GTOASCNA
March, 2013 Minutes
Opened w/ Prayer
Terri M read Twelve Traditions
Nick L read the
Twelve Concepts
Attendance:
Sunday
Living in the Solution: Y
No Pain, No Gain: Y
Living in the Solution: Y
No Pain, No Gain: Y
Monday
Another Chance to live: Y
Another Way: N
Together We Can: Y
Another Way: N
Together We Can: Y
Tuesday
Not High Noon: Y
Clean Possibilities: N
Hope Turns to Faith: Y
Clean Possibilities: N
Hope Turns to Faith: Y
Wednesday/Sunday
Hope without Dope: Y
Hope without Dope: Y
Progress not Perfection: Y
Thursday
Hope Through Surrender: Y
God’s Will Candlelight: Y
Hope Through Surrender: Y
God’s Will Candlelight: Y
Friday
High on Life: Y
High on Life: Y
Saturday
The war is over: N
Serenityville: N
Serenityville: N
Trust the Process: Y
12 out of 16 active groups represented, quorum established
Last month’s minutes read and accepted by Thomas F
**Regional
Committee Members Report,
No report, next Regional Committee Meeting to be
held in Ripley on April 6th and 7th.
GTOASCNA
Treasurer’s Report
03-17-13
Activity recorded 02-17-13 through 03-16-13
Regular Account
Beginning Balance $
272.73
Income
02-17-13 Living In the
Solution $ 25.00
Another Chance $ 25.00
High on Life $
25.00
Trust the Process $ 50.00
Total income $125.00
Expenses
02-17-13 Nick A ck 422
Policy Ad-Hock $ 50.00
02-17-13 MRSCNA ck 423
region donation $250.00
03-18-13 USPS PO Box ck
424renewal (6mos) $ 39.00
Total Expenses $339.00
Ending Balance $58.73
Public Relations Reserve
Beginning Balance $300.00
Ending Balance $300.00
Prudent Reserve
Beginning Balance $100.00
Ending Balance
$100.00
Activities Reserve
Beginning Balance $400.00
Ending Balance $400.00
As of 03-16-13 the total of all 4 accounts is $858.73
Terri M. – ASC
Treasurer
ACTIVITIES REPORT
03/17/13
We have nothing new to report this month as we are waiting
on the new chair to be voted on in area service. The other positions will be filled at the next meeting at 2pm on
Sunday, April 21st 2013.
Thanks for the opportunity to grow and a great big “Thank YOU” to those
who helped this to be a positive experience for me.
ILS,
Terri M
**Public Relations Report
March, 2013
We are continuing to have contact with the CCSAPP to be involved
with the upcoming drug summit. The subcommittee will making a motion for $100
dollars to build a new pr display. An itemized list is available for anyone to
see.
1 sheet 1/2 luan $30.00
2-4ft piano hinges $8.97 each
1 gallon basic text blue paint $30.00
1 can white spray paint $4.00
stencil pack $5.66
Screws $5.00
2-hinges for back brace $3.00 each
Totaling $90.00 plus taxes etc.
We will be contacting Joe B. from metro area about getting
signs displayed on buses as a public service announcement.
We will be having a schedule day on march 27 at 9am. We will need
$18.52 for schedules.
Grateful to serve, Phillip D.
**H&I
SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT
**Sunday night: No pain No
gain:
**Sunday Noon: Living in the solution:
Greetings from the, “Living in the Solution”, home group.
The meeting is happening and the message is being carried. Average attendance
is 10 addicts per meeting. Our business meeting was held on 3/17/13. The group
vote for activities chair is Tony T. and vice chair is Dee Dee G. We gave a
small key tag donation to the “Not High Noon” home group. We placed a $57.00
literature order this week. Due to this order and the upcoming celebration next
Sunday we have no donation to area this month. We would like to invite everyone
to come help us celebrate a one year miracle next Sunday and hear Austin B.
share his experience, strength, and hope.
Grateful to Serve, Nick S
**Monday
Noon: Another chance to live:
Another chance to live noon Monday meeting,
Greetings from another chance to live
noon Monday meetings. The doors are open with literature on the table, coffee
in the pot, rent paid, we have five home group members, recovery being shared,
there are 15-20 people attending weekly, and the facility is very welcoming. We
also have no area donation for this month with new books and tags needing to be
bought. We voted 3 in favor and 0 against for Nick P to become Activities
Chairperson. We would like to remind everyone this is a literature study meeting
so if you attend please bring your basic text.
Grateful to serve, Nick A.
