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Shandaken CAC seeks volunteer for minutes; members debate Slack and AI-assisted notes
Summary
A long-serving minutes-taker said they will step down and asked for a volunteer; members discussed trying Slack again and briefly debated AI tools for producing minutes, with some concern about data-center energy use.
A long-serving volunteer who has taken the council’s minutes for four years said they are stepping back and asked for someone to take over the role.
“ I've been doing the minutes for 4 years now. I am not a typist. I don't know how to type,” the member said, asking for someone to volunteer. The council noted that meetings are recorded and minutes are an abbreviated summary of the record, but emphasized the need for a volunteer to produce the written minutes.
Members also discussed internal communications. Some said Slack has not been used effectively and that admin capabilities (removing former members) remain a problem, while one member suggested exploring AI to help create meeting minutes. Others raised concerns about the environmental impact and data-center energy use of AI tools and expressed reluctance to adopt them as a default solution.
