District 30 Meeting Minutes
District 30 Meeting Minutes 734 Railroad St. Janesville, WI 53548 Meeting called to order at 6:30 pm on July 11, 2014 Meeting opened with Serenity Prayer. (Kathy)Read 7th Concept and (Kathy) 7th Tradition
GSR Reports: Gary
Early Risers -
Clair
Sisters in Service
Doing well. Meets 365 days a year and attendance is stable. Financially doing fine. 12-20 in attendance. Established group. Doing well.
Sunday Morning Miracle
Nobody in attendance
Lenard
Unity Group
Bill J
Mid Morning
Jim L.
Steps to Success
Good as always. Group disbanded so it’s now just an AA meeting. Bill and Jo-ann keep track of $ and Bill is keeping the doors open. Turned in a list of volunteers of volunteers from the 12x12 for the district miniconference. Going well, new people every week. 35-45 in attendance.
Kathy Home group – Dan McK./Peter Men in Recovery
Speaker on July 31st is Jessica C. Jim L. reported the group is doing well and growing.
Randy
Sunday Discussion
Mark
Good Fellowship
Doing good, 30-35 people attending. Everything going well. Funds back up and were able to make donations to AA entities. Has a large collection of AA literature available for sale at WAAC. Ladies would like more input on their Sunday night mtg.
Saturday Night Live
Nobody in attendance
Live At Five
absent
12&12 Grapevine
Nobody in attendance Meeting going well. 22-27 in attendance. Will have home group meeting tonight and will distribute excess funds to everyone everywhere!!!
Ann m.
Joel B.
Life on Life’s Terms
Brian
Beginners Group
absent
New voices meeting
Nobody in attendance
Committee Reports: Ken G.
Hotline
Randy
Archives
Lori
Corrections Women
Bill
Corrections Men
absent Still going through everything. The 12x12 is going to have an archives speaker on how the 12x12 got started. Randy is finding what we have in the archives about the 12x12. Was provided some contacts for people who’ve been involved in archives in the past who will have some good ideas. Lori (absent) is aware that the women have missed the past couple Wed nights Kathy reported. She did have people scheduled to attend and lead. Heard that women aren’t consistently showing up to lead the women’s AA meeting. Bill is the only guy currently chairing the men’s AA meeting at the Rock County Jail. Requested the softcover 12x12 books as the inmates want to work the steps. 12 guys currently attending the meeting and more threatening to start showing up too. Bill wants to get the list corrected of people who are willing to chair the corrections AA meetings. Will meet the new commander in charge of getting people cleared to chair meetings. Remember to have a Rainbow can available at your meeting to collect corrections literature funds/donations. Rainbow can funds are used within the district first and overflow funds are sent to Area 75. Bill is trying to convince the jail to order a Grapevine subscription. Old grapevine donations will be put to good use.
Ray
Website
absent
Dena
PI/CPC
Marc B.
M.A.I.C.O.
absent Groups have stepped up with donations and MAICO funds are back even with the pace of last year. Many individual donations helped greatly too! MAICO is searching for a new (cheaper) call center to man the hotline during off hours. Was able to get credit card processing costs cut in half. The picnic planning is going well and the only thing needed yet is massive attendance at the Aug 2nd picnic at Traxler Park in Janesville from 10am till 5pm with lunch at 1pm and speakers starting at 2pm. We’ve got a bar-b-que trailer
too! October 1st will be a literature price increase from GSO, so get your orders in soon as we believe the increase will be significant as GSO donations aren’t keeping up with expenses so literature sales have to pick up the slack. Some groups have committed to sending a certain $ to MAICO each month with helps them to budget better. Going very well. Lots of positive feedback from the counselors. Plenty of good speakers and getting a few new people signed up every month. A few groups are sending people up on the first and last Wed of the month. Contact Gary L if you’re interested in speaking!
Gary L.
Treatment
Joe S.
Literature/Grapevine No report. Grapevine is publishing a new book. Special Needs
Position unfilled
Old Business: o Mini-Conference (Sue Chair) o We are having Fall Mini-Conference o Committee of 8-10 people o October 25th o (est) 8am-11pm o May change the name to roundup and not mini-conference o Having it at salvation army o Theme is MOVING FOREWARD o Planning meetings are coming o Will have a save the date flyer in the next two weeks o IF YOUR GROUP WANTS TO DONATE MONEY PLEASE EMAIL: [email protected] Motion to send $100.00 to Mini conference (joel)/Second (Randy) o Motion passed by majority JOEL WILL PRINT OUT GUIDELINES FOR SERVICE WORK
New Business o JOEL WILL PRINT OUT GUIDELINES FOR SERVICE WORK – cause he forgot to last month Sorry!!! o Sue S mini-conference update. DATE CHANGE!!! Salvation Army double booked themselves so it’s now NOVEMBER 1ST. Planning is going great! Next planning meeting is Sunday July 13th at Salvation Army at Noon. Still looking for more monetary donations to make this Fall Recovery Round Up a resounding success! Make check out to Fall Recovery Round Up and it can be given to Sue S or sent to the Dist 30 PO Box listed on the meeting schedules. o Motion made and passed to purchase a case of softcover small 12 Steps and 12 Tradition books for collections. Joe S. will order. $20 Rainbow can donation will help pay for this. DCM report – Box 459 is now available electronically. $1 in 1945 has the buying power of 8 cents today. Consider tossing in more than $1 into your meeting basket. Attended miniconference planning meeting. Motion to adjourn at 7:21p.m. Meeting closed with the responsibility statement
Next Meeting Friday, August 1st
GSR Reports: Gary
Early Risers -
Clair
Sisters in Service
Doing well. Meets 365 days a year and attendance is stable. Financially doing fine. 12-20 in attendance. Established group. Doing well.
