Boulder Eye Openers

Group Conscience Minutes

Saturday December 8, 2007

• Representative Reports
• BOG/Foundation
• Childcare
• Coffee
• Grapevine
• Greeter
• GSR
• Inter-Group
• Literature
• Night Watch
• Phone List
• Public Information
• Secretary
• Speaker Seeker
• Treasurer
• Open Positions
• Old Business
• New Business
• Action Item Status
• Announcement Updates

Attendees:  Kieth, Don, Tom, Kathy, Betty, David, Bob S, Bob P, Jonathan, Allen, Bernie, Dana, Kathy  

Chair (Kieth):  Call meeting to order, 9:15AM

Review last meeting minutes (Don):

• Read Last Meeting Minutes
• Approved
  

Representative Reports: 

• Grapevine Rep (Pat): No Update

• Secretary (Don):  
• Job descriptions still remaining to be posted:
• BOG/Foundation Liason
• Coffee Coordinator
• General Service Representative
• Literature Representative
• Night Watch Coordinator
• Phone List Coordinator
• Secretary
• Speaker Seeker
• Treasurer 
• Needs feedback from GC on Web site direction/commitment, see new business.
• Approved

• Coffee (Bob): 
• All is wekk, personnel changing seamlessly.
• Distributed Celestial Seasoning Tea coupons to replenish supplies
• Work with Don on new secure supply cabinet.
• Approved

• GSR (Chris): Don Proxy
• Handout Group Inventory question forms, ask all to review
• Approved

• Treasurer (Betty): see attached balance sheet
• Are we at risk of getting swamped with receipts? No, reserve is sufficient.

• Approved

• Literature (Pao): No Update

• Night Watch (Open): Jonathan Interim
• More NW packets put in the locker.
• All is going well.
• Approved. 

• BOG/Foundation (Donna):  No Update

• Phone List (Cyrus):  No Update

• Childcare (Kathy): 
• In the black
• Supplies purchased
• Approved

• Inter-Group (Open):  No Update

• Public Information (Katy):  No Update

• Greeter Coordinator (Tom):  
• Going well
• Thursday now opened, Bob P volunteered
• Approved

• Speaker Seeker (Russ):   No Update

Open Positions:

• Night-Watch: Jonathan elected

• Inter-Group: Dana Elected

Old Business:

• Secure locker for daily envelope and coffee supply security:  
• Don and Bob to define, purchase and place in back room.
• Vote for envelopes secure storage: PASSED.
• Vote for coffee supplies secure storage: PASSED

• Don: Move GC meeting to back room:
• so we don't force out EO attendees, 
• so we stop disruption with10:30 meeting setup.
• Why did we originally move to main room? Low atendance. Suggest we can resolve that with frequent announcements the week before the meeting. All agreed to not require formal format addition, up to us all to insure announcement made.
• Vote to move GC to childcare room: PASSED

• Group Inventory Workshop:
  
  • questions handout distributed
• Chris asked Kathy G (the districts CPC Representative) to chair the workshop. 
• Chris suggests March so we can organize, promote it, fund raise, not let weather be an issue.
• Chris suggests a one day workshop off site for four hours, Saturday after the meeting?
• Need to find a place to hold it with budget including food (pizza, soda, coffee).
• vote on moving forward: PASSED

• Don Web Site Content review:
  
  • Adhere to 12 traditions, specifically to anonymity
• Absolutely NO commercial content will be allowed
• Weekly EO meeting schedule/focus
• EO group service position job descriptions and tenure dates
• EO Group Conscience meeting minutes
• Group activity announcements like picninc, raft trip, etc.
• Send link to GC with this meeting minutes email
• Vote to approve content: PASSED

• New web chair position? Discuss next GC New Business.

• Chris: Motion/discussion to add the “Responsibility Statement” to the format, before “what is sponsorship”.
  "A.A.’s  Responsibility Statement:   “I am responsible . . .  When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help,  I want the hand of A.A. always to be there.  And for that: I am responsible.”
• Vote to add the above: PASSED
• Concern expressed about lengthy format reducing share time in meetings.
• Dana volunteered to work with Chris to edit the format
• Vote to edit the format, try it this month, and announce feedback evaluation at next GC: PASSED
• Vote to add GC service statement to format: PASSED

• Kieth, concerned about Katy no attending GC mtgs? Don will call her to see if she is OK, and ask when her service tenure expires.

•  Chris: motion/discussion to create “Eye Opener Sunday 7AM Workshops: Postponed to January GC
  
  • We would do four to six a year every-other-month at Boulder One.
  • We would start sharp at 7am and end at 8:30, the following are suggested topics for the First three
  •  The 1st would be on the “Cycle of Addiction”  chaired by Howie
  • The 2nd would be the “Group Inventory” this would be the only off site one
  •  The 3rd would be “How to do a 12-step call”
  • We could get some Like Pat C (I think) who has been on a lot of  12 steps to talk
  • We could get someone for the ARC
  • Maybe we could get Maggie who is a ER Doctor to talk
  • And maybe someone is who is a member of EO because of 12 step call ---Suzann?
  • We would have to form an ad hock committee to organize and put these on.

A/I Status:

• Closed Action Items: 

• Open Action Items:
  

• EO Night Watch: Jonathan volunteered
• EO Inter-Group Rep: Dana volunteered
• New format being tried, will evaluate feedback at January GC.

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