Central California Area Assembly

of Alcoholics Anonymous – Area 93

PMB # 140

606 Alamo Pintado # 3

Solvang, CA 93463

www.aaarea93.org

AREA COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

February 16, 2003

CCAA Chairman Debbie B. called the meeting to order at 9:00 A.M. and led us in the Serenity Prayer in the language of our choice.

Mark Lachlan read the 12 Concepts in English. Celestino Yanez read the 12 Concepts in Spanish..

The list of who is eligible to vote at an Area Committee Meeting was read. Instructions were given on how to report Roll Call.

I appreciate every body signing in at the Registrar’s table and checking the district information. You will find flyers and group information updates if you have requested them. Also, in the folders you will find group information change forms with yellow lines through them. That means that this information has been sent to New York and it has been updated at the area level as well. That is for your information and you should be hearing from GSO after a time on the group information changes. Continue to give me information changes on your groups so I can enter it into our database. John, our Registration Chair, is helping me coordinate a process that may be we can get things to you a little quicker, so we are trying a few things out. I appreciate your patience. Any feed back you can give me on whether the information is accurate or not accurate, timely or not timely would help me improve the process. Thank you letting me be of service.

My name is Theresa, Real Alcoholic. Home Group Cambria Friday Night. And I looooove Alcoholics Anonymous. Okay, I am loosening the grip I have on the seemingly overwhelming job of being the Area Treasurer. This month is better. I have the reports for you in Spanish and in English. Also of note is that the General Reimbursement and Mileage forms are translated into Spanish, thanks to Alberto. I would like to ask that the DCM’s encourage discussion of money and spirituality with their GSRs; where does the money go when we send it to the Area? How do I get reimbursed for mileage when I am of service? And also, to look at our own attitude toward money in general, you know, through the steps. Frequently, groups and individual members don’t really know where that money goes, much less care. I know for myself that when I would hear that the Treasurer’s report was about to be given, my eyes would glaze over. Now, I have to pay attention, because I am the one giving the report. Remember, I am a volunteer. Be kind. A quote from the Self Support Pamphlet “Twelfth Step work is the lifeblood of Alcoholics Anonymous – carrying the message to the next suffering alcoholic. Without it, the fellowship would wither and die. Yet, even at its simplest level this vital contact between one alcoholic and another involves an investment of time and money.”

A couple of things have been brought to my attention as I have been diving into this new commitment. It has been suggested to me by some members that I only email the committee and assembly agendas to those people with email and regular mail only to the members without email thus cutting down on expense of paper and postage. I would like your feedback on that. So, those of you that have email, would you like to have email and mail? Just email and you’ll print it. OK.

Later today, when we discuss inventory items that came about from our Inventory assembly last year, one item concerns the Area Officers visiting the districts over the next two years and if and how you may want that accomplished. But before we get into that later this morning, I just want to remind all the DCMs that the officers are available to you and your Districts to attend your meetings, your workshops, your conventions. Just remember, you just need to ask us.

It was great seeing all the new GSRs at the area assembly in January and one thing that I have suggested to the committee chairs is that they contact the GSRs that attended their committee meetings and invite them back. I would like to remind the DCMs also to give that same encouragement to the GSRs in their District. It is my experience in AA and also in regular life that when I am in a new situation and not yet comfortable, if you give me a job to do I become comfortable in my new surrounding much more quickly. This is a service that the DCM can perform for their GSRs. You can help them by encouraging them and giving them direction.

Also, I want to encourage all of you to get or request a copy of the Area Roster from Lisa, our Registrar. This roster shows all the officers, committee chairs, DCMs, DCMCs, Central Office Managers, and Past Delegates and Pacific Regional Trustee. You will have a wealth of information at your fingertips and feel free to call anyone on the roster with questions that you or your District may have.

As of now, we will be needing a Translation Committee Chair for Area 93. I would like to encourage at least 4 or 5 bi-lingual Spanish members to be willing to help on that committee. Please go back to your districts and your groups and I will be at the DUH and hope to meet those people who are willing to serve.

I want to remind you that our April Area Committee, we hope to still have this room. I’ll let you know as soon I know which will be at the beginning of March because the hospital is being sold. It has been moved to April 13.

