1 P a g e. Southeast Nebraska Area of Narcotics Anonymous Area Service Minutes April Executive Committees: Kimberly R- Present

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1 1 P a g e Executive Committees: Southeast Nebraska Area of Narcotics Anonymous Area Service Minutes April 2012 Chairperson: Vice Chair: Secretary: Treasure: RCM: RCM Alt: H&I: P.I: Literature: Activities: Policy Chair: Ad Hoc: Steve H- Present Gary D- Present Chad J- Present Tammy W- Present Kimberly R- Present Paul S- Absent Chris S- Present Jeff W-Present Absent- Shelly acting Absent- Dusty L acting Pete L- Present Steve.- Present Groups: Sunday Morning Reflections Sunday Ladies and Gents Sunday Solutions Sunday Joyful Hearts Monday and Friday Back to Basics Monday Women s Step Mtg. Monday Mayhem Monday Road to Recovery Tuesday (Cornhusker Place) Tuesday & Thursday T&T Tuesday Let It Out Tuesday Never Alone Tuesday Night Remedy Wednesday Night Wild Women Welcome Home Wednesday Night Serenity Wednesday Serenity Soldiers Thursday Noon at Antlers Thursday One Promise Saturday Night Live Thursday How & Why Thursday Night Undergrounders Friday Happy Havelock Friday Lost and Found Friday Guardian Angels Friday Night Candlelight Absent (Report) Chad J.- Present Dan-Treasurer- Present Mark-Present Daryl- Absent Mary-Absent(Report) Nicole- Absent Leroy- Absent Dave- Present David- Present Calvin- Present Wayne- Present Mark-Alt GSR- Present Cathy-Absent Ashley- Present Absent Mark-Present Eva-Present Jennifer-Present Steve- Present Katie- Secretary- Present Jenny- Present Dan-Present Jenny- Absent (Report) - Absent

2 2 P a g e Saturday Morning Social Saturday Forever Home Steve-Present Dusty-Present Visitors Eric, Sara, Paul, Charlie, and Dave Motion to approve minutes made by Cathy, seconded by Jenny. Motion passed. Motion to approve treasurer report made by Ashley, seconded by Jenny, Motion passed. Chair Report- None Vice Chair Report- None Secretary- See attached Treasurer- See attached RCM- See attached Alt RCM- None H&I-See attached PI- See attached Literature- None Activities- See attached Policy Chair- None Ad Hoc- None Group Reports- See attached Elections and Nominations Nominations are closed for Literature Sub -committee Chair. Shellie H. was Nominated. Shellie s Bio I have a desire to serve this area as Literature Chairperson. I will be able to fulfill the two year term, god willing. I have served the area as group secretary, group treasurer, area Treasurer, Area Activities Vice Chair and Area Chair Person. Each of those positions were fulfilled in terms. I have a working knowledge of the 12 steps, traditions, and concepts as suggested through Narcotics Anonymous. I work regularly with my sponsor and sponsees. I enjoy service work as it allows me to give back to the fellowship. Shellie H. Lincoln, Ne (Bring Votes to May ASC) Nominations are open for Activities Sub- committee Chair ( Bring Nominations to May ASC) Chad J. (Beatrice) was elected for ASC Secretary.

3 3 P a g e Chris S. was elected for H&I Chair person. Old Business- Motion #1 To Dis-ban Adhoc until further notice. Maker Kim R. Second Jennifer L. Intent, It was never organized, chair needs to step down. Financial Impact none, Policy change No. Passed at ASC. Motion # 2 To Approve The Submitted PI Budget in the Amount of $ to be used from Feb to Feb Maker Dave R. Second Chad J. Intent To allow the PI Subcommittee to continue to do their job & function within the guidelines. Financial Impact $ Policy Change No. Take Back to Groups For Vote Motion Passed. Motion #3To remove As new Business and As Old Business From Section 5 Subsection #1 of guidelines. Maker Chad J.(Lincoln) Second Dave S. Intent To Remove conflicting statements, between sections5 #1 and 8 #11. To clarify Policy. Financial impact none Policy change Yes, How Removal of Wording From Policy. Take back to groups for vote, Motion passed. Motion #4 To Put break in middle of area. ( To Be added into ASC agenda after open floor ) Maker Steve A. Second Chad J (Lincoln) Intent to promote more unity and give more time to make proper motions relating to open floor discussions. Financial Impact none, Policy Change Yes, How Change to ASC Agenda. Discussion was held on this motion. TAKE BACK TO GROUPS FOR VOTE, motion failed to pass. Motion #5 Relook at adhock to look at why groups are not showing up at ASC. Maker Steve R. Second Jenny T. Intent None Financial Impact None, Policy Change None, This motion passed at ASC with Steve R as Ad-hoc Chair. Open Floor: Item #1 Lit Audit Chad J (Lincoln) When I was done as Chair there was never an audit done. I have never been taken off of account. I would like taken off of account and audit done. Gary, Shellie, Chad Will have audit and adjust account. Item #2 Chad J (Lincoln) All Area sponsored Activities will have area approval. Does this mean we should be voting on these? Was there anything submitted this year for activities? Shellie spoke on tentative schedule was submitted to area at beginning of year. Item #3 Chad J (Lincoln) Working Knowledge of Guidelines. Should all GSR s have working knowledge of guidelines? Discussion was held. Was determined that it can take years to learn these. New Business- Motion #1 To Add the words in the form of a motion between the words budget & at in the ASC guidelines under Section 6 Finances subsection 10. Maker Dave R. Second Chad J (Lincoln) Intent To clarify Guidelines and avoid any future confusion

