Approval of Board Meeting Minutes

No, current board members vote, the no-longer-on-the-board person has no authority to vote at the time the vote was being taken. If the new board member doesn't feel comfortable voting on this, he/she can abstain.

But it's an interesting question since it happens all the time, and I suppose it's possible to have some sort of quorum issues to make this a problem.

I agree with CathyA3. A few observations:

-- So far, I do not see that Robert's Rules treats this. Maybe for obvious reasons.

-- This scenario happens all the time when, for one, City Councils have a change in Councilors.

-- I see no other direction on the net other than to follow what the law or Bylaw says. The bylaw or law or Robert's Rules xyz edition usually says simply something like: Minutes shall be approved or disapproved at the meeting following the date of the meeting for which the minutes were recorded.

-- The prior directors can pretty much always chime in and say, "Hey, that's not quite the motion I made. The wordking should be... " The new directors can hear them out.

-- For minutes, I do not see quorum problems arising even when all the directors are new to the job.

-- If all directors are new and they all abstain, then I expect there would be good reason for this. Like the new directors do not like a motion passed at the last meeting. In the latter case, I think it legally best they formalize the overturning of the prior meeting's motion via a reconsideration vote and take other steps to ensure clarity on what motion is valid and what motion is not.

No anguishing here. The prior Board member had asked to make changes to the minutes even though his term as board member had ended. So I asked a question.

You're right. I think this is the second time I posted this falsehood (by accident), too. My City Council pulled this a few years ago with a controversial subdivision vote, motioning to reconsider several weeks later. So it stuck in my mind. But there must have been more to this motion for the City parliamentarian not to have said something.

Robert's Rules and other sites say what KerryL1 posted.

All current board members can vote on approving the minutes. There is no requirement that they had to be at the meeting, much less that they had to be a board member at the time. Former board members cannot vote.