GCI Intergroup Minutes

January 17, 2016

Serenity Prayer and Welcome: Ali, chair, opened up meeting at 4:03pm

Standing Rules, Step, Principle, Tradition, Concept: Mary F. and Sue

Attending: Joe, Janet S., Janet L., Matthew, Karla, Diane, Sue, Mary, Tony, Mary Ann, Rachael, Julie and Ali

Secretary Report: December minutes were reviewed and accepted.

Treasurer Report: Tony, Treasurer, passed out financial reports. Ali requested that 2016 budget categories be changed to reflect current IG committees before budget is approved.

Chair’s Report: Ali passed out the WSO document, “How to be a trusted servant” and this document was read out loud by the group as a whole. No chair report was given.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

By-Laws: Tony has two small revisions to make that came from WSO, but no other information was given.

Communication: No report was submitted. Janet L. did leave a verbal report to Rachael’s voicemail concerning telephone service stats but Rachael didn’t receive this voicemail and therefore did not include it in a report. Rachael did report that the committee is investigating other options to our current telephone answering service. Current meeting list was uploaded to our website and sent out to larger fellowship by email.

Membership: No report. Current meeting list is updated.

Public Outreach: No chair, no report

Special Events: Matthew spoke concerning the upcoming Mini Conference (formerly “convention”). Spoke about location as well as various date options. We had a lengthy discussion concerning concerns about committing to a date and running out of time. Matthew and Tony are co-chairs for Mini Conference.

Ways and Means: No report

Question for committees:

Janet reported that she received a call concerning two nursing home patients who would like to speak to OA members and possibly have a meeting in their institution. She questioned if this request should go to membership committee and the answer from our group was “yes”. The information should be forwarded to Barb E. and/or Catherine S.

Rachael questioned the lack of a total under group donations in the Forklifters category. No answer was given but Tony will check on that column.

Old Business: none

New Business: A motion was put forth to make a one-time exception to hold the Mini Conference on the same weekend as an IG meeting, with the Mini Conference only being held on Friday/Saturday and the IG meeting on a Sunday. That motion was not passed (4 FOR, 6 AGAINST, 1 ABSTAINED).

Credentials: No report was given as credentials report didn’t make it around in time before meeting was over.

(Amended 2/21/16 to include credentials report – 13 attending: four officers; 11 meetings represented; five committee chairs; two delegates; two alternate delegates; no visitors.)

Ali closed the meeting at 5:10 pm with the Responsibility Pledge.

Respectfully submitted Rachael W., secretary