[Businessmtg] FW: Excess over Prudent Reserve

[Etta]

I've been here reading everyday....trying to learn the process of how an Al-Anon business mtg is ran. 

 My mother taught me at a young age that if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all.  

~Etta~
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On Feb 26, 2013, at 9:42 PM, "Sandie" <svdagg at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: prcamp at comcast.net [mailto:prcamp at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:12 PM
> To: Sandie
> Subject: Re: [Businessmtg] Excess over Prudent Reserve
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> I have removed myself from asp and the business meeting last week.  Please discount me in your number.  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandie
> To: prcamp
> Cc: ASP Business
> Sent: 2013-02-27 01:40:00 +0000
> Subject: [Businessmtg] Excess over Prudent Reserve
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> FYI - all Financial Information is posted on Al-Anon WSO's web-site .
> www.al-anon.alateen.org  and the 990s are public records. 
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> The Conference Summary from 2012 and all prior years is posted on the web-site.
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> Each quarter a quarterly appeal letter from the World Service Office is sent to the CMA for every registered Al-Anon Group including the electronic meetings. I have never seen this posted on our web-site and we should be advising our members of it.  
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> Every month a "Forum" magazine is mailed to the CMA of every registered group in Canada and the U.S. along with every registered electronic meeting
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> Every month a newsletter is sent from the WSO to every registered group who has a e-mail address including the electronic meetings. 
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> A consensus is a general or widespread agreement among all members of a group.  It does not mean that everybody has to agree - from all of the e-mails there is definitely widespread agreement that the funds should go to WSO.  
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> The Secretary has said that some individuals are preparing to send something but we haven't heard from them - it is totally improper that someone can hold up a decision just because they do not chose to voice their opinion.  I believe that there are approx. 22 people that are involved in the meeting and of those we have only heard from 12? (I could be mistaken as I didn't double check my counting).. 
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> I just find it incredibly frustrating that a minority will hold up discussion and decisions! 
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