ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS / AREA 93 / DISTRICT 17

Monthly District Meeting /November 5, 2007

Maureen called meeting to order at 6:30

A Moment of Silence followed by the serenity prayer

12 Concepts read by Mark.

Attendance -

DCM – 1

Alt. DCM – 1

GSRs – 12

Area Secretary - 1

Secretary Report – Maureen

The October minutes were approved.

DCM Report – Maureen

I attended the Area Committee Meeting on Sunday, October 21^st .

Pam reminded us to please review the 2008 budget as we will be presented at the November Assembly. Please review the contributions and if there are any discrepancies with what your group has contributed please let me know.

Donald F. is the new audio/visual person. He is available for “movie” nights for any meeting that would like to view AA videos.

The Area is splitting the CPC/Treatment Facilities into two committees. Joe V. will be chairing the Treatment Facilities committee.

Central office or IGR is not an Area Committee. This is just for the different central office reps.

Debbie our Delegate reported – AAWS international committee participated in the celebration of 20 years of AA in Russia. There are 2,000 members gathered for the anniversary convention.

The Young Person’s video submission deadline is November 30^th so please let you groups know,

PI the new AA PSA “A Force of Nature” is being distributed to all the national TV and radio stations. On a local level, all the TV/radio stations in Bakersfield have the PSA as well.

Please remind you meetings about the “Birthday Plan” to increase contributions to GSO.

The Grape Vive subscriptions are up 2.2% in California.

The Santa Paula facility which was to be out new ACM meeting place beginning in 2008 has been passed on. The leasing person changed his mind about the rent and wanted an increase.

I attended the Long Timers event on Saturday, October 27^th in Camarillo. There were about 150 attendees. It was a spiritual event. Only those with 30 or more years of sobriety were able to share. There was a guy there who got sober in October 1956 – 51 years sober. They read Chapter Five from a manuscript which was great to hear. Mark and Paul were there from our District.

Thank you all for allowing me to be of Service.

Alt DCM Report – Michael (None)

Treasurer Report – Maureen presented for Leslie. (None)The treasurer’s report was prepared by Leslie presented by Maureen and it was approved.

Area Standing Committee Reports:

Archives:

CPC/Treatment Facilities:

Finance:

Grapevine/La Vina:

Guidelines and Policies:

Literature/Audio Visual/Newsletter:

Public Information / Accessibility/ Website: (Keith is no longer available for the commitment)

Registration – Mark (None)

SFV Liaison: No report

H&I Liaison – No report

SFV Inter-group Liaison – No report.

Old Business:

Secretary Commitment open: Winter will take the commitment
Local out-reach to hospitals/hotels/shelters etc. update Keith (no longer doing this commitment) Ewelina will take this commitment. Michael and Rob offered to help too.
Host Area Assembly – May 2008 update: Paul – Granada Hills High School looks like the place to do this. The HS is in Dist. 1, we may want to co-host with them. Please check if there is a security fee with this.

New Business:

Open Discussion … What’s going on at your meetings? GSR Reports – How to pass the information to our groups: UNIT A is having a Thank-A-Thon, Nov. 21-22
Traditions/Concepts reports at monthly meeting. Maureen – discussion on add this to our monthly meeting. Paul – motion to adopt traditions/concepts into our monthly meeting. Alternating Tradition then Concept every month, presentation not to exceed 5 minutes. Motion passes. Barry will do the 1^st Tradition at next District Monthly Meeting (Dec.).
District Website Commitment open.

Good and Welfare: no birthdays

The meeting adjourned at 7:35 with the responsibility declaration.

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

Submitted and prepared by Winter

Thank you for allowing me to be of service.