Guts Business Meeting – 07/10/2022

1. Opening
   1. Preamble – Jeremy
   2. How it Works – Kayla
   3. 12 Traditions – Kathleen
2. Treasury Report – AL
   1. 5,000 Donation to GSO
   2. After 1K reserve 8,011.84
      1. Passed 16 yes and 0 No
   3. Old Business – https://aaguts.com/guts-business-meeting-4-3-2022/
   4. Announcements:

New Business

1. Steering Committee chair vote – Shelly & Mary MC
2. Steering Committee vote – TX Sage & Leona
   1. Votes to stay open for 24 hours – 13 Yes and 0 No
3. How long can you be on a break before it’s called leaving service
   1. 30 Days they are removed of service and service threads – 20 Yes and 0 No
4. Harassment Complaint
   1. We will come up with a script for the hosts links and post it in the chat and remove them if they don’t stay within the Traditions – 17 yes and 0 No
5. Hosts Sobriety
   1. If a host is triggering people and cohost are getting multiple DMs about it, the co-host would talk about it in the Live Thread and vote on it in the Thread. Co-host would reach out to the host and let me know by group conscience and by service team discretion someone is taking over – Vote 15 yes and 0 No
6. Outreach – Samantha
   1. Form a committee and bring it back to the BM of 4 people – 14 yes and 0 no

Motion to close meeting at 1:36 PST

Topics moved to next business meeting.

7. Guidelines on booting
8. Time limit on shares
9. Sharing non AA-approved literature
10. vice-chair person for business and steering meetings
11. Length of feedback from hosts
12. Speaker Meeting once a week. – Sunday
13. In the sibling meetings, it might be helpful to ask participants to turn their cameras on to ensure they aren’t bombers as they come in. Often, we are tight with cohosts and it might help deter bombers from the main GUTS meeting. I’ve seen it done effectively in smaller meetings.
14. Strike Policy – Bringing up 3 Scheduling issues on behalf of someone (some of these have been suggested in the past but not addressed): (1.) Enforcement of the “3 No Show = Suspension rule”: Can we vote on whether the scheduler may be in charge of this? (Note: As Steering Committee, our job is to serve by promoting group conscience… we don’t and should not be involved in enforcing this. It should be designated per group conscience to the appropriate personnel.) (2.) Service Breaks – How long is a “break” from service? Can we define the length of breaks? (3.) Threads – Can we define who can be in the service threads? They are available on the website to individuals not in service. Individuals are also able to add themselves at this time prior to being in Service. Should those on break be in the threads?
15. Cohost having to wait to be cohosted.
16. I suggest that we add the word “Strive” To make GUTS a safe place. In our Singleness of purpose.