Minutes of the GSR Committee 1/21/2018

Pending a more permanent location for this information, the UA GSR Committee has voted to temporarily to post its minutes on this unofficial UA related service website.

GSR Committee Meeting Minutes

January 21, 2018, 1:30 pm EST

The regular meeting of the GSR Committee was held on January 21, 2018, at 1:30 pm EST.

Mark B. acted as Business Chair for this Meeting.

Greg G was secretary for this meeting (Debora assisted with transcription).

The meeting opened with the Serenity Prayer.

The Traditions were read by Debora.

Vladimir was timekeeper.

 

GSRs Present

1Arden – GSR for the Writers in Recovery Phone Meeting Group, Tuesday, 7:15 pm EST

1Avi G – GSR for the Healing the Inner Child Phone Meeting Group, Wednesday Evening

1Char, Michigan

1Debora – GSR for the Evening Step and Speaker Phone Meeting Group, Tues, Wed & Friday

1Eliya – GSR for the Los Angeles Farmers Market Meeting Group, Saturday

1Fay –GSR for Tel Aviv Face-to-Face Meeting Group (FayInRecovery@nullgmail.com)

1Gail – GSR for New York, Manhattan Face-to-face Meeting Group, Wednesday 6 pm

1George – GSR for the Tuesday Prosperous Possession Consciousness Phone Meeting Group

1Greg – GSR for the Altadena, California Meeting Group, Thursday

1Henasusha – GSR for the Amherst Steps to Prosperity Meeting Group, Monday 5:30 pm

1Janet – GSR for the Daily Step and Tools Phone Meeting Group, 8:30 am

1Jason – GSR for the Prosperity in Our Relationships Phone Meeting Group, Sunday, 8:30 pm

1Jeri – GSR for Step & Tools Phone Meeting Group, 9:45 am

1Julie F. -GSR for Prosperity Forum

1Linda – GSR for the Prosperous Travel Vision Phone Meeting Group, Friday & Monday

1Mark B – GSR for the Stepping Out, Tuesday, 12:30 pm, NY, Face-to Face Meeting Group,

1Neil – GSR for the 50+ phone Meeting Group, Thursday night (neilrauch@nullcomcast.net)

1Randy – GSR for the 8 pmfrom Hiding and Biting to Shining and Receiving Phone Meeting Group

1Shari Lynn – GSR for the Saturday and Sunday Prosperous Possession Consciousness Phone Meeting Group

1Shawn – GSR for the New York UA HOW Arts Face-to-Face Meeting Group, Sunday

1Stephanie – GSR for the Washington DC Prosperity Hybrid Phone Meeting Group, Wednesday

1Tina – GSR for Santa Fe, New Mexico Face-to-Face Meeting group, Tuesday Evening

1Vladimir – GSR for the UA Beginner’s Meeting Group in Portuguese, Saturday

 

Greg read the minutes of the December 17, 2018 meeting, which were approved

 

Committee Reports

 

World Service Conference Prep Committee (Char).

Venue update

Mary & Joseph Retreat Center, Palos Verdes

Sierra Retreat Center, Malibu

Hotel Biltmore, Santa Clara, CA

St. Iakovos Retreat Center, Kansasville, Wisconsin

A member of the committee requested that the committee make the decision on the venues. Chair responded that this is a working service committee which reports directly to the GSB. Chair and Vice-chair were given the authority by the Board to make the decision on the choice of venues.

 

Service Structure Committee Report (Debora)

Clara drafted the vision and mission statements for the SSC Committee and the committee members made some suggested revisions to it.

We will be addressing again the draft vision and mission statements at the next SSC meeting, which will be on the 4th Sunday of February. The only time the SSC meeting will be on the First Sunday of the month is when the GSB meeting is not following the SSC meeting. If anyone wants more information on the SSC meeting they can contact Clara or Debora (323-371-1039).

Clara has been approved as Trustee by the Board.

 

Literature Committee Report

Per Mark – this committee is still working on the sponsorship pamphlet.

We need a liaison for this committee.

Per Janet –to contact the Literature Committee, email: UALAMatt@nullgmail.com

 

Finance Committee Report (Given by Debora who read the report emailed to her by Lela)

The Treasurer looked at the DA website for the Treasury Manual for individual groups; she thought it was an ideal example; she will investigate how to revise it for UA; it’s a working structure until UA creates its own; can bring to WSC to discuss it.

  • Can agree to have unofficial working piece of literature; consider significance; SSC

can prioritize so as to have manual in use prior to ratification at WSC 2018.

 

Public Information Committee (Rudy is Liaison)

No report was given. Mark will email a report to us.

 

Tech Committee Report (Debora)

 

  1. I emailed Mary Joan on December 11th about whether she is accepting new committee members to the Tech Committee and what are the requirements. She has still has not responded back.
  2. There is a technical glitch that will sometimes occur with the UA Calendar so a meeting is randomly deleted occasionally. If your meeting is deleted from the UA meeting calendar, contact the Calendar Keeper. The Calendar Keeper’s email address is: ua12step@nullgmail.com.
  3. If people find that they cannot unmute themselves, hang up and call back in.

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

Motion regarding Online Archive for GSR Committee Minutes and Reports

The GSR Committee approves the posting of the Minutes and Reports of its monthly meetings on the 9thTradition.org Website. The GSR Committee Chair and the GSR Committee Secretary have the authority to post the Minutes and Reports on our GSR Committee 9thTradition.org website page.

The statement to be put on the 9th Tradition.org Website Is: “Pending a more permanent location for this information, the UA GSR Committee has voted to temporarily post its minutes on this unofficial UA-related service website.”

(Passed: 14 Yays, 0 Nays, 2 Abstentions)

NEW BUSINESS

 

Election of Chair of GSR Committee Chair (Term: February 2018 to February 2019)

Mark B (GSR for SteppingOut face-to-face Tuesday meeting in NY City) was re-elected as Chair of the GSR Committee.

Vote: 16 Yays, 0 Nays, 0 Abstentions

Election of Secretary

Julie (GSR for Prosperity Forum) was elected by vote of acclamation to be the GSR Secretary for a 3-month term (the short term is per her request). Julie’s email address: JulieCLW999@nullgmail.com.

Shari Lynn said that she would assist with transcribing the minutes.

Motion Recommending Guidelines for the World Service Conference Prep Committee

 

There was a motion made by Arden to extend our meeting by 20 minutes so we could discuss and vote on this Motion Recommending Guidelines for the World Service Conference Prep Committee. This motion did not pass (5 Yay; 7 Nay; 1 Abstention)

We ended with the Serenity Prayer.

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