CCAA Chairman Vicki B. called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. and led with the Serenity Prayer

12 Concepts were read by Bill R.. It was noted that there were no Spanish-speaking members present during the early part of the meeting therefore the 12 Concepts were not read in Spanish.

Eligibility rules were read by the Secretary and roll call taken:

DCMs/Alternates 14

DCMCs/Alternates 3

Committee Chairs/Alts 9

CCAA Officers 6

Past Delegates 1

Total 33

Also in attendance were 10 GSRs or their Alternates and 1 Sound Dude. Districts without representation were 12, 20, 21, 27, 31, 32, 44, 50, 51, 53, 54, 59, 60, 61. We hope you can join us on April 22, 2001 in Santa Barbara.

Registrar – Stephanie S.: I have the privilege of serving as Registrar for Area 93. First, I need Committee Chairs to give me the information of their Sub-Committee Chairs. I have been receiving lots of updates from the various Districts and the Area 93 database is currently up-to-date. The Group Information form is in Word and I’ve been e-mailing it to anyone who has requested it. I’ve been fooling around with Fox Pro (the Area 93 meeting database) and I have discovered that it has search capabilities that I did not know about. Please write any questions you might have on the request list at the Registration table. We currently have 853 Groups in Area 93. New York has sent me the forms for the annual update. The box is about two feet high. I should starting getting the data together and out to the DCMs on Monday. In the case of combined Districts, I’ll be sending it to the DCMCs. I’ll also enclose a letter with instructions and, of course, you can call me if I can be of assistance. The GSO Directory will be published in July of this year. Thank you for letting me of service.

Treasurer – Debbie B.: Currently privileged to serve as the Area 93 Treasurer. There are some preliminary, informal financial reports to give us an idea of where we stand financially. These are not to be confused with the formal quarterly reports that will be reviewed by the Finance Committee and approved by the Assembly. I wanted to give everybody an idea of what’s going on money-wise. The first report up here is the budget for 2001which we worked out last year. The next report is the 2001 budget versus the actual cost through February 13, 2001. There are a few areas not perfected yet that I’m still learning, such as our Assembly expenses indicate a credit of $302.28. $300.00 had been advanced by old Area 5 and that has not been worked in there. So these are items I will be trying to perfect before our first real quarterly report. The third report up here is a summary of Group contributions. On this you will find a category that says class – that refers to Districts. The other day, I think Friday; I received approximately thirty contributions that I have not yet processed. As of January 31 our approximate bank balance is $10,909.00. From that we still have some material inventory to be purchased such as the "Newsletter" computer. So don’t everybody think we’re rich. For our first month, if you compare the Group contributions and the total actual costs in this budget versus actual, it appears that we are working on being self-supporting. That’s great news. One thing I would request from the DCMs today is to please try to help your GSRs learn their Group number and ask them to put that Group number on their Group contributions when they send them in. Or else this time next year I will be a blabbering idiot. If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call or e-mail me. Thanks for letting me be of service.

Secretary – Bertie D.: Hello everybody – My name is Bertie and I am currently serving as your Area Secretary – very quickly – One of the most important jobs I do is to make sure you get a copy of the minutes. The only way you are going to receive those minutes is I have your correct mailing address. Any changes should be given to Stephanie our Registrar right away and she will get it to me so I can change my database. Please be sure to fill out a report form anytime you have a report and place it in the basket up front and print clearly so I can read it. It would also be helpful if you speak directly into the microphone and speak slowly so the translation team can translate for the Spanish-speaking members of this Committee. Thanks for allowing me to be of service.

Chairperson – Vicki B.: Good morning, my name is Vicki and I am serving as Chairperson. Thank you all for being here. Two things I would like to bring up. One is that I am not receiving any information from you regarding items that you want brought up at these meetings. My e-mail is published; my telephone number is out there, so please get a hold of me. We officers are here to serve you and we need your direction on what issues you have. Second is we are in desperate need of a member to Chair our currently non-existent Translation Committee. Please spread the word and have anyone who might be interested contact me. Also please remind GSRs that we are having sharing sessions during Area Assemblies. We did not have one at our first Assembly, but there will be one so they can come and discuss their issues.