** Monday Night:
"Together We Can"
All is well at the Together
We Can home group of NA. Meetings are being opened on time, literature is on
the table and the message of recovery is being shared. We are averaging 40 in
attendance weekly. Our home group
voted 4-0-0 in favor to elect Tony T. as activities chair. We are aware of the
clean time requirement but feel in this case Tony would fulfill the trusted
servants position just the same as someone with a year or more clean. We would like to announce April the
15th we will be having a home group member celebrate one year. Amber B. will be
sharing her ES&H. Come celebrate with us. We do not have a donation for
area at this time.
In loving service, Will L. GSR
**Monday Night: “Another Way”: No Report
** Tuesday Not High Noon:
The meeting is open on
time and the message is being carried. We would like to thank all the home
groups who donated literature and key tags and we are in good standing with
both of them at this time. Our average attendance is 25 and our vote for
activities chair is Nick P, we abstain from voting on the activities
subcommittee vice chair position. We have no donation to area at this time due
to paying rent and buying coffee supplies. We also switched positions in or HG,
Brittany O is our Treasurer and Eric H is our secretary.
Grateful to serve, Elijah C
**Tuesday Night: Clean
Possibilities: No Report
**Tuesday Night: Hope Turns
To Faith:
Greeting from the Hope Turns to Faith home group. Things
are going well. The doors are open, literature is on the table, and an
atmosphere of recovery is being provided. We recently got a new stock of
literature; plenty of Basic Texts, Living Clean, and It Works. Rent has been
paid and we would also like to take this time to welcome our newest home group
member Dee-Dee. In terms of the nominations for the Activities chair and
vice-chair, our group voted as follows: 3 for, 0 against, and 0 abstained for
Nick P. to be the activities chair and 3 for, 0 against, and 0 abstained for
Dee-Dee as activities vice chair. We will not be having a speaker meeting this
month because of the 13 year celebration of one of our home group members on
March 26th. We hope to see everyone there!
**Wednesday Night/Sunday
Night: Hope Without Dope:
**Wednesday Night: Progress
Not Perfection:
All is well at the progress not perfection group of NA. Meeting open on
time with literature on the table. Our attendance has been holding steady
carrying the message to 20 - 25 addicts each week. We have a home group member
celebrating five yrs on April 24th. There will be an out of town speaker for
the celebration. At our business meeting this month our group conscience has a
concern that we would like to address. We find it irresponsible to use GTO
funds in feeding addicts for ad hoc committees. That $50 could have been used
to further our primary purpose according to out Fifth tradition. If there was
no better use of those founds then it should have been sent up the service
structure to help out our region. We believe that in an area where we struggle
with founds that this was an irresponsible use of our funds. According to our
11th concept, NA funds are to be used to further our primary purpose, and
must be managed responsibly. And us as trusted servants should be more
responsible while voting on these issues for our for area. We have but on
primary purposes and that is to carry the NA message. Nothing more or nothing
less. Thank you for allowing me to be of service.
In loving service, Chris S.
**Thursday Noon: Hope Through Surrender Group:
Greetings from the Hope through Surrender home group of Narcotics
Anonymous. The recovery meeting is taking place as scheduled every
week. The message of recovery is being shared. Our home group
currently has only two home group members and would like to invite
other members with the willingness to support this meeting by becoming
a home group member to please ask about how you can contribute. We
have no donation for the area committee at this time.
Grateful to serve: Hope through surrender home group.
**Thursday Night: Gods Will Candlelight
Group:
All is well with the
Gods Will Candle Light Meeting of Narcotics Anonymous, the doors are open on
time, coffee is made, rent paid, literature on display and the lifesaving
message of NA is being shared. Our home group voted 4-0-0 to elect Nick P as
Activities subcommittee chair and we have no donation to area at this time as
we are placing a literature order.
Grateful to serve, Tom F
** Friday Night: High on Life
Group:
.
**Saturday Morning- Serenityville Group: No Report
**Saturday Night-The War Is
Over Group:
The Saturday evening The War is Over meeting of
narcotics anonymous continues to go well. We are averaging 12 addicts in
attendance each week. The doors are open on time, coffee is made, and
literature is on the table. The message of recovery is being shared.
We have no new home group members at this time. We continue to purchase
Basic Texts, Living Clean books, and it Works How and Why to stock the library
for our literature study. We have no donation for area at this time.
Grateful to serve, Missy D
Grateful to serve, Missy D
**Saturday
Night: Trust The Process:
Meetings going great doors always opened literature on the table a the message
is being carried we are having around 30 - 40 addicts per meeting. We have a new
home group member that we would like to welcome Shawn M.
