Minutes of District 10 Intergroup
(ShiaCoAA) Meeting
Christ Episcopal Church Owosso, Mi
June 5, 2006
Sue T, Chair.
thanked the Monday 12 & 12 Gp. for hosting the meeting and opened with a
moment of silence and the Serenity Prayer.
The group
acknowledged and welcomed the presence of Jesse P., Delegate, Panel 55, Area
32, Central Michigan. Jesse is our delegate from Central Michigan Intra-area to
the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous and has just recently
returned from his second (and last) General Service Conference held in New York
City. The District would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Jesse for
his prodigious service and sacrifice on behalf of the Fellowship of Alcoholics
Anonymous. Well done Jesse and thank you!
Ray H., Treas. gave
the Treasurers Report:
General Fund
Starting balance: $572.31
Receivable: $90.00
Payable: $203.27
Current balance: $459.04
PI/CPC Fund*
Starting balance: $346.00
Receivable: $0.00
Payable: $0.00
Current balance: $346.00
*The PI/CPC Fund is
held separate from the General Fund and is earmarked specifically for the use
of Public Information and Cooperation with the Professional Community work in
the District.
Ray stated that with the upcoming cost
for the new directories (See ‘Discussion’ below) and the expense of the
District picnic as well as our ongoing regular payments that the General Fund
would be in a drastically depleted state unless we received more contributions
from the groups in the District.
Bill D., Webmaster for District 10
presented the body with a bill for $134.98 for the cost of transferring our
website hoster and domain registrar and stated he would be willing to defray
reimbursement pending the District’s financial state.
Website Report:
Bill D., Webmaster reported that our
new internet address (www.shiacoaa.org) was fully functional and we could begin
publishing address in our directories and news blurbs. Our previous address
(www.district10area32.org) will continue to link visitors to our site and we
have built an opening page stating our address change and urging visitors to
begin using our new address now, and that opening page stating our address
change will expire in mid-September. We will continue to own our previous domain
name until April, 2008 and anyone that uses that to access our site will still
be linked to us.
Our site was “down” for several days
during the transition due to the webmaster’s ignorance of the requirements for
transferring domain names ending with the suffix .org.
Bill is going to make every effort
to contact all AA websites that are known to link to us and inform them about
our name change so that they may begin referring to our new name.
PI/CPC Committee
Report:
Sue T., Chair reported that the
PI/CPC Committee hasn’t met due to the lack of people interested in doing this
important work or perhaps due to lack of information to the Fellowship in the
District as to the existence of a PI/CPC Committee in our District. (See
‘Discussion’ below.)
Secretary Report:
Bill D., Secretary presented the
body with some fliers announcing the next State Conference he received from
Area 33. (See ‘Discussion’ below.) Bill
announced he will have an inventory list of mailings and materials available
for use within the District at the next District meeting.
Old Business:
Our new updated District directories
will be available in a few weeks.
We have finalized the planning for
the District picnic to be held Sunday June 25 at Kerby Corners Park and after a
small mix-up regarding the day and date on some fliers and notifications we are
sure folks in the District are aware of the exact date and time of the picnic.
Chuck C., Chair CMIA PI/CPC
Committee reported to the District that the proposed Area 32 Workshop for Public
Information and Cooperation with the Professional Community is scheduled for
September.
New Business:
No new business unless some arise from the item ‘Discussion’
below.
Discussion:
The subject of recovering the cost
for District directories came up. It was stated that some districts make their
directories available to the groups in their district at the cost of the
directories. District 10’s policy is to make the directories available to the
groups without charge but with the statement that the directories were paid for
from group contributions to District 10 Intergroup. It was noted that the
groups in the District have almost unanimously made a contribution to help
offset the cost for the directories.
The PI/CPC Committee would urge
anyone in the Fellowship within the District that would be interested in
working with the Committee to please contact us and attend our meetings. The
Committee would like to meet one day a month on a regular basis but we need the
cooperation and interest of the Fellowship to see that this work gets carried
out. If someone is interested they may contact Sue T at (edited) or attend our District meetings.
Jesse P. noticed after reviewing the
flier for the upcoming 26th East Central Regional Conference &
54th Michigan State Conference that their wasn’t a check-off box for
groups wishing to make a contribution to help offset the cost of coffee for the
conference and told the body that was a major cost to the conference as the
host site makes purchase of their coffee for attendees mandatory. Jesse also
mentioned that he would be looking for volunteers to assist him in the meetings
he will be chairing. You may contact Jesse at (edited) or by e-mail at (edited)
if you would like to volunteer.
Next District
Meeting:
We are looking for a group to host
the next District meeting to be held Tue. Aug 1st. Roger C. said he
would contact the Ovid group and expected that they would agree to host. But if
your group would like to host on Aug 1st please get in touch.
District Contact
Information:
Hotline:
(989) 723-5711
Or write:
District 10 Intergroup
5300 S New Lothrop Rd
Durand, Mi 48429-1825