Alternate Delegate – Jeanine R.: As Alternate Delegate for Central California Area, I am currently performing two specific jobs. First is to help Steve plan the Pre-Conference Assembly Workshops that take place on the weekend of March 17 & 18. We have 7 panels planned with 18 presenters. Present will be the Conference Coordinator from GSO, Susan U., and our Regional Trustee, Jim C.. We have also invited the Delegates from the other 5 California Areas plus the Past Delegates from Areas 05 and 93. On Saturday night, March 17, there will be a room reserved at a local restaurant for all that wish to join us for dinner. We will have more details in March on time and place. The other job I have is a liaison to the Southern California H&I Intergroup. I attended my first meeting with them in Long Beach on January 28. Marita was kind enough to take me with her and introduce her replacements (Jim Irwin & I) to the Committee. The 20^th Annual H&I Conference will be held on April 27-29, 2001 at the Doubletree Hotel in Orange. There are registration forms on the handout table. The conference proves to be very interesting with presentations about drug courts, Prop 36 and various other panels. Clancy I. is the keynote speaker on Saturday April 28. Registration is $15.00. Please plan to attend. Thank you for allowing me to be of service.

Delegate – Steve H.: Good morning my name is Steve H and I’m an alcoholic. I presently serve Alcoholics Anonymous as your delegate to the General Service Conference. Speaking of the General Service Conference, the final Conference Agenda should arrive anytime now. I’m not aware of any big changes to the preliminary agenda but we’ll work it into our 2-day Pre-Conference Assembly if need be. As Jeanine said, we are pretty well organized for that event (and it promises to be fund an informative) so please be sure to bring your GSRs – and have them bring their group members – we get the widest range of opinion possible. I would also like to remind the Standing Committee Chairs for CPC/Treatment, PI and Archives that the Conference will be reviewing the contents of the CPC, Correction, Treatment Facilities, and Archives workbooks. So I’d appreciate your Committees spending a little time at the Pre-Conference Assembly reviewing your respective workbooks to see if you have any changes to propose. And for those of you who read the Service Manual with a red pen-in-hand, let me know if you see anything you think needs change or correction. I’m really looking forward to this whole Conference process. In addition to being something new for me in service, I know that there’s going to be a lot of new life experiences too. So, I’m already asking God in my morning prayers to skip over the fear part of something new and let me move right into the wonderful learning experience part. And looking beyond the Conference to my Conference reports, I have dates set with the Kern County and San Luis Obispo Groups and I am closing in on a date with the Antelope Valley Groups so – the rest of you – please set a date for your local report-back as soon as possible. Oh, and please don’t forget about PRAASA – coming up March 2^nd through the 4^th in Spokane. As everyone who’s attended a PRAASA says, it’s an experience not to be missed – well worth the time, cost, and effort. Both you and those you serve will benefit. Moving on to the home front, we have a lot happening to our newborn area as it moves on into toddlerhood. Our IRS non-profit status approval is due any day now according to our IRS reviewing agent. She has given us the excuse of having moved to new offices and I think what really happened is she lost our paperwork. It still looks like we are moving toward resolution of that. I would encourage you all to visit our preliminary web site. I visited our the web site Friday and was impressed and excited: impressed with the quality of presentation and ease of movement through the site and excited that we now have a very versatile communication tool almost available as our official web site. Thanks to the web site subcommittee for a job well done. I’ve not seen a draft of either our Area Guidelines or the first edition of our 93 News through no fault of their respective editors (I can’t get my computer to print compressed downloaded material) but I know they’ll be just as well-done and useful as the web site. This is indeed a process and I’m sure we will have them up for everybody soon. I’m thrilled by the financial reports we have today. I have been involved in the Financial Committee all of my service career with this Area and not only a new Area but we have a new accounting system and we are actually up and producing reports. They too are the amazing first products of a brand new system. Because General Service relies so much on good communication, I’m really glad that we are so far along in getting our systems up and running

So, I am happy we’re doing well as a new Area and happy to be alive today – alive and able to contribute to this process of making AA available to the alcoholics who need it.

