2026 Item 3: Essential Service Positions
Discussion: Identify essential service positions, review current coverage, and determine any recruitment or support needs.
Filling Essential Service Positions
Based on the discussion, the following approaches were suggested to help fill essential service positions.
- Make Personal Invitations: Each trusted servant should personally contact one member and invite them to volunteer for an open position.
Are you in favor of this suggestion, vote 1 as yes or no
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- Announce Open Positions by Email: Send an email to the membership each week announcing the available positions. Although some members may receive additional emails, this approach could reach people who may be willing to serve.
Are you in favor of sending weekly announcements to GROW for open service positions?
Vote yes or no.
3. Combine Compatible Service Positions: Where practical, consider combining positions with related responsibilities:
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- Topic Archivist and Weekly List Keeper
- Newcomer Representative and Twelfth Step Representative: Work on combining these roles is already underway.
- Combined sectary and business chair roles due to lack of volunteers
Summary of Discussion
Voting
- Extend a personal invitation
Vote: 5 in favor; 1 opposed.
- Announce the service position weekly
Vote: 5 in favor; 1 opposed.
- Combine compatible positions
Vote: 4 in favor; 1 opposed.
Follow-up Required
This topic should be carried forward to the April business meeting for further discussion. Combining positions would require corresponding updates to the position descriptions on the website. Because the current meeting is nearing its scheduled end, there is not enough time to address these changes fully today.