I think this simple solution in this case is to simply build a query that
uses a date range for the meeting.

simply don't use the active, inactive flag for this report, but only enter a
given date range of the people you want for a particular meeting.

if you're going to generate a list of the active members, then you're not
likely including meeting information, and even if you do that's a different
report any way. this report most certainly will have a query that includes
true or false for the active "member" field.

Of course the only detail here is we don't know how your meeting database is
setup. However, I shall assume you have a master table of members, and then
you have a child table that lists each members meetings + date they
attended.

The report to show who attended a meeting will not use the active/inactive
flag, and simply only query by a date range (or single date) to produce the
list of members who attended a given meeting.

The two reports are different, and the active, inactive field setting can be
ignored for the attendance report.

Thanks Kallal
I understand using a query to come up with active members and to use a date
query to find a paticular meeting. But what I forgot to post in my original
post is in the "roll call form" I will need to check off active members
present and keep that info with that table.