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Seattle Area Service Committee (SASC)

Meeting Date: February 3rd, 2019 Location: Seattle First Baptist Church

1111 Harvard Ave Seattle, WA 98122 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 February minutes:

Several open positions were announced. Tony was elected as Activities Treasurer. Dennis was nominated, but declined to be activities chair. Assistant Recording Secretary, Activities Chair, Activities Vice Chair, Unity Day Chair and the PR Committee Chair remain open to nominations.

The was one open sharing topic: The RCM made the group aware that Region’s 2016 and 2017 taxes were delayed and Region is facing penalties for both years. There was discussion on whether the Region Auditor should be held personally liable. A straw poll was taken.

There were no grievances, old business or new motions.

No agenda items were meant to be taken back to the home groups for discussion.

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Open with the Serenity Prayer: 1:00 SASC Statement of Purpose read by: Brian Twelve Traditions read by: Shane Twelve Concepts read by: Chuck Vision of NA Service read by: David 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

Roll Call of Service Members and Groups See Appendix B for full roll call Last Month’s Minutes: Approved (with correction) – July’s meeting is July 7th, not July 2nd.

New GSRs: Chris – Just the Facts Mam’ Delmar – Dope Free in the CD

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GSR Announcements: (See Appendix A for additional group reports) 1. Hugs not drugs – box of gold 2. NA soldiers has changed its name to NA at the VA is now at noon. 3. Anything is Possible is hosting a speaker Jam (21 speakers) at First Baptist Church May

25th This event is supporting the annual Men’s Retreat. 4. Into the Light meets every Thursday at Seattle Indian center 7:00pm 5. 12 X 12 – needs support. Meets at 7:30 on Wednesday at Lake City Community Church 6. Edmonds Lutheran church has asked every key holder to come to a meeting on Feb 11th

6:00pm at church 7. R & R meets every Wednesday and Thursday at 3:00 at the Alano Club. Meeting needs

support. Service Members Reports: Chair: Hello SASC! Not too much to report this month. Just getting settled in to this new position. Jin-Ah, Laurie and I went to Bank of America earlier this week to set up Jin-Ah as a signer on the bank account. The guidelines committee met twice this past month, and is making real progress on that front. We should be hearing an update from that committee today. I am very excited for the next year and am looking forward to being of service as your Area chair. In loving service, Naomi Vice Chair: Hello Family,

Thank you for entrusting me with this significant responsibility by electing me as your new Vice Chair. I do not have much to report this month. However, I will make a note that the new Chair and I attended the guidelines committee and I had the opportunity to watch the PR Subcommittee in action.

Note*: For the upcoming Quarterly Admin Meeting - I would like ALL chairs of committees and elected members of the area body keep the 1st week of March open for the quarterly meeting (TBD). This is a requirement of your positions and I ask that all of those to refine your budget needs for the next quarter to discuss and approve then.

In Loving Service,

Jin-Ah K., Vice Chair, SASC

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Recording Secretary: Please submit service member reports prior to the meeting at Recording-secretary@seattlena.org Assistant Recording Secretary: Position Open Treasurer: (See appendix C for full report)

1. The bank statements and ledger balances matched this month.

2. In January I went to the bank with the Chair and Vice Chair to update the signers on our bank account.

3. Yesterday I went to the ad hoc meeting to work on guideline changes to discuss changes to fund flow sections that have caused some confusion.

4. I sent Mario with SINAC a text to inform him that I transferred money from the SINAC account to the SASC account for the January storage unit. He informed me that they now have their own storage unit. Moving forward there will be a 3-way split for the storage unit between Admin, Activities and Unity Day.

5. I have a proposed a new Quarterly SASC Budget Report to the admin group via email. I have included that in my report attachments.

6. I will now read the financial statement for January 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: Verbal report given during meeting. No written report submitted to the secretary for addition to these minutes.

