Approval of minutes

One of the owners in our HOA insists that the minutes of the previous meeting do not need to be read to be approved. He contends that as long as they have been posted for at least 3 days, they can be approved by the board without being read out loud at a meeting. Does anyone know anything about this?

I have never heard of the minutes needing to be read out loud at a meeting to be approved. The draft of our minutes are sent to our Board members or for our AGM (Annual General Meeting) to our members ahead of time. We then take time at the meeting to see if there are any changes needed to be made to the minutes or any discussion of those minutes and move towards a motion to approve those minutes based on the mechanics of Roberts Rules of Order.

Roger:
Who should sign the Minutes after they are approved by the board? Our bylaws state that the Secretary is to sign the Minutes, but the MC agent has been doing this. If the MC signs them as "authorized agent" should that be voted to be done, by board vote? What happens if Minutes are put into the Minutes/Record book without a signature and later requested or subpoenaed, how can you tell if they were approved if they were not signed? It seems to me that a signed copy should be recorded at the MC and one at the bank or someplace so that changes could not be made without a copy to compare with them. I know this sounds sinister, but our MC records the Minutes and they are self-serving. For instance, when they carried out an unlawful election, they left out the details that were asked by some directors, but put in details of other ridiculous personal attacks and comments that took place in the annual meeting.
EdR

I am the secretary of our association and e-mail the minutes to the other board members and management company a week or so prior to our meeting.

The management company reproduces the minutes and gives a copies as well as the agenda to the members as they sign in at the meeting.

The management company issues a "board pack" to all directors a couple of days prior the meeting that also has copies the minutes so they are approved without reading them aloud, just approving any changes.

Before they are posted all of the board members have a chance to make changes via email