Pass the aspirin.(board meetings )

ABA Banking Journal, May, 2006

The Headache

From a banker in the Pacific Northwest: "What are other banks doing to memorialize board meeting minutes? The task of taking minutes and then putting the minutes into a logical format, to include the important issues, is a challenge-for our small community bank. Right now we have to take a frontline employee away from customers. She sits in on the meeting, taking notes. Later she compares her notes to a tape of the meeting, which is then destroyed. Finally, she works up a summary of key issues and discussions -from the notes.

"This is all very time consuming and not necessarily the best solution when you have information of a sensitive nature under discussion. Are there better methods that others have found for completing this...