Board meeting minutes

I questioned the HOA Board regarding two topics left out of the meeting minutes. I feel these topics are important to homeowners not present at the meeting. What is the general rule with regards to providing at least an overview of important items discussed?

You're likely to get a wide array of responses here.

Generally though, minutes will record the decisions made and not elaborate on the pre-decision debate or discussion and not elaborate on other debate and discussion regarding topics not resulting in a decision.

Minutes are not a synopsis of all that was discussed and decided at the meeting. If homeowners want to know all that occurs at the meetings, then they need to attend the meetings or receive info second-hand from someone else who attends.

Personally, if a "topic" was listed on the agenda for the meeting, I would indicate something in the minutes pertaining to that topic . . . perhaps just noting that it was discussed but no decisions made . . . but that's just how I do it.

Robert's Rules Online states the following . . . note item (f) . . .
"The essentials of the record are as follows:
(a) the kind of meeting, "regular" (or stated) or "special," or "adjourned regular" or "adjourned special";
(b) name of the assembly;
(c) date of meeting and place, when it is not always the same;
(d) the fact of the presence of the regular chairman and secretary, or in their absence the names of their substitutes,
(e) whether the minutes of the previous meeting were approved, or their reading dispensed with, the dates of the meetings being given when it is customary to occasionally transact business at other than the regular business meetings;
(f) all the main motions (except such as were withdrawn) and points of order and appeals, whether sustained or lost, and all other motions that were not lost or withdrawn;
(g) and usually the hours of meeting and adjournment, when the meeting is solely for business. Generally the name is recorded of the member who introduced a main motion, but not of the seconder."

I'm not sure of the rule requirements for meetings in SC, but they present an agenda for upcoming meetings. As for the minutes, they list them as follows: General Homeowner Discussion, Old Business, and Committee Reports.

As far as actions taken during the meeting, one possible action could be related to a violation I recently reported (for the 2nd time). Not mentioning the reported violation directly, the board decided they were not interested in going back a number of years to try to determine if a violation occurred. Since no action was taken on this violation for over a year, the decision of the board could include this one. I felt some comments on this issue would be important to include in the minutes.

I'm not on any board.

If your "report" was not placed on the meeting agenda, the board is not required discuss it all. And, IF on the agenda AND the board discusses it, nothing need be in the minutes except what i wrote above. Only if a votes is taken, does that have to be in the minutes.