How correct should monthly Minutes be?

Should the Minutes of monthly Board meetings be correct? Is "almost correct" good enough? What mistakes should be tolerated? Any?

Should Minutes be corrected before the Board approves them? I think I've been to only one Board meeting in five years, where a member of the Board asked for a correction to be made.

The Minutes have been better-prepared in the past couple of months. Before that, there was no excuse for the Minutes of a business meeting to be published as they were.

As I understand it, if the Minutes are written by the #2 person in the HOA office, then the on-site property manager reviews them before they are sent to the directors. The directors are supposed to read them and reply with any corrections. Then the Minutes are published on the website, so that homeowners (Members of the HOA) know what happened at the previous meeting. This should happen within 7-10 days of a meeting. (It's September 27th, and the Minutes of the September 10th meeting have not yet been published.)

So how do errors still appear in the Minutes after 6-7 people read them? Maybe they don't read them.

I just noticed that the first name of one director, Patricia Pollin, is misspelled in the August 2024 Minutes. Her first name is also misspelled in the June 2024 Minutes. How does that happen? The names of the directors are the same every month. That's an easy copy-and-paste function.

In too many previous months the date of the meeting was shown as "April 2nd, 2024". And for several months before that, the meeting date was displayed as "February 06 ,2024". I have been reading business documents since 1966, and never before have I seen dates typed like that.

For several months the names of the directors present at board meetings were shown as: "Danny Trapp; President, Brenda Bryant; Vice President, Linda Potter; Tanisha Holmes; Secretary, Patricia Pollin; Director.  If you read that, could you figure out who was which officer?

Those are all things that a professional, experienced office manager or a director who was paying attention should have caught and corrected.

I think one of the homeowners finally made in-roads in the preparation of Minutes and got basic things corrected. 

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