Meeting Minutes – May 10 RSC Meeting

RSC Meeting Minutes May 10 2025

Attendees

Sue Region Chair

Laura Alt Delegate (GSR Oakville)

Lu Web and Literature

Raye NTPP

Patty Web

Jennie Outreach ( Burlington Alt GSR)

Regrets: Lisa B Secretary

Leena Delegate

GSR’S in Attendance: Elaine (v. Barrie), Sally (Windsor), Janice (v. London), Lutchi (Ottawa), Adam (Etobicoke), Cindy(Hamilton)  Victoria(Sudbury), Deb(Georgetown), Shelly(v. Sunday), Monica (Guelph), Lionel( Windsor) Regrets Lisa C (Grimsby)

1. meeting opened with the Serenity Prayer
2. Updates for region: GSR roundtable June 8^th @ 11am hosted by the World Service Ad Hoc Service Structure Development Committee. Two of our GSR’s have agreed to speak at this event. Janice from London and Julie from Burlington. August 8^th 11am CWT Growth hosted by the Western Regions Interregional Forum
3. Minutes were reviewed from March 25 Laura moved for the minutes to be accepted, Janice 2^nd.   10 Accepted 0 No ..

Lu mention that the treasurer report had not been corrected as was stated in March 25^th minutes.

4. No Treasurers report. The treasurer has stepped away from the position. We need to fill this position ASAP. Outline of the duties of Regional Treasurer is located on the Naranonontario.com in the members zone.

5. Literature Website. Running well, back to normal. There are un-reconciled orders that have been delivered but not paid . These will be pursued over the next couple of weeks. Please mention to all members: if they have received literature but cannot confirm payment, please do so, to avoid the need to contact individuals with invoices directly..
   There has been a temporary disconnect in the financial area, that is being resolved.

* British Columbia has asked to join in to our literature ordering Literature chair has no objection.  Regional chair Sue is checking into contract with WSO, and the feasibility  to extend to the west. Also investigating feasibility for french language literature. BC has their own contract for literature but only place orders twice per year.

* Patty (web editor)  discussed the hardcopy meeting list, and between Patty and Lu concluded that since the website now has current and up-to-date information, the hardcopies are basically obsolete and to maintain is             administratively cumbersome – the live info on the website in conjunction with the upcoming QR code card will resolve the availability of current info

*  Telephone hotline: there have been 12 phone calls to the Naranon Hotline during Mar27 – April 27. We did not put a motion forward, but perhaps in the near future we need to discuss viability of the Hotline
as it is very expensive and our web presence has improved greatly.

* A question was asked about the cost of the Zoom Licenses- The cost of the 4 licenses is approximately$1000/year. Licenses are paid for out of contributions to the Region. Some groups maintain their own license and support  cost through their 7^th tradition.

6. Narateen Chair not in attendance, report given by NTPP. Attendance has been low. We are in need of volunteers to be facilitators. Training is provided and a minimum of 2 years in the program -and step work under your belt is required. You must also reside in Ontario. There will be promotion of the Narateen program at Orcna, and hopefully getting the word out will improve awareness and attendance as well.
7. Outreach: a business card with a QR code has been designed with the input of many. (Thank you all that offered suggestions). This card is going to be available for individual groups to order &  print and
   Victoria GSR from Sudbury , has volunteered to make them available to hand out at Orcna  . The card has been designed to direct all that are interested in Naranon to the meeting directory page on the
   Regional website. The website is being maintained and is always current. Replacing print outs with the QR code access is intended to eliminate the need for constant ‘re-printing’ of outdated information.

• Also: an outreach committee is going to be formed in the upcoming months. Meetings will take place by zoom at a prearranged and agreed upon time. The Committee will be formed to discuss needs in our individual communities and ways to raise awareness of Naranon . Anyone interested in outreach …stay tuned

8. Delegates Report World Service Conference. Laura delivered a recap of the event. See attached report from the delegate and the results of the Motions. If you want more info, see the WSC landing page on nar-anon.org
   Next world service conference to be hosted in 2027 is titled Growing together / working together
9. Regional Secretary Lisa is actively trying to get more individual group participation in the regional meetings.  An Anonymous survey Is being work on to go out to individual groups to learn why attendance is low, and see if we can more participation. Find ways to incite participation.

   Action Items ;

GSR

 Ask members for volunteers for the Treasurer position, contact regionchair@naranonontario.com if interested.

Remind members of importance of 7^th tradition, including group involvement

Ask members if they ordered literature and their payment was not accepted to resubmit payment to treasurer@naranonontario.com. These orders would have been placed in January/February

Region Chair

Will try to reconcile bank/literature order to confirm payments of literature since January 2025

Will note group contributions received since January and acknowledge these were received

Will prepare Treasurer report to be discussed at next RSC meeting.

Next RSC meeting : July 6^th @ 10am this will be a condensed meeting to discuss financial report.