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Seattle Area Service Committee: December 02, 2018 of 16

Seattle Area Service Committee (SASC)

Meeting Date: December 2nd, 2018 Location: Mercer Island Community and Events Center

8236 SE 24th St Mercer Island, WA 98040 Start Times: New GSR Orientation starts at 12:30 pm

SASC Meeting begins at 1:00 pm

2019 Meeting Dates

SASC Meeting Dates (monthly) SASC Admin Committee Meeting (quarterly)

January 06 Q1: January 02, 7:00pm (video conference call)

February 03 Q2: Pending

March 03 Q3: Pending

April 07 Q4: Pending

May 05

June 02

July 07

August 04

September 08

October 06

November 03

December 08

January 05, 2020


Overview of last month’s minutes:

● There were no open positions announced or elections held. ● There were three open sharing topics:

1. GSRs were asked to provide ideas on how to make those on drug replacement therapy and medication-assisted therapy feel welcome at NA meetings.

2. GSRs were asked if they had knowledge if “The Walk On In” meeting was still active. Fellowship development agreed to look into it.

3. It was clarified that the Mercer Island Corporation will dissolve after the 31st of December.

● There were two motions approved: 1. To provide a starter pack to a new meeting “Into the Light” - which was

approved. 2. Seattle area Unity Day would like to open a ‘sister’ account to SASC bank

account, which was approved.

No agenda items were carried over to the January meeting.

No agenda items were to be brought back to the home groups for discussion at the January meeting.

Open with the Serenity Prayer: 1:00 SASC Statement of Purpose read by: Shane Twelve Traditions read by: Ryan Twelve Concepts read by: Rich Vision of NA Service read by: Steven Announcements:

No smoking or vaping in the facility or under the awning. Smoking is allowed outside down the stairs by the butt cans

Please turn off cell phones

Please have all group donations to the treasurer prior to the break.

Note taking forms for GSRs available from secretary

Please submit all Open Sharing Topics and Grievances prior to the break

New motions must be submitted prior to New Business

GSRs please fill out Group Reports and ensure that the secretary has your address (email or snail mail) for the minutes

GSR Report forms, Motion forms, and SASC Guidelines are available at http://www.seattlena.com

Group reports can be submitted online prior to the next SASC

Help is needed 10 minutes following Area to take down the room

Please take any fliers or informational posters for your groups at the end of the meeting

http://www.seattlena.com/




Roll Call of Service Members and Groups See Appendix B for full roll call Last Month’s Minutes: Approved

New GSRs: Chris-West Seattle NA Jin-ah-Dope Free in the CD Rick-Three Rivers Ryan - Little Yellow House of Recovery

GSR Announcements: (See Appendix A for full group reports)

This Thursday at Seattle Indian center - 7pm new meeting “Into the Light”

Take It or Leave It- eastside annual marathon meeting 12/24 530pm-12/25 9pm

RFR-meeting in Kirkland congregational church 7:30 Tuesday nights needs support, men and women

Sunday Starters-asking that motions be more clear

NA Regulars meeting at Seattle First Baptist Church on 12/24

FYF needs support Mondays 7:30 at Kirkland Congregational Church

Insomniaddicts-Speaker meeting on last Wednesday 12/26 potluck starting at 9PM

Needs home group members looking to be of service

West Seattle NA at admiral congregational need support

Sponsorship Dinner- 1/26 Edmonds Lutheran Church doors open at 4:30 Dinner at 5:30 $25 ticket only event

New Year’s Eve Bash December 31st Seattle First Baptist Church doors open at 6:30 Speaker 7PM Dance 9PM speaker meeting is free and the dance is a $15 suggested donation.


