Dear GreySheet Community
This is a long overdue status update of the activities of your GreySheet World Service Board.
On March 13 the newly elected Board met for the first time. The current Board is listed on GreySheet.org. Since our first meeting, we have worked to organize ourselves into a group that can serve the community. Thanks to hard work and board members stepping up, we have organized several committees:
- World Service Conference Committee to help us get to a World Service Conference
- Dialog Meeting Committee to re-establish the Dialog open meetings with the community
- Website / e-Communcations Committee to a update the GreySheet.org website
- Finance Committee to assist in reporting finances
- Liaison Committee – newly formed to coordinate communication with and between groups and intergroups of our community
Below is a summary of the Board meetings that was put together by Kathleen H – many many thanks, Kathleen.
We are looking forward to talking with you at the Open Board meeting in New York on 14 October and during the New York City Round-up at the GSA World Service Board table.
March 2011
PRESENT: Allison V, Ari L, Batya B, Esther Helga G., Jayne B., Joel H., Kathleen H., Kirsten J., Linda GS, Linda S., Marvin, Mary C., Melissa E., Reggie J., Sharon T., Susie H., Theda S.
FOCUS:
· A time of sharing in order to get to know one another.
April 2011
PRESENT: Allison V, Ari L, Batya B, Esther Helga G., Jayne B., Joel H., Kathleen H., Kirsten J., Linda GS, Linda S., Marvin, Mary C., Melissa E., Reggie J., Sharon T., Susie H., Theda S.
FOCUS:
· Discussed the documents: “Foxworthy Rules of Conduct,” “History of the Board,” and “GSAWS Board By-laws.”
May 2011
PRESENT: Allison V, Ari L, Batya B, Esther Helga G., Jayne B., Joel H., Kathleen H., Linda GS, Linda S., Mary C., Melissa E., Reggie J., Sharon T., Susie H., Theda S.
FOCUS:
· Kristen J. and Esther Helga G. resigned from the Board.
· Discussed GSA Phone Bridge Intergroup concerns around the Board nomination and election process.
· Mary C. resigned from the Nominating Committee.
· Reviewed the document “GSAWS Board Task Assignment” and discussed the value of a mission statement.
June 2011
PRESENT: Allison V, Jayne B., Joel H., Kathleen H., Linda GS, Mary C., Melissa E., Reggie J., Sharon T., Susie H., Theda S.
FOCUS:
· Prioritized the GSAWS Task assignments:
1. Website/E-communications
2. World Service Conference
3. Regional Liaisons
4. Dialogue Meetings
5. Publishing the GreySheet (and literature more generally)
6. NYC Open Meeting
7. Finances
· Jayne B. volunteered to chair the Website/E-communications Committee (and led a brief discussion)
· Kathleen H. volunteered to chair the World Service Conference Committee (and led a brief discussion)
· Reggie J. volunteered to chair the Regional Liaisons/Dialogue Meetings Committee (and led a brief discussion)
July 2011
PRESENT: Allison V, Ari L, Batya B, Jayne B., Joel H., Kathleen H., Linda GS, Linda S., Marvin, Mary C., Melissa E., Reggie J., Sharon T., Susie H.
FOCUS:
· Treasurer’s report: need for a Finance Committee
· Website/E-Communications Committee:
· Board is communicating with each other via a Google Group
· cleaning up the website
· Organizing and updating the meeting and mailings contact lists
· World Service Conference Committee report
§ Motion made, seconded, and passed to accept the Statement of Purpose: This committee is serving at the request of the GSAWS Board and the broader GSA community to outline and implement the steps necessary to hold the first GreySheeters Anonymous World Service Conference.
§ Motion made, seconded, and passed to accept the Specific Goals (as amended below) of the WSC Planning Committee:
1. Establish a means of obtaining substantial unanimity and group conscience with the GSAWS Board and the broader fellowship prior to the WSC
2. Establish a regular means of communication with the fellowship to submit all plans to an agreed upon method of obtaining group conscience each step of the way toward the WSC
3. Use these means to propose a specific focus for the first WSC
4. Use these means to create a timeline for realistically planning the WSC
5. Use these means to recruit trusted servants to implement each step of the plan
§ The following Board members committed to providing service to the community: Linda GS, Linda S, Melissa VT (liaison), Sharon (UK/Europe/Iceland - liaison), Batya (Israel - liaison), Ari (Long Island - liaison), Marvin (New York - liaison).
August 2011
PRESENT: Batya B, Jayne B., Joel H., Kathleen H., Linda GS, Linda S., Melissa E., Reggie J., Theda S.
FOCUS:
· Treasurer’s report: status of 800 number
· Website/E-Communications Committee: Scope and purpose of the committee
· World Service Conference Committee:
§ Discussion around the possible focus of the first WSC.
· Dialogue Committee
§ Focus of the next two Dialogue Meetings (August 28, September 25)
· Q & A regarding publishing the GreySheet
· Resume/Review progress toward creating pathways toward representation
· Open Meeting in New York during the NYC Round-up in October
§ Motion made, seconded, and passed to form a committee to propose an agenda for an Open Board meeting on Friday, October 14, 2011.
September 2011:
PRESENT: Allison V, Ari L, Jayne B., Joel H., Kathleen H., Linda GS, Linda S., Melissa E., Reggie J., Susie H.
FOCUS:
· Treasurer’s report/Finance Committee: creating a budget, the 800 number. Also, a request for committees to send a list of expected expenses to the Finance Committee for inclusion in the budget.
· Website/E-Communications Committee: reviewing content and hierarchy of documents on the website
· WSC Committee: need for regular Board updates
· Dialogue Meeting Committee: next meeting 9/25/11; 11am to 1pm
· Face-to-Face Board Meeting Agenda Committee: Open Meeting will be Committee Reports and a Listening Session
· Regional Liaison Committee: Brief Discussion
· New Business: clarity of non-for-profit status of GSAWS, Inc.
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