AIS MEETING
April 20, 2019 - Saturday
12:00 PM
Hobbs
Present: Lori W., DeDe R., Carol A., Susan P., Maureen H., & Suzanne T.
Lori W. opened the meeting with a moment of silence followed by the Serenity Prayer.
AIS Meeting
Maureen H. presented the Treasurer’s Report
Opening Balance: $2,305.19
Food Festival Proceeds: $1,830.00
Closing Balance: $4,164.11
Point of Discussion:
Treasurer’s Report
Motion: Carol made a motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report.
First: Lori W.
Second: Suzanne T.
Motion Passed
Point of Discussion:
Clean Air quarterly donation has changed from $120/qtr to $40/qtr
Key to the Filing Cabinet
Lori W. met with a locksmith. Cabinet is now open. Cost: $120
Maureen will pay locksmith.
Point of Discussion:
The Food the Festival can for church donation only collected $53.
Motion: Lori made a motion to pay the church $150 for providing Food Festival venue.
First: Carol A.
Second: DeDe R.
Motion Passed
Suzanne T. distributed the January 2019 meeting minutes.
Motion: Maureen made a motion to accept the minutes with correction.
First: Lori W.
Second: Susan P.
Motion Passed
Point of Discussion:
Filing Cabinet
New keys are in the 2-Drawer lateral filing cabinet at Clean Air in front room
Contents: Old Photo Albums and old AIS minutes
Carol presented the Answering Service Report
December 2018/January 2019 had ~9 calls (excluding “business” type calls)
February 2019/March 2019 had ~12 calls (excluding “business” type calls)
Currently not in need of any additional volunteers
Susan P. presented Website Reports
People are definitely finding us via the website
“Google My Business” reported the following:
751 People found us on Google
50 visited our site
1 asked for directions
2 called us
“All Web Site Data” reported the following:
296 unique page views
117 new users
72.9% re-visits
27.8% new visits
Maureen H. presented Alateen Report
~12 kids – includes 4 newcomers
Unusual Situation: Alateen sponsor became concerned that an Alateen member was suicidal. Concern was expressed to parent, who became angry. School counselor was contacted. Alateen member was eventually admitted to Pavillion. Parent later expressed gratitude to Alateen sponsor.
Kyll’s apartment burned down. He lost everything. He will more than likely not be able to attend Assembly in May 2019.
Lori W. cannot attend Assembly.
No one has presently committed to attending Assembly.
Need to find to someone to travel to Assembly.
Susan B. cannot attend Assembly.
Assembly is being held 3rd weekend of May 2019.
Group Reports
Top of Texas
Good attendance
Clean Air
5:30pm Meetings are growing again
Saturday 10:30am & Noon Meetings – strong
Hobbs (Wednesday 7:00pm)
Attendance is good
Group Representative is moving
Moss Lane
Lori W. and Henry W. collected all literature and other documents.
Large number of documents needed to be shredded
Literature was made available to the Groups at the Food Festival.
Various Groups did pickup literature
Jude, from Top of Texas, picked up older books for historical display
Distribution of money in bank account will have to be investigated
Touch of Soul
Meeting delisted from website
Courage
???
Point of Discussion:
Lori W. will notify District that Moss Lane and Touch of Soul meetings have been delisted.
Point of Discussion:
Food Festival 2020
New Ideas presented:
Change time to 11:30am (right after 10:30am Clean Air meeting ends)
Structure event to include speakers and skits.
Connie G. may have a skit
Point of Discussion:
Still need to find someone to fill the fill “Historian” vacancy
Point of Discussion:
Borger Meeting
Carol A. reported the Borger meeting is active, but small.
No one has visited the group yet.
Contact information was sent to Kyll and Susan P.
Adjourned with Lord’s Prayer.
Submitted,
Suzanne T.
AIS Secretary