Service Members Reports:

Chair: Dear Seattle Area Service Committee, You may recall that last month I read a new preamble to explain the difference between Groups who are “present” and Groups who are “represented”. Based on some feedback, here is a slightly revised version: SASC experimental agenda supplement Participation in this SASC is open to any NA member. Any member of NA may make a motion or participate in discussion. Voting privileges in this SASC are limited to group service representatives (GSRs). This committee has no say in who each group choses as their GSR. It is possible that two or more groups have chosen the same person to be their GSR. In this case, that GSR may vote only once, even though they are representing more than one group. They must choose which group they are voting on behalf of. SASC Service Members are those members such as me who have been elected by this body as trusted servants of this body. SASC Service Members may not simultaneously serve as GSRs. Therefore, we may not vote. We will now conduct our roll call of groups. If you are a GSR, when you hear the group name called out for the group you are voting for, please say “present and voting” or “present” or simply “here”. If you are a GSR representing a group but will not be voting on behalf of that group, when you hear that group name called out, please say “represented”. I appreciate receiving any feedback that members may have on this matter. I remind you that as previously announce your SASC admin committee which includes your Treasurer has unanimously decided to change the way that we account for our Storage Unit. Going forward the monthly cost of the storage unit will be split 4 ways between SINAC, SASC Activities, SASC Unity Day and SASC Admin. We find that this is not a guideline change and we have the authority to take this action. If any member disagrees, please raise your concern prior to the next admin meeting. I remind you that our next meeting is at 1pm on the First Sunday of January which is January 6, 2019. New GSR orientation and meeting setup begins 30 minutes earlier. Our new meeting location is in a church building at 1111 Harvard Ave in the Seattle First Hill neighborhood. Our next Admin Committee meeting will be held via web conferencing on Jan 2, 2019 at 7pm. Naomi will send out the meeting url via email In Loving Service … Mike L.


Vice Chair: Hello, Just a reminder that next month’s Area meeting will be held at the Seattle First Baptist Church at 1111 Harvard Ave Seattle WA 98122. The parking lot behind the church is free to park Sunday and the street parking is also free. We will use the back entrance off the alley adjacent to the parking lot. I am unable to attend Area this month due to unforeseen travel this weekend. I will see you all at our new location. ILS, Naomi L Recording Secretary: Nothing to Report Assistant Recording Secretary: Nothing to Report Treasurer: (See appendix C for full report) 1. The bank statements and ledger balances matched this month. 2. The issue with the check from September for $41.89 was finally resolved and credited back to our account. 3. Bing, Kendra and I meet to discuss PR’s budget. Kendra was able to order more literature and they have used the extra $2500 from excess funds that was approved for them to use in October. 4. I did not set aside the money for PR to use for a booth at Pride voted on last quarter. I will take that out of excess funds this month and then write the check and send the remaining balance to Region today. 5. I spoke to Gary today and he cleared up the invoice from NRSCO that I brought up last area in the amount of $719.88. 6. Literature’s deposit had a discrepancy of negative $9.01. Gary made a copy of the notice from the bank for his records. 7. I will be out of the country most December and half of January and will miss Area and the Admin meeting. I will have very limited access to email and texting. On a personal note I will be meeting my husband’s family in Malaysia and fulfilling a lifetime dream of visiting Australia. Dreams really do come true in recovery and I am full of gratitude for this opportunity. 8. I will now read the financial statement for November 2018. I have emailed the statement out to the recording secretary, chair and vice chair for distribution with the minutes.


Assistant Treasurer: Nothing to Report Activities Chair: We spent the entire month of November preparing for the annual Gratitude Dinner. Thanks to some 11th hour cooked meat donations and smaller than expected attendance, we ended up with plenty of food, with plenty of take-home meals provided, and some food donated to homeless outreach. I especially want to thank those non-committee members who contributed so significantly to this events success: Gordon, Ed, Matt, Ryan, Beau and others. Our next event is the NYE dance at first baptist, same location area is moving to. Our committee meeting today, and the one in two weeks will be dedicated towards putting this event on. Please join us if you can help...we'll need help with decorations, cleanup, and holding items overnight->returning them to storage the next day. This is a GREAT time to get involved with the Activities committee, after new year's we'll be looking at the coming year with new freedom for new events, and have a new campout to plan. Thank you for allowing me to be of service. Activities Treasurer: No report submitted Literature: Hello all, Last month we sold $1201.45. Our order was $1194.79. In service, Gary Regional Committee Member (RCM 1): Hi all, Not a whole lot to report today. I am going to submit an open discussion today on the issue discussion topic about medication assisted treatment/ drug replacement therapy. This is a subject that some people have very strong options about, so I encourage you to be open-minded and compassionate. I ask that you don't respond to what has already been said, and


