SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERGROUP OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS
INTRODUCTIONS: John D. called the meeting to order at 10:06 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, 209, 229, 241, 268, 273, and 274.
TRADITIONS: Tradition #4. “Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Nicotine Anonymous as a whole” was read.
CHAIRPERSON REPORT: Please remind the membership that Intergroup needs volunteers.
TREASURER REPORT: Our beginning balance is $768.66. Income: Donations: $40 from West Hollywood Meeting #1; $30 from Fullerton Meeting #84; $10 and $7.50 from Meeting #231 Long Beach. 7th Tradition from March meeting was $16 and from April meeting was $27. (Total incoming $130.50). Expenses: $3 Bank imaging fee; Secretary expenses $26.40; Registrar expenses were $31.54; AT&T Long Distance $25.27; GoDaddy annual website charges $37.26 (Total outgoing $123.47). Ending balance $775.69. The report was moved and approved.
REGISTRAR REPORT: Administration List: No changes. Meeting # 47 Representative information updated. No meetings were added and no meetings went dark. All meetings have USPS contact through their Secretary, their Representative, or e-mail. H&I Listing added: Sophia Yeung, Cancer Screening and Prevention Program Coordinator, Nursing Department, City of Hope Medical Center, in Duarte. No H&I listings were removed, and no H&I Listings were updated. 57 envelopes were addressed, and 200 Directories were printed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS: Vee K. - no report. 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. is looking into other options again for our 800 number. George offered to call Sprint and AT&T to look into other options.
LITERATURE: We are missing the World Wide Meeting Directory but are in full stock on everything else, we think we were short-changed on the last order of chips and are looking into it.
WORLD SERVICES: The new NAWS website will be going up this weekend or shortly afterwards. I have gone over it and it is fantastic site. I think everyone will like it very much. You can find anything that is available. What is neat too is all issues available of Seven Minutes since inception will be available to read online. You will be able to register your meetings on the World Wide Meeting List online. The new starter kit will include all pamphlets available versus only 5 of them.
EVENTS: 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. has scheduled a potluck gathering for the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend (May 24) in Hollywood. We have a flyer going out with the minutes this month and also on the website. A motion was passed for up to $50 for napkins, utensils, water and coffee and other miscellaneous items.
NEW MEETINGS: No new meetings but Gary did send out an information package to a requestor from Laguna Woods.
PUBLIC OUTREACH: John D. is gathering contact information for all city channels in Southern California. John has contacted Cities of West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Downey, and Long Beach to inquire about how to advertise Nicotine Anonymous with their cities. I expect information from those cities as well as continuing contacting other cities that we have on our lists. Also, the City of Downey works with PIH (Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital). We are working on getting a relationship built with them as well. 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: It was discussed that now that we have our own Step Study Guide, please don’t bring up other program’s literature in meetings. Groups are autonomous and can decide how they want to handle it.
NEW BUSINESS: Jeff M. has offered to be a delegate for us at the Conference at the end of the month and as we have openings for more delegates to represent us at the Conference April 24-26, 2015, a motion was made to elect him and it was passed.
BIRTHDAYS: George O celebrates 13 years this month. Congratulations!
SECRETARY REPORT: The April report was read and approved as we did have a quorum.
CLOSING PRAYER: George O. led us in the Serenity Prayer at 11:14 AM.
