Issue with approving Minutes

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

You're close.

The chair asks for corrections, not amendments.

After all corrections have been made the chair simply declares the minutes approved as corrected. No motion. No debate. No vote.

The only way to "vote against&qu"

[Guest DAN]

1. Why is there a reluctance to approve the minutes?

2. What do members "debate" about the minutes?

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[Guest Robert B. Fish]

Dan,

Many members have various misconceptions about the minutes and many chairmen don't know how to handle the issue.

Some feel they can either rescind tor ament the motions from the meeting by "correcting" the minutes. That's"

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

And all this "feeling" should be replaced by a little thinking."

[Guest Patrick]

Perhaps 'reluctant' isn't the best choice of words. A lot of members don't have a really good understanding of RONR, including the Chair. As a result, the chair gets into bad habits that violate RONR, but because of the collective lack of knowledge and th"

[Guest John M.]

I think your organization would benefit greatly from having some sort of RONR study session outside of meetings. You could lead this session yourself, or contact a professional parliamentarian in your area if your organization is willing to put some resou"