instead just voice your own thoughts. The world board has asked for input on this topic from the fellowship, to use when writing the new literature on the topic, so I will be sending notes from the discussion off to them. On a personal note, I have 4 years clean today. Service has been a pillar of recovery for me, so thank you all for being a part of my recovery. I may not always be super excited to come here, but I've been coming for about 3 and a half years straight, so I guess I must be getting something out of it! Much love to you all, Dani Regional Committee Member 2 (RCM 2): I have a whole lot of nothing to report this month.

SINAC Liaison: Hello all, I have fliers for needed positions and dates for our next two meetings. Starter meeting will be 12/16 and Januarys meeting will be the 20th. For now we are looking at the 3rd Sunday at 12:30pm at Edmonds Lutheran Church I have attaché flier to this report to be added to area site. we have more than a third of our positions filled- we need the following : Treasure Vice Chair, Recording Archives Asst Secretary, Ambassadors Convention Information, Merchandise Chair, Security Chair, Decorations Chair, Marathon Meetings Chair Hit me up during the break if you’re interested and look forward to the next 19 months of putting this event together. Thanks for allowing me to be of service Mario PR Chair: Hello Everyone First and foremost let’s welcome Ashley L our new H&I Chair, Aubrey our new H&I Vice Chair, Kendra J H&I/PR Literature Chair and Matt J H&I Secretary. This is exciting to have a full crew on board. Thank you for your service. Super grateful to have you apart of this awesome committee. I believe that everyone’s report will show the hard work and dedication that we are all doing here. So I won’t go into extensive details.


H&I Literature I know Ashley L created an amazing google document form for all the panel leaders to fill out so it can be super practical for everyone. It’s been quite challenging but the literature is finally coming in for the panel leaders of H&I. I know it’s a tremendous hard job getting it all together for the H&I literature chair. Kendra has done an amazing job getting it streamlined to track all literature coming in and going out. Going forward we believe that we will need a Vice Literature Chair. Since it’s a very busy service commitment. New Location for H&I monthly Service Meeting: Starting Jan 6th at 10am we will start meeting at Groove City Grind Coffee Shop 3100 Airport Way S, Seattle WA. There have been flyers made and we would appreciate if this was announced in your Home group. PR: We met with Hotel California By The Sea and they are now ordering Narcotics Anonymous literature to have in there facility. They purchased their own rack and IP’s and some Basic Text. Going forward we will meet with other Treatment Centers and do a PR presentation to let them know how they can help by purchasing Narcotics Anonymous literature to place in their facilities . Last but least we finally have a meeting starting at the Seattle Indian Center, starting this coming Thursday December 6th at 7pm. Sincerely Bing B Public Relations Chair for the Seattle Area of Narcotics Anonymous Unity Day Chair: No report submitted Unity Day Treasurer: No report submitted


Conventions and Events Representative: Hello All, I have little to report. Clean and Free registration is now open. If you want to go to Clean and Free you will probably need to register sooner rather than later as we do not have the Quinalt this year so space will be extremely limited! You can register by going to WNIRNA.org and selecting the conventions and events on the left side and it will take you to all of the regional conventions and events and clean and free will pop up. Select clean and free and it will take you to the registration site. I hope everyone has a joyous holiday season. In Loving service, Jennette C. Fellowship Development: Verbal report provided at meeting, no written report submitted Courage to Change Men’s Retreat: Excess funds will be brought to area next month Adhoc Reports: None

Grievances:

