[Businessmtg] Suggestion

[logmark at comcast.net]

Biz-Pals and Steering Committee, 

  

One thing we could do to simplify this problem of having 

a stunted Business Meeting being unable to address enough 

issues would be for the Steering Committee, or another body 

created to do so, prepare proposals for Business Meeting approval. 

  

I'm thinking of the budget in particular. If the Steering Committee 

were to have proposed a budget - one which covered expected expenses 

for the coming year, etc., then a B.M. vote to approve or amend that 

budget would preclude having to address every teensy part of it. 

  

So if the budget included $ for Packets and incorporation 

we wouldn't have to wrangle with issues like what's the Excess 

amount because everybody would be working with the same numbers. 

As it is we are working with various numbers because there's 

been no approved expenses and no money set aside by consensus. 

Then if particular efforts are rejected by the Group Conscience 

the money would revert to our General Fund. 

  

I am on the opposite end of the line regarding those who give 

complaint about whether the WSO does enough for on line meetings. 

The WSO is solely responsible to the Trustees and the Executive 

Committee, not to the groups - check out the Concepts sometime. 

  

Whining that we aren't getting our share just isn't fitting or 

appropriate. Does Al-Anon do good work in the aid of friends 

and families of alcoholics? Yes. That's work we ought support 

to the utmost. This quid pro quo nonsense is downright childish. 

I'm reminded of the fussy kid who grabs the football and goes 

home when he doesn't get his way. 

  

None-the-less if the Business Meeting discusses and then agrees 

to approve incorporation, continuing packets, chat rooms, or 

vacations in Vienna for me and my wife, then setting aside money 

for these would be right. Failing Group Conscience approval, we 
ought not be even thinking about holding aside money until a motion 

is passed which directs the treasurer to do so. 

  

Jerry 

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