COCAINE ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICE OFFICE
MINUTES OF BOARD MEETING
JULY 14,1988
- ATTENDEES
- Helene H.
- Reggie L.
- Bob C.
- Ray G.
- Lugenia H. (interim sect’y)
- Tony C.
- David C. (acting office manager)
TREASURER’S REPORT – Bob C.
There was no formal statement ready at the time of this meeting. Bob C. will have the report ready for mailing by July 18th. David C. will be responsible for the mailing. The check in the amount of $10,000 has been received from Chicago,
Income
Balance in trust account – a/o 7/14/88 $7,791.04
Debts: 4,000.00 approx.
A) Quarterly taxes due at the end of July,1988.
B) Bob C. researched the cost of an accountant that would be willing to meet with the board at no cost, to access the records. At an approximate cost of $200 to put the records in order and a monthly fee of $150 to 200 to keep them in order. It was decided to do further research to see if a bookkeeping service would not be a better service at a lower cost.
C) $200 approximate will be needed to pay the last Quarter taxes of 1987 to the Franchise tax board.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
CONNECTION – Reggie L.
Suzie S. acting Editor
Suzie will be giving David C. the labels to the Connection to be mailed to those requesting the service. A check was paid out in the amount of $558 for the last printing.
Suzie proposed that Mel be paid a token gratuity for the typesetting service since he spent several hours on the project.
A motion was made to pay Mel $100, the motion carried. He will be asked to submit an invoice for this amount.
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Connection – cont’d
Suzie would like to be kept informed as to the amount of copies of the Connection are being sent out, the date sent, from the purchase forms. David C. will be responsible for these records at this time, he will also keep photo-copies for the WSO.
NEWSGRAM – Tony C.
Tony C. was unable to contact Jim G. before this meeting.
Tony C. did contact Margie, who-is very interested in being the new Editor of the Newsgram. Suzie stated that at the present time Margie couldnt make it to the meeting but that she had been in contact with her & they have been working together on both the Connection & the Newsgram.
Further developments on this publication should be available by the next board meeting.
Distribution of the Newsgram & the Connection was brought up by Reggie L., and it was decided that Board Members should take an active part in helping to promote the two publications Possibly to send a representative to the different GSO meetings or area meetings. There was a commitment by the concensus of the meeting that they would help to promote the Connection.
CHIPS & LITERATURE
No report was available at time of board meeting.
OFFICE – David $. (interim)
David C. will be interim office manager for the next 10 days, starting from July 11 thru July 21,1988. Cory A. is on a personal leave of absence from July 11 thru July 21,1988. An office report was not available at the time of this meeting.
OLD BUSINESS
- WSO now has it’s own tax I. //, Bob C. will be contacting the bank to notify them on our trust account.
- The Quarterly Federal tax returns are in.
- The Certified Article of Incorporation has not been received as of this meeting,
- Bob C. will now be responsible for separating the NSF checks in the office to determine which ones have been paid, and to re-submit the ones that are still outstanding.
- Ray G. felt that the old conference tapes should be reviewed to locate the company that did our last video tapes this will be tabled until our next meeting when Steve P. is present.
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Old Business – Cont’d
F) A copy of the conference minutes (transcripts)have been sent to Lucy S. in San Francisco.
NEW BUSINESS
- Steve M. is working on the World Directory. He will have it ready for the conference August 11, He will present the format at the next board meeting.
- WSO will have to supply a complete financial record at the time of the conference.
- The profit from the World Service Convention in suggest is a possible $9-10,000 (this is a conservative estimate.
- Reggie feels that the office could use a “House-cleaning”. Helene will be coming into the office approximately 3 days per week to work at organizing the office; ie. setting up the filing system, taking care of mail that needs to be answered, etc.
Motion to adjourn 10:15pm. Seconded and carried.
Next meeting July 28th at 7:30PM
Thank you for letting me be of service.
Lugenia H.
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