CHICAGOLAND GA INTERGROUP
MINUTES FOR November 12, 2013
Chicagoland GA Intergroup Officers:
Chairperson / Harold D1st Chair / Tony C
2nd Chair / Sandy M
Secretary(s) / Peggy S (Justin W not present)
The meeting was called to order by Harold D at 7:30 p.m.
Readings:
Recovery Program / Lois WUnity Program - Step #11 / Kay T
One Day-at-a-Time(November 12) / Dan B
New Intergroup Reps Acknowledged:
· None
Meetings Present Represented in Bold: 39 of 70 rooms represented (56%)
Sun – Champaign-Urbana / 7:00 PMSun – Chicago Hts. / 6:00 PM
Sun – Elgin / 6:00 PM
Sun – Elk Grove / 5:00 PM
Sun – Evanston / 7:00 PM
Sun – Naperville / 6:00 PM / Wed – Joliet Spanish / 6:30 PM
Wed – Oak Lawn / 10:15 AM
Wed – Oak Park / 7:30 PM
Wed – Park Ridge / 7:30 PM
Mon – Arlington Hts. / 7:00 PM
Mon – Aurora / 7:00 PM
Mon – Bloomingdale / 7:30 PM
Mon – Chicago - St. Mary's / 6:30 PM
Mon – Hinsdale / 6:30 AM
Mon – Highland, IN / 7:00 PM
Mon – Joliet / 7:00 PM
Mon – Lisle / 7:00 PM
Mon – Morris / 7:00 PM
Mon – Norridge / 7:00 PM
Mon – Oak Lawn / 7:30 PM
Mon – Peoria / 7:00 PM
Mon – Rockford / 6:00 PM
Mon – Silvis / 6:00 PM / Thur – Chicago Loop / Noon
Thur – Downers Grove/10:00 AM
Thur – Elk Grove / 7:00 PM
Thur – Gurnee / 6:00 PM
Thur – Hammond, IN / 7:00 PM
Thur – Korean Meeting / 7:00 PM
Thur – Kankakee / 7:00 PM
Thur – Lisle / 7:00 PM
Thur – Mayfair-St. John’s / 7:30 PM
Thur – Oak Lawn / 7:30 PM
Thur – Orland Park / 7:30 PM
Thur – Oswego / 7:00 PM
Thur – Peoria / 7:00 PM
Thur – St. Charles / 7:00 PM
Thur – Streator / 7:00 PM
Tues – Algonquin / 7:30 PM
Tues – Bloomingdale / 7:30 PM
Tues – Chicago Loop / Noon
Tues – Chicago South / 7:00 PM
Tues – Edison Park / 7:00PM
Tues – Lansing, IN / 7:00 PM
Tues – Normal / 6:00 PM
Tues – Romeoville / 7:00 PM
Tues – Schaumburg / 11:00 AM
Tues – South Holland/10:00 AM / Fri – Bolingbrook / 7:30 PM
Fri – Buffalo Grove / 7:00 PM
Fri – Dyer, IN / 7:00 PM
Fri – Hinsdale / 6:30 AM
Fri – Joliet / 6:30 PM
Fri – Silvis / 5:30 PM
Fri – St. Tarcissus/12:30 PM
Fri – St. Gertrude / 7:00 PM
Fri – Chgo. S. - Willa Rawls / 6:30 PM
Wed – Aurora / 7:00 PM
Wed – Downers Grove / 7:00 PM
Wed – Galesburg / 6:30 PM
Wed – Hinsdale / 6:30 AM
Wed – Highland, IN / 7:00 PM
Wed – Hoffman Est. / 7:00 PM / Sat – Downers Grove / 9:00 AM
Sat – Elmhurst/ 7:00 PM
Sat – Hinsdale / 2:00 PM
Sat – La Porte, IN / 11:30 AM
Sat – Merrillville, IN / 9:00 AM
Sat – Oak Park / 7:00 PM
Sat – Schaumburg / 9:00 AM
Area 8 Trustees
· Fred L Present
· Debbie M Present
· Rich S……….Present
· Larry J……….Present
Minutes from Last Intergroup meeting
Jerry A made a motion to accept minutes; Cindi M seconded. Motion passed.
