St. Paul Al-Anon/Alateen Intergroup
Minutes of Intergroup Meeting February 22, 2014
The meeting was convened at 7:00 pm with the Serenity Prayer.
- Introductions
- Chair, IR, Uptown Tuesday 6:30 pm A
Co-Secretary, IR Uptown Monday 8 pm
IR, Uptown Tuesday 9:30 am
IR, Superior Street AFG
Literature Chair, IR, Summit Hill Monday 6 pm
IR, Monday Midway Men’s 7:15 pm
IR, Compassion Al-Anon (St. Paul)
Treasurer, IR, Summit Hill Wednesday 5 pm
IR, Valley Creek Monday 7:30 pm Al-anon
It was noted that a quorum (5% of groups, that is, 6 or more) was
present so substantive business could be done.
There were readings on Tradition 2 and Concept 2.
Business
- 1. Open Service Committee Positions for 2014
- Vice Chair: this position works on
hosting and coordinating events and runs the monthly meeting if the
chair is absent.
- Newsletter: The IR from the Midway
Monday 7:15 pm Men’s group volunteered for this
position. Any submissions for him sent to the Intergroup email
(stpaulafg@pobox.com) will be forwarded to him.
- Other open positions: Group Liaison,
Event Sales, Minnesota South Area Assembly Liaison, Office Manager,
Alateen, Archives, Public Outreach, and Institutions.
- 2. Sale of literature at Gopher State Roundup
- We are seeking volunteers to sell literature at Gopher State over
Memorial Day Weekend. Ask groups for people willing to transport
literature and sell it over the whole weekend.
- 3. Contacting groups
- We want to call groups to update info and invite them to send Intergroup
Reps. A member volunteered to call all 110 groups to update their info;
she will ask for email addresses also.
- 4. Questions/Concerns/Other Business
- Should we do a group inventory of intergroup? What would this look
like? We could still use more volunteers in the office volunteer pool.
We need evening phone volunteers also.
Reports
- Chair
- No specific report
- Vice Chair
- The position is open
- Secretary
- The minutes of the January meeting were approved unanimously.
- Treasurer
- Total payments for the month were $2,560 and total income was $2,400.
Quarterly sales taxes were paid. Approval of the report was moved,
seconded and voted unanimously.
- Assistant Treasurer
- No report
- Office volunteers
- No report
- Office manager
- No report
- Speaker chair
- No report
- Website/Directory
- No report
- Event sales
- No report, but see above under business
- Liaison to Minnesota South Area
- The position is open
- Group Liaison
- Open
- Literature
- The new newsletter editor will send this out quarterly (April 1,
August 1 and October 1). It will contain a calendar with important
events.
The meeting closed at 8:05 pm with the Al-Anon Declaration.
The next meeting will be March 11, 2014 at 7 pm at the Griggs Midway building.
Edited for the web 7 March 2014