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Activities Treasurer: I’m looking forward to the Activities Subcommittee's 1st Annual Breakthrough by the Bay Retreat. We have flyers for that event on the table and tickets are for sale. As of today, $65 for adults and $30 for youth, children 4 and under are free. That price includes 2 nights say and 5 meals. The SAASC balance today is $2,219.26. I’m requesting 3 checks today. First - $60 for Cherry hall for rent. Second - $54.27 reimbursement for printing flyers and tickets. Third - $26.00 reimbursement for the adjusted cost of the Hamlin Park reservation for the Egg Hunt. This will leave our balance at $2,078.99. Literature: Hello All – Last month we sold $1,517.45. Our order was $2,080.54. Please remember that if you only

need 1 or 2 items, you don’t need an ordr sheet, just see the literature room. In service, Gary H. Regional Committee Member (RCM 1): Verbal report given during meeting. No written report submitted to the secretary for addition to these minutes. Regional Committee Member 2 (RCM 2): Hello Family, I attended the 137th Washington North Idaho Region of Narcotics Anonymous Regional Service Committee meeting on Jan. 11th - 12th. There were 17 Areas present and 4 absent. Our Regional Delegates spent time with us on Friday doing a Literature Writing Workshop for the upcoming Spiritual Principle a Day (SPAD) book. This is a new daily meditation book similar to Just For Today, but the difference will be each day is focused on a specific spiritual principle. Our region hopes to be very involved in submitting material for this book and that Areas will hold literature writing workshops! NAWS is now taking submissions/ideas for the book. You can visit www.na.org/spad, to access the material and make a submission. We voted in a new RD team, Theo M. as RD and Kia K. as AD, and the All Subs Elections for H&I, Activities, and IT Chairs were also filled. Literature Chair will need to be fulfilled next quarter, so please announce it to your Home Groups. During all Subs Reports, Activities brought up that only 8 of 21 areas were present and they have vacant positions, H&I had their group inventory that went well and they discussed more about Working Steps for Recovery Behind the Walls, Literature discussed about the upcoming literature projects, SPAD and DRT/MAT, and how our Areas can put on workshops for these, PI is in need of several positions filled, and C&E brought up that PNW is the same

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weekend as Region. Also, a reminder that we can send all Area events flyers to the regional events activities calendar coordinator at actcalco@wrnirna.org and they will get posted to the regional events calendar. Open forum had us discussing archives and how far back should we keep things, a lot of good points were brought up about keeping items for historical purposes. Someone asked about Amazon selling our Literature for more and our RD team cleared up why this is ok. And the Region decided it would allow the Areas to utilize the Zoom virtual meeting platform to help the more rural Areas to attend their ASCs. Some quick announcements, WNIRCNA XXXIV (2019) is happening April 26-28 at the Hilton in Vancouver Wa. Online Registration is now open, you can do that on the Regional Registration site wnirna-reg.org. Clean & Free 2019 is March 7th-10th at the Ocean Shores Convention Center, online registration is closed, but onsite registration will be available at the event. And the Western Service Learning Days 2019 will be taking place in our neck of the woods Nov 8 - Nov 10 at the SeaTac Marriott. Finally, there were a few motions brought to the floor that were a bit of a doozy, so I will let the RCM inform you all about them. ILS, Will C PR Chair: Just want to give a big thank you to Ashley L our current H&I chair for all her hard-work with implementing a Google-docs report for each panel. and the effort she has put into the Guidelines changes. Also I know that Ashley attended Region for the very first time, This would have been the first H&I Chair to show up to Region in almost a year. We always had someone show up, but not the true H&I Chair. So thank you! 1) We have secured a booth for the 2019 Pride at the Capitol Hill location and the Seattle

Center location

2) We are on the list for the 2019 Bumper-shoot Booth and we are awaiting word from

Seattle Center

3) The Literature for H&I has been given new life and is running smoothly, and all panels

have literature

We have these openings at the PR subcommittee 1) PR Chair

2) PR Vice Chair

3) Hotline Chair

4) Special Projects Coordinator

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5) Facilities liaison Coordinator

