Minutes 3/2/10
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Reviewed and approved agenda
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. Reviewed and approved Treasurer's report
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. Report: by Webmaster on Website
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. Report: by Liaison on
upcoming worldwide SLAA events
. * Minutes for
February's Business meeting were inadvertently
left off the agenda
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Old
Business:
*Treasurer's duties proposed language: Not approved
Suggested one year of required sobriety, 450 op level, Provides input to establish
officer consensus determining conflicts over restrictions/bans applied for inappropriate
behaviors when an incidence is not clear or not covered in the guidelines. Maintains
ledger of debit, credits and balances of account and submits monthly treasury
reports to Fellowship, takes in donations from fellowship from P.O. Box, pays
website fee, pays for domain name of website, pays for P.O. Box, maintains prudent
reserve of $140 dollars and sends excess in donations to SLAAFWS as per group
conscience
*Ops not showing up for meetings Taken off agenda permanently, presenter of
motion not present for third time
*How to Handle Crosstalk and
Feedback - Have a once a month Ops meeting Approved. Tammy to arrange
New
Business:
. New Ops:
Jtull/Rhino30- Not approved
(Lawrence)
- Did not show up
Deb - Approved
Proposed policy
on How to Handle Suicide Threats: Not approved
Motion:Ops - try
to have individual go to #slaa2 with you and another Op. If an officer is present,
please notify them about what is going on immediately. ?If the individual won't
go to #slaa2 - devoice them in the main room and try to talk to them in pm.
Encourage
them to call a friend or a family member. Encourage them to contact a local suicide
hotline, or the "International Suicide Hotline". (The international
suicide hotline numbers are listed at this website: http://suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org/Crisis.html.
This info will be posted on our website as well. Please bear in mind that while
we have verified that some of the info at the International hotline is correct,
some of the info has proved to be incorrect and cannot be completely relied on.
So it is best to encourage them to contact their local suicide hotline). Encourage
them to call 911 if need be. Please remember that we are not counselors. Do not
try to counsel this individual - it might make the situation worse.
If you
feel the situation is imminently lethal you have the option of tracing their ISP
(internet service provider) by using this tool: http://network-tools.com/. The
ISP can be contacted, and the ISP can alert authorities. Please be careful not
to break this individuals anonymity. Please bear in mind that although this ISP
tracing tool was recommended to us by "channels" (the owners of our
server), it isn't 100% guaranteed accurate at all times.
Motion:
Extend Meetings to 1 1/2 hours- due to increase in the size of our meetings (some
times as many as 35 to 40 people). Tabled due to lateness of the hour