Members Present: Tim F.,
Rick B., Rob Z., Gail, Dave, Barb, Leigh, Shimbo (Al), Carrie, Jen, SarahB, Bri, Another_Me, CharlieR, cher, dfwron, and james2.
The meeting was opened at
10:12 PM EST.
Tim
F asked to have the minutes approved and this was seconded by RobZ. The motion
was voted on and passed by those in attendance.
Ban
Issue: Tim F. made a motion that was slightly adjusted by Rick B. The motion
was: ‘In keeping this a safe environment, the officers shall seek to hear both
sides of any behavioral complaint on a case-by-case basis, where possible
allowing both parties to address the matter in the safe company of at least two
officers.’ This motion was seconded by Gail. Voted on and passed.
Private
Channel Web-Site Hosting: This concerns a bulletin board between meetings for
members to share on. Al generously offered a site for this to take place on w/o
banner ads on. It is recommended to keep hosting neutral. The issue was tabled.
Tim commented that beta-testing is welcomed at http://pub28.ezboard.com/bslaaonlinegroup
site.
Women’s
Meeting: Discussion took place of the women’s meetings. Tim F made a motion to
register #SLAA2 with Starlink IRC upon securing 7 email addresses. Rob Z
seconded this motion that was voted on and passed. Those in attendance willing
to give their email addresses were: Carrie, Tim F, Dave, Shimbo, Rob Z. Vicki
would also like to add her address.
Meeting
Topics: Rob Z offered to have a tag meeting once a month. The issues of topic
meeting had been voted on and passed at the 12/15 meeting. Good luck and thanks
for your service Rob!
Name
Change: Rick B. brought up a suggestion for the name to change to Intergroup
Meeting rather than Members Meeting or Business Meeting. After some discussion
the thought of keeping the meeting name the same to Members Meeting was kept.
Of course the current secretary needs to take note of this and keep calling
this the Members meeting <s>
Fellowship
World Service: Tim F has found out that our group isn’t registered with the FWS
and feels we need to do so but we need a group conscience to proceed. Rick B.
made a motion that Tim proceeds with registering this meeting with the
Fellowship Wide Services of SLAA. Tim F seconded this motion. This motion was
voted on and passed.
Tabled
items: Rick B proposed to table some items. A proposal to have a technical
channel group and a 12-step channel group.
A proposal to have a channel ‘bot’ which would automate certain channel
functions. Tim F asked to table an
announcement in MS-Word for f2f meetings about our group located at
https://www.angelfire.com/on/slaa/word.doc and have people review this
announcement before it is publicly linked from the website for review. Comments
are welcomed.
Tim
F moved to adjourn the meeting with Rick B seconding this motion.
The
meeting was closed with the Serenity Prayer. The meeting was closed at 11:48 PM
Respectively
submitted by Vicki J, secretary