Jack L. D – District 1: We had a fantastic program planned for you today but the flu bug has struck District 1 and our contingency of 8 people, including Diana C., is down to myself and Dan. We are going to try to do better next time. We meet the first Wednesday of each month at Cabrito House in Canoga Park have had Committees formed on the outreach to schools and hospitals. We have been meeting with the LA schools and myself and Gail N. who is CPC met with Bobby Minton, a High School teacher for the pregnant female students. We do have monthly meetings planned with AA’s Alateens and students. Our Alateen representatives will be Robert F. and Phil R. Young People’s AA will be Ted B. We have meetings planned with Steve H. and the other San Fernando Valley Districts. Site to be announced. We are also looking forward to arrangements to go to PRAASA.

Jean De ., GSR – District 51: I am a GSR for District 51 and I guess our DCM had to work cause Beadys not here. We are starting a new Speaker meeting highlighting General Service. The first meeting will be March 10^th at 9:00 am to 10:30 am "12^th Step in Action" – Speaker will be Bertie D. The District has joined the Roundup Committee; and for the first time, General Service in Bakersfield has a time window during the Roundup. Two hours, Memorial Day weekend on Saturday between 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. Our DCM Beady will be there with three speakers, all past and current delegates. This will cover Kern County Delegate Day with Steve H giving the main pitch. Al H. and Marita H. are the other two speakers.

Rhonna W., DCM – District 23: First things first, I apologize for my horrid directions to the meeting today. I’m still a bit new to Santa Barbara and often forget which are my one-way streets. I am so glad to see people here. I was almost in tears pulling up. Our District is entirely new and most of our positions have rotated over. What we are doing right now is basically learning how to do our job. We have a new Alternate DCM and her name is Dina. We will be having a Pre-Conference Workshop for our Groups on March 31^st at Sambos Restaurant on the beach at 5:00 p.m. That will be right after our Area Conference so we will have a little bit more information to give our Groups.

Jay R., DCM – District 11: District 11 is hosting the Pre-Conference Workshop and Area Assembly in March and it will be held at Muir Middle School in Burbank. The address is 1111 N. Kenneth Road. A planning meeting will be held in Glendale at the Shakers Fellowship Hall. That will be at 4:30 p.m. The address is 315 West Vine Street if anyone is interested to lend a hand. Fliers for the Assembly and Workshop are on the handout table. You can contact me at (818) 951-4022 if there is a need for more fliers or questions about the workshop/ Assembly. Ray R. has informed me that the information about the Assembly can be found on the web site. By the way I love this location for our Meeting. This is great.

Theresa D., DCM – District 22: We have had good participation in our District. Archives is having an open house on March 3, 2001 at our local Central Office located at 1220 Beach Street in San Luis Obispo from 10 a.m. to Noon. The Grapevine has sent a letter to the GSRs about the Grapevine Representatives job at the Group level and has also received some help from the North County from Audrey of the ABC Group. Public Information is very active and has had two visits to Cal Poly and Mountain View School is being visited as well. We also have a PSA spot on channel 10, which is airing this month. Audio Visual Tape Lending Library is up and running from our Central Office. Central Office is currently looking for a Manager for 6 hours a week. DCM expenses for PRAASA were approved at $672.62. There was a lot of discussion about money and Group Contributions because we have over 70 groups and of those only 25 or so contribute. That is probably par for the course. We are in the process of taking a Group conscience about a newspaper ad at a cost of $124.00 per month. We have scheduled Delegate Day for June 10 at our District.

John M., DCM – District 52: We have placed an order for literature for distribution at schools. Thank you Lisa. We are going to be holding a Pre-Conference Workshop. We have updated our Group.Registration data, thank you Mike. Now that we have a web site, we are developing web site guidelines. Thank you.