Grateful to serve, Trust the process GSR
**OLD
BUSINESS:
1- Nothing to report
from the RCM, the
next Regional Committee meting will be held on 4-6 and 4-7 2013.
2-Sub Committee’s gave their
reports:
Tyler M, Gave the H&I
subcommittee report
Phillip D, Gave the PR
subcommittee report
Terri M, Gave the Activities
subcommittee report
3- Nick P (our RCM) announced that since
GTOANA had no issues or concerns to take to Ripley for discussion on a regional
level the regional he felt that it was not necessary to go. No GSR’s present
disagreed.
4- The
Ad Hoc policy meeting will take place Sunday March 3rd from 12-4pm. It is located at 1349
Sixth Avenue, Huntington, WV which is a big blue house right at the corner of 6th ave. and 13th street with a hanging sign that says
the Huntington House.
The Ad Hoc group would like
to request $30.00 from area so that refreshments can be provided and copies of
area policy printed for the people in attendance.
Grateful to serve, Nick
A.
5- Nominations for Activities Subcommittee chair are as
follows:
For Chair: Anthony T and Nick
P
For Vice Chair: Megan C and
Dee Dee G
6- A motion was
brought forth and passed by a vote of 11-0-0 to make a $250.00 donation to
region.
**NEW BUSINESS:
Web Servant Report
Everything is going well we
updated the policy changes The following updates has been completed on website
under our area policy:
7: Public Relations Motion to make the following changes to the
Internal Accounts and Priority of Expenses sections under the Finances section
of GTOASCNA Policy.
If i out anything just let me know.
We only received 2 emails from home groups requesting posts this month and the minutes from Tom F. We also received the region minutes which I did not post do to the amount on names and phone numbers that would needed to be deleted and the fact that our Region Website already posts them. All meetings should be correct any changes just let us know.
Grateful to serve
Dalmas C
If i out anything just let me know.
We only received 2 emails from home groups requesting posts this month and the minutes from Tom F. We also received the region minutes which I did not post do to the amount on names and phone numbers that would needed to be deleted and the fact that our Region Website already posts them. All meetings should be correct any changes just let us know.
Grateful to serve
Dalmas C
Public Relations Motion
To make the following changes
to the Internal Accounts and Priority of Expenses sections under the Finances
section of GTOASCNA Policy. If I
left out anything just let me know. We
only received 2 emails from home groups requesting posts this month and the
mins from Tom F. We also received the region mins which I did not post do to
the amount on names and phone numbers that would needed to be deleted and the
fact that our Region Website already posts them. All meetings should be correct
any changes just let us know.
Grateful to serve, Dalmas C
Ad Hoc Policy
Meeting:
The Ad Hoc meeting went very well with
three people in attendance and the session lasting around three hours. There we
several areas in policy that needed changing and those will be in the meeting
minutes. These changes will be bolded and underlined to make them easier to
find. Also the whole policy needed to be re-typed and formatted in the new
Microsoft word format. Extra food and drinks from the Ad Hoc in keeping with
our twelve concepts were donated to the Monday night meeting for the
celebration taking place ensuring nothing was wasted and therefore was used to
further our purpose. I would like to think Nick and Erica for sharing the
guidance through this process. It is recommended by the Ad Hoc members that
someone going forward is made the point of accountability for maintaining and
understanding area policy as no officer responsibilities currently ensures that
this happen.
Grateful to
Serve, Nick A.
Motions
Phillip D requested $100.00 for materials to build a new PR
display and:
Also requested $18.52 for schedules for schedule day, both passed
12-0-0
Dalmas C requested that the treasurer release $120.00 so that he
and the RCM Nick P could go to Ripley, WV for the upcoming Regional Committee
Meeting. Motion passed by a vote of 11-1-0
Activities Subcommittee vote results:
Tony T: 3-0-0
Nick P: 9-0-0. Making Nick P our new Activities Subcommittee
Chair.
**OPEN FORUM
RCM Alt position:
Dalmas C thanked the area for entrusting him with the position of
RCM alt but stated he would like to step down and asked if willingness existed
within the groups for anyone to step in and fill that position. I Tom F
expressed willingness however it would not at this time be in my (or GTOANA’s)
best interest for me to take on that responsibility. I take on all commitments
proudly and do the best I can with each and am grateful to be a trusted
servant. I have some issues with health to deal with and may at a later time be
able to serve in that capacity. Thank you for allowing me to be part of the GTO
area.
ILS, Tom F
**Minutes read and approved by Robbie C, GTOANA Chair.
