Steering Committee Minutes

LAUREL RECOVERY STEERING COMMITTEE MINUTES April 18th, 2020

Minutes Approved by the Steering Committee May 16, 2020

Attendees:Bruce D., Cal B., Elaine P., Heather G., Jerry D., John R., Julia H., Margaret M., Mike N. (Michigan Mike), Sharon C., Theresa OC.

LR Steering Committee Meeting called to order at 6:30 PM with the Serenity Prayer.

Also posted on Whatts App so that everything that was discussed as far as voting etc. can be seen by all.
  • Voted No Chat. Discussion about whether to enable this feature, it was previously disabled.
  • Voted that meeting secretaries will begin to assume responsibility for meetings. Admin’s will be there to assist, then secretary will be made host and through individual group conscience can decide how to proceed with various in meeting settings.
  • Secretaries who still desire assistance on a case by case basis can work with the admin on the amount of assistance needed.

The links to all of the meeting hand-outs (How-it-Works, Traditions, Chips, Promises, Preamble, etc.) can be found on our website under https://laurelrecovery.org/zoom-meetings

We have been up and running on Zoom for three weeks now and decisions were made quickly on the fly, decisions implemented based on research and experiences of other groups. There had been no formal Committee voting on any of the details as they were emerging quickly. The group tonight has decided that now that things are settled down, the individual meeting’s will take the lead with the Steering Committee no longer needing to be so heavily involved in the meeting operations.

It was also decided that we would continue to have our regular Steering Committee meetings on Zoom and that if a meeting was to be canceled 72 hours notice would try to be provided.

Admin is defined as a person who has the user login and password to the Zoom account. There are currently 3 John, Theresa and Jeanne. This needs to remain the same as the admin accounts should have limited access for security.

Host is defined as the secretary of the meeting.

Co-Host is defined as having similar permissions as the host for in meeting functions and monitoring and is also used to allow ‘friends of ours’ to mute and unmute themselves during a meeting to share or read.

The meeting was adjourned.