Are minutes required for executive sessions of board meetings?
Lynn Krupnik: If the board is making decisions in executive session, it needs to have minutes and it needs to keep those minutes separate. You can only go into executive session for certain categories: 1) Attorney-client privileged information; 2) Personal, health or financial information about one of your members or about an employee of the association or an employee of a contractor; 3) Acts of one of the employees; 4) Pending litigation. If you are discussing these types of matters and you are going to make a decision on these matters, these motions need to be documented in the minutes and they need to be kept as separate minutes so that you do not disclose those minutes to an owner. Minutes of executive session can be kept private.
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