Board meeting sheet

Type straight into this page. It saves in your browser as you go, so you can close it and come back. Nothing is sent anywhere.

The one rule: write what the record says, and write what you think it means in a separate sentence. Keep the claim smaller than the evidence.

Start from your agenda (optional)

This fills in what it can and leaves the rest to you. Everything it writes is a guess made from the agenda text, so read it before you trust it. You can skip this entirely and just type.

Option 1: paste your board's meeting page address

Works for boards on CivicClerk. If yours is on something else, use option 2, which works everywhere.

Option 2: paste the agenda text

Open your agenda, select all of it, copy, and paste it here. This works for every board on any system, and nothing leaves your device.

Before the meeting

What's on the agenda, in plain language

One line per item a normal person would care about. Skip recognitions and routine finance unless something looks off.

Consent agenda: what's in the attachments

Usually where the substance is. The minutes will name none of it.

Consent itemWhat the attachment says

The three things worth caring about

Questions we'd want answered

Questions, not accusations. If someone speaks at public comment, these are what they read.

Open from last time

After the meeting

What happened

Item number, what was decided, the vote if there was one.

ItemWhat was decidedVote

Pulled off consent

Who pulled it, and why. If nothing was pulled, write "nothing pulled" so the next reader knows you checked.

Clips

Time on the clock plus one sentence on why. A timestamp on its own is a real citation.

TimeWhy it mattersLink

Public comment

TLDR

Three sentences. What happened, what it changes, what to watch next time.

The one thing we're following

What we could not tell

Documents not posted, a vote you couldn't hear. Worth as much as what you learned.