I’m just starting to get involved with being Alternate Delegate. I’m finding that there is a lot more to learn. I really did enjoy conducting the New GSR Orientation session at the first assembly. I’m really looking forward to meeting all these new GSRs as they come in the next two years. I think this is going to be a real exciting thing to do. During this last month of January, I attended my first H&I Intergroup Committee meeting of Southern California. Our purpose for being there is to help keep communications flowing back and forth. It was really good because we were able to help one of the Intergroup reps find the information of the pamphlets that he needed. I actually had the literature with me so he could order it directly from GSO because a lot of times they are not sure how to get the stuff from General Service Office. I also was able to pass on some letters that had been sent from GSO and some information. California Northern Coastal had called me about their Bridging the Gap Committee. Someone who is being released in the Ventura area. We were able to pass on this information to the right reps. There are 6 Intergroup reps in our area, and I’ve got all their names and addresses now, so anytime that we receive this communication we can get it to them directly. We don’t have to wait for the monthly meeting. It was really interesting, and I really enjoyed being there. They are having their 22^nd annual Southern California H&I Conference. It is being held April 25 through 27 at the Irvin Marriott Hotel in Irvin. I brought back registration forms. They are on the back table. I would like you to take these, I’ve got more. There are some on the table and I have more in a box. Take them back to your districts. Grape a few of them, take them back, so if anybody in your district is interested in going to the H&I, you’ll have them handy. I’m going to try to go just to see if I can work it into my schedule on my own thing just because I’m hoping it will help me better understand and do this liaison job better. Another thing that we did in January was, myself along with a few of the other officers, were asked to go to the San Fernando Valley Convention and do a presentation on the concepts. These guys had a play, a skit that they put on of these concepts. It was great. It was why do you need us here, you just explained it so well. I really had a lot of fun doing my small part, but actually by being there and watching all of this, I learned a lot more and how these concepts really do apply in my every day life. And, in everything that I do. I need to keep carrying that on.

The pre-conference that is up in Cambria, in the back, you are going to find the preliminary agenda items. You can take copies of those back to your districts, have every body look them over to find out what is going to be discussed at the conference. The final agenda comes out today, or it is on its way. If there are any changes in it, we will get it out to you as soon as possible. Also, we have group opinion polls. I brought a whole bunch of them. Take some more copies back to your GSRs. Tell them to take them to the groups and ask the groups to fill them out. Get them back to Jeanine as soon as possible. You have up until April 24 to get them back to Jeanine. If they can’t get a group conscience, give a personal opinion. Everyone of you should fill one out and get it back to Jeanine. The more information she has, the better she is going to be able to carry our opinions to the conference.

I’ve scheduled a dinner for Saturday night with Warren S. who is going to be our guest speaker in Cambria. It is going to be a planned event, and we have to have an exact count for the restaurant. If you want to attend, you need to pay in advance. Seating is going to be limited to 25 to 35 people. I am waiting to tie down the exact cost because we are trying to work this out so it is going to be affordable for every body who wants to be there. As soon as I found that out, which will be Monday (she is supposed to get back to me on Monday) I’ll send out the flyer to every body and you’ll have the information on the dinner. You need to get back to me and pay for it before March 10 so I can give the restaurant the exact count. It is going to be first come, first served. That is all I’ve got for you guys today. Thank you very much.

Good morning. My name is Jeanine R. and I am an alcoholic. My home group is the Freedom Group in Lompoc and it is my privilege to serve Area 93 as your Panel 53 Delegate.

First of all I’d like to request that the DCMs or DCMCs please start to schedule their Conference Report backs with me for anytime after 5/10.

The General Service Board met for the first time this year and as is common practice at the Pre-Conference Board meeting, they were joined by the Delegate Committee Chairpersons. Also joining them were 4 candidates for Class A Trustee who came in for interviews. The candidates were being considered for 2 vacancies, with one being unanimously recommended. Mr. Herbert I G. will be invited to serve as Class A Trustee, following the 2003 Conference. Sadly, they were unable to fill the second vacancies because the pool of persons of faith had been reduced prior to the Board weekend. This means that the Board will be absent one member this year. So, we really need your help in getting the word out in each of your districts or committees. They are looking for a person of faith or clergy to serve a six year term as a Class A Trustee.

The Final Agenda is set for the Conference and so all Conference members will begin the hard work of gathering information and studying the points to be discussed.

Ÿ Our Regional Trustee, Phyllis H., will begin her 2 years on the AA Grapevine Board after this year’s Conference. We will be looking forward to having an ‘inside’ person in the Grapevine and receiving a lot of input from her.

Ÿ The group contribution rate is up to 46% and has steadily increased over the past few years. Our revenue was 6.4% higher than budgeted. Publication sales were down from 2001, which was attributed to the high sales of the 4th Edition in 2001. I found it interesting that 17.3% of the purchasers of AA literature are non-alcoholic.

Ÿ Subscription sales for both the Grapevine and La Viña are on the rise. There is a Grapevine Business Plan in the works whose primary objective is to increase group support of subscriptions for correctional and treatment facilities. The Grapevine also reports the approval of a Portuegese-language edition of the Language of the Heart

Ÿ The English version of “Markings on the Journey” was completed in November, 2002. The Spanish and French translations are currently being prepared.

Ÿ The Public Information Committee reviewed the possibility of having an 800 number for GSO. The sense of the committee was that a toll-free routing system is currently not a viable option but will continue exploring the topic.

