Guidelines for Meeting Minutes

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                 GUIDELINES FOR MEETING MINUTES

Thorough, accurate minutes are important to an organization's
progress.  For many organizations, it would also be useful if the
secretary or recorder would summarize decisions and plans in a
table like the one on the next page.

                              MINUTES

Meeting___________________________________________________________

Meeting date____________________Recorder__________________________


                        MEETING ACTION PLAN

Chair___________________________________________________

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List of attendees attached                        

TIME:  
End___________________
Start_________________
Next meeting____________________________________                   
Length________________

• Lois M. Frey, UVM Extension, RR #4, Box 2298, Montpelier, VT 05602, (802) 223-2389, email: lfrey@sover.net
• "Group Development: Creating Group Effectiveness" by Duane Dale, DFD Associates, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-3402 (moving to 764 South East Street, Amherst, MA 01022 after 8/1/98);
• Bob Biagi, 142 Cherry Lane, Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 549-1412;

Comments to: crs@uvm.edu
Reviewed as of 4/20/98