The IlIowa intergroup meeting,held on October 3rd,2011,was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by chair Susan L.,with the serenity prayer.

Roll call was taken.Those in attendance were as follows: Chair-Susan L.,Co-chair-Jamey C.,Office Manager-Lisa W.,Telephone chair Bob S.,Newsletter chair-Michele .

Group Representitives present,as follows:Northwest group-Tim H.,Bettendorf-Karen K.,Courage to change-Sue H.,Courage to change-Pam S.,Cenral Discussion-Brenda M.,North Scott-Kent K.,Dewitt-Bill M.,Marquette-Steve K.,Last Chance-Ben G.,Freedom Group Brian G., Big Book Study- Ben D.
Chair Susan then welcomed newcomer Tim H.,representitive for Northwest Group.

Chair then made a motion to adopt minutes of previous meeting.Motion seconded. Minutes adopted.

Reports of officers are as follows,as recieved and reported:

Treasurer:

Income for The month of Sptember was$2,854.19.Contributions totaled $687.77.Events-$290.57.Sales-$1,875.10.Bank dividends-$1.51.

The breakdown of actual expenses and purchases is asFollows: General expenses-$2,233.03,Event expenses-$50.00,Literature purchases-$1,157.05

Balance in general checking and savings,as of September 30th,2011 was $2934.70.Of this balance liabilities total $1,657.29.This leaves a remaining balance of $1,286.40.The balance in the events account is $540.50.

In love and service,

Rhonda S., Treasurer

Chair Susan made amtion that the treasurer's report be amended to include the followng;

The breakdown of the checking and savings accounts are:Prudent reserve-$2898.22(savings);General-$46.99(checking);Events-$540.57.The three total-$3,485.78.Motion was seconded,then voted on.Motion was approved.

Office Manager

Intergroup is looking for volunteers to man the office in the mornings from 9-12:30,Monday thru Friday.We have a couple of spots open and always need extra people for backup,even if you can't do it every week.This is a great way to be of service,have contact with newcomers/oldtimers and stay sober.Please call Lisa 309-7641016,in afternoons for more information.We could also use more people for backups ,on the evening phones,when the regular people don't answer their phones.

I had some trouble with Vonage,doing "updates" afew times this month where I was unable to transfer the phones and had to stay in the office a few extra hours at night,until the phones were transfered.Hopefully this was just temporary,because I didn't want someone to call for help and not get any answer,but sometimes I have to leave for my other job.

I wrote a note to the landlord,about various problems here,and he finally took care of them-removing dead rodents from the basement and rpairing ceiling tiles in the kitchen.He is unable to loiwer our rent,but is willing to let us pay twice a month and sign a month-to-month lease if that is what we want.

I need a mailing list for the Buffalo Group,as the news letters keep getting returned to the office,so please call the office if you can help us out

Call counts for September were: 6 twelve step,132 information,49 visitors and1 Alanon/Alateen.

In love and service,

Lisa W.

Telephone Chair Report

The intergroup phone rotation has one opening for the fourth Sat on the PM shift.At the present time the backup list has only five people on it.We would like to have more names,if possib le, of people that are interested inhelping with the phones.Any Sponsers that have Sponserees that they could recommend for the 12th Step list,aswellas the phone list,they are very much appreciated and badly needed.Please have them call the Intergroup office and talk to Lisa or call me- Bob,at 563 349 1878.They will get them into service on the list.

In love and service,

Robert Shounick

Newsletter Report:

The newsletter went on September 26th,before all business meetings.This month the 85 newsletters cost $63.95 to print and $35.20 to mail($1.16 per newsletter).Remember that each flyer pays $7 to be in the issue.Afer this is subtacted,it is $0.92 per newsletter.All groups receive a complementary copy and we have approximately 60 subscriptions at $13/yr or$1.08/mo.As always if you would like to sub mit an artical,please e-mail it to shell@mschi.com.

Group reports received are as follows:

Courage to Change

Attendance is steady and our picnic went well.

Bettendorf

I attended our business meeting,Sept.21st.We could use more support at our Friday,10:00 PM meeting.It is no longer a candlelight meeting,but a closed meeting.I put up flyers for the Faithful Fivers and subscripoin order flyers,in hope of generating more income for Intergroup.

In love and service,

Karen K.

Central Discussion

All meetings are going very well.We had great food,fun and fellowship at our 43rd anniversay meeting. Our speakers did a great job.Our next business meeting will be on Oct. 16th at 5:30PM.

Love and service,

Brenda M.

Marquette Group

Marquette Group won at the Intrgroup Softball Tournament.

In love and service,

Steve K.

Our Primary Purpose Things are going well at Primary Purpose.We will not be moving in the near future,so come out on Sunday Monday and see us.Our elections will be held.

Lisa W.

Unfinished Business:

Newsletter Chair Suggested Buffalo group be deleted from newsletter mailing list,as newsletters mailed to them are returned.Motion to delete Buffalo from mailing list was made,seconded,vote was taken;motion passed.

The inventory of the Intergroup office was discussed.Estimated total is$6,664.00,as of September30th,possibly around $10,000.00.Chair made motion to form a commitee to discover the exact invetory total and to produce an itemized inventory.mtion was seconded,voted on and passed.Chair suggested looking,also,at what is old and not moving.These items could be put into a raffle at the Intergroup's anniversary,on April 21st,2012,to be held at Modernwoodmen Park.

New Business

Discussion of what the individual Groups thoughts or concerns on the moving of the Intergroup office followed.Chair of theAd Hoc commitee discussed various places it had found. Motion to form a commitee to look more in depth into information gathered by the Ad Hoc commitee,for the purpose of gathering information on other places available.Motion seconded and passed . Commitee will include Joni k.,Karen K.,Michele and Jamey C. Discussion followed concerning pros and cons of proposed sites.

Chair proposed we list the people who donate to the Faithful Fivers,in the newsletter each month.We need to look in to if this would be breaking their anonymity.

The meeting was then adjourned,following the Lord's Prayer,at 7:00PM.

Respectively submitted,with love and service,

Joni K.,