Ozark Area met at 1330 Wall, Joplin MO w/ We Do Recover hosting

Meeting opened at 3:40pm w/ Serenity Prayer

Roll call, Twelve Traditions & Twelve Concepts

Officers Present: Chair (Kenny C) Vice Chair (Shelie V) Treasurer (Jackee C)

Officers Absent: None

Offices Vacant: RCM, RCM Alt & Secretary

Subcommittee Chairs Present: AASC (Renita G) H&I (Steve S) PI (Sandee)

Subcommittee Chairs Absent: None

Subcommittee Chairs Vacant: Literature Review & Outreach

Groups Present: But Do It (Mark) Butterflies are Free (Tim) Miracles (Jeff) Point of Turning (Bill) Spiritual Principles (Kevin) Together in Unity (Andy) We Do Recover (Doug)

Groups Absent: Survivors (1) We Will Recover By God (1)

Quorum (5 of 8 active groups): Yes

Recognition of New Groups: Yes: Under Grace/Carthage

Additions or corrections to last month’s minutes: None

Motion to accept minutes: Accepted

Additions or corrections to the Agenda: None

Chair Report: Hello Ozark Area: 9/29/07

We are fast approaching the time I give up the chair. It has been a privilege to serve on this committee. I have tried to keep up on the guidelines and I think I have all the changes finished and will have copies at the next OASC as stated in the guidelines. It has been a pleasure to serve with all of you. Keep up the good work. ILS Kenny C

Vice-Chair Report: Greetings OASC: 9/29/07

This past month I attended meetings in Joplin and I was fortunate enough to spend several one-on-one hours with some of my sponsees as well as some other addicts in the program outside of meetings. My son and I attended WCNA in San Antonio and had a wonderful experience over-all. It is such a pleasure to be clean and involved in the growth of Narcotics Anonymous. NA continues to welcome new and returning members into our fellowship all over the world! Earlier today I facilitated the joint subcommittee meeting from 1:45pm- 3:15pm. Several addicts attended this joint subcommittee meeting. It seemed to go well. In October the subcommittees have decided to have a joint subcommittee meeting again preferably on the same Saturday as area. PLEASE be sure I have a mailing address and a phone number for a contact person for your group whether it is you or someone else. If you have a change to report just add a note to the end of your report today and I will update my records. October is our election month and my term as Vice Chair will end with old business. It has been a pleasure to serve the area in this capacity. ILS - Shelie V, OASC Vice Chair

Treasurer: Ozark Area Treasurer’s Report

Balance $ 2004.68 Balance ending August 25^th area report

Total Deposits $ 120.00 Donations and credits given in August 25^th meeting

Total Expenses $ 112.95 Expenses since August 25^th report and last meeting

Current Balance $ 2011.73 Balance as of September 29, 2007

But Do It $ 60.00 $ 17.00 Walmart/PI Ink cart/Ck#1499

We Do Recover $ 60.00 $ 54.95 Freedom Voice/Ck#1500

$ 40.00 USPO/Renewal/Ck#1501

TOTAL DONATIONS $ 120.00 $ 1.00 Bank Service Chgs

In Loving Service, Jackee C. Area Treasurer

AASC met today at 1330 Wall as part of the joint subcommittee meeting with 14 addicts in attendance. We have $1169.08 in the AASC account. $200 for functions and $969.08 for HOLP. We made plans for the chili cook off. It will be Nov 10 at Galena. Doors will open at 5p. speaker will be Aundrea A at 8p. chilientries are $5 each. 2 mothers left band will play. Fliers will be out soon. ILS, Renita G

H&I: Hello Ozark Area:

I am an addict named Steve who is humbly representing the H&I subcommittee. In the subcommittee we addressed the issues at the Lafayette House. James has taken over as the liaison position for c-star for Don G. Mike was voted in for Secretary. The problem for taking medication at the tables of OC 3^rd & Virginia was addressed. We had several people step down from these positions and James and Mike O have stepped up to help with this issue. Literature has been distributed and the woman’s jail is doing fine in Jasper County. Men’s side let some staples get in and our area is going to get back on track with the men’s side of Jasper County Jail. Also with all the new groups we need to know if there are any of these groups carrying the message to any treatment center or jails. In Loving Service, Steve S

