June  Intergroup Minutes

GREATER CHICAGO/MILWAUKEE SLAA INTERGROUP

Agenda for June 15, 2024 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM 

Name, Home Group, Intergroup Position

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Cristian, 12x12 Living in the Solution, IG Rep,  ABM Delegate

Caitlyn, RFG, Inreach Chair, ABM Delegate, IG Rep

Hannah K,RFG, Fiduciary Committee

Chris, RFG, Facilitation Chair

Abby, RFG, Tuesday Keep Coming Back, Summer Retreat Co-chair, Website facilitator, ABM Delegate

Ian, RFG, Tuesday Keep Coming Back, Outreach Chair

Nathan,RFG; Tuesday Keep Coming Back, IG Rep

Anthony, Tuesday Keep Coming Back, ABM Delegate, Inreach Vice-Chair

Burke, 12x12 Living in the Solution ,Events Co-Chair

Larry, Saturday Oak Park, IG Rep

Joe,Tuesday Night Priceless Gift of Sobriety, IG Rep

Jeremy, RFG, Fall Gathering Co-Chair

READINGS & INTRODUCTIONS (10 Minutes) 

• Prayer for a Trusted Servant 

• Traditions 

• Introductions (name, group affiliation and position) 

• Greater Chicago/Milwaukee SLAA IG Statement of Purpose 

• Review Agenda 

• Concept 7 - Burke July Concept 8 - Hannah K

• Abby - add Nathan H to the IG mailing list

Facilitation (5 Minutes.) 

• General Report: Chris 

  • Approve Minutes: May Approved

  • Website Facilitation: Abby 

    • Web Facilitation:

      •  Special Projects:

• Drop Down Menu Project No Updates, still looking for a co-website facilitator

• Google Drive Access - Chris Making some progress on transitioning file ownership to IG gmail account. Access to the drive is not available publicly, but those who want access can view (not edit) files. Discussion around how information is stored (retreat, fall gathering registrations) so that the google drive can be available publicly.

Fiduciary (5 Minutes) 

• General Treasurer Report: Zane

• Planning to transfer to new Fiduciary chair 

• Report Financials: General

• May Fiduciary Report - was not voted on during meeting

  • Zane to confirm if DeKoven down payment was paid, should be added to the fiduciary report.

  • Will look to approve report via email

• One sheet page was put together on where the financials are actually at. One year of activity is our prudent reserve; SLAA retreat has down payment of $4k before ticket sales get started. Operational budget over and above is what we are planning on spending in the next year.

  • Ask Ryan to add the financial overview/one pager this to the newsletter.

  • Create a special issue to educate groups about what Intergroup is, what the financials are

• Q and A 

OutReach (5 Minutes) 

• General Report: Ian W 

  • Inreach/Outreach team up - outreach to far suburban meetings

  • SLAA Speakers for Suncloud - direct asks 

    • Ian gave Kimmy a list of 4 qualified speakers, still looking to get training together for new members.

      • Look to do 1:1 training instead of trying to get a bigger group together

    • Qualifications from Suncloud do not require sobriety requirement, Intergroup asking for those who have 1 year of sobriety

    • Are there other facilities we can do outreach to? Other facilities in Chicago.

  • Q and A 

  • Cristian to help for any spanish-speaking requests 

Inreach General Report (20 Minutes) 

• General Report: Caitlyn K 

  • Newsletter Report (Production Editor Ryan W 

    • Ryan to send out July theme via email

  • Summer Retreat 2024

    • Today is the last day to get the early bird pricing $299

    • 28 registered: 18 fully paid, 1 partially paid, 9 needs to be paid

    • 3 scholarships requested

    • $293 in individual contributions, no group donations yet

      • May be $299 higher

    • Last year, 35 were registered at this point

    • $1200 rollover from last year

    • Individually calling people, emails, contacting those that attending in the last 2 years, working to attend all meetings

    • Contract is for 30 people

    • What goes on at the retreat? 4 days, longer leads, breakout groups, fellowship, food and lodging are provided, camp fires, board games, event is not open to partners, chance to retreat and work on sobriety, beautiful grounds on Lake Michigan.

    • Confirm regular pricing after early bird is done

    • Q and A

    • Registration and payment report

  • Event Coordinator: Burke and Andrew C

    • Bowling Event last month - 15 people who attended, some with partners, need to reconcile the financials, will work with Zane to confirm

    • Movie Night in Oak Park New Event coming up! The movie is Gratitude Revealed, the date is TBD, once the date is confirmed send to Chris. Burke will put together a budget to propose to IG (rental fees, snacks, etc).

    • Q and A

  • Fall Gathering

    • Potential co-chair Chris D, will look to elect her at the next Intergroup, Jeremy to ask her to attend July IG meeting

    • Looking to go back to Grace Episcopal Church again

    • Looking at dates for October

  • Inreach to our zoom meetings and previously in person meetings - how can we be of service to these groups? Online workshops at a standard time, engage more people online, short list of list for those that attend online meetings, efforts under Inreach/Outreach to get more meeting reps, announce upcoming events.

Annual Business Meeting Delegates (30 min) 

• ABM Delegates: Anthony and Caitlyn, 2024 ABM Delegates 

  • Delegate Registration Update

  • New Requirement is that all SLAA meetings have to be registered on FWS website. Intergroup has registered all Chicago/Milwaukee Intergroup registered meetings, if any meeting wants to edit their listing, please email mailroom.

  • For Delegates, please let us know if you receive emails from FWS executive director on any issues. 

  • Testing of Dekoven for 2025 ABM Bid/2024 ABM meeting. 

    • Online ABM this year

      • The 50 BTS editor was forced to break motion into 2 IFDs, had pushback from ARS. The 2 IFD are the 1) basic text and 2) stories

      • Second style committee assigned to the basic text.

      • Proposed preamble edits are not grammatically correct, Joe to send examples

      • Caitlyn/Abby/Anthony to put together a list of facilities to attend ABM/host ABM by Wednesday.

    • Bid for Chicago 2025: cost effective plan and plenty of service needed.

    • ABM Registration Deadline 6/24/24

  • ABM 2025/2026 bid discussion

    • Will need to have this ready by the start of ABM, 45-55 people, will need a space to arrange chairs in a square

New Business (5 min.) As Possible 

• Intergroup Representatives Feedback 

SUGGESTED ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MEETING REPS: 

• Submissions to newsletter - June theme: Willingness 

  • Deadline for Submissions: June 15, 2024 

• SLAA Summer Retreat August 15-18 

• Subscribe to the newsletter on the slaachicago website 

• Encourage donations to IG via Venmo (@Augustine-Fellowship) 

• Please submit Meeting Updates via the Meeting Update Function on the Website (reopening, etc.) 

Proposed Next Meeting: July 20, 2024. 

8:00am – 9:15 am 

Hybrid both In-Person (preferred) and OnLine (Zoom ID Above) 

3326 N Ashland Ave. 

Visit us at www.slaachicago.org 

Higher Power, 

We ask your guidance in carrying out this work in service to the Fellowship. Relieve us of the burdens of our egos and perfectionism. 

Grant us the grace of humility. 

Remind us to place principles before personalities. 

Help us to focus only on the greater good of the group. 

Let us know that we are responsible only for doing the leg work, not the outcome. Give us the faith to trust in You and the Group Conscience.

And grant us the serenity to accept the things we can not change the courage to change the things we can and the wisdom to know the difference.