[nandm]

We ran into a similiar situation in my home group. We did a group inventory that really brought this to light. Our solution has been to have our regular business meeting members each pull someone aside each meeting and asign them a task such as greet people at the door, clean the coffee caraffes when the meeting is over, put away the Big Books, clean up after the meeting, etc.... We are hoping that by doing this we will ultimately get people more involved, at least our regular meeting members. We have been fortunate enough that our regular business meeting members have been willing to trade the service positions around so they are not stuck with the same ones all the time. We have also been able to pull new people in periodically.

Unfortunately, many people do not realize that part of giving back is keeping the meeting doors open and to do that takes manpower. I am not sure what the ultimate solution is but I do think it is a fairly common problem.

Good topic.