Scott M., DCM – District 16: District 16 is bearing with the new DCM while he attempts to come up to speed. I will be attending PRAASA and am looking forward to that. I participated in the San Fernando Valley Convention GSO Meeting and I personally enjoyed hearing our past Delegates and current Delegate as I had never heard any of their personal stories so it was interesting to hear how that related to their experience with General Service. Copies of the Pre-Conference Topic Workshop Agenda were handed out at our Combined District meeting for input from the GSRs at our next District Meeting on March 5, prior to the workshop. We had some preliminary discussion regarding a previous workshop that had been done at our District on the History of AA in the San Fernando Valley. My Home Group is busy creating a business meeting – Steering Committee Meeting – for the group of meetings that we have. I know that there was some discussion regarding the makeup of the individual Groups and Meetings, which I read in the minutes Bertie sent out. If anyone has any input in terms of what kind of resources are available, such as guidelines on developing a business meeting or a Steering Committee Meeting, please contact me.

Shawn M., DCM – District 24: We have started a Committee to form a fellowship breakfast to be held at the end of April. We are also working on a PI Committee to get our service announcement back on Adelphi Cable. Right now they can’t use our quarter-inch tape so we have sent to New York for three-quarter inch tape at which time they will evaluate it. Our District meets on the third Monday of the month. We have rotated all our positions to get underway. We had a problem with our first meeting. We do a phone list and we have a person do a phone call, well I thought someone else was doing it and they thought I was doing it – and well it wasn’t a really good turnout but that has been straightened out. We have found a new meeting place which is Sunrise Christian Fellowship in Simi Valley. They will allow us to make a donation instead of paying $55.00 a month. That will really help us ou.

Ray R., DCMC - Combined Districts 11-16-27: First off, being that we are the Home District of our current Delegate, we are the only ones with no plans for Delegate Day. But we are going to get there. The three Combined Districts in the East San Fernando Valley have begun a breakdown of all Groups into 3 lists, i.e., Groups with no GSR – Groups with GSRs not attending and Groups with no Group contact. DCMs and GSR volunteers will canvas Groups from these lists when completed. We are circulating a GSR/LCM survey to ascertain the feasibility of instituting a Local Committee Member format, with LCMs asking the DCMs for smaller/better grassroots contact with the District/Groups. We have implemented a Service Manual Loaner System so new GSRs will have a copy until their new GSR packet arrives from New York. We have 8 Service Manuals donated so far and are looking for more. I want to thank John for the work on the web site. And I just want to float this out in the air about getting a comprehensive list of e-mail contacts for all the DCMs so that mail can be sent to a single address on the web site (he’s looking at our Secretary) or whoever volunteers to do it. That way if the DCMs have any questions or need to contact somebody, they can get on and contact that one person who will forward it to whomever necessary and protect everyone’s anonymity. Hopefully we will have some way to communicate without having to bother Steve and Marita all the time.

Jose E., DCMC – District 34: This time I am going to do the report in Spanish. Next time I will do my best to do it in English, but this time will be in Spanish. Please accept a warm and cordial hello from General Service District 34. District 34 is very active with the 22 Groups that make up our geographical area. Our service Committees, CPC, Public Information, Grapevine, Audio Visual, Registration, the Newsletter and Archives are all very active. The Groups are visited twice a week and it is popular for many Groups to do Group Inventories. Many Groups invite us to give a presentation on the AA Service structure. Six members of the District are planning to attend PRAASA and will be flying there. GSRs meet four times a month on Tuesdays. The first Tuesday of the month is to study the guidelines of the District, the second Tuesday is geared towards information, the Third Tuesday is to study the Service Manual and the fourth Tuesday is to go over points of discussion from the Assembly. That’s all I have today.

