Summaries are produced right after the Board meeting or by the next day as a high level summary of what took place at the Board meeting. It gives the Board secretary the ability to communicate to the staff and the public what actions from the MSD Board meeting were approved. However, they are not the official minutes which aren’t approved until the next Board meeting.

The agenda package posted on OpenMSD is what has been prepared in advance for consideration at the Board meeting. However, agenda items can be added or dropped at the discretion of the MSD Board after the Board meeting starts. The order the items are addressed could also change or there may not be a quorum for the meeting to even occur.

Although MSD Board meetings are scheduled to occur on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month, sometimes there are not enough items on the agenda to warrant a meeting, or there wasn’t a quorum of Board members to have a meeting. Often times, only one meeting is held in December due to everyone’s busy holiday schedule.