District 9 Minutes
1 May 2011
ATTENDANCE: DCM - Pat J. Alt. DCM - Mary Ann P.; Treasurer: Park P.Secratary: Nova T.;Literature – Tim G.; PI – Lee C.; Archives - Mike .; Treatment - Donna .; CPC - Davi M.; Corrections - Elle H.; Grapevine - Cathy G.; Intergroup Liason - Kevin K.
Groups Present: Courage to Change – Clark J.; Blandine Group - Ken A.;Bettendorf - Erica S.; Big Book Study - Jim E.; Northwest - Chad J.;Clinton - Troy S.; West End - Laura M.; Dewitt -
Secretary’s minutes were approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Beginning Balance - $6,689.33; Total Income - $45.00; Total Expenses - $165.87; Operating Balance - $6568.46; Ending Balance - $7,168.46
DCM: Greetings Everyone - Sheryl F., our Alt. Delegate, has asked that I co-chair a committee to help with the Forum that will be held in Davenport Sep 9th - 11th. GSO has asked that we help with registration, greeters, drivers (to pick up NY attendees - deliver to the Clarion Hotel & back on Sunday) and to host a hospitality room if District wants to do that. I have already contacted a few people to head up the different committees but we will need several volunteers to help out as well. Sheryl and I talked about having a sign up sheet at Waterloo next weekend as this Forum is being held in Area 24 this time. I have also brought some flyers that I received in the mail so please be sure that each GSR gets a copy to take back to their Group. There is also a registration sheet on GSOs website. Although there is no costs to attend, it is helpful for us to sign up so they can plan seating accordingly. I also received a post card from Maureen while she was in New York for the GSC. You'll be getting her report in Waterloo next weekend. Also, she will be attending our July District meeting giving her report as well. Please invite people from your Groups if they would like to attend and hear what went on at the Conference. We will be submitting our reports to Nova and bypass our regular District meeting to hear what Maureen has to share and answer any questions as well. I want to remind all the Chairs that you should have your written report turned in (or emailed) to Nova by our District meeting. That gives her a week to put it all together and prepare for the Intergroup newsletter. I will be unable to attend the Spring Conference next weekend due to a family obligation so Mary Ann will represent us there. I look forward to hearing back from everyone on your workshops, etc. I'm sure it will be a good experience for you all. As I have to prepare a report for Mary Ann, please be sure to also send me a copy of your report that you turn into Nova today to help me prepare that.
Alt DCM: I sent the registrations for the Spring Conference. There were 429 hits on the website for the month of May.
Grapevine: There has not been a lot of activity since last month to report. When I attend the Spring Conference I will be finding out what other districts experience has been in regards to providing grapvines subscriptions to treatment facilities. I have a copy of the Area 24 Newsletter which contains a report from Roger R. our Area 24 Grapevine representative on his current visit to the 61st General Service Conference in New York.
Archives:Our filing cabinet has been donated and is in place so we can start to organize all of the archived records that we have. I have talked to John B. and Roger W. to arrange a time to meet with them and collect information about Central Discussion. I have also talked to Ron F. from Marquette about recording individual members and using his recorder for my discussion with John and Roger. My plan for the upcoming week is to talk to the New York office about getting information from local groups that they already have.
Treatment: The treatment committee met this morning and we discussed:
Update on all of the current service work being done at each facility we serve. Updates indicate that all is well and attendance from Members Carrying the Message into each facility is good for the most part.
The person who was coordinating the Tuesday Night Country Oaks Speaker Meeting has had to step down and we are in need of a new meeting coordinator for this meeting.We are also in need of people that can serve for BTG presentations for Cads Outpatient Facility every 5th Wednesday @ 8:50am. With hopes of taking the first presentation on June 22nd, 2011. I have had 3 responses of people that said they can serve on this rotation and time and 2 other responses from people that said they are willing to be an alternate.
Salvation Army meeting chairperson has had some unforeseen circumstances and has not been able to chair this meeting for the last couple of weeks and won’t be able to for a few more. However, we found a member to fill in for him until he can chair again. We discussed other ideas and one being the Locust Street Cads – Youth Facility. I was unaware of this facility and have just become aware of this location while working with our Literature Chair Tim G. and Jesse from CADS mentioned this location to me. We discussed a couple of paragraphs from the Treatment Workbook which discusses well-meaning A.A.’s “prescribing” to other A.A.’s. We are cautioned not to assume that role, we are not doctors is an extremely important guideline. I made available 2 pamphlets that address this guideline…”The A.A. Member- Medications and Other Drugs” and “Problems other than Alcohol” I am in receipt of 3 business cards from treatment facilities in Clinton Iowa from Jeff the GSR in Clinton and I will be checking into them, more next month. Past treatment chair, Sheryl F. and I traveled to Iowa City (district 13) last month and visited with their new Treatment Chair to share our experience in Bridging the Gap Presentations. The Abbey has agreed to let 3 AA members from District 13 to sit in on their presentation on June 6th to observe. I will be attending the Spring Conference in Waterloo Iowa next weekend
Literature: Contacted GSO Literature in regards to literature and display racks for treatment facilities. The GSO literature stated “when it comes to displaying A.A. literature there are no limitations or restrictions to the ‘creativity’ of service committees. Guidance may come from the group conscience of the committee”. They had no standard recommendations for literature so my recommendations are below.
Literature Price
Meeting Schedules ???
(F-4) “Where Do I Go From Here?” No Charge
(P-1) This Is A.A. .15 each
(P-13) Do You Think You’re Different? .30 each
OfficeMax
4-Tier Literature Holder
Your
Price: $10.99 Item
#: 20334675
Manufacturer #: OM9838
Courage to Change: Courage to Change’s 17th Anniversary is this Tuesday the 7th of June. Doors open at 6:00. Dinner is severed at 6:30. Open speaker meeting starts at 7:30. Speaker is Mark N. from Marshalltown. All are welcome to attend. Hope to see you there.
Big Book Study: Things continue on pleasantly however we do have a change coming. The church where we meet, Community Joy will be closing it's doors. So we will be relocating to a new location by the end of July at the latest. We will be letting everyone know the place as soon as we secure the new location. We of course are sad to see a church close its doors, but we will carry on our meeting, and are grateful for the years that the Community of Joy has allowed us to hold our meetings at there facility.
Old Business:
New Business: Pat J. makes motion to post West Regional Forum flyer to Newsletter for the months of July and August.
Motion passed to support Elle in a District 9 Corrections workshop this fall.
Next District meeting will be held at Central Discussion on July 10th at 3:30pm. All are welcomed and encouraged to attend.