4 4 P a g e regarding budgets. Financial Impact none Policy Change Yes How Adding of wording to ASC Policy. Right Now this guideline reads subsection 10 Each subcommittee and XC committee members will submit an annual budget at the beginning of the fiscal year, which runs from February to February. If Motion Passes, would read Each subcommittee and XC committee member will submit an annual budget in the form of a motion at the beginning of the fiscal year, which runs from February to February. Take to groups for vote #3 Motion: To amend guidelines. Activities will provide yearly tentative schedule of events. All area funded activities to be approved. Remove section b under Activities in guidelines. Intent clarification of policy. Financial impanct is none. Policy change yes How Removal of words. Past at ASC. Executive Reports: Chair Report- No Report Vice-Chair Report- No Report Secretary Report- If I do not have reports by the Wednesday after Area I m gonna go ahead and send out the minutes. I have been sending out s and calling people to remind them and that is not part of my position. Secretary Budget I m requesting $14.95 a piece for ink cartridges. I will use 5 cartridges throughout the year and this totals $ I will use 2 bundles of printer paper this physical year at $4.25. Which totals $8.50. I send one group minutes via snail mail. This costs $1.28 per month, which totals $15.36 for the year. I will need a budget this year of $ Chad J. Area Secretary Treasurer Report- Income by GROUP: TOTAL Expenses: TOTAL Sunday Morning Reflections $ Sunday Night Ladies & Gents $48.00 ASC Rent (Monthly) $30.00 Sunday Night Solutions -0- Paid cash to Melissa Beatrice Sunday Night Joyful Hearts -0- Church Mon./Fri. Back to Basics -0- P.O. Box Rent (Annually) Mon. Women's Step Study $32.00 Monday Night Mayhem $40.00 Monday Road to Recovery $35.00 Public Information $ Tuesday Noon $3.42 Tues./Thurs. T & T +$ Tuesday Night Let It Out $ H&I

5 5 P a g e Tuesday Night Never Alone -0- Tuesday Night Remedy -0- H & I Literature Only Wednesday Wild Women -0- Wednesday Welcome Home $ Wednesday Night Serenity -0- XC Expenses (Including Thursday Antlers -0- RCM Travel to RSC) Thursday One Promise Sat. Night Live $33.40 Thurs. Night How & Why $46.00 Thurs. Night Undergrounders -0- OTHER EXPENSES: Friday Night Happy Havelock $ Friday Night Lost & Found -0- Friday Night Guardian Angels -0- Friday Night Candlelight $21.25 Saturday Morning Social $20.00 Saturday Forever Home Group $20.75 SUBTOTAL OTHER INCOME: -0- TOTAL EXPENSES: $ Documented TOTAL INCOME: $ TOTAL Income-Expenses: $ Previous Balance: $ Actual TOTAL INCOME: NEW BALANCE: $ Hello Family, Nothing much to report! Thank you to all groups for all your continued support! Tammy W. RCM- Hello Family Im Kim and I am an addict. First and foremost- Thank you to all the groups that regional votes to me. It was an area record in the 3 years that I have been serving at the Regional level cudos to you all.second I apologize that I was not able to go to region but thanks to Shellie H for being proxy and taking votes and a report to Region. When I got minutes I will pass on motions and nominations to you for I believe we had a

