Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, October
11, 2005
Sacramento Valley Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous
Location: Christ Temple Apostolic Church, 9001 La Riviera Drive,
Sacramento. Conducting: Mariel D, Intergroup Chair. Minutes: Eben
V. (standing in for Lori P.)
We started at 7:00 PM. The meeting opened with the
Serenity Prayer; Gerry read the Twelve Steps;
Introductions were made; the
minutes of last meeting were read and approved.
Chair: Mariel D.
Status of Lawsuit:
Has not met with the attorney; contributions still welcome.
Vice Chair: Carmen A.
Absent, no report.
Secretary: Lori P.
Absent, no report.
Treasurer: Ian D.
Check has been sent for insurance; we will be covered soon. The financial reports for period ending September
30, 2005 were distributed.
Region 2: Pilar P.
Pilar
attended Region 2 Convention last weekend. Following items were reported:
·
There is a speaker
list. The abstinence requirement for being on the R2 speaker list is two years
of abstinence and having completed the fourth and fifth steps;
·
R2 wants input on what
we want on the R2 newsletter and how to disseminate it;
·
The next WSO Convention
will be in 2010 and R2 is hosting it;
·
The R2 board has three
goals: examining tradition four; addressing the stigma and shame that, for some
people, goes along with being in OA; getting the message to young people;
·
There will be a policy
and procedure manual available by next spring;
·
R2 sent literature to
help those affected by Katrina;
·
R2 has a fund to help
pay the cost of sending a rep to the R2 assembly;
·
The abstinence
requirement for being on the R2 board is the same as for being on the speaker
list;
·
R2 has a Service and
Traditions fund, which is to help pay for people to come and give workshops on
this subject. These workshops would be for all the OAs in an intergroup;
·
Registration forms are
available for R2 Convention, which is in late June 2006. Ian D. is the
convention webmaster. Drawing tickets are available; group representatives will
be distributing them at group meetings. The prizes are a quilt and two Afghans. Neat little padded lunch pails are
available. They have the R2 logo. R2 is
looking for silent auction items. The convention is R2's major fund-raising
event of the year. There will be a clothing boutique again; please donate
clothing in good condition. Please donate paperback books, also.
World Service: Rosalie
Rosalie was absent. Motions for World Service Business Conference are
due by sometime in December.
Webmaster: Katy H.
No report.
A.
Ballots for SVIOA board
positions were distributed. Mariel reminded us that we revised the voting
procedure. There are seven positions to be voted on. In the new approach, each
person at a meeting votes for each position. For example, if 5 people are at a
meeting and they all vote as much as they can, there will be 35 marks on the
ballot sheet (5 people X 7 positions). If a different person attends that
meeting the next week, he or she could add 7 more marks to that ballot. This
happens in each group, so if a person attends several groups their vote may
well be on the ballots of each of those groups. Ballots that are received by the next intergroup meeting will be
counted there. The winner for a given position will be the person with the
greatest number of votes, when the votes from all the ballots have been
tallied. The new board will be
installed in January 2006.
B.
Theatre Ads - Jennene
moved that we fund theatre ads, amended to have a cap of $2500. Passed. Tracie volunteered to handle getting the ads
into theatres.
Continuing Business
A.
Mariel asked for
marked-up Policy and Procedure manuals to be returned to her.
Answer Phone – Sharon E.
Answer
phone is current.
Bylaws Committee
No report.
Designate
Downloader – Michael D.
Absent, no report.
Events
– Karlin M.
Karlin distributed a flyer
for the next Day in OA. She talked
about the need for more training on sponsorship. She is trying to set it up so that the location does not change
from month to month (it is always at the same hospital, but recently we have
held it in several different rooms).
Group
Growth – Darlene D.
No report.
Literature
– Janice & Michelle
Mariel showed a new
brochure, “OA Members Come in All Sizes.”
We have some coming in.
Newsletter
Editor – Eben V.
Reported.
OA
HOW – Midge T.
Absent; no report Mariel
pointed out that the OA HOW committee has not been functioning for some time
and inquired whether there was someone who wants to take over this role, and do
we still need this position. At this point we have no mission for this
committee, no volunteers. She asked those who wish to, to bring this up to
their groups.
Public
Information – Tracie H. & Carrie C.
No report.
Retreat
– Susan H.
Absent, no report. Mariel mentioned that OA 46th
Birthday Party in L.A. will be held Jan 13-15, 2006.
Speaker
List – Steve
Steve is working on the
list. The requirement for being on the
list is 30 days of abstinence and actively working on the steps. People with suggestions for the list can
call Steve at 209-200-3444.
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Steps Within – Mike Z
Mike distributed a flyer to
go to the groups; Mariel said some groups have an assigned person who calls
people who used to come to that group.
Young
People
Jennene passed out a flyer.
The committee has hit all the colleges and will send 20 packets to high schools
this week. A Kaiser contact sent flyers to the psychologists at Kaiser. There
have already been contacts from the program.
We
adjourned at 8:25.