[Magdalen] Annual Meeting "clerking"

[Scott Knitter]

My dear partner (now a professed monk!) has graciously offered to
record the audio of the proceedings with his handy-dandy high-tech
gizmo, so I can focus on tippy-tapping my way to detailed minutes on
my laptop. I'm preparing the outline in OneNote. Fortunately, our
detail-oriented priest-in-charge has already distributed a PowerPoint
deck with slides that further break down many of the main topics into
the next level of headings, so I can build those in, too. I'll start
each line item with the surname of the speaker and capture the gist of
what they're saying; I can type fast enough almost to catch every
word, especially with the um-and-ah speakers (most of them, and I'd be
one). Someone makes a motion? Simply type their surname, then a
virgule, then the surname of the seconder (which Robert also doesn't
think needs recording...I agree; if a vote is recorded, it can be
assumed it was seconded, but I will record the name anyway). Then
"carried" or "defeated." But there should be less of that in an annual
meeting: issues unexpectedly raised in a motion most likely should be
proposed to the vestry. Our main vote in the annual meeting is for the
warden, three vestrymen, and three delegates to diocesan convention.

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:29 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
<oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or the recorder can say, "This is what I'm going to do. If you want
> something else, I will happily defer to another recorder, but this is the
> way *I* am going to do it. Just sayin' ."




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