NYC YPAA
Minutes
5/1/05

Reports

Secretary
Darren read minutes from 4/24/05.
Motion to accept minutes as read passed.

Treasurer
Michelle, $44
Event brought in $3
Total $47
Motion to accept treasurer's report passed.

Outreach
Janusz asked us how it's going. Started with Darren, I said that it's been going badly since I was embarrassed to invite people to the event. Megan asked Janusz to make his own report.

Janusz visited the yp group in Staten Island again. It went well. He plans to go to the same meeting twice in a row.

The flyer for the event didn't have directions or our web address, so they were less than effective as an outreach tool. Also it was hard to read.

Asked for a regular flyer, just a plain flyer that says what we are and what we do. Downloadable from the site. Says when we meet. People on long island are interested.

Daniel asked when the next event would be. This coming Sunday and the next one as well. The New Young Generation Group in Brooklyn.

Literature
Mandi said that we could come to the literature stuffing date at intergroup, on the second Saturday of each month. We could also take a meeting to a yp institution. Mandi's working on the yp meeting list, attending business meetings to ask the groups if they'll be included.

Graphics
Absent

Events
Katya heard a lot about and around yesterday's event. Yesterday seemed like a weird failed attempt. Hopefully we'll learn from the situation and we'll try to do better.

SENY Rep
Nothing new to report.

Intergroup Rep
Janina in absentia. Nothing new to report.

Web Rep
Absent

Bylaws Report
Jason made the requested change and is looking forward to our input.

Old Business

Meeting Space: Veteran's Hospital
John reported that we will now be meeting at the veteran's hospital at 12noon.
Daniel wants a flyer announcing our new meeting place.

Temporary Bylaws
Daniel makes a motion to accept the bylaws Jason prepared as a temporary measure to get us through until we make our own bylaws. These bylaws will be effect for two months at the most.
Discussion
Darren-we don't have copies of the bylaws, so we can't even discuss them.
Michelle thinks that since they're temporary, we can go forward and change them.
Yay 11
Nay 1

Bylaws
Copies were made for all people.
Membership of the Committee
We had a very long discussion about matters of Membership of the committee.
We unanimously agreed on a statement written by Megan. (A. and B.)

We then unanimously agreed on a change to the wording about elected committee positions. (C. and D.)

Bylaws committee meeting: (Jason isn't getting the emails) we couldn't decide.

Election of Co-chairs
Cara volunteered for Treasurer Co-Chair.
Elected unanimously.

Technology subcommittee meeting:
Priorities
1. email system through the website
2. listserv for elected committee positions
3. bulletin board for open discussions

What happened at the event?
Rain Out
Katya says that people were interested and that she's encouraged by people's interest.
Michelle says the failure was having no backup plan.
Megan says that the entire committee has to be behind the event.
Cara says we need to get the word out earlier so that people can make plans to attend.
Mandi reminded us that it's ok to try things and see how they go. The event was fun and nice.
Daniel felt that the rain was the biggest factor. The flaw in the procedure was that we were in a rush to get something done. We should be more patient and plan further in advance.

New Business

Motion to Close

Collection $11, paid $5 to Jason for copies, $3 paid to intergroup.

12 people in attendance
Daniel S., Michelle A., Megan H., Darren, John H., Jill, Janusz, Jason, Katya, Mandi, Heather, Cara,