District Minutes

3 August 2008

 

ATTENDANCE:  DCM - Sheryl F.;  Treasurer – Georgette W.; Archives – Mary Ann P.; Corrections – Johnny G.; CPC – Jammie B.;  Grapevine – Brenda M.; Literature – Mary Beth P.; PI – JoAnn N.; Secretary – Pat J.  Groups Present :  Bettendorf – Gary J.; Central Discussion – Mark C.; DeWitt – Dennis B.; Foxhall – Dianna Y.; LaNuevaVida – Joaquin E.; Northwest – Celeste N.

 

A motion was made and seconded to table all old business till next month and then go 1-1/2 hours due to our Delegate making a report to the District.    Mike Maynard spent the time going over some of the highlights of the 58th General Service Conference.  Reports turned in are as follows:

 

TREASURER’S REPORT:  Beginning balance - $1,186.38; total income - $516.00; total expenses - $610.97; operating balance - $1,091.41.

DCM:  I received an email from our Area 24 Treasurer.  I have emailed those to most of you and am also handing them out.  Please take this back to your groups.   I also received the Delegates report this past week and am passing that information to you.  I want to remind everyone that District elections are coming up at our October Meeting. So if you know anyone interested in serving please have them attend the October Meeting. I will also be attending the Area 24 Business meeting in Marshalltown on August 10, 2008

Alt DCM:  The number of hits on the web site for June 2008 were 511 and for July were 468.  Our web site is www.aaquadcities.com.  The planning for the Cluster meeting is complete.  Please plan to attend.  The Cluster meeting will be held on Sept. 13, 2008 from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm at the Bettendorf Community Center.  Hope to see you there.

Archives:  The Archives Committee will meet on August 16th to compile all group history information.  We have received information from several groups already and will be working on how to put these all together to archive them.  Please submit any archive materials to me.

Corrections:  All is going well with the Men’s meetings on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm and on Thursdays at 11:00 am.  These meetings are at the maximum attendance as the Scott County Jail allows. The ladies meetings are being held on Monday evenings at 7:00 and are also well attended.  We will soon have a revised schedule for the ladies volunteers.  The revised schedule will be a 5 week rotation and will replace the 4 week rotation.  We have additional women to cover the meetings allowing us to adjust the rotation.  More volunteers are still needed.  We are looking to add meeting times and days in the future but we still need volunteers to chair these meetings on a regular basis.  Applications for carrying the message into the Scott County Jail are available.  You can call Johnny G. at (563) 499-3371 or e-mail at johnnygrubbs@netzero.com. 

CPC:  We are meeting this month to re-design our CPC presentation board and to mail out more introduction letters to large Quad-City employers (Human Resource), local schools and several other interested parties.  We will also ensure that local schools have plenty of brochures this month kids are about to return to school.    I checked with the Quad-Cities times about their policy for running public information ads or ads for non-profit organizations.  We are able to be on the qctimes.com website under the Quad-Cites Event Calendar for free and can set it as a reoccurring event.  Their suggestion would be to list the Intergroup number there or we could list each meeting.  Someone would have to continue to enter the meetings, but the staff at the Times may be able to assist us with that.  We can obtain more information about running Public Information print ads but will need to speak with Linda Watson and possibly some other folks at the Times to learn what days and where it could run as I believe this is a case-by-case situation.

Grapevine:  Our committee met on July 18.  I shared information that I learned from attending the workshop at the 2008 Spring Conference.  Committee members presented ideas pertaining to the attraction of the Grapevine.  Suggestions are:  Ask Chairpersons of groups to take topics from the magazine for discussion at meetings; also, groups set up a donation box for members to donate old issues of the Grapevine to be passed along to newcomers and members or take one for free and also donate issues to Treatment Centers.  District donated a one year subscription to Honorable Judge Mullen at the Scott C. Courthouse.  Our next committee meeting will be held on Friday, Sept. 26 at

7:00pm.

Bettendorf: Things are going well at Bettendorf.  Our annual picnic will be held on September 7th at the large shelter by the band shell in Middle Park on 23rd St. in Bettendorf.  The festivities begin at 11:30.  Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and beverages will be provided.  Please bring a dish to share and your own table service.  The meal will be served at noon. All are welcome and urged to attend.

Marquette:  Jamey is resigning from her position as GSR of Marquette due to her new job. We will have elections next business meeting for it. Our picnic is Aug 24 at Fejuary Park starting at eleven to four. The speaker meeting is at one thirty and it is Roger and Linda A. 

Language of the Heart: Everything is going very well at the group. Attendance is up to around 10 per meeting with a good mix of new people attending. We are looking into adding a Thursday Night meeting as well as Al anon has relocated from this location to Davenport opening up the Thursday night Spot. The Group meets currently at 7 PM each Tuesday at 5th and Le Claire Rd Eldridge IA., Faith Lutheran Church. Step Meeting each week with the last Tuesday of each Month devoted to a Tradition Study before our business meeting.

 

Next meeting will be held on Sept. 7th at 3:30 at Central Discussion.