District 8 Business Meeting
Next Meeting:
Mon June 19, 2023 @ 7pm Hybrid

Opening/Mission Statement 

Read by Chair  

Declaration of Unity  **Read by ALL 

This we owe to AA’s future; to place our common welfare first; to keep our fellowship united. For on AA unity depends our lives, and the lives of those to come.

Introductions

State your Name, Disease and Group Affiliation and Role in the District.  Zoom Please Change your name to include Position and Group 

New GSR's and Interested AA's be sure to provide your Name  email and phone in the Chat to be added to the Email Lists.  GSR Packets Click to get your GSR Packet PDF 

Anniversaries

Any AA Birthdays since we last met or you attended. 

GSR Role  

GSR Pamphlet   Volunteer:

When you’re a general service representative (G.S.R.) : Because you’ve made a special point of studying the information listed below, you can help when your group faces a problem involving one of the Traditions. You don’t have to know all the answers — no one member possibly could — but you learn where to look for good suggestions, drawn from broad A.A. experience.

Click here for your current issue of Box 4-5-9

Tradition Reading - Long Form ~  Click for Illustrated Version

Volunteer: 

Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual. An A.A. group, as such, should never go into business. Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups. Hence such facilities ought not to use the A.A. name. Their management should be the sole responsibility of those people who financially support them. For clubs, A.A. managers are usually preferred. But hospitals, as well as other places of recuperation, ought to be well outside A.A.—and medically supervised. While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied. An A.A. group can bind itself to no one. 

Concept Reading - Click for Illustrated Version

Volunteer: 

On behalf of A.A. as a whole, our General Service Conference has the principal responsibility for the maintenance of our world services, and it traditionally has the final decision respecting large matters of general policy and finance. But the Conference also recognizes that the chief initiative and the active responsibility in most of these matters should be exercised primarily by the Trustee members of the Conference when they act among themselves as the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous.

GSR Reports

What's going on with your groups?
Report Back on the Groups you might have visited this month?

Monthly Reports ~ with motions to accept and vote

• Secretary Report -  Jimmy P. / Jeff B.

• DCM Report - Paul S                                                         DCM Change Form

• Treasurer -  Paul T                 Group Contributions Form

OLD Business

1. Open Positions (See above)

• NERF (New England Regional Forum) - June 2-4, Burlington MA

11 years before NERF returns to Massachusetts

• Hosting 2024 assembly

• Fall Fellowship Event

Monthly Reminders - Updates

1. Group Conscience meetings facilitator - contact Mary Jane, Service Seminar Chair

• serviceseminar@aaemass.org

2. Road Show - contact Kevin G

• altchair@aaemass.org

Tabled Business

1. Goals

   • AREA Assembly §  Commitment

   • Building Group Participation in Area Activities

   • Brain Storming - Carrying the Message

   • (New goals???)

Whats on your Mind