WWASC meeting minutes

Evanston, WY

Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 1:34 PM

Open with service prayer, 12 Traditions, read by Mark, 12 Concepts read by Dave.

Roll Call:

Chair: Vicki L., absent

Treasurer: Sue absent, another Sue is representing her.

Secretary: Brandy

RCM: Rick H.

PI Chair: Need one.

H&I Chair: absent

Activities: Need one.

Webservant: absent

GSR’s:

5^th Street Group: Rocky A., absent

Living Proof Group: Mark S, present

Surrender To Win: Kerry, absent

Saratoga Hot Springs: Bob absent

Walking thru Pain Group: Matthew present

Read minutes, motion to accept, 2^nd, passed.

GSR Reports:

1. LPG – Mark S. Campout is August 10 – 12 at Stillwater Campground, 40 miles south of Evanston. Attendance at meetings has increased.

2. STW – absent, no report.

3. Warm Springs Group (Saratoga) – absent, no report.

4. 5^th Street. Rocky absent. (Verbal report - Brandy). We have 12 meetings a week. We made sure there is a chairperson for each meeting at our last business meeting. We are now working on the fixing the roof.

5. Walking thru Pain Group (Matthew) Meetings are Friday at 7 pm at the Episcopal Church on Cedar Lane, Contact address is: PO Box 801, Kemmerer 83101. Matthew asked about area guidelines; his group is now working on group guidelines.

Service Reports

1. Rick chaired, no report or agenda from Vicki.

2. RCM Rick handed out written report, with reports from areas: Wyobraska, Central Wyo, and Freedom Seekers. Suggested to combine H & I, and PI to one committee. Public Relations. Tommy D – is helping with a workshop on Youth PI. Next convention is 2008, Vicki W from Casper will speak. Sharing session included discussion on carrying an NA message in meetings, and also showing respect for other fellowships. Rick passed around a copy of 2 entries for Regional Logo, they are still taking entries to be submitted by August 3, send to Rick or to URMRNA, Box 40182m Casper 82604.

3. Treasurer – see report. Balance on February 17 = $2737.56. Deposits=221. $300 – Prudent Reserve. Balance is $2437.56

4. Literature – Balance after prudent reserve is $317.18.

5. H & I. No report sent. Evanston requested $360 (same amount as last year) for this year’s budget. Also reported that they are discussion having a separate meeting for felons and misdemeanors.

6. Web Servant, Steve sent a report. He is asking for $150 for the yearly budget.

7. Activities. Keri absent, so no report on Learning Days.

8. PI – we need a chair person.

Old Business:

1. Inventory: Rocky told Brandy that he is still working on it – so we will table this until the next meeting.

2. Area Guidelines. At the last meeting Rocky was unable to hand out a printout and he said he would send this to Brandy (secretary). The following are among the proposed changes: taking out CUNA, voting guidelines, mileage changes, adding a starter kit to guidelines, and a yearly schedule for items like the budget. Can the AdHoc guideline committee send a copy of proposed changes to the Guidelines and the Area Inventory out to the service committee by email, so that we can take care of it on the date of the next business meeting? Brandy will talk to Rocky.

3. Elections. We need Alt chair, RCM, alt RCM, PI chair and Activities chair.

4. Learning Days is supposed to be in July or August. No information at this time.

New Business

1. Region asked if we want to change the Regional meeting in May at a different date as the Regional convention. We will table this.

Money Matters

1. Cannot take care of money matters, due to so few voting members present at this meeting, we did pay travel expenses to Brandy ($25) and $50 to the host group since these are items that do not need to be voted on.

2. The budget submissions were due at this meeting for review. Please bring them to the August meeting.

Next business meeting will be on Aug in Kemmerer on August 25^th.

1:00 – Business

Committee Meetings? Please call or email Rick ASAP if there will be a committee meeting to add to this day’s agenda. 679-7686 or rickhouts@yahoo.com