ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS / AREA 93 / DISTRICT 17
Monthly District Meeting /March 7, 2005 / Meeting Minutes
Jeff J. called meeting to order.
A Moment of Silence followed by the serenity prayer
12 Concepts read by Jack
GSRs in attendance 14
4 new GSRs Nina, Doug, Marshall, and Jack
Minutes from February Meeting were approved as submitted
DCM Report - Jeff J.
Jeff let all know at the upcoming two day Assembly Debbie has planned a dinner and a guest speaker, Eva S. from New York’s GSO. Dinner must be pre-paid and the price is $16.00. Jeff passed a sign up sheet and collected checks.
At the recent ACM they discussed the need for the Grapevine & LaVina committee to become two different functioning committees. A vote was taken and the Guidelines & Policies Committee chair will submit a proposed changed to the Assembly for consideration and possible vote.
The Santa Barbara’s Young People in AA liaison visited the Area Committee Meeting in order to procure a letter from the Area in support of them hosting the 2006 ACYPAA Round up. This is a requirement of ACYPAA before submitting a bid to host the event. For those who will not be attending PRAASA ’05 in Tucson, we are invited to attend this event in Oxnard. For more info http://www.acypaa2005.org
The PRASSA 2006 buttons are in and will be distributed in Tucson. For those attending PRASSA, Jeanine has asked us to keep our eyes and ears open for any thing you would like to see changed or added to 2006 in Woodland Hills. The ACM has added an item to the March Assembly Agenda to vote to reimburse our PRAASA committee chair for PRAASA ’05 expenses; this will be open for discussion at the assembly.
Alt DCM Report - Chris W.
Chris welcomed the new GSRs - Nina, Doug, Marshall, and Jack.
Treasurer Report - Melanie B. distributed the financial statement for February and it was approved as submitted. She also mentioned that we might want to pass the basket at our monthly meeting. This will be discussed at a future meeting.
Area Standing Committee Reports:
Archives:
CPC/Treatment Facilities: Dick
Finance:
Grapevine/LA Vina: Chris W. - Chris agreed it would be good to split the Grapevine and LaVina committees.
Guidelines and Policies: Richard W.
Literature/Audio Visual/Newsletter:
Public Information / Accessibility/ Website: Maria
Registration: Ian. C. & Laura
H&I liaison: Lonnie
SFV Intergroup liaison: Jeffrey K. .
Newcomer packets - Cathy has packets available for our cost of $1.00
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS / AREA 93 / DISTRICT 17
Monthly District Meeting /March 7, 2005 / Meeting Minutes
Old business:
1. Report Ad Hoc Committee - Melanie B. - The Name of the project is changed from Cri-Help to "New Parolee Project. Melanie scheduled a meeting and only one person was able to attend. They met and discussed the issue of producing guidelines and produced a guideline one-sheet. They will meet again and revise the one-sheet and make them available to take to meetings. They also questioned the literature being AA approved and whether this project should fall under CPC and PI. Melanie will report back next month after they meet again.
2. How to Give a GSR Report. Jeff discussed using time at our monthly meeting to discuss certain projects on a Monday not following an Area Assembly. Jeff showed two forms used to give GSR reports and stated that as each meeting is autonomous, the individual GSR really needs to take the pulse of his/her meeting and make it fun for the attendees. Jeff suggested incorporating some AA history with each report to keep people’s attention. Keep it fun and brief. It was suggested to use index cards with one question from the opinion poll to get more participation. It was suggested we all read the GSR manual as well as AA Comes Alive to get a better understanding of the history of AA to share with our meetings.
3. District level activities. Hosting an assembly was tabled for the next meeting.
New Business:
1. Discussed changing Area Assemblies and Area committee Meetings from 5/yr. to 4/yr. The concern voiced on this was the delegate would not be as fresh in reporting back after attending the NY conference. Ian brought up the "right of decision. We as GSRs have the right to make this type of decision without consulting with our groups.
2. District activities (i.e. 12 concepts study, hosting an assembly, etc.) Jeff scheduled an event for our delegate to give us a report. In conjunction with districts 1, 11 and 16 we will host an event on Saturday, April 30th to hear our delegate’s report. He asked for volunteers to handle the snacks for this event. He volunteered.
Good and Welfare:
Birthday’s in March - Marshall 19, Cathy 7, Laura 3 and Lisa 2.
7:41 pm Meeting adjourned with responsibility declaration.
Submitted and prepared by Maureen M.
Thank you for letting me be of service.