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Portland Area Service Committee
Meeting of Narcotics Anonymous
650 Southeast 139th Avenue
Portland, Oregon
January 31, 2015
Zach F. called the meeting to order at 2:00pm
The meeting opened with a moment of silence followed by the Serenity Prayer.
The Twelve Traditions were read by Jackie
The Twelve Concepts were read by Cody
Roll Call of Officers
11 were present
Roll Call of Groups
50 answered roll call
Minutes Accepted for December, 2014
----------------------------------------------------------------------------Announcements:
Kathryn G.- Beverly Beach Fundraiser tonight.
Sherri- Free to Be Me- needs support
Aaron-New Journey fundraiser FOR THE annual book drive to give to people with
under 30 days clean is on Sat., March 7, 2015 (see flyer)
Stephen V.- Men’s Spiritual Retreat is at a new location. There will be a zip line!! Grab
a flyer and Registration Form.
Eileen – Here and Now needs support from people with some clean time. SW 13 th +
Clay at 10pm every night.
James- Addicted to Recovery is a Speaker Meeting.
Jake- 3 No Hands is a meditation group. The format is different from other meetings as
there is a 10 min meditation and it is in a loft. It is 7pm every Thurs.
One Promise Many Gifts- this is a Speaker mtg.
Jesse- Speaker mtg tonite (Sat.)
Kathryn G.- Friday Nite Fear Group puts topics in a basket. It is a cool format and the
mtg needs support.
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New GSR/Alt. GSR and New Group Recognition:
Brandon S. – Interim GSR- Positive Level
Aaron K.- alt GSR- New Journey
Shannon P.- GSR- Here and Now
Hope K.- alt GSR-Determined Dames
Christine R.- GSR-Minute by Minute
Tara S.- GSR- Hope Group
Dustin G. –alt GSR- Love and Joy
Roberto R.-GSR- Multiculture
Welcome all new trusted servants!!!!
Reports
Zach F.- Vice Chair- Next month is elections. You have to be here to be nominated and
you have to be here to be elected.
Dan G.-Archivist- I am trying to get a Spreadsheet of all Proposals and Motions so that
we can post it to the web and then we can access the files on the web. That way, we
can look up which were passed or declined, when, and what they were about.
Marybeth N. – Secretary- Please write clearly on the Contact List. I will be trying to
make the Minutes more efficient and am going to use more bullets, lists, etc. I am not
using the format where I name everybody who spoke and what they said. Please give
me feedback on this, especially if it doesn’t work for you.
Stephanie M.-Treasurer-(see reports) I have the quarterly reports for the BOD audit.
If your group is not on the donation list, it is because your group did not donate. $3000
is in prudent reserve. We are in the red because last month we set aside the Area
donation and that cannot be touched. We are not negative in the checking account.
Group donations should be between 12-1300/mo.
Maya- Literature- I am stepping down as Chair. It is a very important position. I’m sorry
I’ve been late with the orders. I’m hoping Candace will step up, as she has 2 years filling
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orders. I do not know the clean time for the position. We have laser engraved coins not
on the order form. Look on line for the new stuff.
PACNA- Doug- All positions have been filled. Some people switched their positions.
Not many new people seemed interested. Sherri will be forwarding the minutes of the
mtg to Marybeth N. All mtg schedules will be made available.
John H.-OutreachOutreach met on Jan 31st of which we had 6 in attendance. Mike D. was elected as
Inmate correspondence coordinator and is going to help with GSR handbook. Dustin was
elected as Secretary.
We attended “Ties that bind us” the meeting of the month on wed. Jan 28 th at noon.
The meeting of the month for February will be 3 no hands, which is at the NW alano
club (909 NW 24th ave.) and we will attend as a group on Feb 19th 7pm.
The meeting of the month for March will be Here and now which meets daily at 10 pm
at 1432 SW 13th ave. We will be attending as a group on Sat. March 28th.
Ed J. is coordinating a list of people willing to chair meetings outside of their area for
the speaker exchange program. This program is to get new chair people at your home group, to
open communication in the fellowship and to provide unity. Call Ed J. if you are willing to chair
meetings or are a secretary and want a chair person for your home group. His number is
(503)481-6901.
We are continuing to talk about Learning days and the importance of informing GSR’s so
they can better serve NA.
We are going to develop guidelines for writing inmates to be proposed next month.
We have moved the outreach meeting to meet at 11am before GSR orientation and
area at the same location as area.
In service,
John H.
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Ron C.- Activities- There are lots of Activities. See the flyers. We need A LOT of help.
Please come and get involved. The Sweethearts Dance on Feb. 14 is at the Oddfellows
Hall in Milwaukie. Doors open up at 5:30pm. Tacoma Tom , who has kept a fascinating
history of NA, will be speaking.
