DISTRICT 3 MINUTES
District 3, Area 35 - P.O.
Box 931 - Detroit Lakes, MN 56502
Meeting
Date: October
21, 2007
Opened
meeting with a moment of silence and the Serenity Prayer.
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Read minutes from last months meeting.
There were no corrections.
Ø Motion to accept minutes by:
Ed
Ø Motion seconded by: Melvin
Ø Motion carries.
TREASURY
REPORT:
Submitted by: David
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Current balance:
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David brought the treasury report for George.
Ø Motion to accept treasury
report by: Steve
Ø Motion seconded by: Melvin
Ø Motion carries.
D.C.M.
REPORT:
Submitted by: Tim
Hi Everyone,
The
Area 35 Fall Assembly was a blast! Friday was just plain good fellowship. At 10:am I attended the DCM sharing session,
There were many of the incoming DCM’s and alternates in attendance. I was very
pleased with the way the new attendee’s patently listened to us old farts, I
can just about imagine what they were thinking! At 1:pm we opened The Assembly and started in
with the Officer, committee chair and DCM reports. Being my last Assembly as a DCM I found myself
feeling rather emotional up at the microphone about how honored I’ve been to be
able to serve our District over the last 4 years as GSR, Treatment chair and
DCM. Thank you all! We finished the
reports on Saturday for the first time that I can remember and moved on to old
and new business.
The
anonymity protected Northern Lights will now be on the Area and district web
page. ( when ready ) Our District asked for this about a year ago.
The
joint Area 35/36 meeting search web site has been approved to continue in the
research faze. I have been attending this committee in St .Cloud if you would
like more information.
The
Area inventory will be conducted at the 08 fall assembly. I was apart of this
adhoc committee if you would like more information.
Changes to the GSO web site was approved and I
have contacted Irene and ---------
about the request to changes to the meeting search page.
The
Area 35 Assembly has voted to submit a proposal to the GSC: “It is the conscience of Area 35 Northern
Minnesota that there be a Trustees Committee assigned to the “Report and
Charter Committee” to oversee changes to the Service Manual.” (rough draft)
Area
35 also held their elections on Sunday and are as fallows:
Delegate -
Joann N.
Alt.Del.
- Dan H.
Area Chair-
Jay A.
Sec.
- Jenny A
Treasurer
- Beth E.
I have thoroughly enjoyed all the assembly’s
I’ve been to but I must admit this is one of the more enjoyable assembly’s that
I’ve had the privilege of attending. This I believe is due to a number of
things:
I have become friends with a lot of the people
in service over the last couple of years.
I was involved with some of the business
going on.
Feeling comfortable in my position as DCM
and wouldn’t you know it, its time to move on.
Some one told me the other day that the
reason they were not going to stay involved with the area was that they felt it
was the same people just rotating around, like a click I think is what he
implied. I have never felt this way and
I sure hope you don’t either! We were all new comers at one time and hopefully
we will all be new comers many times trudging this road of happy destiny!
We
don’t need to like them, we just need to love them enough to help them.
Yours in service, Tim Powers
District 3 DCM
Yours in service, Tim Powers
District 3 DCM
ACTION
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
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Public Information/Group Records Report: Submitted by: Melvin.
o
Received Public service announcements in the mail.
o
Adding a new meeting in Barnesville
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Webmaster Report: Submitted by: Ed
o
228 unique visitors, meeting search was #1 and calendar was #2
o
We are still being picked up by the search engines
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Treatment Chair Report: Submitted by: David
o
Still getting situated with position and will have report next time.
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CPC (Cooperation w/Professional Community) Report: Submitted by: Bev
o
Put together info for Dave (new CPC Chair)
o
Discussed mailing sent to 120 professionals.
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Corrections Chair Report: Submitted by: Absent
o
New jail meeting – Thursday @ 2pm (Ottertail County Jail). Also meet Monday @ 7:30 pm.
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Round Robin (RR) Chair Report: Submitted by: Ed
o
Nothing to report
o
Steve has received some info.
Ø Motion to accept action
committee reports by: Bev
Ø Motion seconded by: Ed
Ø Motion carries.
G.S.R.
REPORTS:
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Jeff – Pelican Rapids – Sunday 8am (Library) 12-20 attend topic meeting
& Thursday 7pm (Trinity Lutheran Church) 4-6 attend Big book study.
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Bev/Steve – Underwood AA – Monday 8pm,
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Dave – Elizabeth AA – community center.
2-4 attend for Joe and Charlie tapes.
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Greg – Alt. GSR – Perham Solutions.
Held elections, Patty D is our new GSR.
Monday night group spent a few weeks on group inventory and attendance
is rivaled only by Wednesday literature study group.
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Erik – Suit up and show up - Wadena –
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Cookie Monster Group - Wed. 1pm – Vet’s home. 7-10 attend topic meeting focused on AA
material, singleness of purpose, and back to basics.
OLD
BUSINESS:
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Area Paper Online – Area 35 will be adding a name protected version of
the Northern Lights (Area 35’s newspaper) to their websight: Area35.org.
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Discussed Area 35 websight.
NEW
BUSINESS:
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Reviewed handouts and flyers and discussed.
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Updated mailing list – We discussed keeping the District 3 mailing list
as accurate as possible. Voted to make
copies available to share at district meetings.
Secretary is responsible for these items.
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Open house -Voted to hold a District 3 open house during our November
meeting. Terry will bring cookies
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Area Assembly notes – discussed items from the Area meeting.
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Public Information Chair – Karen was nominated to fill this position
and was approved unanimously. Thanks Karen!
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Discussed other chair positions and asked GSR’s to ask their groups
about interest in Literature being available from district, if we had a
literature chair.
Next
Meeting Date:
November 18, 2007
Closed
meeting with the Lord’s Prayer.