None


Old Business: Motion # 1811-02 Made by: Oona G Seconded by: Jason C Motion: Seattle Area Unity Day would like to open a ‘sister’ account to SASC bank account. Intent: Intent is to open an account for online registrations to be deposited into and to simplify banking for both Unity Day treasurer and SASC treasurer. guidelines change to be brought back to groups Outcome: Passes 17-1-3 (support, not support, abstain) New Business: None Open Sharing:

(1) Topic: How do we treat members on Drug Replacement Therapy (DRT) & Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) as we would treat any other member of NA?

a. Don’t talk about it behind peoples back b. If you see something say something c. Excerpts from the literature read at the beginning of meeting

(2) Topic: Walk On In meeting- is it still there. Fellowship development will check it out

(3) Topic: What is happening to the NA on Mercer Island Corporation after the Chair

changes? Answer: After the 31st of December the corporation will be dissolved and not renewed

Motions:

(1) Motion Number: 1812-1 Made By: Bing Seconded By: UNK Motion: A starter pack be approved for the new meeting, “Into the Light” Intent: Provide a starter pack to the meeting Outcome: Passed


CLOSED MEETING AT 3:38pm

Appendix A: Group Reports Detailed reports are only provided of the groups who filled out a report form and turned it to the Recording Secretary

C2C MENS’ RETREAT (3rd weekend in November)

GSR: N/A Secretary: N/A Treasurer: N/A

Rent: N/A SASC Donation: pending

Notes: Here to represent the retreat an area level. We have a donation to be accounted for

next month. Submitted by Paul B.

FREE AT LAST (Thurs/ 7pm)

GSR: Phillip S. Secretary: Charles Treasurer: Reese A.

Rent: $30/mtg. SASC Donation: $0.00

Notes: Average attendance has been about 20 people with at least one new comer each

week. Meeting attendance is growing. Submitted by Reese A.


Appendix B: Service Member and Group Roll Call

X= Present A=Absent O=Open Position

SERVICE MEMBERS Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Chair x X X X X X X X X X X x X X X X

X

X X X X X

Vice Chair x X O O X X X A A X X x X X X X X X X A A

Recording Secretary x X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Assistant Recording

Secretary x X X X X X X X X X X X X O O X X X X X X

Treasurer x X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Assistant Treasurer x X A A X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Literature x X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Activities Chair x X X X X X X X X X X A A X X A X X X X X

Activities Treasurer A A X X X X X X X X X A A A X X X A A X X

RCM x X X X A X X X X A A X X A A X X X X X X

RCM2 x X X X A X X A A X X X X A A X X X X X X

PR Chair x X X A O O O O X R X X X X R R A A X X X X

Unity Day 2019 Chair x X X A A R R A A A A A A A A X X A A X A

Convention & Events X X X X X X X X X X X A A X X X X X X X X

SINAC Liaison X X X X X X X X A X X X X X X O O O O X X

Fellwship

oDevelopment X X A A A A A A A X X X X A A O O O O X A

GROUPS

AMNA X X X A X X X X A A A A X X X X X X A X X X

A Simple Solution X X X X X X X X X A X X X X R R R R R R R R

An Atmosphere to

Recovery X X X X A A X X A A A A X X X X X X R X X X


Anything is Possible X X X X X X X X A A A A X A A A X X A A X A

Back to Life X X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Basic NA X X X X X X A A A A X A X A X A X A X A A A

Beyond Belief A A A A A A A A X A A A A A A A A A X A A A

Breakfast of Champions A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Clean Living A A X X X X X A A A A A A A A A X X R R R R

Close to Home X X X X X

Dime Piece A A X X A A A X A X A A X X X X A A A X A A

Dope Free in the CD X X X A X X X X X A X X X X R R R R A A X X

Eastshore NA X X A A A A X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Free at Last X R

