[Magdalen] Annual Meeting "clerking"

[Scott Knitter]

Our Annual Parish Meeting this year is on Trinity Sunday. Long
story...bishop approved its postponement from January due to
appointment of a new priest-in-charge and too much parish conflict
back then. Now we've got eight candidates for three vestry seats. The
slates are forming.

I've been asked to agree to be appointed clerk of the annual meeting,
and said yes. Sure beats being elected to vestry for yet another
three-year stint.

I'm torn between just using a bunch of pens and a new notebook to take
minutes and hauling my work laptop down there to tippity-tap my way to
detailed minutes. Also thinking of recording the proceedings somehow,
maybe with my smartphone or iPad. Would be nice to park the iPad
somewhere where it could video-record for my own use only (I'd have to
inform the meeting participants, of course) so I can see later who
said what as they addressed the assemblage.

I personally prefer the minimalist minutes Robert's Rules advises
(what the meeting was for, where and when, who was there, and what was
done....NOT what was said or that "John felt..." But if I record, I'll
be ready to produce a Hansard or Congressional Record if need be.

Anyone have any tips or tricks that have helped you clerk the annual meeting?

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA