Group Conscience Decisions
October 2022 Edit the position description for the 12th Step Volunteer Listkeeper to assure that notices of “12th Step Calls” go out to the volunteers within 48 hours that a message is received by GROW.
- Recommended Language: Edit the seventh bullet in the 12th Step Volunteer Listkeeper’s position description as shown below:
- Forwards those letters to the 12th Step
CommitteeVolunteers within 48 hours after the subject message appeared in GROW.
- Forwards those letters to the 12th Step
- Amend the position description for the Business Meeting Chair to add working with the Webkeeper to assure meeting materials are posted to the website as soon as possible.
Recommended Language: Amend the tenth bullet in the Business Meeting Chair position description: -
- Work closely with other trusted servants, especially the Secretary and Webkeeper.
Add a new twelfth bullet as shown below:
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- Work closely with the Webkeeper to assure meeting documents are posted to the website as quickly as possible. Give the Webkeeper documents that include:
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- all reports and proposals, Minutes, and Summary documents
- Summaries for each phase for Proposals (discussion, voting, and final outcome (is or is not adopted as a Group Conscience Decision).
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- To assist GROW to be better informed about AA as a whole in the case of a vacant GSR post; at the Business Meeting we ask for a TS to volunteer to receive and forward the quarterly AA Newsletter Box 4-5-9 and to highlight the Calendar page as per our Group Conscience October 2018.
- GROW authorizes Cheryl B to poll our membership to identify women who are interested in attending the 2024 International Women’s Conference (IWC) in Washington DC and to represent GROW in contacting the IWC to explore opportunities to participate by staffing a booth, either separately or in cooperation with other online AA groups, or volunteering for other service opportunities. She will report her findings in the April 2023 Business Meeting and seek approval for further action.
- GROW will create a working group to address the Alternatives to Address Vacancies. The working group will take a closer look at the issues to identify ways in which we can focus on supporting our online AA women’s meeting while hopefully still providing support to individual GROW members.
To support effective action, this proposal includes several measures to facilitate communication and maximum participation in the working group. These include:
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- keep grow-business active for at least six months (until the next scheduled business meeting), during which all current Trusted Servants would be subscribed automatically,
- issue a call to current Trusted Servants for volunteers to form a working group that would identify the priorities and major issues and propose alternatives for changes to “the way GROW operates,”
- invite interested GROW members who are not Trusted Servants to subscribe to the business-grow mailing list to participate in the working group,
- temporarily suspend some GROW Business Guidelines to allow the working group to make specific proposals that would be discussed and voted on grow-business outside of our scheduled business meeting process (while still adhering to the existing Business Meeting Guidelines process for proposals – reaching Group Conscience decisions), and
- offer specific issue areas to be addressed based on the comments made to date.
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