​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 11- Burke Concept 1 January - Abby

Facilitation (10 Minutes.) 

• General Report: Chris  

  • Approve Minutes: October (Typo)

    • November Approved

  • Access, Anonymity and Data/Privacy Policy - review

    • Chris summarized 3 types of folders: General, Restricted (event chairs and website facilitation chairs), Temporary (new) sign up forms. This folder is regularly cleaned and then placed in the general folder.

    • Caitlyn - Is there an officer who is responsible for this, or just a trusted servant?

    • Anthony - Probably the web facilitation chair. Also, how do we let people know what their responsibilities are and how to follow it?

    • Chris - Added web facilitation chair as the person responsible (as opposed to both the intergroup chair AND the web facilitation chair)

    • Chris - Will be making a retreat Guide and fall gathering guide.

    • ACTION - CHRIS: Make sure current files are anonymous and training retreat co-chairs on how to do this properly.

  • Website Facilitation: Abby  

    • Web Facilitation:

      • Drop down menu project -shelved

      • ACTION - Abby write up a description for the newsletter for an “ad” on someone who can help with our dropdown menu project

      • ACTION - Abby add a new listing to the website

Fiduciary (5 Minutes)

• General Treasurer Report: Zane

  • Approved

• Report Financials: General

• Q and A

OutReach (5 Minutes)

• General Report: Ian W

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

    • Ian will be calling some of the meetings this month

  • SLAA Speakers for Treatment Centers - direct asks

    • Ian - do we have a document for this training?

    • Ian - Can we make training occur on an individual basis instead of trying to get everyone together at the same time?

    • Hannah - Everyone needs to do training and instead of just handing them a piece of paper have a person actually train them.

  • Outreach to new treatment facilities

  • Outreach to existing CSAT connections

  • Outreach to LAP

  • Q and A
     

Inreach General Report (35 Minutes)

• General Report: Caitlyn K

  • Newsletter Report (Production Editor Ryan W)

    • Crystal - Ways I tried to control my addiction and their consequences.

  • Summer Retreat

    • New summer retreat co chair

      • Caitlyn - for a female co-chair, hopefully will have for next month.

      • Trevor - Save the date was sent out to the mailing list. $150 to hold your spot will be the same as other years. Plus $175.

      • Anthony - Possibly Chris V. as a co-chair, she’s considering it.

      • Crystal said she might be able to be nominated for co-chair.

  • Event Coordinator: Burke and Andrew C

    • December Cookie Event follow up

      • Cost of $160 over budget. Maybe in the future a less expensive venue. However this nice venue may have attracted a lot of people.

      • Nice to have ppl we haven’t seen before.

      • 23 attendees

      • Andrew does not want to be the co-chair anymore, but Burke has found an interested alternate, Sarah.

    • Next event?

      • Valentines Day

  • Fall Gathering

    • New fall gathering co chair

      • Caitlyn - We nominate Chris S. as co-chair.

      • Chris - his last two times as co-chair for fall gathering was the  year before covid and the year covid started. Goals - connect us to the larger Chicagoland area..

      • Jeff - Any interest in reaching out internationally to get someone to come via zoom?

      • Chris - possibly, but past experiences with a virtual speaker have been varied.

      • Discussion

      • Vote - In favor of Chris S. as co-chair.

  • Inreach to our zoom meetings and previously in person meetings - gathering contact information. 1-2 meetings per month - Zane, Abby, Anthony and Hannah K.

Annual Business Meeting Delegates (10 min)

• ABM Delegates: Anthony, caitlyn, Abby Anthony, is going to be on the ABM committee for ARC, agenda review committee.

  • Abby is nominated as being on the ARC committee.

  • Role of the tech people,

  • Caitlyn - she is on the board finance committee. They went over the budget and how optimistic to be for projections on contributions. The board approved the more conservative budget. There will be a lot of campaigns around contributions. Updating our IDF on the basic text.

• IFD to Motion - review and approve

  • Chris - Zane and Chris worked on the motion to include a sobriety motion for the CCC.

  • Anthony - list what your bottom lines are.

  • Ian - is it worth including anything about sponsorship?

  • Chris - SLAA has a long tradition of self-defined sobriety, so the idea that someone else might define them for you could be contentious.Hannah -

  • Crystal - It already says “actively” sponsored.

  • Anthony - Explained the context of how the ABM works with the literature committee.

  • Chris - Background on personal opinion

  • Caitlyn - If you are not sober there are many other ways to offer service.

  • Jeff - Is impressed with existing pamphlets and literature.

  • Will vote in January.

New Business (5 min.) As Possible

• Intergroup Representatives Feedback​

SUGGESTED ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MEETING REPS:

• Submissions to newsletter - February theme: Came to believe: Challenges I faced in believing a Power greater than myself could help.

• SLAA Summer Retreat August 14-17, 2025

• Subscribe to the newsletter on the slaachicago website

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

Proposed Next Meeting: February 15, 2025
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.