ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS / AREA 93 / DISTRICT 17

Monthly District Meeting /August 6, 2007

www.district17AA.org

 

 

Maureen called meeting to order at 6:30

A Moment of Silence followed by the serenity prayer

12 Concepts read by Michael

Attendance -

DCM – 1

GSRs – 15

New GSR - Paul

Area Secretary Sharon G. 

Past DCM – Richard W.

Guest – Hank from District 1

 

Secretary Report – Sharon G.

            The July minutes were approved.

DCM Report – Maureen M.

 

Karen our District secretary is moving and is unable to continue her commitment.  Michael our Alt. DCM is busy with work and not able to continue his commitment as District Web person. Keith has agreed to take the Web commitment.  Thank you Keith.  Michael will be back with us as Alt. DCM in September.

 

I attended the Area Committee Meeting on Sunday, July 15th.

-          2008 budget will be presented at the August assembly, many cuts were made including funding the Area officers to PRAASA.  Please make the groups aware that the Area relies completely on group contributions only for its operating budget.  Unlike the General Service Office and Central Offices which also rely on literature sales.

-         Judge Flores the new Class A trustee has been speaking all over the country and will be at the August assembly in Oxnard.

-         As I mentioned in my e mail we will be hosting the “long timers” event in October so please ask you meetings or anyone you know in the program who has 30 years plus if they would be interested in participating.

-         Laurie who was serving as the Audio Visual sub-committee char has stepped up and will not be the Finance Chair.

-         Jeff reminded all the DCMs to remind the GSRs that it is important to have a service sponsor and it’s important to pick a committee at the assembly and stick to that committee and participate.

-         As we discussed at the last meetings -The Grapevine has launched a challenge called “Keep is Simple” to increase the subscriptions.  We need to keep Debbie informed of how many new subscriptions were generated from our District.  I believe the results will be posted on the Grapevine web site in October

-         Debbie would also like us to share the 2009 agenda topics for the General Service Conference with our groups to come up with a Theme for 2009.  Let’s find out what our groups would like.

-         The ACM will be moving to Santa Paula in 2008 which is a more central location for Area 93.

-         Joe V gave his report on BTG – he began by reminding us that an ad-hoc committee is a fact finding exercise.  He had three important facts to share:

-         A – there is a need for BTH in Area 93

-         B- History of conflict in early 90s with H&I– “Contact Upon Release is H&I” and BTG is only for treatment facilities

-         C – BTH should have a sub-committee under CPC (Cooperation with Professional Community)

-         The Area Chairman will appointment a chair/co-chair for this sub-committee

-         The Districts are taking the lead on BTG and trying to come together and exchange ideas.

-         The CPC chair was contacted by the Sate Probation Training Conference and was asked to participate with an exhibit for AA at their 47th annual conference.  This will be held in the Gold Coast district at Shell Beach.  He is contacting and coordinating with all the Areas in California for their financial support to attend this event.  The Gold Coast has volunteers for the event.

-         The Area is hosting a Long-Timers event in October in the Camarillo/Oxnard area and they are looking for long-timers 30 years plus.  Please let me know if anyone you know in your meetings in interested in participating.

 

Alt DCM Report – None

 

Treasurer Report – Leslie C.

The treasurer’s report was presented by Leslie and it was approved.

 

Area Standing Committee Reports:

Archives – No report.

CPC/Treatment Facilities – No report

Finance - Maureen M.

Laurie is the new Area Finance Chair

Grapevine/La Vina –

Guidelines and Policies –. No report

Literature/Audio Visual/Newsletter – No report.

Public Information / Accessibility/ Website – No report.

Registration – Mark V.         

SFV Liaison:  No report

H&I Liaison – No report

SFV Inter-group Liaison – No report.

 

 

 

 

Old Business:

 

1.      Meeting outreach –What meetings have you attended in our District, what was the response?  Mark distributed a new list for people to update their meeting information. 

 

2.      Host Local Workshop – Update - Topics?  Keith and Michael said they announced this at their meeting and there was no response.  We discussed possible focusing on service topics or even another GSR 101.  Hank from District 1 said they recently did a Traditions Workshop and said the regular players showed up, those already in service.

 

3.      Local out-reach to hospitals/hotels/shelters etc.  Keith will attend the CPC/PI committee at the Assembly to gather information on how to properly contact these.  No one volunteered to be a part of this project.

 

4.      Grapevine subscription update – Maureen handed our additional Grapevines and stressed the importance of letting the meeting members know about the Grapevine services.  Jeff said his meeting auctioned off two subscriptions.

 

 

New Business:

 

  1. Secretary position – Maureen read the duties of the District Secretary.  Leslie nominated Tracee and she declined.  Sharon reminded us this is a not an elected position, rather an “available to take the commitment” position.  No one made them self available.  The District Secretary position is still open.

 

  1. Open Discussion … What’s going on at your meetings?  GSR Reports – How to pass the information to our groups.  Maureen handed out the format for suggested GSR reports.  She also suggested we give a bit of the Delegates report each time we give a GSR report. Mark suggested taking the information directly from the 459 Newsletter.  Rick who represents the Bare Foot meeting said they give him 15 minutes once a month for his GSR report. 
  2. Host Area Assembly – January 2008 location update.   We once again discussed hosting an Area Assembly in 2008.  No one has looked into a place and Maureen gave the description of what is needed – A large room to accommodate at least 150 people with additional rooms for the committee meetings.

 

 

 

 

 

Good and Welfare: We sang Happy Birthday to Rob 2, Tracy 4, Tom 5, Maureen 5 and Kathy 6

           

The meeting adjourned at 7:30 with the responsibility declaration.

Next District meeting is Monday, September 3, 2007 at 6:30 pm.

 

Submitted and prepared by Maureen – notes taken by Anne Marie.

Thank you for allowing me to be of service.