[Businessmtg] October 2015 Business Meeting Opening

[list_administrator]

Hello Business Meeting Participants,

 Thank you for being here! Our meeting was delayed by one day due to
server issues- I wanted to allow an extra day for folks to see the 'last
call' and be subscribed to the meeting. 

The address for this meeting is businessmtg at asp-afg.org

 This is not a specific time meeting, but occurs as we log in and
comment throughout the month.

 These are our participants:

 Larry chalewl at me.com
 Sandie aspsave at gmail.com 
 Adele S asteirnagle at me.com
 Amber charlesd9078 at msn.com 
 Becky consuelateq at hotmail.com
 Adrienne asprykasimba at gmail.com
 Jerry logmark at comcast.net - 
 Anne O aohara77 at comcast.net
 LindaLee H linda_lee1127 at msn.com
 Jennifer anewpage261 at gmail.com
 Juanita tcdasgran at gmail.com
 Sabrina sabrinalegare at live.ca
 Martha marthalamoy at sbcglobal.net
 Deb debwalkerd at outlook.com
 Ali aligracemoore1974 at hotmail.com
 Anne K annabelina2 at gmail.com
 Linda S lindi2853 at gmail.com 
Mary F mlbfortin2011 at hotmail.com 
Ren renrain17 at gmail.com 
Laura M flewtist at gmail.com 
Melanie H melaniester at gmail.com
 Apryl apryl at asp-afg.org
 Steve steve at serenitysys.com
 Jane happynjoyousnfree at gmail.com
 Cyndi List_administrator at asp-afg.org

 October Business Meeting Agenda:

 1. The positions of Secretary, and Greeter Chair are open. We are
trying to streamline the process of electing 2 officers. ASP members may
apply for both positions, or just one. We will elect a Secretary first,
and then continue with the Greeter Chair position. If only one person is
applying for each position, we may elect both positions at one time.

 These are the positions:

 *Secretary 

 ◦Chairs the Business Meeting
 ◦Responsible for the Daily Chairpersons in the ASP meeting 
◾Appoints Daily Chairpersons to 6 month position
 ◾Instructs/trains Daily Chairpersons
 ◦Alternate List Administrator #1

 *Greeter Chairperson 

 ◦Chairs the Greeter Committee 
 ◾Appoints Greeters
 ◾Instructs/trains Greeters
 ◾Oversees greeting process
 ◦Alternate List Administrator #2

2. Any member of ASP meeting the qualifications for the Officers of ASP
may make themselves available. The qualifications are:

 *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."

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

 3. 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 by June 15th. 

 To obtain a resume form, go to
http://asp-afg.org/members/trusted-servants/ [1]

 Find the last paragraph: "Steering Committee Resume" and click on
either format (MS Word Document, Adobe PDF or HTML)
 Save the format, complete and email back to Cyndi (LA serving as
Secretary)

 list_administrator at asp-afg.org

 The deadline for submitting a resume is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH.

 4. Once we have shared resumes, 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 positions.

 5. The Q&A period for the election of these positions will close at
Midnight, Friday, October 23rd EST, unless there is some 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 a position, the
Chair will entertain a motion to elect the new Officer by acclamation -
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.

 If you have any questions please feel free to contact me directly at 
 list_administrator at asp-afg.org, or ask a question regarding the
positions to this meeting.

 Thank you so much for your participation!

 Love and Serenity,
 Cyndi
List Administrator (filling in for Secretary) 

Links:
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[1] http://asp-afg.org/members/trusted-servants/