[Businessmtg] Secretary's report

[Lynne]

Hi everyone,

I am the acting Secretary. Some of the later agenda items will address 
ways that we can hopefully help fill the vacant positions on the 
Steering Committee (so that is not for discussion now), including the 
Secretary. I will gladly, gladly help to train any newly elected 
Secretary!!! As mentioned before, there is so much support available on 
the steering committee for newly elected trusted servants!!! So if you 
have any questions about the position, please let me know.

There are 3 main parts to the Secretary's job.

1. Managing the Daily Chairs. Our daily chairs are amazing and doing a 
fantastic job and I've had to do very little since getting them set up 
in early January. This is mainly a twice a year job - recruiting and 
training the daily chairs in December and June.

2. Managing the Website. We are lucky to have a recording secretary, 
Betsy, who is doing a wonderful job! She does the routine updates to the 
website - i.e. the changing of the daily chairs, updating the ASP 
register, updating any new motions on the group conscience page, etc. 
However, the steering committee wanted to edit the Tradition 7 
(https://asp-afg.org/members/tradition-7/) and How we handle money 
webpages (https://asp-afg.org/members/money-handling/) and Betsy just 
finished updating those two websites. Please join me in thanking Betsy 
for her service!!

The steering committee unanimously agreed on the new language on these 
pages that reflect the new procedures from motion 24 and from 
incorporation of ASP. The steering committee will be gradually going 
through the website and deciding to update things that are out of date 
or consolidating as appropriate. I would like to emphasize that no 
changes will be made to the website without the unanimous agreement of 
the steering committee.

3. Chairing the Business Meeting. This is by far the hardest part of the 
secretary position in my opinion and last month's business meeting had a 
lot of learning involved! I am a very results-oriented person and the 
biggest lesson was something I had read lots of times on the KBDM page 
of the ASP website (https://asp-afg.org/members/kbdm/), but had not 
really digested fully. And that is "It is important to remember that the 
decision isn't as important as the discussion. KBDM requires new 
thinking. The purpose of the KBDM is to build consensus!" I think it is 
important for us all to remember that the discussion is the focus and 
that talking through the Al anon principles involved is important. This 
is an example of service leading to personal growth and I am grateful 
for this opportunity.

Hugs,

Lynne