Examples of action, summary, and detailed minutes in Robert’s Rules

By Ann Macfarlane | June 21, 2022

Our faithful readers know that Jurassic Parliament advocates for action or summary minutes, not detailed minutes. This article, Meeting minutes record what is DONE, not what is SAID, explains our reasoning.

We thought it might be helpful to provide a real-life example of each kind of minutes, so here they are.

Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised, 12th edition, provides a set of sample minutes. You can read that sample here.