SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERGROUP OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS
INTRODUCTIONS: John D. called the meeting to order at 10:12 am with the Serenity Prayer followed by introductions.
WAS YOUR MEETING REPRESENTED? A quorum was not met. The following meetings were represented: West Hollywood 001, Costa Mesa 023, Costa Mesa 076, and Sherman Oaks 185.
TRADITIONS: Tradition #11. “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, and films.” was read.
TREASURER REPORT: Our beginning balance was $439.18. Income: Donations: $100 from Meeting #12 Long Beach; $20 from Meeting #185 Sherman Oaks; $15 from Meeting #76 Costa Mesa, and $10 from Meeting #23 Costa Mesa. Thank You! A 7th tradition of $18 was collected at the October SCINA meeting. (Total incoming: $163) Expenses: $3 Bank fee; Secretary expense $22.32; Grasshopper phone charges: $31.25; Registrar expense $30.91. (Total outgoing $87.48) Ending balance $514.70. There was not a quorum for approving this report.
REGISTRAR REPORT: No changes were made to Administration List. No changes were made to Meeting Listings. No Meetings were added and no meetings were removed. All Meetings have USPS contact through their Secretary, their Representative, or e-mail. No H&I Listings were added, updated or removed. 200 Directories and 43 envelopes were printed.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS: No report. We still need a volunteer to take over this role.
COMMUNICATIONS: Communications are running smoothly. There are no concerns at this time.
LITERATURE: Halli is out of town and doesn’t have a grand total for the bank account. Please contact Halli for orders prior to the meeting. HalliK@sbcglobal.net . Please contact John (818) 618-1501 if you would like to be of service for this position as Halli would be glad if someone could take it over for him.
WORLD SERVICES: Gary reported if you are signed up for Two-Way Talk with NAWS, you received an email asking you to take a survey. The email said you can find a link on the NicA site but he looked all over and couldn’t find it. An email was sent to info@nicotine-anonymous.org letting them know the link was not up on the page yet. Gary says he took the survey from the link in the email and there was a place for comments, but he had to stop and come back later, and it took him one page beyond where he had left off, so he couldn't back-track and comment.
EVENTS: Yesterday was the Marathon Meeting in Bellflower. Thanks to Joseph, Gregory and Tracy from the Bellflower meeting for organizing and staying the whole day. Participants donated a total of $153 to SCINA and our Treasurer will have a full report next month. Carry The Message month in January is just around the corner. Please start a conversation in your meeting about this. (See flyer attached). Intergroup will give away $10 worth of pamphlets for Carry The Message day to any Intergroup Rep that shows up at the December SCINA meeting and we will raffle off five Nicotine Anonymous: The Book on that day as well.
NEW MEETINGS: Gary hasn’t had any calls for new meeting material.
PUBLIC OUTREACH: Carry The Message flyer is included with the Minutes. Please come to our December meeting where we will have a raffle to give away free literature to our groups. The Monday meeting in West Hollywood started recording speakers at every meeting. We will start posting this to our YouTube account, and hopefully our SCINA website soon.
SPEAKERS LIST: Invite a speaker to your meeting. Call for a list (949) 302-8465.
BY-LAWS: No report.
Director of Web Operations: No report.
OLD BUSINESS: Bill H. is working with Jane H. to pre-plan next year’s Joshua Tree Retreat. We would like to have it two nights (tentatively last weekend of June, Friday afternoon/night through Sunday noon). If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact Bill at (818) 800-3449 or whca111@gmail.com.
NEW BUSINESS: There was some discussion about purchasing a basic computer for the Secretary. More discussion is needed.
BIRTHDAYS: Greg. S. celebrates 7 years; Jane H. celebrates 18 years; Bill celebrates 25 years; Gary M. celebrates 18 years.
SECRETARY REPORT: The November report was read and not approved as we did not have a quorum.
CLOSING PRAYER: Gary led us in the Serenity Prayer at 11:02 AM.