Old/Unfinished Business:
· None
New Business:
· Committee nominations and acceptances for FY14 Elections in December:
o Activities – Luke W accepted / Tom C accepted as back-up and mentor to Luke
o Anniversaries – Vicki C accepted
o Budget – Doug K and Tony C accepted
o Website – Doug K accepted
o Meetings – Paul A accepted
o Phone Service – Ellen Z and Dianna R accepted
o Pinning’s - Susan S accepted
o Pressure Relief - Frank F accepted / Dan B accepted as back-up and mentor to Frank
o Public Relations – Larry J and Jim N accepted
o Sunshine / Good and Welfare – Pat F and Star C accepted
o Trustee’s (no change)
o Holiday Party – Pat F accepted
o Picnic – Position filled - Bob D was previously voted and selected as Picnic Chair
o Spirally – Position filled - Donna M and Eileen Z were previously voted and selected as Chairs
o Supplies – Mary W accepted and Karen G accepted
o Treasurer - Phil S will remain for another year / Harvey W accepted and Eileen Z accepted
o Chair 2nd Sandy M accepted and Bob D accepted
o Chair 1st Allen H accepted and Sandy M accepted
o Chair – Harold accepted and Sandy M accepted
o Secretary – Peggy S accepted on condition of having a backup / Justin W was nominated and Larry J stated he could fill-in as a back-up
Committee Reports
Pinnings – Susan S. (Sandy M. reporting for Susan)
· To help ensure that the Supplies Chair people (Mary W. & Eileen Z) are aware of pins that need to be ordered, when advising the Pinning chairperson (Susan S.) of your room’s pinning, please also advise her if you need to order a pin or pins for that pinning.
· It was suggested that when possible, members recycle pins and pass on to other members, but don’t recycle your own pins until you get your next one.
Please call or email Susan S at or call 312-925-6195 AT THE LATEST BY THE SATURDAY PRIOR TO INTERGROUP.
Date
/ Day / Time / Location / Name / Years11/12/13 / Tuesday / 12:00 PM
In Room / Chicago – Loop
First United Methodist Church / Babs C
Alan L / 1 year GA
1 year GA
11/16/2013 / Saturday / 7:30 PM
Food First
Late Start / Elmhurst
Epiphany Lutheran Church / Cindi M. / 10 yrs GA
11/20/2013 / Wednesday
Food First / 7:00-PM
In Room / Aurora
Presence Mercy Medical Center / Hortencia R / 1 year GA
11/21/2013 / Thursday / 8:00 PM
Cake Only / Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn Community Church / Dan D / 1 year GA
12/9/12 / Monday / 7:30 PM / Oak Lawn
St. Linus Community Church / Joe V / 20 year GA
12/15/13 / Sunday / 7:00 PM
Food First / Evanston
St. Francis Hospital
South Conference Room / Ben F / 1 year GA
Pinning Guidelines:
To be eligible to be pinned a member must have: (Per the GA Guidance Code) Abstinence from gambling and regular attendance of at least thirty-nine (39) Gamblers Anonymous meetings (exceptions can be made via group conscience decisions, for medical reasons) in the past 12 months is required for pinnings and for all successive anniversaries. Date of abstinence starts from your first meeting after your last bet.
Chicagoland GA Pinning Guidelines:
1. No meeting will schedule more than one pinning event in a 30 day period
2. Notification of pinning must be communicated to the pinning chairperson by either a room IG Rep or Secretary NO LATER than the SATURDAY prior to the intergroup meeting. [Secretary’s note: modified this to add bolded requirement was passed at November 12, 2012 Chicagoland Intergroup meeting]
3. To prevent conflicts, rooms may not schedule an event on the same day as another room. In the case of a conflict, the first room to schedule a pinning and inform the pinning chairperson will take precedence
4. [Secretary’s note: adding new guideline that was passed at May 9, 2011 Chicagoland Intergroup meeting] For a pin to be purchased by Chicagoland Intergroup, that the pinning, whether published or non-published must go through the pinning chairperson for approval.
Activities – Jim N. and Tom C. (Jim N Reporting)
· The Sunday Monthly Bowling League continues to have a very good turnout. Individuals are always welcome to come out to the next event. The next outing is on Sunday, December 15th at 6:00 pm, members are asked to bring finger food to pass for the holidays. Bowling details are on the website.
· The October 19th Event "Pumpkin Daze" at Marmion's Abbey Farm had 10 people (poor weather conditions did not bring a lot of people out)
· No new activities planned for the rest of the year.
Anniversaries – Debbie M. (Debbie M Reporting)
· Debbie submits the anniversary’s each month to ISO.
· Please turn Anniversary information into Debbie M. at or or bring them to her at Intergroup. Please remember to submit clean date anniversaries for your rooms.
o When submitting, please send the following: first name, last initial, anniversary date, number of years clean and home meeting.
