Next Meeting
Meeting ID: 884 7243 7705 Passcode: GSRD8
3rd Monday of Every Month 7 pm - 8:30 pm
Quincy Point Congregational Church, 2nd Floor
444 Washington Street, Quincy MA
District 8 Business Meeting
Next Meeting:
Mon June 19, 2023 @ 7pm Hybrid
Next Meeting:
Mon June 19, 2023 @ 7pm Hybrid
Opening/Mission Statement
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
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.
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
Committee Reports
Area 30 Services - Position & Committee Descriptions and Contact Information CLICK HERE
Area Committee Page - Area 30 Calendar
Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC) - (2nd Thursday 7 pm) - Kim B.
==== Open District Positions ====
Click for Area Calendar = Click for Contacts = Click for Descriptions
Click for Area Calendar = Click for Contacts = Click for Descriptions
Archives - ( 3rd Thu 7:30pm) Group History Form | On Line Form - OPEN
Accessibilities - (3rd Wed 6:30 pm) - OPEN
Alt Chair - OPEN
Alt Treasurer - Newly OPEN
Corrections - (4th Thu 7 pm) - OPEN - Corrections Chair Margaret M. corrections@aaemass.org
2 x DCM's and Alt DCM
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 - Technology - (See Area Calendar ) - OPEN
Community Outreach
Braintree - Kim B | Milton - Mike | Quincy - David | Randolph - Kim B | Weymouth - Marie
OLD Business
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
Group Conscience meetings facilitator - contact Mary Jane, Service Seminar Chair
serviceseminar@aaemass.org
Road Show - contact Kevin G
altchair@aaemass.org
New Business
GSR Packets Click to get your GSR Packet PDF
Post-Conference Assembly
May 21 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pmHosted by Hispanic District #27
WHERE: EAST BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL
ADDRESS: 86 WHITE STREET EAST BOSTON , MA 02128
TIME: 10:00 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m.
ORIENTATION: 9:15 a.m
Area chair, Virginia is asking for help with snacks for upcoming Area 30 meetings (Paul S. with details)
Pen pals for prisoners
Central Service Financial statement and minutes Preview attachment District Mail April.pdf District Mail April.pdf 3.4 MB (google.com)
Tabled Business
Goals
AREA Assembly § Commitment
Building Group Participation in Area Activities
Brain Storming - Carrying the Message
(New goals???)
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
May 17 Wed Delegates Meeting Central Service, 12 Channel St., Suite 604, 7 pm
May 19 Fri Joint Treatment Facilities Zoom 829 7226 6742 Password: 659976 7 pm
May 25 Thu Joint Correctional Facilities Zoom ID 850 8064 9068 Password: 872145 7 pm
Quincy Thu- Burn The Boat- now called BTB Dad’s New Way Recovery 85 Quincy Ave. 6-7 pm
NEW GROUPS/MEETING/CHANGES - DISTRICT 8
Quincy Friday- 11th Step- St. Chrysostom’s 1 Linden St. 7 pm OSD
Braintree Tue- 30-60-90 no longer hybrid live meeting Emmanuel Church 519 Washington St 7-8 pm
SPECIAL EVENTS OF INTEREST TO AA MEMBERS:
none in district
Price increase on hard cover Big Book and Living Sober effective July 1st Hard Cover Big Book $12 Living Sober $6 Prices on all literature available from both G.S.O and Grapevine have been increased.
Boston Central Service will delay increasing prices as long as current inventory holds up
CLICK HERE FOR BULLETINS Deadline for June Bulletin: JUNE 20, 2023 Business office closed Monday June 19th
Whats on your Mind
8:20 Time Check - Call from Chair for meeting extension if needed.. Members will identify MUST do items for this month and then vote on meeting extension if needed
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
I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible
How we Do Business Roberts rule of Order
General overview of Roberts Rules of order - FLOW CHART - HOW WE DO BUSINESS
Keeping to the Agenda
Request to be heard
Questions
Motions/ Seconds/ Discussion/Voting/ Minority Opinion/Reconsider
Discussion Limits/Address Questions/Table Issue