[Businessmtg] Welcome to the ASP Business Meeting

[Melanie]

Hi ASPers,
 
Welcome to the ASP Business Meeting for December 2012!

Here are the participants:

Sandy    sandyschneider74 at ymail.com
LindaLee H     linda_lee1127 at msn.com
Brenda Elaine  brendaelaineh at gmail.com
Laura M       flewtist at gmail.com
Adele S    asteirnagle at me.com
Jenny C    jennychastain.ga at gmail.com
Nancy H   nancyhorn at cfl.rr.com
Sandy D   svdagg at gmail.com
Stephanie   stephanierivera9141 at comcast.net
Michele K    misha412 at yahoo.com
Kara   karaloye at gmail.com
JamesToo   jamestoo at runbox.com
Anne   annabel6238 at yahoo.com
Juanita   jmt_1938 at yahoo.com
Denise denise at asp-afg.org
Steve    steve at serenitysys.com
Anne   aohara77 at comcast.net
Cyndi list_administrator at asp-afg.org
Emee   emee3x12 at hotmail.com
JudyH   judyh1970 at gmail.com
Mary Beth   marb2715 at yahoo.com
Apryl    aprylkae at hotmail.com
Melanie  melaniemalias-melanie at yahoo.com

 The address for the business meeting is:  businessmtg at asp-afg.org .  
 This is the address you will use to send in shares to the Business 
 meeting.  Please do not send your business shares to the recovery meeting.
 
 There are two basic topics before ASP.  We will address the 
first topic before proceeding to the second topic.

 1.  Election of new  Greeter Chair.

 2. Election of new Web Master.

  
 The process will go like  this:
 
 1.    We announce that the position of Greeter Chair is open.
 
 2.    Any member of ASP meeting the qualifications** for the 
 Officers of ASP may make themselves available.  The qualifications 
 to serve as an officer of ASP are listed below under "Important Notes".
 
 Members make themselves available by providing their Al-Anon resume 
 to the Chair of this meeting.  If you are interested in making 
 yourself available for one of the ASP Officer positions, please 
 complete the resume form and submit it to me no later than midnight, 
 December 8th (CST). To obtain a resume form, go 
 to http://www.asp-afg.org/ASP/nbm/index.htm and beneath 
 "Resume" click on  either format (MS Word Document, Adobe PDF or HTML)
 .  Save the format, complete and email back to me at  
melaniemalias-melanie at yahoo.com.
 
 3.    The deadline for submitting a resume is Midnight, Saturday, December 
8th CST.

 4.    The meeting will re-open so that members may ask the 
 candidate(s) questions.  Please keep your questions appropriate to 
 Al-Anon.  Do NOT post messages unrelated to the election of the Greeter Chair.
 
 5.    The Q&A period for the election of the Greeter Chair will close at
 Midnight, Saturday, December 
8th CST, UNLESS there is some highly 
 unlikely and unforeseen issue that suggests that we need to continue 
 the Q&A session.
 
 6.    If we do not have more than  one member available for the 
 position, the Chair will entertain a motion to elect the new Officer 
 by acclimation - it will require a vote however to affirm such a 
motion.
 
 7.    The Web Master will create a polling page on the ASP web site 
 which is how we will actually vote.
 
 8.    We will announce the location of the polling page - this sometimes
 takes a day or so.
 
 9.    There will be no discussion while the polls are open - the Business
 Meeting server will be on moderated status while the polls to ensure 
 that this protocol is not violated.
 
 10.  The poll will close at Midnight of the third FULL day after the 
 polling page has been announced.
 
 11.  A simple majority is required to elect a Trusted Servant at ASP.
 
 12.  The Chair  will announce the outcome of the vote/poll to the Business
 Meeting, and make a similar announcement to the
 ASP recovery meeting.

13.  Then we will repeat for the Web Master position, still during the month of 
December.
We can do this!

 IMPORTANT NOTES:

 A. The prerequisite to serving as an ASP officer: "One year's participation
 in ASP is a prerequisite to serving as an officer of ASP.  
 Participation may take many forms, but merely having one's email 
 address on the ASP server is not participation."

 B. The prerequisites for ASP List Administrator: "A member of ASP 
 must have served ASP in some other officer capacity for 1 year in 
 addition to any other minimum qualifications for ASP Officers."

 C. "Members of AA who are also members of ASP are not eligible to 
 serve as Officers of ASP or on the ASP Steering Committee."

 If you have any questions please feel free to contact me directly  at:
 melaniemalias-melanie at yahoo.com

 Love and Serenity,

 Melanie
ASP Secretary


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 ASP Officer Job Descriptions can be found with this link: 
http://www.asp-afg.org/ASP/nbm/structure.htm
 
   
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