Brisbane Inner City GSF minutes 14th March 2021

Brisbane Inner City Group Support Forum Meeting minutes

Location:
Virtual Zoom
Meeting ID: 817 0450 9522
Pass code 847337
Meeting Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81704509522?pwd=dTdrcUp2MmU0OTVXaXBRNXAyS2srQT09&fbclid=IwAR2T6Rep2N2MWgaiAmc2s0WOU5ke8-9RJt1holkD0bXMqpsjjq7KUWxUvsQ

Date:
Sunday 14th Sunday 2021
Time:
3:00 pm
Facilitator:
Louis S
Minutes: Jason T
Attendees: Louis S; Jason T; Monique D; Varina S; Meredith C, Cameron W; Ash S; Leah C; Lu G; Kris.
Apologies: None known
Agenda: 1. OPEN 1
1.1. Chair’s welcome. 1
1.2. Serenity prayer in the plural: 2
1.3. Reading the Twelve Traditions: 2
1.4. Reading the Twelve Concepts: 2
1.5. Service prayer: 2
1.6. ID of those present and welcome to new board members 2
1.7. Apologies. 2
2. ITEMS 2
2.1. GSR Reports 2
2.2. Contactless 7th Tradition 3
2.3. Literature orders 3
2.4. Positions vacant 3
2.5. Subjects for sharing 4
3. CLOSE 5
3.1. Next meeting 5
3.2. Serenity prayer 5

1. OPEN
1.1. Chair’s welcome.
1.2. Serenity prayer in the plural:
1.3. Reading the Twelve Traditions:
1.4. Reading the Twelve Concepts:
1.5. Service prayer:
God, grant us the knowledge that we may act according to your divine precepts. Instill in us a sense of your purpose. Make us servants of your will and grant us a bondage of selflessness, that this may truly be your work, not ours – in order that no addict, anywhere, need die from the horrors of addiction.
1.6. ID of those present and welcome to new board members
1.7. Apologies.
2. ITEMS
2.1. GSR Reports
2.1.1. Lunchies
• Welcoming is good
• 10 – 20 people
• Literature is up to date
• Mitchelton is looking to attend the Brisbane Inner City GSF
• Treasury incoming 7th has dropped dramatically
• Fund flowing $150
2.1.2. Women do recover
• Weekly meeting with an average of 10 attendees
• Hybrid
• Numbers have dropped since pre-covid
• Representation of clean time is excellent
• Good atmosphere of recovery
• Donation for rent $40 a month
• Fund flow $37
2.1.3. Friday Night New Farm
• Best meeting in town on a Friday night
• Averaging 30-40 at times
• Large selection members
• A number of dinosaurs
• About $750
• Home group very strong and active
• Putting on a unity day – take the hall on the trinity church in June.
•
2.1.4. Rainbow
• Pretty strong meeting with about 30 people every week
• Fund flowed $87
• Rent is up to date
• Prudent reserve $50
• Discussion changed to a non-binary structure for choosing speakers
• Meeting going off track or triggering speaker – then we ask a strong speaker next to bring the meeting on track.
2.1.5. Monday Night New Farm
• Average of 17 people every week
• Good home group member participation
• Every home group members gets a job
• Dedicated greeter.
• Fund flowed $200 – 50% to area; 25% to region; 25% world.
• Atmosphere of recovery is pretty good
• Shared sense of community and fellowship.
2.2. Contactless 7th Tradition
2.2.1. Discussion around history of the
• Used to only collect cash
• With the advent of COVID – people weren’t carrying cash and as a result the amount of money collected reduced phenomenal
2.2.2. Square
• Square used to collect is taxable in the name of the person.
• The Australian Region has investigated squares and setting them up for each group.
• Cannot do that as it was not feasible.

2.2.3. RSBOA
• Discussion around the individual group’s usage of square.
• Cannot use the RSBOA’s ABN for square.

2.3. Literature orders
2.3.1. White key tags
• Could take up to month for the white key tags to come to Australia
• Are there any groups that can give white key tags

2.4. Positions vacant
2.4.1. Vice Chair position
• Ash would like to put his hand up for that position
• Sally nominated and seconded by Varinia.
• Voted in.
• Went through the duties of the chair.

2.5. Subjects for sharing
2.5.1. How did we hear about it
• Some heard about it on the Facebook
• Lunchies group conscience
• Virtual NA
• Word of mouth
• Created as a recurring event on the Australian Website
• Should included as an Event on Northern Australian Website
2.5.2. Consensus or voting
• Discussion around how do we vote people in to positions
• Transparency.
• There is some confusion around the voting process.
• Consensus based like the LSC.
• What if a person is representing multiple groups
o There are no guidelines or policies around this.
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2.5.3. Discussion around groups filling out the Group Report Form
• Link shared with the attendees.
• https://www.na.org.au/multi/greaterqld/group-report-form/
• Take this back to the groups.
• GSRs need to start filling these out.
• There has been only one completed.

2.5.4. Discussion around groups filling out the Group Report Form
• Link shared with the attendees.

2.5.5. GSF Positions
• Ash / Louis chair and Vice Chair is all we need.
• Discussion around What’s App group?

3. CLOSE
3.1. Next meeting Sunday 11th April 3pm 2021
3.2. Serenity prayer in the plural:
God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. The courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.