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October 21, 2006

Minutes - August 20th, 2006

NYCPAA 8/20/06

Meeting begins with serenity prayer and traditions

Introductions = attendance
Laura
Viviana
Tiffany
Janusz
brooke
Shelly
Daniel x 2
Rakhel
Astrude

Catya will be late, so minutes from last meeting are not here
Cory will not be here (work)
Theresa will not be here (hospital)
Jared will not be here

Laura gives “brief rundown of what happened last time”

“brief rundown of what happened last time” was accepted

Outreach report by proxy:
Will outreach “the heck” out of scavenger hunt

YPAA Liaison report:
Alcoholics are slow to respond sometimes
Responses from many YPAAs regarding coordination of events, etc.

Bid committee:
No report

Web Report:
Brianna is sorry that she has been slow to update website
Catya will get old minutes to her to post

Intergroup:
Phones last we were “smashing success”
We need a phone line for next time (Sept 9th)
We also need a location

[Catya arrives at=4:15]

Riker’s report:
Commitment has “dwindled” due to chairs absence

Graphics:
Cory is waiting for someone to give him information on the scavenger hunt

Literature:
Collection of young people’s stories in “works”
Rakhel is calling literature desk at GSO

Treasurer:
$433.83
With $60 in rent fund
Darren has outstanding costs for
Flood money for fliers ($50)
Outstanding $120

Announcements:
Next weekend: NYSIW
District 601 is going to help us pay for our van
Inner city forum in Philadelphia, October 13th and 14th (no registration fee)
Vacant Chair and co-chair positions announcement

7th tradition $23.77

Old business
Last time Daniel made motion to change bid business to regular NYCYPAA meetings, add facilities chair
Discussion
In favor

Darren arrives 4:35
Question of facilities chair “stepping on events chairs toes”
Discussion
Discussion of importance of facilities chair and large responsibility of commitment in relation to our hotels
Spirit of motion is that facilities chair assists events
Not in favor of facilities working with events committee
Noted that the spirit of this motion is to have NYCYPAA not be split
Suggestion of position name for facilities chair being changed to “bid facilities chair” and “bid facilities co-chair”

Question called on first motion
11-0-1
Motion passes

Question of time requirement of bid facilities chair
Suggestion of 2 years

Amendment to 2nd motion
To add “bid” to facilities chair.

Question called
10-0-2
Motion passes

NYSIW
8pm YP panel
Suggestion of NYCYPAA members getting up there around lunch
We should be there for as much of Saturday as possible
Suggestion of leaving at 10am at Union Square
Suggestion of us having a roster of people committing to being in the van
Van is 100 miles for $119 for 15 passenger van with a quarter for every additional mile plus gas prices
Nusz would like to arrive for lunch
Noted that our participation with Intergroup, SENY and Rikers, PI, Bid be discussed on panel
Leaving at Union Square at 10am
? of 2nd van

Hodet gives final words as bid chair
Brook gives final words as bid co-chair

Question of when we should have elections for open positions
Sept 17

Motion: We postpone our meeting to Sept 10th with a 1 hour meeting
8-1-1
Motion passes

It is group responsibility to outreach these positions?

? of how we unify our elections
Darren suggests we have fall elections, or figure out specific time of year we have our elections

Darren volunteers to bring proposal for bi-laws change for elections

Bank account:
Washington Mutual
Free Business checking
Online Banking
Debit Mastercard
Mastercard Business card
We need a letter on our letterhead, a list of members and list of authorized signers
Discussion of 3 signers

Daniel is going to call Jimmy

Motion to accept Tiffany as co-intergroup chair by acclimation
PASSES

Possibility of having workshop session for stories for our pamphlet
Suggestion of Sept 24th
Suggestion of bringing work in
Question of word count and format
Catya will send out specifications GSO gives along with grapevine qualifications

Motion: NYCYPAA writing workshop on Sept 24th
Withdrawn
Tabled until Sept 10

Posted by brianna at October 21, 2006 02:59 PM

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