Budget – Doug K. and Tony C. (Doug K Reporting)
· 3rd quarter report – Contributions are down $123.00 off the budget; revenue’s are ahead because of the success with last year’s Spring Conference.
o Waiting for Trustee’s report on budget for Orlando Conference; 2014 has a local Trustee meeting, but we may need to increase for travel out of the country to the Mexico conference in 2015
o Picnic made $365.00, ahead of break-even budget
o Pins are a guess of $1,600.00 against a budget of 1,300.00 for 2013, not an issue because it means we have a lot of celebration and clean time; will revise the number next year.
o Dan B. donated out of pocket expenses for PR training because we had no budget; may want to allocate money towards this next year.
o Spring Conference budget has not been set for 2014 (we had 2,189.00 profit in 2013) we may want to budget for breaking even next year.
o Send in suggestions for next year’s proposed budget to Doug. Please think about how you would like CIG to spend your money (example, our current Public Relations budget is $0, we may want to consider donating $300-$400 to this, or maybe the Pressure Relief committee in order to do more). Doug asks committee heads to think about what they would like to add to the budget and that reps speak to their rooms on this topic. Important: You will need to email your requests to Doug so they can be in voted on in December.
GA Chicagoland Website – Doug K. (Doug K Reporting)
· No report
Meetings – Paul A. and Ellen Z. (Paul A Reporting)
· Naperville will have an upcoming November Speaker Meeting, Jack C quest speaker
· Meetings that announced they will be closed on Thursday, November 28th
o Lisle – closed (on website)
o Oak Lawn - closed (Vicki C)
· Reps were asked to check with their rooms and report any Holiday closings for Dec. and Jan. Tuesday pm or Wednesday am / pm
· Tuesday Romeoville – The building will be closed but people will meet in the parking lot
· Paul A went to Hinsdale meeting – followed the instructions and had a problem finding the room at the hospital; it has now been updated on the website. It was a good meeting. Consider going to a different meeting if you haven’t before and encourage members to go to different meetings and show support.
Phone Service – Dianna R., Ellen Z. (Ellen Z reporting)
· Numbers for Sept and Oct. were reported
· Numbers show up from an 888 on the members phone
· We are still seeing a large group of missed calls that are rolling over
· The telephone ring was expanded from 3 rings to 4.
· Finding that people are leaving voice messages but we do not call back because we don’t know who will answer the phone.
Period: / Missed Calls / Calls Connected / Voice Mail / Total Number of CallsSept. 1 – Sept. 30 / 37 / 19 / 3 / 59
Oct. 1 – Oct. 31 / 31 / 13 / 3 / 47
Pressure Relief – Dan B. (Dan B Reporting)
· One month ago did PR training in Itasca; found the workshop time was too short; had a good response and will make it longer the next time
· There were no PR’s reported this month
· Please make sure that every room should have a pressure relief chairperson – The room chair is the point person for scheduling PR meetings with Dan for your room. Guidance Code recommends that the PR Rep have 6 month clean time.
· Dan’s phone number is 815-342-0385; he is available to come to any meeting to discuss the Pressure Relief programs and answer any questions.
Public Relations – Larry J., Allen H. (Allen H Reporting)
· If you set up any ads, the PR chair does not approve them but you should notify them for advice and input so we can maintain the GA guidelines; some ads ran in Streator and Aurora in the Ottawa Times for the GA Streator meeting; Doug K reports the meeting is new and there is little turnout; If we advertise it make sure someone will be there; Tony C stated we have a booklet on public relations and it has the suggested guidelines we should follow. Allen H stepping down this year and thanked the groups for letting him chair these past year.
· Phil S. provided 1000 copies to the rooms to distribute on GA Helpline
· Peel off one before you distro to encourage others to take one
Sunshine/Good and Welfare – Pat F. (Pat F Reporting)
· Cards were passed out
· Ken T from the Saturday Schaumburg and Wednesday Hoffman Estates meeting; his wife had a severe stroke, she is now in a nursing home; please keep Ken and his family in your thoughts and prayers.
Trustees Reports
· Debbie M. –
o Participated in the Orlando Walk-a-thon (1 of 2 people who did it). She collected and turned in a little over 1,000 for ISO
o Debbie has break down of all the Orlando agenda items if you would like to know the topics that were discussed
· Fred L. –
o Attended the Orlando Conference which had 134 items on the agenda; Trustee’s went through them all
§ Conference Call Meetings passed - More information will be forthcoming on how to attend (geared and designed for shut-ins or people who live a distance from a meeting)
§ On-line meetings did not go to vote, it was withdrawn
§ Changing the wording in the Combo book to “healthy” was withdrawn
§ Combo book changes are only submitted every 2years; if the person who submits it and don’t want it to be heard they are the only person who can withdraw it