Minute to Win It
The official written record of actions taken during a meeting.
What are minutes?
This North Carolina law requires many government meetings to be open to the public.
What is the North Carolina Open Meetings Law?
This is the main downtown street known for shops, restaurants, and events.
What is Elm Street?
This document outlines topics for a meeting.
What is an agenda?
These must be maintained as official government records.
What are public records?
This type of vote records each member’s name and vote.
What is a roll call vote?
This is the minimum number of board members required to conduct official business.
What is a quorum?
Greensboro’s nickname, earned because it served as a major transportation and rail hub in the late 19th century, acting as the primary gateway to the West and South.
What is Gate City?
This requirement informs the public when and where a meeting will occur.
What is public notice?
True or False: Public records may only be destroyed according to approved retention schedules
What is true?
True or False: A governing board may take official action without a quorum.
What is false?
Before entering closed session, a governing board must publicly state this.
What is the statutory authority?
This large shopping and dining area is one of Greensboro’s most well-known retail destinations.
What is Friendly Center?
This term describes the order in which agenda items are addressed.
What is the order of business?
This law gives the public access to government records.
What is FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)?
This is the only point at which draft minutes become the official legal record of a meeting.
What is approval (or adoption) of the minutes?
True or False: North Carolina public bodies may enter closed session for any topic they consider confidential.
What is false?
The four students who led the Greensboro sit-ins are COLLECTIVELY known by this name.
Who are the Greensboro Four?
Adding items after publication creates this type of agenda.
What is a supplemental (or amended) agenda?
This statute chapter governs public access to records in North Carolina.
What is Chapter 132?
These minutes include summaries of discussion in addition to recording official actions.
What are summary minutes?
This statute section authorizes North Carolina public bodies to enter closed session for specific purposes.
What is NCGS 143-318.11?
Greensboro historically grew as a hub for this industry, especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is the textile industry?
Failure to properly notice a meeting agenda may create this type of legal issue under North Carolina law.
What is an Open Meetings violation?
The process of legally destroying records after their retention period.
What is records disposition?