Each of these positions plays a super important role in the PR Subcommittee. If any of you are interested in helping please come join one of the coolest committees I’ve ever been involved with. And this is the last month of my position as the PR Chair and I will be moving on to another service position. I will stay as the PR chair (interm) until someone steps into the position. This has been a fabulous journey and I have learned so much and am super grateful for the experience. NOTE: I’m saddened by the saturation of all the fundraising across our Area including Unity Day. I believe we as a body need to change Unity Day to every other year, as to the opposite year of SINAC. This would give are Area time to breath financially, and “maybe” it might be bringing more unity. What I am trying to say is that we have to much going on with fundraising, with conventions, activities, Unity Day and local homegroups. This creates a convoluted reaction to fundraising. I will be speaking with the Unity Day Committee and to see what their feedback is on this. Let’s investigate what it would take to put Unity Day every other year. Change is good, change is growth! More will be revealed. Tradition 5} EACH GROUP HAS BUT ONE PRIMARY PURPOSE – TO CARRY THE MESSAGE TO THE ADDICT WHO STILL SUFFERS Sincerely Bing B, PR Chair of the Seattle Area of Narcotics Anonymous 01/31/2019 Unity Day Chair: Verbal report given during meeting. No written report submitted to the secretary for addition to these minutes. Unity Day Treasurer: Verbal report given during meeting. No written report submitted to the secretary for addition to these minutes. Conventions and Events Representative: I attended region on January 12th. The following are the updates of our regional conventions: Clean and Free will be held on March 7-10 in Ocean Shores, WA. Although online registration is closed and a lot of the meetings are sold out due to a smaller venue this year you can register on site. WNIRCNA is being held April 26-28 in Vancouver, WA. You can register online at WNIRNA.reg and click on the Conventions and events and register that way.

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I went on January 19th to help clean up and move the regional C&E storage unit. We had lots of help and I put my organizational ninja skills to good use. I will be attending Clean and Free because I’m required to as a member of C&E. I will be working hard taking your money at either merchandise or registration. Hope to see everyone there! In Loving service Jennette C. SINAC Liaison: Hello all,

SINAC meeting was 1/20/19. The committee has picked the convention theme which is SURRENDER. They also are looking at picking their first fundraiser- details to come. They had elections and were able to fill the Merchandise position- the following positions are open.

Treasurer Vice Chair - Minimum 3years clean. Records Archives/Asst. Secretary - Minimum 2 years clean.

Ambassador Convention Information Chair - Minimum 2 years clean. Security Chair- Minimum 2 years clean Hospitality Chair – Minimum 2 years clean Marathon Meetings Chair - Minimum 2 years clean. SINAC has moved out of the storage unit. More information for for a logo will come out in the next week and will be posted in the area sight. We will have the next meeting on February 17th at 12:30 pm at the Edmonds Lutheran Church. Don't have much to report- thanks for allowing me to be of service.

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Fellowship Development: Hello Area, This month's Fellowship Development committee meeting was quite productive. We are establishing an online document with a resource contact list, GSR attendance and opportunities to help meetings and addicts. There are open positions available on the committee, please come to our next meeting at Goove City Grind to get involved, 3100 Airport Way S at 11am on the first Sunday of the month. Two new GSRs were oriented this month, Dalmar from Dope Free in the CD and Chris from Just The Facts Ma'am. In loving service, Ed S. Adhoc Reports: Extensive verbal report given by guidelines committee. No written report submitted to the secretary for addition to these minutes.

