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4. Have all parties sign the document. Breathe a sigh of relief--you have official, legal corporate minutes!

Below are the descriptions of the information we need from you.	Give us your information in the boxes below.	Below is helpful information to quickly guide you through this process.
*Denotes Required Information Information About The Parties And The Document
Enter the complete corporation name:		Include the corporation suffix. Example "Widgets Manufacturing, Inc."
Select the state in which the corporation is organized:	Select A State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Enter the date of the meeting:		Enter the date in this format: MM/DD/YYYY
Enter the street address where the meeting was held:		Enter the address like this: 7833 E. Pine Rd.
Enter the city where the meeting was held:
Select the state where the meeting was held:	Select A State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Select the approximate time the meeting began:	hr: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 min: :00 :15 :30 :45 am/pm: am pm
Select the type of meeting held:	Annual Organizational Special	Tell me about meeting types.
Select whether the meeting was a directors' or shareholders' meeting:	Select Directors Or Shareholders Directors Shareholders	Tell me about directors' and shareholders' meetings.
Enter the approximate date the corporation was filed: Enter the date in this format: MM/DD/YYYY. Enter the financial institution's name where the corporation will do its banking:   Enter the First person's name with signing authority on the bank account:     Check the box to add another person with signing authority
Enter the First appointed director's name:     Check the box to add another appointed director
Select the number of s that attended the meeting:	Select Number Of Attendees 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Select the number of guests that attended the meeting:	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Enter the discussion relating to the First corporate resolution at this meeting:		Tell me about discussions.
Enter the corporate resolution from the First discussion of this meeting:		Whatever you enter here will complete this sentence: "It was resolved that _____________________". Tell me about corporate resolutions.
	Check the box to add another discussion
Select whether or not officers were appointed at the meeting:	No Yes
Enter the full name of the appointed president:   Enter the full name of the appointed vice president:   Enter the full name of the appointed secretary:   Enter the full name of the appointed treasurer:

Type Of Corporate Meeting:

Depending on who attends the meeting and when it is held, Corporate meetings can be categorized into three different types: The Organizational Meeting, the Special Meeting, and the Annual Meeting. Each one of these meetings can be further categorized as either a Board of Directors' Meeting or a Shareholder's Meeting. The three types of meetings are explained more fully below.

1. Organizational Meeting. The Organizational Meeting is held when the Corporation is first formed. At the organizational meeting, the first directors and officers are named, the corporate address is chosen, the bylaws are approved, the articles of incorporation are approved, a bank is chosen, signatories for the Corporate bank account are approved and other organizational matters are addressed.
2. Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting is held every year, usually at the same time of year, to address certain recurring issues faced by the Corporation. In most Annual Meetings, the Corporate Officers and Directors are either re-appointed or replaced, the major actions of the Directors and Officer from the preceding year are reviewed, Corporate earnings are reported and discussed, and other major Corporate events are discussed and approved or rejected.
3. Special Meeting. The Special Meeting is held whenever an unusual Corporate event occurs that cannot wait until the next Annual meeting. Typically, such events include the premature removal of a Corporate director or officer, the merger, bankruptcy or dissolution of the Corporation, the ratification of a major new contract of some kind, or any other substantial change in the Corporation's operations and affairs.

Corporate Resolutions:

A corporate resolution is the formal act of the corporation. Obviously, the corporation itself is just an inert entity; therefore, the corporate "action" must be taken by a person or group of people representing the corporation. In a corporate context, different people or groups of people have differing authority to take such corporate action. A corporate resolution can be adopted by the board of directors or the shareholders.

It may help to conceptualize the corporation by comparing it to a vessel at sea. If the corporation is the vessel, then the three groups on board are the shareholders, the directors, and the officers. The shareholders are like passengers. They do not participate in the operation of the vessel. They are in almost every respect simply along for the ride. The only real power the shareholders have is to appoint and remove directors, but this power is great. The board of directors is like the captain of the ship. The directors as a group decide in general terms where the ship is going and declare that direction in a Resolution. Finally, the officers of a corporation are like the crew. They handle all the day-to-day chores of keeping the vessel ship-shape, implement the Resolutions of the directors, and insure that the vessel is headed in the direction plotted out by the directors.

The shareholders become shareholders by investing money or property or services in the corporation. The shareholders appoint and remove directors by Resolution. The directors, in turn, make policy decisions for the corporation and appoint and remove officers by corporate Resolution. The officers--such as president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer--manage the corporation on a daily basis. The officers do not make Resolutions.

Although each of the three different groups have different authority, the same individual person can be a member of any or all three groups. When the person exercises the authority bestowed on any individual group, he or she is acting only in that respective role. The way to keep it all straight is to document corporate action in Resolutions, so everyone knows the proper steps have been taken by the right group.

Directors' Meeting Minutes:

Here you should choose whether you are drafting directors' meeting minutes or shareholders' meeting minutes. The directors must meet at least annually to re-appoint or replace corporate officers and discuss such other issues as they are required to address by the corporate bylaws. In an active corporation, the directors should meet at least once a quarter to review the corporation's operations, earnings, and performance.

Shareholders' Meeting Minutes:

Here you should choose whether you are drafting shareholder's meeting minutes or directors' meeting minutes. Ordinarily, the shareholders meet only once per year at the annual meeting. At the annual meeting the shareholders adopt a resolution either re-appointing or replacing any or all of the directors. Sometimes, however, the shareholders will need to weigh in on a particularly urgent and important issue before the next annual meeting. For these urgent situations a special meeting must be called. At the special meeting the shareholders may vote on issues that will affect their ownership of the company, such as whether to merge with another company or undertake a reverse stock split.

Discussion Section of Minutes:

In this section, you should type in a summary of the discussion that was held before the Directors or Shareholders adopted their resolution. In well-drafted corporate minutes, there is always a brief summary of the discussion that was held before the group adopted a resolution or took other action. The discussion shouldn't be a verbatim transcript of who said what. Instead, the discussion should just capture the general nature of the subject matter and very briefly touch upon differing views presented. The purpose of the discussion section of the minutes is simply to show that the group considered the various angles of an issue before adopting a resolution. Below is an example:

"Mr. Johnson proposed having the corporation purchase Coventry Court Estates for subdivision into a development of single family homes. The board discussed the general trend of real estate sales in that area and the success of neighboring developments. Mrs. Smith noted the risk of a substantial financial loss to the corporation if the homes didn't sell quickly. The Board discussed ways to minimize the risk of loss. The Board also discussed alternative means of raising the money necessary to fund the start up of the development."