My experience with minutes for meetings was in a non engineering setting. I was a secretary of a church group and I had to write down the important dates we went over in the meeting. This was mostly done so it could be sent out to the two representatives from each church so they can give the information to the church. It was very helpful because not everyone can make the phone call meetings so to have minutes that just explain the important parts that can be given to the other members of the church helps give out information more efficiently. But I feel like the members who attended the meeting really do not care for the minutes and that they are just there. They are mostly used so that when the next meeting happens we know what we did the meeting before. Minutes are important because they do document important information that happened during the meetings.