Grievances:

None

Old Business: None New Business: Several SASC service positions were announced, discussion, and voted on. Asst. Recording Secretary - no nominations Activations Chair – Dennis was nominated and declined this month. Will consider next month. Activities Vice Chair – no nominations Activities Treasurer - Tony nominated, accepted and voted in. Unity Day Chair – no nominations PR Committee Chair – no nominations

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Open Sharing: Tax issue – There will be substantial fees from IRS for delayed tax returns from 2016 and 2017. The auditor of region may be held financially responsible for these delays. A straw poll was taken. See RCM I for additional information. Motions: No motions

CLOSED MEETING AT

3:23pm

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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

Group Name: Oasis Meeting Day / Time: Sat. 7:00pm GSR: Anus

SASC Donation: $85.46 Secretary: Brent Treasure: Allyson

Rent: $80 / month Group Report: Nothing to Report

Submitted By: Anus D. Date: 02/03/2019

Group Name: Hugs Not Drugs Meeting Day / Time: Thursday GSR: Jeannie

SASC Donation: $5.00 Secretary: Scottie Treasure: NA

Rent: $45 / month Group Report: Thank you for your kind notes to a home

group member with cancer.

Submitted By: Jeannie Date: 02/03/2019

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Appendix B: Service Member and Group Roll Call

Jan Feb

SERVICE MEMBERS

X = Present, A = Absent, O = Open Position

Chair X X X X

Vice Chair X X X X

Recording Secretary X X X X

Assistant Recording Secretary

X X O O

Treasurer X X X X

Assistant Treasurer X X X X

Literature X X X A

Activities Chair X X X X

Activities Treasurer A A X X

RCM (1) X X X X

RCM (2) X X X X

PR Chair X X X A

Unity Day 2019 Chair X X X A

Convention & Events X X X X

SINAC Liaison X X X X

Fellowship Development X X X X

HOME GROUPS X = Present/Voting, R = Represented/Not Voting,

A = Absent

AMNA X X X A

A Simple Solution X X X A

An Atmosphere to Recovery

R A X X

Anything is Possible X A X X

Back to Life A A A A

Basic NA X X X A

Beyond Belief A A A A

Breakfast of Champions A A A A

Clean Living R R R A

Close to Home A A A X

Dime Piece A X A A

Dope Free in the CD X X X X

Eastshore NA A A X A

Free at Last X X X X

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Jan Feb

Freedom Group X X X X

From the Streets to the Seats

X X X X

Friday Night Step Out R R A A

Friday Night Step Study A A A A

FYF X X A A

Generation RX X X X X

Grateful On Greenwood X A X X

High Noon A A A A

Hope Fiends R R A A

Hugs Not Drugs A X X X

Insomniaddicts X X X X

Into The Light X A R R

It’s your day A A A A

Just 12 Steps & Traditions

X X X X

Just For Today X A X X

Just the Facts Mam’ X A X X

Little Yellow House X X R R

Lovin’ Spoonful A A A A

MGLA X X X X

Miracle in Progress X A X A

Monday Night Raw X A A A

Monday Night Recovery A A R A

More Will Be Revealed A A X X

NA Regulars X X A X

NA at the VA X X A X

Never Too Late A A X X

New Age Recovery A A A A

No Matter What A A X X

North Seattle Hardcore X A X R

Northwest Addicts X A A A

Nuevo Comienzo A A A A

Oasis X X X X

On Fiyah IV Recovery X X X X

R & R A A X X

Recipe For Recovery X X X A

Recovery In Progress X X X X

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Jan Feb

Recovery to Go A A A A

RVNA New Experience X X A A

S.O.S A A X X

Safe Haven A A X X

Saturday Morning Women A A X X

Serenity Circle R A X X

So Fresh So Clean X X X X

Solo Por Hoy A A A A

Spiritual Breakfast A A X X

Step Brothers X A X X

Straight Ahead NA A A X A

Sundays at Six A A A X

Sunday Starters X X X X

Take it Or Leave It X A A X

The Journey Continues A A X A

Three Rivers A A R A

Totally Real A A A A

Tower of Power R R X X

Tuesday Night Special A A A A

Walk On In A A X A

We’re Glad You’re Here X X X X

We’re Not Alone R A X X

West Coast Recovery X A X A

West Seattle NA R A A A

Yes You Can A A X X

Total Voting Group Service Representatives (by show of hands)

26 21 28 16

Total Group Service Representatives (GSR)

43 29 49 41

Total Home Groups Absent

32 46 26 34

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Appendix C: Treasurer’s Report

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Proposed Quarterly Budget