PI: Hello OASC:                                     9/29/07

I am Sandee-P I Chair, everything is going good, I have been trying diligently on trying to find a P I Vice Chair, and as of yet I have had no luck.  I was contacted about 3 weeks ago to see if I wanted to participate in the Drug and Alcohol Awareness Month Activities at the Memorial Hall, I went and set up a table to represent Narcotics Anonyous, also attending with me were Robyn V, Kim S, and James ?  I feel that we had a very good turnout getting the different agency's together from the community to let people get a better understanding on how much this problem has an impact on our community. I found out at 8:00 a.m. that we have no scheduals for the area, so I called around and priced the printing on them and then called Jackee (treasure for oasc) to get her imput on this, she okayed me to go ahead and get them printed so that we would have them for this month. Robyn V. is interested in the Webmaster position, and she has a small conflict,and she is here for this meeting, and I will let her discuss this matter with the Area.

The website is running well, with no problems. Archives are current, and any flyers given to me this month have been posted. The only noticeable item is that there were fewer hits ( around 200 fewer) this year in the month of July than last year at the same time. Typically, the website has a dramatically higher hit rate this month, due to the HOLP flyer that is posted in Activities. Otherwise, looking forward eagerly and sadly to handing over the reigns of the website to some lucky individual! P. S. On the Ozark Area Website, all of the Guidelines are available for each subcommittee; they are all the most recent ones, to my knowledge. ILS, Debra B. Ozark Area Website Coordinator

But Do It: Hello Area:

But Do It meets at 6:30pm every Wednesday and this is a closed meeting. We have been meeting at Par Hill Park due to our regular place is under repair due to all the rain we had in June. We are hoping to be back in there next month or to find a place to meet. We do not have a donation this month. ILS, Mark J

Butterflies Are Free: Hello Ozark Area:

The Butterflies Are Free group of Anderson still meets every Thursday at 8pm and Sundays at 6pm. Meeting attendance is down 2-5 people on Thursdays and about the same for Sundays. Everyone is welcome and no addict turned away. We still meet in Housing Authority building. We have no donation to area this month. In Loving Service, Tim W

Miracles: Hello Area :

My name is Jeff GSR of Miracles. We meet every Friday at 6:30pm at the corner of 4^th & Byers. Our birthday night is the last Friday of every month. Sorry but Miracles has no donation this month due to the shortage of people this year. However, it was still a good time and we thank everyone who did come out for coming out. ILS, Jeff H

Point of Turning: Greetings Area from Point of Turning:

Our attendance is down a little but we still average over one dozen at most meetings and as high as 25 at some. Donations are down a little as well but we have paid our rent and paper advertisement. We recently held elections and Ruby is now Secretary, Tina Treasurer, Danny is GSR, and Bill is GSR Alt. We are having a barbeque at the park on the 18^th of October. Meat is provided bring a covered dish. Pam M has consented to be our speaker. Please accept our donation of $20 to further the cause of NA.

Spiritual Principles: Greetings Ozark Area:

Spiritual Principles continues to meet Sunday and Wednesday mornings at 9:30am at 618 Jackson. Nothing new to report and no donations. ILS, Kevin F

Together In Unity:

I am the new Alt GSR for the Nevada group Together In Unity. Attendance has increased to 15-20 addicts per meeting. We are just now getting our prudent reserve met so we are unable to give a donation at this time. In Loving Service, Andy M

Under Grace: Hello:

My name is Danny I represent the Under Grace group of Carthage. We meet every Monday at 7pm in the basement of Grace Episcopal Church on the corner of Howard & Chestnut. It is a non-smoking open meeting. Our attendance ranges from 8-12 people. Our donation for the area this time is $30.

We Do Recover: Welcome Ozark Area from We Do Recover:

We are doing well and attendance and donations are good. I was unable to attend our last business meeting and was unable to find out if we had a donation outside of we’re donating the $15 for this meeting back to area. In loving service, Doug B

PS. The $15 check was received from area after all and will be added to next month’s donation.

• Show Me Region experienced some mishandling of funds & charges were filed. Checking balance was $600-700 & about $500 cash was recovered from Treasurer.
• OASC Treasurer position should have been opened for nominations at last area.

• No old business

• Under Grace asked to join the area again and their report was submitted.
• OASC Treasurer position was opened for nominations.
• Jackee C was nominated for OASC Treasurer.