I have LOST the committee meeting minutes notes!

[springchik]

:( I have looked where I thought I put it I have looked in places where I wouldnt normally put it I have looked everywhere in between. I'm the minutes secretary the meeting was 2 days ago and people are going to wonder where the minutes are. I have got so upset I've been in tears and have practically turned everything upside down looking for it. I've wondered if one of my boys aged 3 and 5 have put it somewhere. I was thinking I should confess but even if I do that still leaves the committee without a minutes! I am sooo stressed right now!!! wwyd?

Do them again by making them up. I'm not joking - I've done it. You were at the meeting, right? Do you have a copy of the agenda? If yes, just make them up using that.

No one will be expecting the minutes 2 days after a meeting, will they?

The problem my notes also had a list of those present (I couldnt remember that as I dont know everyone yet.) Also the meeting was purely to elect a new committee as the chair and treasurer had resigned so I will need the names of previous members and names of new chair and treasurer and who nominted and who seconded. I can possibly remember all those names without the notes! This is def the sort of thing I couldnt make up!

Is there someone nice and discreet on the committee you could come clean to, and who could remember all this stuff, without having to tell everyone else?

At most meetings you get a compulsive note-taker - did you happen to spot one of those?

Don't get yourself in a state about it for starters.

I've done similar before at work (trying to translate someone else's rubbish notes or re-reading my own deficient notes or just plain making them up.) Get down what you can with your grasp of the issues involved, then go to someone you trust and ask them to help you fill in the detail. No-one will think less of you for it - it happens all the time.

Yes I think confession may be the only answer however it looks bad on me as it was my first meeting in this role. I just dont believe its happened.

Please don't get upset about it though - we all bugger it up from time to time and I'm sure everyone else will feel the same!

I FOUND IT!!!! HURRAY!!! PANIC OVER!!