Guts Business Meeting – 04/03/2022

AGENDA

Treasury Report

• Working on a PayPal card for Outreach person
• Have not made a $5,000 donation to GSO because SC needs to fill out the form (so it’s notated that it comes from our group).
• Danielle would like that Meeting ID # as soon as possible. Will make the process quick for making a donation.
• Questions:
  • Member – If you’re going to raise your hand to speak it’s recommended to come with a solution.
  • Member – AA is considered a nonprofit. Can apply for nonprofit status and then you get an ID number. So, you don’t have to go in there as a business and the banks must accept that. // Danielle – in the process of applying for nonprofit status.

Last Meeting Follow-up / Old Business

1. Steering committee votes were pushed in order to vote on the steering committee to be already in service
2. Motion to close chat passed 27 yes / 1 no
3. Guidelines written passed 20 yes / 1 no
4. Motion on host script to keep chat positive (read three times an hour) 19 yes/1 no
5. Motion to push harassment policy to next March passes 28 yes/ 1 no, so it will be addressed this month.
6. Motion before nominated, corrective action 27 yes / 1 no
7. Motion to remove service member, per harassment 27 yes / 1 no

New Business

• Voting for 5 SC seats, not including the Chair. Next meeting, we will vote for the SC Chair. Per group conscience can’t be Chair without being on the Steering Committee.
  • Nominees can say no.
    • Matt removes himself because of other commitments
  • Votes:
    • Danielle 100%, Jeremy L 93%, Sally C 37%, Christine 59%, Donna 56%, Josh L 70%, Tuna 59%
• Business Meeting Chair
  • Jeremy – 96% yes / 4 % no
• Big Book Study
  • Votes:
    • Ryan D 8%, Mama Kass 72%, Al G 20%
• Harassment
  • MOTION to define harassment different levels of harassment with different guidelines
    • Motion passes yes 100% / No 0%
• Steering Committee Form – There is a form at aaguts.com/feedback to fill out that goes to  the Steering Committee.
  • Motion passes Yes 100%/ No 0%
• Retraining Service People
  • Member – would like some other things incorporated. Want to make sure everyone is trained the same way. Everyone has the same knowledge. Suggests an orientation separate from Service Training
  • Member – suggests a newsletter with a “Training Corner”
  • Member – thinks it’s good to have a visual on the screen, so would like to be able to email people
  • Member – has a doc that has everything about Co-hosting
• Scheduling
  • Leona needs an Assistant. This person needs to have a high level of understanding of Excel and it would be a highly demanding position
  • Questions
    • Member – suggests scheduling app
    • Member – needs help keeping track of people and needs notification. Needs to track people’s hours for going from co-host to host
    • Member – Suggests that host tracking people’s hours through hosts to let Assistant know. // Host can fill something out and track things
      • Motion for Scheduling Co-Secretary passes 100%
      • 60 days sober requirement
• Interim Group Rep
  • 6 months sober requirement

NEXT MONTH’S AGENDA

• Women’s Meeting
• Pause Chat singleness of purpose
• Co-hosts to get credit for sibling meetings for their co-host hours and how to keep track
• Ethical guidelines Updates
• Permanent co hosts for sibling meetings?
• Interim Group Rep Votes