6 6 P a g e few withdrawls of nominations chair for PI & Treasurer and Next Region July 14 street dance NRCNA fundraiser Kim RCM/ALT- No report H&I- Hello Family Senana H&I has been continuing it s efforts in the local community. We ve been having meetings in Touchstone, NSP, LCF and LCC men and women. I wish to thank panel leader for LCF, Paul s been doing it for a while, it s a good way to make a difference service position in this area. The clean-time requirements for jails is three years. I will be submitting a list of goals at next area, first I want to discuss them at our next H&I meeting. I went to Region on Saturday and submitted my report. Our last quarter we had $30.00 for rent and $99.40 for literature. We were $ under budget Chris S. H&I currently has a quarterly budget of per quarter for Literature. PI REPORT FOR APRIL 1, 2012 Hi family: PI had a Local Service Learning Day (LSLD) on 3/17/2012. We had 5 people in attendance. We went through the process of forming a new group. Trusted Servants were elected, duties and responsibilities were discussed at the group and area levels. On 3/31/2012 I did attend Region PI. The Region is having some issues at this time. Dagwood has resigned as Region PI chair. I did have the opportunity to talk to people from other areas and compared to most of the state our area is doing well. PI WANTS YOU: Here are some areas where we need people! Brainstorming ideas Phone line Meeting Lists we need people to deliver them to institutions Participation for Local Service Learning Days People to be at booths (fairs, mental health conferences, etc) People to help with presentations. We do have a presentation schedule for the 24th of this month. Also at the Behavioral Health Conference in May. You don t need a certain amount of clean time to attend a PI meeting!! Our next meeting will be: May 5th, Noon at Antlers. Thank you all for your continued support. Jeff W. SENANA PI Financial Assessment April 2012 (billings for March 2012)

7 7 P a g e Amount Due Date Owed To Comments Accurate Answering service used for hotline $ Apr-12 Communications. Local and Toll Free are answered he $ Apr-12 Windstream Communications. Local phone line and all LOCAL Yello & White Pages listings $ Apr-12 A T & T Toll Free phone line. $ Apr-12 Berry Company Yellow pages advertising $ Total amount owed $0.00 Amount of "Balance On Hand" applied. $ Amount of check needed today. Balance On Hand $0.00 Annual Budget: Feb 12 - Feb 13 $6, Annual Budget as a monthly figure. $ Remaining amount of Annual Budget prior to this month: $5, This months expenses: $ Number this month is in Annual Budget cycle 2 Remaining amount of Annual Budget carried forward: $5, YTD amount under/over budget. -$ Negative number reflects Under and Positive number reflects Over In trusted service, John R. Literature Report- None Activities Report- $ Donation to ASC. Policy-No Report Ad Hoc No Report Group Reports

8 8 P a g e Sunday Morning Reflections- Sunday Morning Reflections as always is the best damn home group in town. We have had 177 in attendance for the month of march and $ in 7 th tradition. We donated $65.00 to area $19.00 to region and $9.50 to world. Rent and lit order were paid. Ladies & Gents- Hello Family. My name is Chad And I am an addict. Our group meets every Sunday night at 6:15pm in the basement of Bryan LGH West in Conference room C. Meeting content is going strong but we are looking for a few more people to commit to either a home group or a service position. We hada total of 129 addicts, 14 of which were newcomers. The 7 th tradition brought in $ for the month. It has been distributed in the following order to the following areas: 1) $20.00 for rent 2) $1.00 per week for convention newcomer books ($4) total 3) $46.25 to Literature committee to replenish supplies 4) $65.98 to ASC as a group donation We have started a couple New things in our group. They are the taking requests for ideas and or designs for the next Home Group T-Shirt & we are collecting money every week to purchase a set of NA books from our literature committee to give to newcomers at this year s NRCNA convention in Hastings. Please join us and bring a friend who is searching for a meeting. Thank you for the opportunity to serve. Chad J (Lincoln) WE are prepared to give our votes for asc nominations and otions. They are as follows: Activities Chair-Dave S-No Secretary-Chad J (Beatrice) Yes H&I Chris Yes Motion #2 Yes Motion #3 yes Motion #4 No Sunday Night Solutions- Hello Family, We ve had1 newcomer Attendance of 39 7 th tradition of $15.00 Rent of $25.00 coffee supplies $13.00 Donation of $0.00 Dan M Treasurer Sunday Joyful Hearts- $5.12 $10.00 Rent $17.00 lit order $10.00 coffee and supplies. New Balance of $9.13. Hello family, We had a great month of recovery. We had 63 addicts &1 newcomer. 7 th tradition brought in we celebrated a 30 day and a 60 day birthday. Overall it was a good month! Jenny C. Monday and Friday Back to Basics- No Report Monday Women s Step Study- ASC Report- 23 in Attendance with 3 Newcomers. Lit order of $17.00, ASC Donation $15.00, Rent $15.00