MaryAnn, DCMC - Gold Coast 12-29-31-32: I am here with our new DCM from District 29, he just volunteered this morning cause we needed a ride to come up. I have something of importance. I went to our last Intergroup meeting and we have a question that is being taken to the Groups concerning money that is above the prudent reserve level at the Central Office (Ventura County). The distribution of the money is being discussed and Group Consciences taken to decide what to do with it. There will be more information in the near future. There is going to be a Secretary’s Workshop for the Secretaries in our Gold Coast Area. Actually for all of Ventura County. There was a question as to whether or not we would have Committee Chair reports at this meeting. Vicki stated that this was set up for the DCMs to bring us the information of what’s going on and see what issues need to be brought to the Assembly for Agenda purposes. Our Committee Reports are given at the Area Assembly.

Eddie D., DCM – District 48: We hosted the last Area Assembly and we appreciate all the people who showed up and made what we believe was a success, not just for our District but for our Area. We just got the facility and you people made it possible for that to be a very huge success for new Area 93. We appreciate everyone coming to the next one in March in Burbank. We are going to try to help as much as we can. We told Jay we will give him all the help he needs for putting that on. He has my number and you have my number if you want to call me and ask me how we did it. We don’t really know how we did it, we just did it. We had a lot of help from our GSRs and a lot of volunteers gave us a hand. People I didn’t even know just showed up and helped.

Mary J., DCM – District 28: I don’t have too much to report except that at our January meeting, the DCM and the Alternate DCM had to give it up so my first meeting is going to be held this Tuesday. I sent out cards to every Meeting in our Area and I figured for the heck of it I would put RSVP on the bottom and out of probably 30 cards I got two calls. So that tells me that they either don’t know what RSVP means or they will not attend. We have a very active PI Committee in our Area and they are doing a great job and we are going to have a workshop on April 28. I will let you know what happens at our first meeting.

Nelson R., DCMC – Districts 34-54-61: I’m sorry I was a little late, but I was lost – they already explained about the map. We had our first meeting on January 27, 2001. We felt bad because there were just a few of us since there are only 4 Districts. We used to be 8 and normally averaged 50 or 60 and this time there were only about 15 of us. But we have some good things going on, one of them being the Forum. We are still going to have our own Forum and the final decision was that we will be having it in Santa Maria. We are not sure about which month because we are trying to get in contact with the guys in Los Angeles so we can share their Forum with them and then they can come and support ours. We are working on getting someone in charge of La Vina because I feel that it is something that concerns us Spanish-speaking persons. We are also working hard trying to find someone to take the Translation Committee. We have been having problems because all the guys who say they are going to help me have not come through. As a matter of fact, our Alternate DCMC is not going to be with us any longer because he can’t keep the service commitment. I have been waiting on someone by the name of Jessie who I met at the Area Assembly. I have been trying to get in contact with him because he said he could probably do it. We really need someone. We need it for the Groups and we need it for the Districts so we can share all this information. I also never received the disc from Mark regarding the newsletter. As soon as I get the translations done I will send it to you guys.

Meeting was called back to order at 10:15. Vicki advised that we needed to go over the Agenda for approval and noted that we have two items that had to be added. The first one under old business would be discussion that was brought up at our Budget Meeting of fully funding the Alternate Delegate and Chairperson for PRAASA. We had originally talked about partial funding and we were going to bring it up at this meeting to check out our budget and make a decision. The next item is under new business. We’ve been asked to vote on the name of the Area web site. A Motion was made to approve the agenda as corrected. Motion was seconded and passed.

First item on the agenda is meeting location for our Area Committee Meetings. There was discussion concerning various sites including Frazier Park. It was concluded that Frazier Park has a weather problem during the winter and that Saint Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara was a good centralized area, the facility is nice and is available on the Sunday’s we need it. The cost is by donation only and the DCM who arranged the meeting advised that all non-profits pay nothing. A motion was made to continue to use Saint Francis Hospital for future Area Committee Meetings. The motion passed with no further discussion.