A

R A

Freedom Group X X X X X X X X A A A A A X R X A A A A A A

From the Streets to the

Seats X X X X A A X X X A X X X X X X A A R R A A

Friday Night Step Out X X X X A A A A A A X A A A A A A A A A A A

Friday Night Step Study X X X X X A X A A A X A X X A A A A A A A A

FYF X X X X X X X X X X X X X X A A X X X X X X

Generation RX X A A A A A X X X X X X X X X X X X X A X X

Grateful On Greenwood X X X X X A X X X A X X A A R R X X R R X X

High Noon A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Hope Fiends A A X A A A A A X A A A A A X A A A R A A A

Hugs Not Drugs X X A A A A X A A A X A X X A A X X A A A A

Insomniaddicts X X X X X A X X X X X X X A X X X X X X R X

It’s your day A A A A A A X X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Just 12 Steps &

Traditions A A X A A A X X X X X X A X A A A A X X X A

Just For Today X X X X X A X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X


Just the Facts Mam’ X X X X X X X A X A A A A A A A A A A X A A

Little Yellow House X X X X X X X X X X X X X X A A A A X X X X

Lovin’ Spoonful X A A X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A X A A

MGLA X X X X X X X X X A A A A X X X X X X X X X

Miracle in Progress X X A A A A A X X X A X A A A A A X X X X A

Monday Night Raw X X X X A A A A A A A A A A A A X A X A A A

Monday Night Recovery A A A A A A A A A A A A X X X X X A X A A A

More Will Be Revealed X X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

NA Regulars X A X X A A A A A A X X X X X X X X X X A A

NA Soldiers A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Never Too Late X X X X A A X X A A A A X X A A A A A A X X

New Age Recovery A A A A A A A A A A X X X X A A R R R R A A

No Matter What X X A X X X X X X X X X X X A A X X X X A A

North Seattle Hardcore X X X A X X X A A X X A A A A A A A A A A

Northwest Addicts X X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A X X A A

Nuevo Comienzo A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Oasis X X X X X X X X A X X A X X X X X X X X A

On Fiyah IV Recovery X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X A

R & R X X A A X X A X A X X X X X A X A X A A A

Recipe For Recovery X X X X A A A A A X A A A A A A A A A X X

Recovery In Progress X X X X A A X A X X X X X X X A A X X A A

Recovery to Go A A A A A A A A A X A X X X A A A A A A A

RVNA New Experience X X X A X X X A A A A X X R R R R R R A R

S.O.S X X X X X X X A A X A A A A A A A A A A A

Safe Haven X X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A X A A A A

Saturday Morning

Women X X X X X A X X A X A A A X X X X A X X X


Serenity Circle X X X X A X X X A X X X A X X X A A A A X

So Fresh So Clean X X X X X X X X A X X X X X X X X X X A X

Solo Por Hoy A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Spiritual Breakfast X X X X A X X A A X X X A X X X X A A A A

Step Brothers X A X X X X X A X X X X X X X X X X X X X

Straight Ahead NA A A A X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Sundays at Six A X X X A X X A A X X A A A A X X R R X X

Sunday Starters X X A X X X X X X X X X X A A R A A A X X

Take it Or Leave It A A X X X X X A A X X X X X X A A X X X X

The Journey Continues X A X A X X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Three Rivers A A A A X A A A A X A A A A A A A X A X A

Totally Real A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

Tower of Power X A A A X A A A X A A X X A A X A X A X A

Tuesday Night Special A A X A A X X X A X X X A A A X A A A A A

Walk On In X A A A A X X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A

We’re Glad You’re Here X X X A A A A A A A A X X A A A A A X A A

We’re Not Alone X X X A A A A X A A A A A X A X A R A R A

West Coast Recovery A A A A A A A A A A A A A X A X A X A X A

West Seattle NA A A A A X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A R A

Yes You Can X X X X A X X A A X A A X A A A X X X A A

Voting Members (GSRs) 4

6

4

1

3

7

3

5

2

9

3

9

3

6

1

9

1

5

3

2

2

6

3

2

2

7

2

7

2

0

3

2

2

3

2

6

2

5

2

2

2

3


Appendix C: Treasurer’s Report

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