MINUTES of SCINA Meeting - Sunday, August 21, 2022

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERGROUP OF NICOTINE ANONYMOUS (SCINA)

INTRODUCTIONS: George O. called the meeting to order at 10:03 am with the Serenity Prayer followed by introductions.

WAS YOUR MEETING REPRESENTED? Quorum was met with 8 members in attendance. The following meetings were represented: West Hollywood 001, Long Beach 012, Laguna Beach 257, Studio City 273, San Diego 284 & 285, Palm Springs 288, and First Saturday 289.

TRADITIONS: Tradition #8 “Nicotine Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.” was read.

TREASURER’S REPORT:

Balance from July report $1,374.33

Donations by check 25.00

Squarespace annual renewal -216.00

H&I Mailing – August -11.97

Registrar – August -10.50

Current available balance* $1,160.86

Bonnie H. celebrated 25 years nicotine free and donated $25. Next year she will donate $26. That’s a fun thing for all of us to do out of gratitude for the freedom this program has given us. PayPal Balance not reflected above = $98.78, which includes a $75 donation from the Bellflower meeting. (Note: There were no H&I or Registrar expenses in July.)

*There is an additional $5,000 in checking account that we do not touch to avoid $18/month bank fee. Savings account (prudent reserve) balance is $1000.61. If you make a donation for your meeting via PayPal, please notify me (Treasurer Bill H) at whca111@gmail.com so we can acknowledge your group here!

REGISTRAR REPORT: No Changes were made to the Administration List. Meeting information changes: Meeting 229, Silverlake, Friday, Meeting time restored to 6:30 by request. Candlelight, Friday 6:00 pm, restored by request, renumbered to Meeting 230 to eliminate confusion. Meeting 284, San Diego, Restored. Meeting day updated to Friday 7:00 pm, Contact information updated. Meetings removed: Meeting 084, Fullerton, First Saturday of the month, 4:00, removed due to low/no attendance. Meeting 286, Palm Desert, Friday 5:30 pm, removed by request of Representative. The information for removed Meetings is stored, and can be easily restored. NAWS has been notified of the closed Meetings No H&I Listings were added, updated or removed. 27 envelopes were addressed, and 33 Directories were printed.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS: Please send additional email contacts (which don’t increase our postage costs) 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 1-877-879-6422 or 1-877-TRY-NICA.

LITERATURE: The current balance is $813.77.

NICOTINE ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES (NAWS): NAWS Chairperson Tom H resigned, and former chair Sharon C has returned to active chair position. Bill H from SCINA is back on the Board in the chairperson emeritus position. There are plans to upgrade the www.nicotine-anonymous.org website, and move from ZoHo platform to WordPress. If anyone has any experience with WordPress or DreamHost, the website improvement committee would greatly appreciate your input. Please contact Bill H (chairperson-emeritus@nicotine-anonymous.org). Did you know that NAWS publishes a quarterly newsletter called “SevenMinutes”? It contains inspirational stories written by members about their personal NicA journey. Past issues are available to download and read for free at https://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/sevenminutes-newsletter. On the second Sunday of every month at 10:00 am a public outreach meeting is held through NAWS. If interested please see nicotine-anonymous.org.

EVENTS: Our annual picnic will be held on September 18, 2022 at 10:00 am. The SCINA meeting and election of officers will be held first. It will be at Bolivar Park, 3300 Del Amo Blvd, Lakewood, CA, 90712. We expect to do our annual Marathon Meeting virtually on Saturday, November 19th.

NEW MEETINGS: If interested in starting a new meeting, call Gary 310-755-5582 and leave a message.

PUBLIC OUTREACH: If you’re interested in being of service and taking on the commitment of Public Outreach Chair, please contact George O. at (562) 310-0874. Send your Meeting Representative to the Intergroup meetings to tell us how we can help you.

BYLAWS: No report.

WEB OPERATIONS: Directory, Calendar, and News pages have been updated. In the past month, we had 69 visitors and 139 page views. The top page views after the Welcome Page (55 views) were Virtual Meeting Quick Reference (38 views), Meeting List/Directory (15 views), News and Updates (14 views), Google Calendar (14 views).

OLD BUSINESS: The only meetings that we know of which are face-to-face are the Glendale meeting on Monday at 3:30, the Long Beach meeting on Monday at 6:00, and the San Diego meeting on Friday at 7:00 pm. Rob confirmed that all of the meetings he called are active. Jane reports the Palm Desert meeting and the Fullerton meeting are no longer active. There is no report from Gary at this time.

NEW BUSINESS: No new business.

BIRTHDAYS: Eddie L. has 6 years, Lindsey has 12 years, Bill H. has 23 years, Big happy birthday!!

SECRETARY REPORT: August minutes were approved.

CLOSING PRAYER: Angela P. led us in the Serenity Prayer at 11:03 am.