SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERGROUP OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS
INTRODUCTIONS: Brian K called the meeting to order at 10:14 AM with the Serenity Prayer followed by introductions.
WAS YOUR MEETING REPRESENTED? A quorum was met. The following meetings were represented: 001, 012, 022, 023, 029, 047, 076, 163, 186, 231 and 268.
TRADITIONS: Tradition #5. “ Each group has but one primary purpose-to carry its message to the nicotine addict who still suffers.” was read from the book of Nicotine Anonymous.
TREASURER REPORT: Beginning balance $840.12 -- Balance correction (During February's copy and paste of spreadsheet, Silverlake Meeting's January donation of $198.59 was inadvertently repeated in February). Revised beginning balance: $641.53. Two meetings brought donations for SCINA to the World Conference: West Hollywood meeting #1 donated $26 and Yucca Valley Meeting #266 donated $150.00. Thank You! Additional donations this month: $20 from Costa Mesa Mtg. #076 and $25 from Mtg #1 (Thank You!), (total incoming $221.00). Expenses: Bank Fee $3.00; Registrar expenses, $35.54; Secretary expenses (March and April) $76.40; Business Cards $87.20; AT&T Long Distance $46.66 (for two months); (total outgoing $248.80). Ending balance $613.73. The report was moved and approved.
REGISTRAR REPORT: No changes were made to the Administration List. Meeting #016 updated Phone Contact, Secretary and Representative. Meeting #034 updated Phone Contact. Meeting #047 updated Secretary. No meetings were added and no meetings were removed in the past month. All meetings except #059 have USPS contact through the Secretary, the Representative, or both. No H&I Listings were added. Kaiser Orange was deleted, undeliverable address. 73 envelopes were addressed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS: Chuck T. (714) 995-8845 is the new Chairperson, Jane H. will help. Please let us know if you can help with this responsibility. We’ve lost approximately 21 contacts at local hospitals that we send meeting lists to each month. Please mention this at your meetings.
COMMUNICATIONS: Carol is operating our hotline, the phone lines are down so please use the internet until we can get it working again.
LITERATURE: Marty says we were in full stock on books and chips. Gary said there was some literature left over from the Conference and Intergroup will purchase that from him. Business cards have arrived and are available at the Intergroup meetings.
WORLD SERVICES: The Conference went really well and George thanks everyone who contributed. Thank you Shannon, Ray, Frank, Joseph, Marlo, Bill, Kim, Angela, Judi, Mary, Jane, Alan, Jack R. and George. Going into the conference we were operating at a loss of $4,500 but donations put us at a loss of approximately $500.
EVENTS: We are having a retreat on the last weekend of June this year. Please call Jane H. (323) 852-1518 right away if you can commit to coming. Jane will need a deposit from Intergroup to the retreat center for $750 to reserve the date. Jane requested some books to be loaned for sale at the retreat. The picnic will be the 3rd Sunday of September in Los Angeles. George R. reserved Veteran’s Park on Overland Avenue in Culver City. The cost for the park is $124 and we will get a flier out for this soon.
NEW MEETINGS. Jane H. is thinking about starting a Sunday meeting in Hollywood, probably the Drug and Alcohol Center or maybe the Tropical Cafe perhaps in the Fall.
PUBLIC OUTREACH/SPEAKERS BUREAU/BY-LAWS: We still need Chairpersons for By-Laws and Speakers Bureau, so please let us know if you can help. If interested please come to the Intergroup meeting. We are compiling a list of speakers. Please sign up on the website form to add your name to the list or contact the webmaster for a list of people who can come to your meeting to speak. Please think about being a sponsor to someone who only has access to on-line or phone meetings.
WEB CZAR: As we move forward with the modernization - We can now have more information on our website. We currently have an average of 447 Views of our website per month - The most popular items are the home page of news and the meetings pages. The Website is a great resource - and it is optimized for mobile! Check it out on your smart-phone and use this resource in your recovery. We did a minute man lesson on how to post to the website! If you want to be a contributor to the website - Contact quitnowla@gmail.com.
If you have not yet signed up for the Email list please go to the website - www.scina.org or quitnowla@gmail.com add yourself to the list!
OLD BUSINESS: We received an invitation from Freedom Festival 10 to man a booth on Sunday, June 9, 2013 from 10am to 6pm. Freedom Festival is a Sober music event and was created to celebrate life without alcohol, drugs or any mind-altering substances or addictive behaviors. It is a family event. Angela P. received a couple of commitments to help so please come and join us if you can attend and be of service at a booth (949) 302-8465. Conference t-shirts are now available for sale at the Intergroup meetings for $10.
NEW BUSINESS: Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Jack Parmeter who passed away recently.
BIRTHDAYS: No birthdays this month.
SECRETARY REPORT: The May report was read and approved.
CLOSING PRAYER: Chuck T. led us in the Serenity Prayer at 11:40 AM.
