Voting to "Accept"/or "Not" Board Minutes

Does anyone have experience with decisions to accept or not to accept the prior months minutes of the recording secretary? The board of nine members meet once a month.
If a board member believes the minutes do not reflect the actual statements made at the meeting, and votes not to accept them, and they are still passed by the majority I would guess they still are made a part of the record. But does it not leave some doubt in the minds of the corporate homeowners who were not at the meeting, and will read the results in the community newsletter, or on the community web site?
Just curious, because I have never seen the minutes having not been passed by a unaminious vote before.

Thanks:
Jim

James,

First of all, the treasurer's report is "accepted", but the minutes are "approved" by the BOD.

The proper procedure for approving the minutes is:

1) Pres calls for the minutes to be read or asks for a motion to dispense with reading the minutes
2) Pres asks if there are any corrections to be made to the minutes
3) Any board member may ask that a particular correction be made. If there is no opposition to the correction(s), the secretary makes note of it (them). If a board member disagrees with the proposed correction, the BOD can discuss it and decide whether or not the correction is appropriate. (I've never seen this happen!)
4) Pres calls for a motion to approve the minutes; if corrections were made - a motion to approve as corrected
5) Board members vote on motion
6) Secretary makes appropriate corrections to the official copy of the minutes and those corrections are noted in the minutes of the meeting.

And after all the corrections are noted, the president can say
"There being no other additions or corrections, let the record show the minutes are approved."

James,

Our Secretary is supposed to send an email with the draft minutes to all of the board members for review. Any one of us can send an email to the Secretary or copy all of the board saying they disagree with something or that something was left out. Generally some of the members will just send me, I'm the Pres, their concerns, I will "mark up" the draft showing my suggested changes in red and send it back to the Secretary. On occasion, we have to work out a disagreement. We then will include a motion to approve those minutes at the next monthly meeting.

If you question your boards minutes, then use your voice. Keep a record of discrepancies if necessary.

Reviewing our draft minutes prior to the meeting has helped bring out some voices that would otherwise remain silent.

fyi - since I have been on our board there has always been something incorrect in the draft.

Lynette

The more factual the mintues, the less need for "corrections"
If this is an on-going issue with the board, then the minutes are not being taken corectly.
Probably too much he-said, she-said in them.

MaryA1,
Thanks for the wisdom, but I did make the comment, "We then will include a motion to approve those minutes at the next monthly meeting."

Another option is to make motions for each correction. Yes, you could do this.

You can also, as president, rule to remove any dilatory/controversial/unclear statement from the minutes that do harm to the HOA. Yes, you can do this.

But I am curious about WHAT could possibly be in dispute. Could you give an example?

I still think you are aruguing over subjective issues which have no place in correct minutes.