Motion to approve minutes

[Guest Howard]

Prior meeting lacked a quorum and no business was taken. Member has challenged the Board considering at it's next meeting a motion to approve the minutes at the earlier meeting duu to it's lack of qourum. is this correct?

[Guest Edgar]

Minutes should be prepared and approved for all meetings, whether a quorum was present or not. Of course you'll have to wait for the next regular meeting with a quorum to approve any previously unapproved minutes. And, by the way, no motion to approve the minutes is necessary.

If that answers your question.

[David A Foulkes]

After any proposed corrections have been disposed of, and when there is no response to the chair's inquiry, "Are there any corrections [or "further corrections"] to the minutes?" the chair says, "There being no corrections [or "no further corrections"] to the minutes, the minutes stand [or "are"] approved [or "approved as read," or "approved as corrected"]." The minutes are thus approved without any formal vote, even if a motion for their approval has been made. The only proper way to object to the approval of the secretary's draft of the minutes is to offer a correction to it. It should be noted that a member's absence from the meeting for which minutes are being approved does not prevent the member from participating in their correction or approval. (RONR 11th ed. p. 354 l. 34 - p. 355 l. 11)

[Gary Novosielski]

The minutes should be approved, and the objecting member is incorrect (well, except that they are normally approved without the formality of a motion).

Since very little took place at the prior meeting, it is not likely that there will be any contentious discussion of corrections to the brief minutes that result. But minutes need to be approved.

[Rev Ed]

A vote does not take place on the Minutes per se, but a vote can be taken on a particular correction. If the majority agrees with the correction, then the correction is made to the Minutes.