9 9 P a g e Votes Motion 2- Yes Motion 3- Yes Motion 4- Yes Chris S- Yes, Chad ASC SEC- Yes, Dave S, Activities Chair- Yes Monday Mayhem-No report Monday Road to Recovery- No report Tuesday Noon Cornhusker Place detox-the meeting is doing well. We re starting to get more support from people from outside of the cornhusker place, and we could like to see this to continue. We have rent paid and we have a donation to area of $20.00 Dave S Tuesday & Thursday T&T- No report Tuesday Let It Out- Hello Family, another great month of recovery at Tuesday Night Let it out. We had 172 addicts in attendance and 20 Newcomers. Our 7 th tradition was $92,00. Wehave a $75.50 lit order and a donation of $16.50 to area. Rent is paid thru April. Group Votes Dave, for activities- yes Chad J, for area secretary- yes Chris, for H&I-yes Motion#2-pass Motion #3 abstain Motion #4 No Calvin R. Tuesday Never Alone-No report Tuesday Night Remedy- Hello Family, We had a great month in recovery. We had attendance of 37 addicts and 2 of those were newcomers. We celebrated a 6, 9 month birthdaysand a 1 year birthday. We collected $17.42 in 7 th tradition this month. We gave $10.00 in donation to the church. We have a $1950 lit order. We are giving $15.00 to ASC this month. Mark W Treasurer Tuesday VA- Loving family, Report for Tues 9:00am VA 4 recovery group is new and growing 7 th tradition has netted $59.00 which was used for basic text and key tags. Mark R. Wednesday Night Wild Women- Weds Wild Women is thriving with a total attendance of 32 and 3 newcomers, we had a total of $41.00 in 7 th tradition. And paid $29.00 for rent and a $10.00 lit order. Cat Wednesday Welcome Home- Hello family my name is Ashley and I am an addict. For the month of March Wednesday Night Welcome Home had 169 in attendance welcoming

10 10 P a g e 12 newcomers. We paid rent of $15.00 have a $39,00 lit order and are donating $76.00 to Area. Ashley R Wednesday Serenity Soldiers- No Report Wednesday Night Serenity- No report Thursday Noon at Antlers- Hello Family, The meeting is going well. We ve had our share of wonderful newcomers and they are staying. Here s our votes Dave activities- No Area Secretary Chad J- Yes H&I Chris S- Yes EVA Thursday One Promise Saturday Night Live- Attendance average is at the two meetings. We get at least 2-3 newcomers each Thursday. Many of them returning for further meetings. Saturday has 1 to 2 newcomers per week. We continue to enjoy the fellowship and continue to carry the message to newcomers and those with some clean time. Jennifer L. Thursday How & Why- I am Steve I am a addict. How & Why has had a good month with 9 newcomers and 62 total attendance. Rent has been paid of $45.00 and we are give $52.00 to ASC Steve R. Thursday Night Undergrounders- Hello family, We have had a great month in recovery. Attendance has been low with 29 addicts in attendance and 2 newcomers. We collected $16.71 for 7 th tradition. Gave $10.00 rent, $20.44 To ASC We also had a $6.00 lit order. Katie G Friday Happy Havelock- We ve had great meetings this month- total attendance was 158 with 16 newcomers. We have a $ donation to area and a lit order of $ Come and see us for some Great recovery. Jenny T Friday Lost & Found- Hello Family, We ve had 20 newcomers, attendance of 81, 7 th tradition of $ Rent was paid of $10.00, supplies of $12.00, lit of $28.00, donation of $35.00 Dan M Friday Guardian Angels- Starting balance of $7.07,7 th tradition of $24.45,paid $10.00 rent have a prudent Reserve of $20.00 left us with a balance of $1.52 Hello family, the month is going well. Attendance was 30 addicts. Its great to see the meeting going strong.

11 11 P a g e Jenny C. Friday Night Candlelight- No report Saturday Morning Social- Hello Family, Sat morning had a great month of recovery, we celebrated 30day and a 9year birthday. We had a total 7 th tradition of $39.00 donated $27.00 rent and $12.00 Area Steve A Saturday Forever Home- No Report Announcement- Next two ASC will Unity Room on May 6 th 2pm and June 3 rd 2pm Remember to bring back votes for Literature Chair and Motions Under New Business, Motion #1. I will send out Reminders on these topics.