can't know.

Well, I don't find it hard to believe that there are indeed "staff meetings," but the staff is quite likely not a deliberative assembly and its minutes are therefore not truly "minutes" in the parliamentary sense of a term. Nonetheless, it should indeed read its "minutes" if ordered by their superiors (or their superiors) - and so far as RONR is concerned, the general membership is at the top of the food chain.