PROPOSED GSB AGENDA FOR MAY 20, 2014
Opening (20 minutes):
- Serenity Prayer (“We” version)
- Chair opening statements
- Request for timekeeper
- Reading of the Traditions
- Roll-call
- Officers and committee chairs
- GSR’s (name and meeting)
- Reading of secretary’s minutes
- Treasurer’s report
Committee Reports (6 min./report, 4 min./Q&A, alpha. by comm., extra time for WSCC):
- Finance Committee
- Literature
- Phone and Technology
- Public Information
- Service Structure
- World Service Conference Committee (WSCC):
- 15-20 minutes, including updates on the 2014 WSC&C
Old Business
(none)
New Business
- The first of a series of proposals for service requirements for GSB officers, starting with the treasurer:
- The treasurer must have:
- Worked all 12 Steps in UA with a UA sponsor (doing the steps in a step study group doesn’t count);
- Participated in the program for at least two years
- Done some kind of UA service previously (e.g. chaired a meeting, kept time, etc.)
- Maintained at least one year of solvency, defined as
- Not bouncing checks
- Not using credit cards
- Not taking underearning work, i.e. work that does not meet their basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter
- Avoiding unsecured debt
- Paying bills on time
- Not taking services without paying for them
- An appropriation for $480 for the food/lodging cost of an outside speaker who would do workshops on the difference between a group and an organisation—the key to understanding why we do not govern—what does “govern” mean.
- Group and Collective Conscience—why they are important, what mean. Understanding “Positionality” and its consequences.
- 3rd legacy of Service—the 12 concepts of world service—an introduction
- The inverted pyramid and its consequences-the importance of the GSR.
- That the GSB explore the possibility of obtaining an outside worker to draft a service structure manual for our fellowship
For Discussion (time permitting)
- UA Facebook page
- TBD