MINUTES August 19, 2012
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERGROUP OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS
INTRODUCTIONS:
Mary P. called the meeting to order at 10:09 AM with the Serenity Prayer followed by introductions.
WAS YOUR MEETING REPRESENTED?
A quorum was met. The following meetings were represented: 1, 12, 22, 23, 47, 76, 84, 185, 186, 227, 229, 231, 250, 270
TRADITIONS:
Tradition 8: Nicotine Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers ,was read from the book Nicotine Anonymous.
TREASURER REPORT
July Report
Beginning balance $528.24. Donations: Mtg#1 $100, 7th tradition $11 (total $111). Expenses: Bank Fee $3, Retreat $220, Registrar $80.81, Web Site $192 (total $495.11) Ending balance $144.13. The Treasurer’s report was moved and approved.
Registrar Report
No changes or corrections were made to the Administration Service List. No
Meetings were added.
No Meetings were removed. All meetings in the Directory have USPS contact through the Secretary, the Representative, or both. No H&I Listings were added. Kaiser Permanente Dept of Addiction Medicine was removed, due to “unknown address” returned mail.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS:
No report. The mail was returned from Kaiser Permanente in Orange, CA, so we have lost the contact at that hospital.
COMMUNICATIONS:
No reports, no concerns
LITERATURE:
We are in full stock on supplies. Based on suggestions, we now have various colors for chips and are fully stocked with the new colored chips.
WORLD SERVICES:
The Meditation CD was sent back to redo the music. The music has been changed and the Meditation CD will be available soon. The website will be changed soon. The Adobe pdf of
7 Minutes
is now available for free on the website.
EVENTS:
The retreat was held in Joshua Tree on June 23-June 24. The event was very successful, with 22 people sleeping over, and 10 day participants. All the bills related to this event have been settled. George R. has reserved Rush Park in Rossmoor for the annual picnic on the third Sunday in September. Mary designed a wonderful flyer with details about the picnic to be posted on the website. Please remind your members that this is our Annual Election of Officers Meeting. If you are interested in serving the membership at the Intergroup level, please attend. Directions to the park are printed on the August Directory. After the Annual picnic, the Marathon Meeting in November will be the next event.
NEW MEETINGS:
None
PUBLIC OUTREACH/SPEAKERS BUREAU/BY-LAWS:
No report.There was discussion about the bylaws. It was recommended that we change the quorum from 10 to 7 people. This change will be made when we republish the bylaws. We will revise the bylaws to reflect our current committee structure. If interested in volunteering for outreach activities, please contact Jeff at
jeffinjt@gmail.com.WEB CZAR:
The Website has been updated to Square space 6 - This allows some exciting new changes to the website - like new Multiple Contributors for the website. Now, Committee members can update and add information for their committees directly to the Website and to make sure that the information is the most current and up to date as possible. If you want to be a contributor to the website - Contact quitnowla@gmail.com.
OLD BUSINESS:
Brian K. will donate a $100 Google offer that he received to set up a simple Google Ad designed to direct people to the SCINA.org website.Also we are still in need of volunteers for the following Intergroup Positions: Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer. Those interested are encouraged to contact George O. 562-310-0874.
NEW BUSINESS:
No new business
BIRTHDAYS:
Bill H. celebrated 13 years! Awesome!!!
SECRETARY REPORT:
The August report was read and approved.
CLOSING PRAYER:
Brian K. led us in the Serenity Prayer at 11:26PM.