H& I-Joe M.-
January H & I Highlights
Portland Area Narcotics Anonymous – Hospitals & Institutions Sub-Committee.
The committee met on Friday, January 30, 2015, beginning at 6pm. We learned that,
since the last meeting, 1312 addicts were seen, 3 commitments missed and 8 cancelled
out of a possible 69. On January 30th, 9 people went through orientation and 8
returned to give their verbal commitments.
A motion was presented and passed regarding literature distribution, the motion read:
All current soft cover books in inventory shall be divided among the clearance facilities,
and all hard cover books to be divided among the non clearance facilities as evenly as
possible.
Our next meeting will be February 28th.
Thank you.
Heidi Hill
Secretary for the H&I Sub-Committee
We have been losing as many women as we’ve gained. We are down to 2 commitments
at Hooper, which is an important place. The women there are ready to listen. You need
6 mo’s clean. We are not buying any more merchandise, as we are our own customers.
Jesse S.- Public Relations-
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PR REPORT-1/31/15
Good afternoon everyone
Everything seems to be running smoothly in public relations.
We have a new phone line shift Coordinator, thank you Lisa F for stepping up and thank
you Jess S for your long time commitment in this position and your continued service to
the phone line and public relations.
In February I will be teaming up with some members of Washington and Clackamas
County areas to do a presentation at the Morrison Center about youth and recovery in
narcotics anonymous. Hopefully we will be able to soon provide a meeting for
teenagers, as I'm sure everyone is aware of the growing number of young people
coming into the rooms this is a service that we can provide that is long overdue. Also in
the works is the shared services project but it's a rather slow process trying to get all
four of the local areas on the same page. I’m binding our phone line services and the
schedules, more will be revealed I guess... Public relations is also working on our
subcommittees guidelines which is a pretty big process as we have the Web server
guidelines the phone line guidelines and the public relation guidelines all combined into
one subcommittee. Hope to see everyone at the Saturday night speaker meeting tonight
and thank you for allowing me to be of service.
Only people who want to do double shifts on the phone line are doing them. Also, I had
contact with treatment centers and they are willing to mix it up a bit, sending people to
different meetings. We are working on some NA Etiquette guidelines.
Jesse S public relations chairman
Toni B.-RCM –
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Old BusinessTraditions Project- only one group has feedback and they will submit it themselves by
tonight if they want to.
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New Business-
Proposals:
Proposal # 15-1
Made by: Myk H.
Proposal: Acceptance of Revision of PASC and BOD by-laws Dated 1/31/15
Intent: Revision of by-laws incorporates changes to by-laws required to implement
Consensus Based Decision Making pursuant to Motion 14/2013.
Discussion:
Myk H., Chair, ad-hoc– The ad-hoc committee has finished the by-laws thanks to some
really great people on the committee. Every meeting had 6 people or so in attendance
and we had lively discussions. I looked at other Area’s by-laws and they were not
adequate. I wanted to capture the flavor of the Portland Area and I think we did that.
Marybeth N. will e-mail a copy of the new by-laws to all GSR’s and alternates. In the
email will be ad-hoc committee members who you can call to ask questions before the
next Area. Then next month at Area we can accept them or not. We all learned a lot on
the committee. The by-laws do not contain strike-outs. We worked those issues out.
Zach F.- If there is a Tradition that is broken or an objection to consensus at 85%, we
are looking for that, not for line-by-line corrections. The ad-hoc did that work already.
We are looking for unity and a yes or no answer from Consensus. Please talk to your
groups about this. All changes from the past (Motions, Proposals) were incorporated in
the by-laws.
Also, go online- the new by-laws will be available online at
portlandna.com. This has been long in the making. . Let’s move past this issue.
Passed by consensus Y/N- tabled per discussion to go back to the groups.
Flyer Announcements- see attached flyers
Sweethearts Dance- Feb. 14th, 2015
Mikwaukie Oddfellows
Regional Learning DayApril 18th, 2015
Phoenix School
3131 NE Diamond Lake Blvd.
Roseburg, OR 97470
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Men’s Spiritual RetreatEagle Fern Camp
37700 SE Camp Rd.
Estacada, OR
May 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2015
PCRCNA XXIMay 15-17th, 2015
Keizer, OR
Hosted by Clackamas County, Washington County, Yamhill Unified
Pacific Cascade 3rd Annual Regional Campout
June 26th, 27th, 28th, 2015
See attached registration form
Ft. Stevens CampoutJuly 10-12, 2015
Space still available!!!
Whistler’s Bend Campout20th Anniversary
Help-line: 541-957-1489
NA BowlingPinbusterz
3800 SE 164th Ave.
Portland, OR 97233
Consensus to close:
Meeting Adjourned 3:35pm