Next on the agenda is fully funding the Alternate Delegate and the Area Chairperson to PRAASA. Someone from the Committee requested some clarification. Vicki explained that what we had discussed at the Budget meeting was whether or not we were going to be receiving enough contributions to fund the Officers and that we would bring it up at the February Committee meeting which is this meeting. What we need is a motion to fully fund the Alternate Delegate and Area Chairperson to PRAASA or a motion to table this until the next Area Committee Meeting. There was a request for figures (dollar amount needed) and the figures we currently have in our budget. It was further stated that we also have to remember that we need to budget for our Delegate’s trip to New York. The Finance Chair spoke to this and stated it had not been presented to the Finance Committee so no answer could be given at this time.

Debbie our Treasurer advised that the balance of $10,909.00 is the current balance…"the Delegate’s trip has been paid for and would not factor into this". Debbie did request that a dollar figure be determined. Steve H. said the total cost of the trip was about $600.00 and we had budgeted $350.00 each for the Alternate Delegate and the Chairperson. That would leave an amount needed of $250.00 per person to fully fund the trip. So the amount we are talking about is $500.00.

Vicki stated that she personally doesn’t see that we have had enough time to see how our contributions are coming in. We have a really strong first month but this is a strong new Area so everyone is donating. She believes we should wait until April. Bill R. made a motion that we defer this item to the Finance Committee for investigation and report. There was already a motion on the floor, therefore the motion could not be considered.

The first motion was once again stated: To fully fund the Alternate Delegate and the Area Chairperson to PRAASA at an additional cost of $500.00, The motion was seconded and opened for discussion.

Marita stated that she truly believed we should be funding our trusted servants when we ask them to do something for us. I also truly believe that if we decided to have a December Assembly and we don’t have any money for it, that is also a priority. We heard this morning that we may get the funding for the last Assembly… that’s a maybe! We are only a little way into our Assembly year. We already know these people are going. I would speak in favor of this motion and I would wait until April after we have our first quarter report and we will then know how we are doing financially as an Area. I think that may be a better time for discussing reimbursing our trusted servants rather than 6 weeks into a brand new Assembly Area with no budget to pay for our last Area Assembly in December. I’m opposed to this motion at this time. At a later date I may have a different feeling. But as of now, I would say no to the motion. The question was called and the motion was defeated.

The minority opinion was heard: Jay R. DCM for the host District of our next Area Assembly announced that they are going to be coming in way under budget for the next Assembly. He also feels that our trusted servants should be funded. John Mudie announced that the Area web site is also coming in way under budget. It was originally budgeted for $750.00 and it looks like it is going to cost $150.00 to be up and running. Vicki asked if anyone wished to change their vote from the prevailing side. Seeing no one, the motion was defeated.

Bertie made a motion that the issue of fully funding the Alternate Delegate and the Area Chairperson be revisited by the Area Committee after it has been submitted to the Finance Committee for review and a report made by the Finance Committee. The motion was seconded and passed.

Victoria H., the Finance Chair advised that during the budget process we neglected to budget for an outside accounting service and we didn’t take into account that we have yearly taxes and reports to be done by a non-profit. Victoria made a motion to hire an outside accounting firm to do our yearly corporate tax reporting not to exceed $500.00 per year. The motion was seconded. It was opened for discussion.

Marita (our memory from Area 05) advised that in the past we had a CPA who was a volunteer who did our taxes and he did it for a number of years. He’s going to continue to do it for Area 05 but does not want to do both Areas. So we are going to have to hire an accountant. Unfortunately we didn’t know this at the time of our budget meeting and didn’t realize we needed one. This year we need to file our taxes or we need to have someone file an extension by April 1 because we were incorporated last year. Even though we did not have any income last year we still have to fill out the paperwork and a decision right away. Seeing no further discussion the question was called and a vote taken. The motion passed.

Next matter are the bids for the May and October Area Assemblies. Theresa D. District 22 San Luis Obispo County made a bid for the May Area Assembly. Being that there were no other bids, the Assembly will be held in San Luis Obispo. There were no bids for the October Assembly therefore this will be brought up again at the March Assembly.

