District 9 Meeting Minutes, July 13th, 2008
ATTENDANCE: DCM, Alt DCM, Treasurer, Archives, Corrections, CPC, Grapevine, Literature, PI, Treatment and Intergroup Liaison.
GROUPS PRESENT: Bettendorf, Marquette, Central Discussion, Clinton, Foxhall, Northwest, and La Nueva Vida.
TREASURE’S REPORT – Beginning Balance $1969.00, Income $80.00, Expense $862.62, Ending Balance $1786.38.
DCM – Good afternoon, after much planning and rerouting. I made it to Sioux Center via Dubuque on Friday June 13th 8 ½ hours of drive time. I arrived in Sioux Center around 5.pm. Friday evening I attended the DCM sharing session it was conducted by our past delegate Terry C. from Dubuque. This session is much like the GSR sharing session just from the District Chairpersons view. On Sat I attended the area 24 business meeting surprisingly all Districts were represented except District 5 and he did let the Secretary know of his absence. Our Delegate was not able to give his full report from New York due to the flood. He will be attending our August meeting to give his full report. I do have some highlights of his report. Karla reported the Area 24 balance is $6,952.37. Contributions are down and she says we will be in the red after this conference and seed money is distributed for the fall conference 2009. However, GSO send a letter stating that for the 1st time in a long time 45% of the overall groups in the US have contributed this last year. I do have the area 24 treasurers’ report. Under old business the motion made to form a committee to study the feasibility of forming a statewide Spanish speaking district gave the recommendation to continue to study this and provide progress reports at area committee and assembly meetings. A copy of the suggested Area 24 conference guideline revisions were handed out. Under New business a bid for the 2009 fall conference was given to Des Moines it will be held Oct 9-11, 2009. A motion was made to form a committee to look into the feasibility of having flyers put on the website. Our new Regional Trustee Ken B. attended our business and so did the South Dakota Delegate.
ARCHIVES –The Archives Committee met on June 28th. We archived all District 9 Minutes until present. We agreed to gather group histories from all groups in District 9 for our upcoming project. Every committee member has been assigned ¾ groups to gather histories from. We will be meeting again in August to compile information. I attended the Spring Conference on June 13, 14, and 15 in Sioux Center, IA. The Archives District Chair, Jan P. had several valuable finds from around the state of Iowa. On display were pictures from Stepping Stones of Bill and Lois Wilson, flyers from early Iowa AA events, and a handout including the names and sobriety dates of the first 100 men and women of Alcoholics Anonymous. She passed out the guidelines for collecting group histories, which our Archives Committee will use when collecting District 9 group histories. Please submit any materials for Archives to me
GRAPEVINE – I attended the Area 24 Spring Conference in June. On Saturday I attended the grapevine workshop and met area chair, Sarah Hynnek. She presented information that will be useful in the attraction of the grapevine magazine. I will take this back to my committee meeting which will be held on July 18. I am truly grateful to have experienced this event. I ordered and received complimentary materials for Grapevine reps, which will assist them in the ordering of the grapevine. Also you can order online at www.aagrpevine.org.
TREATMENT – All is going well with treatment. Attended the area treatment meeting in Sioux Center June 13th. District 9 treatment participation is very well compared to other Districts in our Area how ever can always use more. Anyone interested in helping with bridging the gap or chairing meetings please contact Leo.
PI – 25 Packets were given out at the Pride Fest. I attended the Area 24 conference. The ad in the Go Section has expired. I will be putting on new business to run ad through December.
Intergroup Liaison – They have voted to put the district meeting times and addresses in the meeting schedule. Rachel Wilson will be filling in for telephone chairperson.
Bettendorf Group – I did not attend the Spring conference due to the flood. All meetings at Bettendorf are now non-smoking as of July 1st. Things are going well.
FOXHALL – At our business meeting on June 24 we combined some positions. Literature and Grapevine are one and CPC and PI are one. At our next business meeting in October we will discuss changing the name of our group out of respect for the Foxhall name. I attended the Spring conference in Sioux Center.
Northwest Group – Hello fellow alcoholics. Group doing well. We are going to have a picnic date to be decided. We have gotten pamphlet holders and some pamphlets. Attended Spring conference. I am working evenings but am continuing on as GSR. My Alt. GSR or another will give my reports from District or Area, if job doesn’t go to days. Looking forward to Delegates report and cluster meeting.
OLD BUSINESS – None
NEW BUSINESS – District Inventory and ad in Go Section to run through December
Cluster Meeting will be September 13th from 1-? At the Bettendorf community center given by Districts 9, 11 & 13. The topic will be “The Concepts”