I've found that if I don't publish notes from the board meetings, the
following will sometimes happen:
1) No one outside of the board will ever know what was decided, even if
they are supposed to.
2) No one on the board will remember what they decided.
Having an easily available reference in the newsletter makes communication a
little better.

Late in my first year as newsletter editor, the issue of putting an ad in
the newsletter came up. I asked our president and was informed that the
board had discussed the issue about six months previously and came up with a
policy. No one had bothered telling me, the newsletter editor, about the
policy that dealt with the newsletter. After that I started going to the
board meetings, and asked to be nominated for a director position the next
year (might as well be on the board if I'm going to attend the meetings.)

-danny

"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
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I publish a recap of the minutes from the general meetings, but not board
meetings. Any member is welcome to come to a board meeting, but putting
those issues out for the great unwashed (just kidding!) isn't a good idea,
IMO.

Diana