Last item on the agenda – the web site name. The Web Site Committee came up with two names that they were tied on so Dawn will give us a presentation. My name is Dawn and I am the Chairperson for Public Information and Special Needs and the Web Site Committee. Thank goodness I have an excellent subcommittee chair for the web site and he has put together all of this information for us. His name is John .along with his committee and they have come up with two names that we would like to present to you as names for our web site. The first one would be aaccaa.org or aaarea93.org. A vote was taken – and the new name of the web site will be aaarea93.org. So that everyone knows, the web site has come up with an Internet provider. They are going to be addr.com. They have offered us a very reasonable start up cost and our domain name is being purchased from them. (material deleted, webmaster).

Last of all, we need to set up the Area Agenda and at this time we are going to have open sharing. I would you guys to come up here and let us know what you thought of the last Assembly, what you liked about it, what you didn’t like about it and what you would like to see at the next Assembly to keep interest alive. After a very lengthy discussion concerning this matter, many ideas were exchanged and the discussion concluded the following:

Committee Chairs will attend the New GSR Orientation whenever possible to allow the new GSRs to become acquainted with the Committees and perhaps make a decision as to which committee they wish to become involved in from the very beginning.

DCMs should be sure to prepare the GSRs with information concerning the Assembly. Besides making sure they have an Agenda, they should go over the Service Manual and make sure that they know what is expected of them; including the amount of time spent at the Assembly (9:00 a.m. to perhaps 5:00 p.m.)

The Sound Dude will roam the Assembly floor with the cordless microphone. Anyone choosing to use the microphone must stand while addressing the Assembly.

The Area Chairperson will have an "Ask It Basket" available for any questions that need to be asked and answered.

There will be DCM and GSR Sharing Sessions at the Area Assembly.

We would like all hosting Districts to give local hotel and restaurant listings on the back of their fliers. It would also be nice if arrangements could be made for out-of-town guests to meet some of the District members at a local restaurant for dinner. You may want to put an RSVP number so you know who will be attending. You could also include some meeting locations and times.

We will have a member of the Assembly, perhaps a DCMC or Officer, give a GSR Report at the end of the Assembly. GSRs will be given a form they can fill out with pertinent information to help them prepare a GSR report for their Group.

It was agreed that Susan U. the Conference Coordinator at GSO, will give a report at the March Assembly. Steve will contact her so she is aware of this.

Vicki thanked Eddie and Theresa for taking the Coffee & Bagel Commitment for the next two years.

For the good – Debbie advised that the food kitty had $23.00 which puts us on welfare. She is going to place it back on the table for those who have forgotten that we are self-supporting or came in late – or just plain forgot.

Cost for today was about $30.00 for coffee and bagels.

Stephanie: John mentioned a list of e-mail addresses. She is going to create a list of e-mails and asks that anyone with an e-mail who would like to be listed to please give her your e-mail address.

Jeanine: For anyone who is giving a presentation at the Pre-Conference workshop, I ask that gentlemen please wear a suit and tie and ladies please wear a dress. Also, Agendas for the Pre-Conference workshop were in your minutes. There was some miscommunication and we do not have any available here today. Please feel free to contact me if you need an Agenda for the Pre-Conference. Presenters should be hearing from me a couple of weeks prior to the Pre-Conference to see if you have any questions concerning your presentation.

Rhonna: Do we have any decision on a donation for our location today and the amount? If we do decide to make a donation, it will be an anonymous donation because they will not accept it from us. After much discussion it was agreed that because we are a non-profit and the hospital will not accept a donation from any non-profits, we will not donate. We will however look for another method of giving to the hospital. It was suggested that Rhonna find out if we could donate any literature to the hospital. She will get back to us.

Motion to adjourn. Seconded. Meeting was adjourned with the Responsibility Pledge.

Respectfully submitted,

Bertie D.

Area Secretary

Sound Dude,

Robert H.

(Thanks so much!)