District 9 Minutes
6 Dec 2009
ATTENDANCE: DCM – Carrie C.; Treasurer – Cathy G.; Grapevine – Kate S; Literature – Davi M..; PI – Park M.; Treatment – Brenda M.; Secretary – Mary Ann P.; Corrections – Colleen M.
Groups Present: Central - Pat S.; Bettendorf - Gary J.; Courage to Change – Clark J.; Northwest – Wes J. Sisters in Sobriety - Cheryl F. Blandine Group - Donna G.;
Secretary’s minutes were approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Beginning balance - $906.89; Total Income - $348.41; Total Expenses - $223.00; Operating Balance - $1032.30
DCM: Greetings. I am happy to report the meeting seems to gave gone smoothly in my
absence last month. Thank you to Pat and Park for making sure all of my information arrived at the district meeting safely. We have a new Corrections Chair, Colleen M. I am pleased to introduce her to the District Committee and hope we can all offer to assist her in any way possible as her committee has historically been a busy committee. I am thrilled to see there is a new group starting in the area, more specifically Sisters in Sobriety. I will be trying to attend one of their meetings in the near future. I am still interested in visiting group’s business meetings and will be inquiring about the date and time of the meetings again this month. A chair person for the District Mini Event has been chosen and accepted the position, Davi M. She will do a great job and I am very excited about the new direction of the Mini Event. It is my understanding we will be playing Pictionary and the various groups from District 9 will make up the teams for this event. I will be in contact with Terry C. regarding our assistance for the Regional event that is to take place in Dubuque in March of 2010. Anyone who wants to volunteer to assist District 11 in planning for this event please see me after today’s meeting. I am excited to close out our first year as a committee and am happy with the work all the members of the committee have put forth. I am thankful to each of you for your service work this past year. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and I will see everyone next year.
Alt DCM: The number of hits on our website, aaquadcities.com, for the month of November were 424.
Literature: My committee has chosen to read Pass It On by Bill W. over the holiday break and look forward to helping with the upcoming Mini-Event.
Grapevine:
I
attended the fall
conference at the following issues were discussed:
Grapevine strives to be self-supporting, but half of the time the
General Service Board has had to make up for the loss of money. There
are currently around 87,000 subscriptions and 100,000 copies and in
circulation each month. There are approximately 1.8 million members of
Alcoholics Anonymous. Members of AA need to take a look at whether or
not they want to keep producing the Grapevine. If our “Meeting in
Print” does not begin to garner a heavy following it may end up
being
something of the past. The Grey pages are still a controversial
issue. The
real issue is
singleness of purpose. At this point nothing has been changed because
just as passionate as Area 24 is about having the pages removed, there
are areas just as passionate about keeping them in. There is a
new book coming
out this fall titled, “A Rabbit Walks into a Bar”. It will
be a collection of
cartoons and jokes that have
appeared in past issues of the Grapevine. There is also an entire
chapter
devoted specifically to Victor E.
Treatment: I have been informed by our Area Treatment Chair that the new Hope DVD has been approved and released. I have ordered the new DVD for our treatment centers. Our committee met on November 1st and discussed who will be overseeing the treatment meetings and Bridging the Gap presentations at our treatment facilities. All are covered except for Tuesday nite speaker meeting at Country Oaks. Anyone interested in joining our committee is welcome.
PI: I am setting up our display for an event at Kaplan on the 10th, 10:-12:00. I am not staffing the booth.
I have completed the “poster”.
CPC:
Corrections:.
2010 Fall Conference Report: Committee met today and continues to move forward. The Saturday night speaker is confirmed and discussion on Sunday morning speaker was held. We are considering a local speaker. As the Area 24 Fall Conference has changed the guidelines from DJ to Entertainment, we will be discussing that change next month. Our coffee chair has stepped down, so if you know of someone interested in this position, please ask them to attend our next meeting at 2pm at Central Discussion on December 6th.
Sisters in Sobriety: New Group started August 1st, 2009. 3109 Harrison St. Davenport, IA at the Metropolitan Community Church. It is a Closed Women Big Book Study Saturday morning at 10am. Doors open at 9:30am for the meeting before the meeting, and the meeting after the meeting is held at Mary Sue's Cafe. Attendance has consistently been around a dozen. With as many women as 22 and as few as 4. We have a core group of 6.
Blandine Group: Saturday 10am closed and 5pm open meetings need support. The Christmas Potluck is Sunday December 13th at 12:00pm immediately following the 11am meeting.
Dewitt Group: Meetings are going well. Just a reminder that meetings are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8pm and Saturdays at 10am.
Bettendorf Group: Meetings are being well attended at the Bettendorf Group. Bettendorf Group had their annual elections in November; most positions become effective in January. The Bettendorf Group will be open all day on Christmas Day and New Years Day from 8am to 9pm. Please feel free to stop by and join in on the fellowship.
Old Business: Colleen M. was voted in as the new Corrections Chair.
Davi M. was voted in as the District Mini-Event Chair. The District Mini-Event will be held on February 6th at the Bettendorf Community Center from 5pm to 8pm. We will be having Pictionary teams from Home Groups in District 9.
New Business:
Brenda M . motioned to adjourn. Davi M. seconded.
Next meeting will be held at Central Discussion on January 3rd at 3:30 pm. All are welcomed and encouraged to attend.