District 9 Minutes

4 December 2011

ATTENDANCE- DCM-Pat J.; Atl. DCM-Mary Ann P.; Treasurer-Park P.; Corrections-Terri B.; Grapevine-Cathy G.; Literature-Tim G.; PI-Lee C.; Treatment- Donna S.; Big Book- Jim E.; Blandine- Ken A.; Central-Laura M.; Courage to Change-Clark J.; Dewitt- Phyllis.; Marquette- Mary Beth P.; North Scott-Neill B.; Northwest-Joshua M.; Clinton 2^nd Chance-Curt B.

Secretary’s minutes were approved.

Treasurer’s Report-Beginning Balance-$5966.40;Total Income-$625.00;Total Expenses: $296.72;Operating Balance-$6294.68;Ending Balance-$6894.68.

DCM- Greetings everyone.  I mailed a "thinking of you" card to Dave from Clinton and hope he can join us again soon.  I have forwarded, by email to you, some of the dates for next year.  January 21st in Marshalltown will be the first date where everyone attends if possible.  It will be about "service" with more information to come as we get closer to that date I'm sure.  The 22nd is for the Area Committee which includes Mary Ann and myself although anyone is welcome to attend.  Just a reminder that we will have our January meeting on the 8th rather than the 1st as we voted on last month.  We will also submit our budgets for 2012 in our January meeting so please review what you spent last year and what your committee's projects are for 2012.  Our Area 24 Delegate, Maureen, has moved to Rock Island so be sure to welcome her if you see her at a meeting.  Intergroup will be moving the 10th so if anyone can help out, just show up. I have a number of an AA member who would like to be on a committee next year so if any Chairs would like some more names for your committees, please see me after the meeting today.  Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Alt DCM- There were 440 hits on the website for the month of November. I received an email from the Intergroup that the domain registration has already been paid for the website. The web hosting will be billed in late December or early January. As soon as Intergroup receives an invoice they will pay it too and then forward the invoice to District 9 for reimbursement.

Literature-Nothing new to report this month.

Grapevine- Hi Nova,  I don't have a Report this month.

Treatment- We have started taking meetings into The Heritage High Rise downtown Davenport.  The first meeting was held on November 23rd from 9am – 10am.  Attendance was 4 and this meeting will continue every other Wednesday at the same time as needed.  I haven’t heard back from Manor Care and plan to contact Ridgecrest Retirement Center. All other services are going well and many successful bridging the gap contacts are being made.

PI-Thank you for your support from the last 9 months as I continued to learn the process of service work, I had a lot of fun and participating in the public information position has a sparked a new interest in service work for me. Here is an overview of what has been accomplished in the year 20111 for public information.              At our very first meeting we picked areas we thought we could get involved with, then as a group we voted on three meetings for the year 2011, Grapevines at laundry mats, Big books in the libraries, and public service announcements on our tv stations.    Grapevines for laundry mats- over the course of several months we made phone calls to laundry mats in our district, we picked them out of the local telephone directory. Unfortunately, when placing calls, management was either unavailable or when we left messages, there was never a return phone call. We were unable to place any grapevines in any local laundry mats. In this project we had a dual purpose to spread the word and help grapevine. After a vote we moved on. Big books in public libraries.  There were several phone calls and Emails to the public libraries. Several libraries were without big books and so we ordered them including the book mobile. We ordered 8 big books, 2 for Fairmount, 2 for main, 2 for book mobile, 2 for eastern. Some libraries were in need of only one, so we gave them an extra to have on hand because it was pointed out to me that the big book is the most common book stolen from libraries. Public service announcements. Several phone calls were made to local TV stations, KLJB fox 18, KWQC channel 6, and WQAD channel 8 which are affiliated with fox 18. Spoke with Sherry Weise of KLJB and we agreed to order a psa for that station, unfortunately we could not pick the time to air. Spoke with Sue Kettleson of KWQC channel 6 and we ordered public service announcements for them also.  Several phone calls to WQAD were placed and several messages were left unfortunately no one returned my phone calls. I called them for several weeks and at one point I was transferred 5 times.  Public service announcements were ordered from New York and are on their way to the TV stations several weeks ago.  Thank you for allowing me to participate. Hopefully next year will be as fun!!! I have wonderful people on my committee who have helped me in the learning process. Some are just as new as I am at this and it is fun to learn together. Without all of you none of this would have been made possible.

Donna S-I report today on the District Mini Event. Event will be held at the Bettendorf Community Center on Saturday February 18th from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm.  More details in January. 

Dewitt- All bulletins and recent information have been posted by the GSR.  Our pink can donations have been sent in.  The group's regular business meeting will be held Dec. 29th following our meeting.  Our group has donated more Grapevines recently for distribution as needed.

North Scott- North Scott Group Anniversary Meeting:  3 Feb 2012 at Park View Lutheran Church, 16 Grove Rd.  Doors open at 5:30; Food at 6:00 pm; Speaker at 7:00 pm.  Meat and drinks furnished.  Request that attendees bring a dish to share.

Marquette- Marquette will have their annual midnight meeting on xmas eve.  The doors will open at 11:00.  It is an open candlelight meeting.  Food, fun and fellowship.  All is well.

Bettendorf- Our last monthly business meeting consisted of our annual elections. All positions were filled and they will start in January. I will be connecting the newly elected chairpersons with the appropriate district chairs.

Blandine- Blandine's Thanksgiving potluck was very well attended.  Blandines's Christmas potluck will be on Sunday December 18th @ noon following the 11am open meeting.  Meeting attendance has increased.

Courage to Change- All is well. Attendance is steady. Coffee is hot and cookies are delicious.

New Business-  Donna S., Treatment Chair, had a request from Country Oaks for District to purchase some big books for their Clients.  There was some discussion and questions for Donna to take back to Country Oaks.  This will be on the agenda for next month.