ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS / AREA 93 / DISTRICT 17
Monthly District Meeting /
Jeff J. called meeting to order.
A Moment of Silence followed by the serenity prayer
12 Concepts read by Richard W.
GSRs in attendance 15 – DCM 1 Alt DCM 1
New GSR – 1 Jonny
DCM Report – Jeff – Update from our Delegate (Vicki)
December ACM meeting: Pre-Conference
Opinion Polls: Our conference
communications kit which includes the preliminary agenda, were mailed out
December 30th. I know from
our last assembly that the DCM’s want to receive the Delegate Polls as soon as
possible and I really need to see the agenda to know what information I need to
request from you. There is one way you
can always keep your district up to date and that would be when you receive the
conference recommendations and the conference additional considerations from
your delegate upon their return from NY, you can take note of any items that
were referred to the next years conference.
If you discuss these in your district and come up with any suggestions
for your delegate please write it out and pass it on to them. That kind of information and participation is
invaluable.
Update on Vicki’s Conference Committee: Vicki received two updates from the
literature committee, one was highlights from the last board meeting and she
wanted to bring to our attention the item we discussed at our last assembly
regarding a pamphlet for Intergroup/Central Offices was tabled to the January
Board meeting. This may very well become
an agenda item; it would be helpful to Vicki if we would discuss this at our
district and bring back our feedback to the January assembly before she attends
the board meeting. The other matter of
importance is the 3rd edition of the Spanish Big Book. They have received 130 stories to date and
feel it would be ideal if the stories represented a wider-range of Spanish
speaking alcoholic. It was decided not
to rush the selection process so they have decided to extend the deadline until
DCM report continued:
(Jeff) I have been asked to bring some names of people in the district who have
not ever presented before to present at the pre conference workshop in
March. - Alberto as asked all members of
the Assembly to start thinking about hosting an Old Timers event early as not
to have the mishap that happened this year.
Event will be in October 2006. –
Next Assembly is a week from this Sunday.
All members of district 17 really need to be present at the Beverly
Garland Hotel on
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS / AREA 93 / DISTRICT 17
Monthly District
Meeting /
Alt DCM Report – Chris introduced the new GSR - Jonny
Treasurer Report – Melanie B. distributed the
financial statement for December. Melanie has increased our prudent reserve to
$150 and thanked the groups for their continued support. DCM was reimbursed for PRAASA
registration. December report was
approved as submitted.
Archives: N/R
CPC/Treatment Facilities: N/R
Finance: N/R
Grapevine/LA Vina:
Chris informed us that The Grapevine will send out 50 back issues for
$15 to attract subscribers. Also, they
will have stories available in an MP3 format.
Guidelines and Policies:
Literature/Audio Visual/Newsletter: N/R
Public Information / Accessibility/ Website: N/R
Registration: N/R
CO liaison – N/R
H&I liaison:
SFV Intergroup liaison: Mark - Archives is looking
for information on the history of our groups.
Newcomer packets – Cathy’s commitment is over and
Richard F. will take this commitment.
PRAASA 06 Update -
Laura – asked that we go back to our groups and ask if anyone is willing
to participate in alternate housing, which is to offer a room in their home to
a conference attendee during PRAASA. If
anyone is interested please have them call Laura C. 818-980-9987. Laura said that the excitement at PRAASA is
awesome
Old business:
New Business:
1
Ad hoc Committee Report “GSR 101” Richard has secured
Saturday April 22nd at 5000 Colfax. He will submit a flyer to Jeff and have it
available at the Assembly.
2
Adhoc Committee report “Registration queries” Ernie, Jeff
Maureen and Mark will split up the 80 groups in district 17 to update their
information. Jeff will supply us with
appropriate guidelines for making these calls to protect individual(s)
anonymity.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS / AREA 93 / DISTRICT 17
Monthly District
Meeting /
3
Open Discussion … What’s going on with your
groups. Jeff shared that he attended the
Radford meeting with Rosemary to explain the District contributions. It was not successful as Radford sees itself
as autonomous and has been operating this way since 1949. Lisa explained how she passes a can every
other meeting for contributions and gives a brief pitch on GSR service.
4
It was brought of for discussion that the Area 93
minutes are still not available in a timely fashion. Much information is not being passed to our
groups in a timely fashion. It was
discussed at length and a motion and vote decided that our DCM Jeff would let
the Area officers know in an e mail that we as a district are dissatisfied with
Jess’s service to the Area.
Good and Welfare:
Birthdays
in January – none
The Almost
Memorial day picnic will have a GSR and H&I hosted table.
Next District meeting is
Submitted and prepared by Maureen M.
Thank you for letting me serve District 17.