District 8 Business Meeting
Next Meeting:
Mon January 16, 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 Phamplet Volunteer:

When you’re a general service representative (G.S.R.) : At district meetings, you join with G.S.R.s from other groups. Perhaps you’ve already worked with an intergroup or central office, where groups band together to help alcoholics just in your locality. But your general service district is the second link in an entirely differ­ent chain, which extends much farther. Your dis­trict is one part of a general service area. With your fellow G.S.R.s, you elect a district commit­tee member, and all the D.C.M.s make up the area committee. Now, do you just sit back and let your D.C.M. take it from there? No! G.S.R.s stay very much in action in each of the 93 areas in the U.S. and Canada.

Tradition Reading - Long Form ~ Click for Illustrated Version

Volunteer:

Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.

Concept Reading - Click for Illustrated Version

Volunteer:

Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.

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.

• DCM Report -Jay DCM Change Form

• Treasurer - Paul T/Paul S Group Contributions Form

Committee Reports

Area 30 Services - Position & Committee Descriptions and Contact Information CLICK HERE

Area Committee Page

• Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC) - (2nd Thursday 7 pm) - Kim B.

====Open Positions =====================

• Archives - ( 3rd Tues 7:30pm) Group History Form | On Line Form - OPEN

• Accessibilities - (3rd Wed 6:30 pm) - OPEN

• Chair - OPEN

• Corrections - (4th Thu 7 pm) - OPEN

• DCM & Alt DCM - OPEN

• Grapevine - (4th Sun 1 pm) aaGrapevine.org - OPEN

• Joint Treatment Facilities - (3rd Fri 7 pm) - OPEN

• Literature - (1 st Mon 7 pm) - OPEN

• Public Information (1st Thu 7 pm) - OPEN

• Registar - OPEN GSR Change Form or Word Doc | New Group Form or Word Doc | GSR Packets Click to get your GSR Packet PDF

• Web Site - (1st Wed 7:00pm ) - OPEN

Community Outreach

Braintree - Kim B | Milton - Jay | Quincy - Chris G. | Randolph - Kim B | Weymouth - Ashley

New Business

1. GSR Packets Click to get your GSR Packet PDF

2. Continue with Hybrid Meetings in 2023

3. Zoom Fees $144/Year

4. Website Fees $308/year Current Account has $219.50 Credit Montly Cost $25.50

5. Purchase AV Equipment $272.25 Plus Tax

PROJECTOR $169

MICROPHONE $28

USB EXT CABLE $8.99 X 2 - $17.98

TRIPOD $13.38

CAMERA $29

HDMI CABLE 20 FT. $14.89

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Meetings with status type “Location Temporarily Closed” will be deleted from our Online Meeting List after Labor Day to comply with a scheduled update as requested by GSO Meeting Guide App Support staff. Please review your meeting information for accuracy before and after Labor Day if possible. Report any inaccuracies to us at BCSC and corrections will be completed ASAP.

The website is updated daily.

Please notify the office on updated information about your group. Contact 617-426-9444 and ask to speak to someone on staff. visit: https://aaboston.org for more information

From Area 30 Bulletin Items in our District

Bulletin 2023

PHONE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day...1 year of sobriety Required. Phone times: 12 Noon 12/24 until 7 pm 12/25

Central Service Committee, 12 Channel St., Suite 604, Boston MA 02210
Office: 617-426-9444 Book Orders Only: 617-426-4807 Area 30 Web Site: aaboston.org and Area 30 Contact Information

COMMITTEE MEETINGS: Check for updates >> https://aaboston.org/monthly-bulletin

NOTICES:
Quincy Walk the Talk Friday Zoom 840 4750 0860 Password: 169145 as of December 1
Weymouth New Journeys Friday @ Unit. Univ. Ch., 83 Sea St. meeting 7-8 pm. No beg. mtg.

NOT MEETING ON DATES INDICATED:
Braintree Eye Opener Sunday Dec18 and Dec 25
Everybody's Group Sunday Dec 25, no Zoom meeting

GROUP ANNIVERSARIES/ Events:
Nov 15 - Braintree Tuesday Night-All Souls Ch., 196 Elm St. Gratitude Meeting 8-9 pm

SPECIAL EVENTS OF INTEREST TO AA MEMBERS:

Jan 7, Serenity Breakfast @ Bay Pointe Waterfront Restaurant 64 Washington Ct. Quincy 9-10 AM $20

CLICK HERE FOR BULLETINS Deadline for Next Bulletin: Dec 20, 2022

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JOINT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE:

AA GROUPS AND INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED TO BRING MEETINGS INTO JAILS IN Essex and Suffolk counties. If you are interested in doing corrections service in jails or prisons, come to the Joint Correctional Facilities Committee meetings on the 4th Thursday each month at 7 pm on Zoom to learn how to get involved Zoom ID 842 8172 0059 and Passcode 446053 or join the email list by emailing the JCFC Chairperson at kerrimaclaury@gmail.com

Ending read by ALL

I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help,
I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible