Southern California Intergroup of Nicotine Anonymous
INTRODUCTIONS: George O. called the meeting to order at 10:00 AM with the Serenity Prayer followed by introductions.
WAS YOUR MEETING REPRESENTED? A quorum was met. The following meetings were represented: 001, 012, 023, 047, 076, 185, 229, 241, and 273.
TRADITIONS: Tradition #3. “The only requirement for Nicotine Anonymous membership is a desire to stop using nicotine.” was read.
TREASURER REPORT: Our beginning balance is $506.75. Income: Donations: $100 from Meeting #1 West Hollywood; $100 from Costa Mesa Meeting #76; $14.17 from Long Beach Meeting #231; $100 from Bellflower Meeting #250; $50 from Laguna Beach Meeting #257; $73.00 from Silverlake Meeting #229; $25 from Glendale Meeting #241; $25 from Chatsworth Meeting #47. 7th Tradition from February meeting was $22. (Total incoming $509.17). Expenses: $3 Bank imaging fee; Secretary expenses $32.42; Registrar expenses were $31.64; PO Box Rental $45.00; AT&T Long Distance $66.84 (Total outgoing $147.26.) Ending balance $868.66. The group voted to send a $100 donation to World Services, bringing our ending balance to $768.66. The report was moved and approved.
REGISTRAR REPORT: Administration List: Public Outreach contact updated to show John D. as Public Outreach Chair. Meeting # 47 Representative information deleted by request. Meeting #76, Meeting location address corrected. Meeting #231 Phone contacts and Representative information updated, Secretary information deleted. Meeting 277, Bellflower on Friday evening, 7:00 pm, at Joseph W.’s house, was added. No meetings were lost. All Meetings have USPS contact through their Secretary, their Representative, or e-mail. No H&I Listings were added. No H&I listings were removed. BREATHE LA is no longer affiliated with American Lung Association, so contact information was changed. Address remains. 56 envelopes were addressed, and 200 Directories were printed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS: Vee K. contacted California Hospital and is currently speaking with their educational department to incorporate our fliers to a discharge package to all patients in California hospital. He is waiting for them to get back to him. Meanwhile, he is calling other medical institutions. Please call (818) 660-3315 if you have a contact for him. If you have a doctor or dentist that is willing to put out our business cards and our meeting list in their lounge every month, please get their contact name, business name, address, phone number and email address. We will add them to our regular snail mail and send them our new meetings lists and any flyers we have for events every month.
COMMUNICATIONS: SCINA’s phone line (800) 642-0666 has not been working. George O., former Chairperson of SCINA 09/2005 to 09/2012, was informed Wed, Feb 4, 2015 and called the phone company to place a work order to look into getting it fixed. He was asked to call other numbers over and over and no one seems to know how to fix the problem. We may need to look into other options again for our 800 number. George offered to call Sprint and AT&T to look into other options.
LITERATURE: We are on full stock on everything, we received our order and have more step study books as we sold out last month. Theresa saved us about $15 in shipping by making a special trip to the Post Office to send us the order from Texas. The updated order form has been added to the website.
WORLD SERVICES: Gary M. - no report.
EVENTS: Our next scheduled event is the 2015 Retreat. Jane H. had to change the reservation dates to the weekend of July 25-26 so please note the change on your calendars. John D. is working on a potluck gathering for the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend (May 24) near Melrose and La Brea. We will get back to everyone next month on this after the details are worked out.
NEW MEETINGS: One new meeting has been started by Joseph W of the Tuesday night Bellflower meeting, at 7:00 pm Friday, at a residence, 13128 Eastbrook, in Downey.
PUBLIC OUTREACH: John D. is gathering contact information for all city channels in Los Angeles County. Please remember, we have free business cards at the Intergroup meetings. Come and get them. We also need your attendance at the Intergroup meetings to have a quorum for voting.
SPEAKERS BUREAU: Call Angela P. (949) 302-8465 if you would be like to join the speakers list or need a copy of the list. Please invite one of the speakers to your meeting.
BY-LAWS: No report.
WEB CZAR: The domains quitnowLA.com and SCINA.org were up for renewal and were in Brian’s personal domain registry account. He set up an account for SCINA so that we can put our own billing card on it. He then can easily transfer over the domains to SCINA. This way, we could just go direct and manage the ownership of those domains going forward without any problems.
OLD BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS: Elections were held for delegates to represent us next month at the World Services Conference April 24-26, 2015. Elected delegates were Rodger F., Bill H., Mary P., Liz G., Angela P, George O., and John D. We have to send a letter to the Secretary of World Services by 3/24/15 giving notification of who will be representing us at the Conference.
BIRTHDAYS: Angela P. celebrates 11 years, John celebrates 2 years. Congratulations!
SECRETARY REPORT: The March report was read and approved as we did have a quorum.
CLOSING PRAYER: Jane led us in the Serenity Prayer at 10:53 AM.