Sunday Morning Miracle
Nobody in attendance
Lenard
Unity Group
Bill J
Mid Morning
Jim L.
Steps to Success
Good as always. Group disbanded so it’s now just an AA meeting. Bill and Jo-ann keep track of $ and Bill is keeping the doors open. Turned in a list of volunteers of volunteers from the 12x12 for the district miniconference. Going well, new people every week. 35-45 in attendance.
Kathy Home group – Dan McK./Peter Men in Recovery
Speaker on July 31st is Jessica C. Jim L. reported the group is doing well and growing.
Randy
Sunday Discussion
Mark
Good Fellowship
Doing good, 30-35 people attending. Everything going well. Funds back up and were able to make donations to AA entities. Has a large collection of AA literature available for sale at WAAC. Ladies would like more input on their Sunday night mtg.
Saturday Night Live
Nobody in attendance
Live At Five
absent
12&12 Grapevine
Nobody in attendance Meeting going well. 22-27 in attendance. Will have home group meeting tonight and will distribute excess funds to everyone everywhere!!!
Ann m.
Joel B.
Life on Life’s Terms
Brian
Beginners Group
absent
New voices meeting
Nobody in attendance
Committee Reports: Ken G.
Hotline
Randy
Archives
Lori
Corrections Women
Bill
Corrections Men
absent Still going through everything. The 12x12 is going to have an archives speaker on how the 12x12 got started. Randy is finding what we have in the archives about the 12x12. Was provided some contacts for people who’ve been involved in archives in the past who will have some good ideas. Lori (absent) is aware that the women have missed the past couple Wed nights Kathy reported. She did have people scheduled to attend and lead. Heard that women aren’t consistently showing up to lead the women’s AA meeting. Bill is the only guy currently chairing the men’s AA meeting at the Rock County Jail. Requested the softcover 12x12 books as the inmates want to work the steps. 12 guys currently attending the meeting and more threatening to start showing up too. Bill wants to get the list corrected of people who are willing to chair the corrections AA meetings. Will meet the new commander in charge of getting people cleared to chair meetings. Remember to have a Rainbow can available at your meeting to collect corrections literature funds/donations. Rainbow can funds are used within the district first and overflow funds are sent to Area 75. Bill is trying to convince the jail to order a Grapevine subscription. Old grapevine donations will be put to good use.
Ray
Website
absent
Dena
PI/CPC
Marc B.
M.A.I.C.O.
absent Groups have stepped up with donations and MAICO funds are back even with the pace of last year. Many individual donations helped greatly too! MAICO is searching for a new (cheaper) call center to man the hotline during off hours. Was able to get credit card processing costs cut in half. The picnic planning is going well and the only thing needed yet is massive attendance at the Aug 2nd picnic at Traxler Park in Janesville from 10am till 5pm with lunch at 1pm and speakers starting at 2pm. We’ve got a bar-b-que trailer
too! October 1st will be a literature price increase from GSO, so get your orders in soon as we believe the increase will be significant as GSO donations aren’t keeping up with expenses so literature sales have to pick up the slack. Some groups have committed to sending a certain $ to MAICO each month with helps them to budget better. Going very well. Lots of positive feedback from the counselors. Plenty of good speakers and getting a few new people signed up every month. A few groups are sending people up on the first and last Wed of the month. Contact Gary L if you’re interested in speaking!
Gary L.
Treatment
Joe S.
Literature/Grapevine No report. Grapevine is publishing a new book. Special Needs
Position unfilled
Old Business: o Mini-Conference (Sue Chair) o We are having Fall Mini-Conference o Committee of 8-10 people o October 25th o (est) 8am-11pm o May change the name to roundup and not mini-conference o Having it at salvation army o Theme is MOVING FOREWARD o Planning meetings are coming o Will have a save the date flyer in the next two weeks o IF YOUR GROUP WANTS TO DONATE MONEY PLEASE EMAIL: [email protected] Motion to send $100.00 to Mini conference (joel)/Second (Randy) o Motion passed by majority JOEL WILL PRINT OUT GUIDELINES FOR SERVICE WORK
New Business o JOEL WILL PRINT OUT GUIDELINES FOR SERVICE WORK – cause he forgot to last month Sorry!!! o Sue S mini-conference update. DATE CHANGE!!! Salvation Army double booked themselves so it’s now NOVEMBER 1ST. Planning is going great! Next planning meeting is Sunday July 13th at Salvation Army at Noon. Still looking for more monetary donations to make this Fall Recovery Round Up a resounding success! Make check out to Fall Recovery Round Up and it can be given to Sue S or sent to the Dist 30 PO Box listed on the meeting schedules. o Motion made and passed to purchase a case of softcover small 12 Steps and 12 Tradition books for collections. Joe S. will order. $20 Rainbow can donation will help pay for this. DCM report – Box 459 is now available electronically. $1 in 1945 has the buying power of 8 cents today. Consider tossing in more than $1 into your meeting basket. Attended miniconference planning meeting. Motion to adjourn at 7:21p.m. Meeting closed with the responsibility statement
Next Meeting Friday, August 1st
