MINUTES of SCINA Meeting - Sunday, June 20, 2021
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERGROUP OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS (SCINA)
INTRODUCTIONS: George O. called the meeting to order at 10:01 am with the Serenity Prayer followed by introductions.
WAS YOUR MEETING REPRESENTED? Quorum was met with 9 members in attendance. The following meetings were represented: West Hollywood 001, Silverlake 229, Laguna Beach 257, Studio City 273, San Diego 284, Palm Desert 286 and Palm Springs 288.
TRADITIONS: Tradition #6, “Nicotine Anonymous group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the Nicotine Anonymous name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.” was read.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Ending balance from March report $946.11
Paypal transfer +32.73
Paypal transfer +116.76
Paypal transfer +109.32
Transfer from savings to checking account +850.00
Secretary expense-postage (May) -17.85
Registrar expenses (May) -14.70
Current available balance *$22.37 ($5,022.37)
*Additional $5,000 in the account is used to avoid an $18/month bank fee that we do not touch.
REGISTRAR REPORT:
No changes were made to the Administration List. No Meetings were added or removed. Meeting 001, Monday West Hollywood, Phone Contact Information is updated. Meeting 286, Friday, Palm Desert, Representative envelope printing is enabled. All Meetings have USPS contact through their Secretary, their Representative, or email. No H&I Listings were added or removed. Envelope printing for VA Loma Linda Ambulatory Care Center is disabled due to returned mail. 35 envelopes were addressed, and 40 Directories were printed.
When changes are required to the printed version of our meeting list, the deadline to submit corrections is the 10th each month.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS: Please send additional email contacts for our meeting list; ask your doctors and dentists. For more information, or to be of service, call Angela P. at (949) 302-8465 or angela.socal9@gmail.com.
COMMUNICATIONS: No concerns at this time, any questions or concerns can be directed to SCINAinfo@gmail.com. We are now printing the NAWS 800 number on our meeting lists. 1-877-879-6422 or 1-877-TRY-NICA.
LITERATURE: Chips were purchased last month and the current balance in the literature account is $765.77.
WORLD SERVICES: The first quarter Nicotine Anonymous World Service (NAWS) board meeting will be held Saturday, July 10th, 10 am-2 pm PST via Zoom. To receive an agenda and invite, please email chairperson@nicotine-anonymous.org.
EVENTS: The virtual Joshua Tree event will be one day only, Sunday August 22, 2021 for $10 registration. See attached flyer.
Our picnic will be held September 18, 2021 and we will have Officer elections. We had a discussion about having a face-to-face picnic this year. George O. will follow up with George R about finding a location and report back next month. Please consider being of service at the Intergroup level.
NEW MEETINGS: No report.
PUBLIC OUTREACH: No report at this time. If anyone is willing to take on or share the Public Outreach position, please contact John D. at (818) 618-1501. We need more help with Intergroup outreach. Send your Meeting Representative to the Intergroup meetings to tell us how we can help you. The point of contact is needed. If your meeting has been interrupted due to the shutdown, please see our meeting list for meetings which are still getting together online and conference calls.
SPEAKERS LIST: Invite a speaker to your meeting. Call (949) 302-8465 for a list.
BYLAWS: No report.
WEB OPERATIONS: www.SCINA.org domain name now redirects to our Squarespace website correctly. SCINA.org also links directly to our SCINA Squarespace site. www.QuitNowLA.com links to our QuitNowLA site. Squarespace and QuitNowLA have identical content.
We had 192 visitors, 180 unique visits, and 342 page-views. The top pages viewed after the Welcome Page (86 views) were Google Calendar (68), Meeting List (61), and Virtual Meeting Quick Reference (31).
OLD BUSINESS: Last month a motion was made and passed for Bill Harmon to assume the Treasurer position from John Darnell. George Orduna will remain as Chairperson and Angela Pendergrass will remain as Secretary. John Darnell will look into adding Bill Harmon’s signature on the Bank of America account and removing his own access.
NEW BUSINESS: No new business.
BIRTHDAYS: No Birthdays this month.
SECRETARY REPORT: June minutes were read, corrected and approved.
CLOSING PRAYER: Angela P. led us in the Serenity Prayer at 11:12 am.