Ÿ The CPC Committee is considering a change to the singleness of purpose statement that is found in 6 CPC pamphlets. If adopted it will read “Professionals may refer to alcoholism and drug addiction as ‘substance abuse’ or ‘chemical dependency’. Alcoholics and nonalcoholics are, therefore, sometimes introduiced to AA and encouraged to attend AA meetings. Anyone may attend ‘open’ AA meetings. But only those with a drinking problem may attend closed meetings or become AA members. People with problems other than alcoholism are eligible for AA membership only if they have a desire to stop drinking.”

Ÿ The Literature Committee will be considering a request for a new edition of the Spanish-language Big Book. They will also be discussing the placing of the Big Bokk on the GSO Web site.

Ÿ The Literature Committee decided to take no action at this time on the suggested AA Religion and Spirituality pamphlet.

Ÿ The delegates will be meeting on the Saturday prior to the Conference to present bids for the 2015 International Convention. There will be bids form THREE of our Pacific Region Areas: Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Seattle.

Lastly, Eva Sanchez reported at the AAWS meeting that an informational mailing went out to approximately 1,650 Spanish-speaking groups, 501 DCMs and 60 Spanish-speaking Central Offices that included information on service material, the AA Service Manual, new Spanish group contribution envelopes, and the most recently translated literature available in Spanish (Problems Other Than Alcohol, Let’s Be Friendly With Our Friends, It Sure Beats Sitting in a Cell, and the Archives Workbook.)

I have little to report today. We are having our ad hoc committee in cooperation with the local central office is hosting a workshop about trusted servants which is basically geared to the new group officers, secretaries, treasurers, etc., to help them understand the tools that are available to them and what their basic duties are. What the treasurer is supposed to do with all that money and where it goes, and how to submit it properly. That is this week end. I’ll have a further report to see how it works. If it goes through, it will be something that is held about 4 times a year throughout Ventura County. It will be hosted partially by Gold Coast and also Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks. Thank you.

I’m going to let you know what we are doing at this time. Members from the Area 93, the Spanish district, what we are going to do in 2003 to 2004, through me I’m going to let you know the way we are going to perform a little bit better than we’ve been doing with GSRs. Every body will do their commitments, DCMs and GSRs so they will have better information so they can take the information back to the groups so they can work a little bit better. We are going to try to have a lot of motivations to our members so they can be present and advance in our Area. We’ve turned in the computer which belongs to the area to our member Tony (which is myself) and this computer was given to Nelson. It was discussed with our combined districts. We will try to keep you informed. Thank you.

I’m kind of clueless. I kind of feel like someone who has been going to the same meeting for 10 years and finally gets to lead and doesn’t know the format. We had our GSR meeting and it was nice because I got a report from all the GSRs that attended the assembly. We had, literally, a report from every committee at our meeting, and that was kind of nice. We are planning a movie night in April, the dates and locations to be determined because the place we had it last time has changed the way they do things. We are also planning a service picnic. Right now we are in the talking stage. I want to see if they can pull off the movie night, and if they can go that, we’ll try something bigger. I talked with my Alternate DCM, and we’ve decided to discuss one of the concepts at each of our GSR meetings. I suggested that we take 5 or 10 minutes to discuss this thing that has changed our lives. What came out of that is that one of the new GSRs wants to host a concept workshop. That is something we are talking about. We’ve got another project to get the new Big Book in local libraries. We did that about 2 or 3 years ago with the old Big Book, and we want to get the new one. It is my understanding that the books disappear a lot. That is what is going on. Thank you.

This is the report that I have for District 2. Our meeting is every Thursday, and we do have a good assistance from our GSRs. The different groups that we have, usually we have all the GSRs, we had 7 GSRs present at our meeting. The H&I Committee is still visiting the local jail 4 days a week. The LaVina Committee is still going around the groups trying to get representation in the groups for the LaVina Committee. Just about to have a new committee inside the district, Public Information. All the people working in the district are trying to go around the groups once a week. The service people at the district were present at the new group in DeLano and they kind of helped them work a little bit better on your business meetings. DCM and GSRs that were present at Santa Paula was sharing with the groups the way they were working with GSRs. The format to work with the next pre-conference, they are working on the groups through the GSRs. That is everything that I have. Thank you.

District 3 says hello to all of you. We are trying to go around the groups and let them know about the topics that we are going to have next month on March 15 & 16. We are trying to get the answers back for the assembly. We have a new service committee for the next Spanish Forum. It is sort of being a total committee for this event. Most of all the committees are working real good inside the district except the CPC, but they are still tying to work with this problem to see if we can get the committee going. We have problems of money to pay the rent for this building, so what we have decided to do is pass the basket twice to collect money so we can solve this problem that we have. Thank you for letting me be of service and stay sober.

Our district is functioning as usual. Most of the GSR and Chairs are cooperating fine. We visit 2 groups every Thursday. We are all prepared for PRAASA and the assembly in Cambria. The Chairman for LaVina is still having problems receiving the magazine. This past Wednesday, after careful consideration, the GSRs decided that our district will deal directly with the Area instead of with the Hispanic Combined Districts. Also, if you have any suggestions as far as the coffee making, I’m open.

We in District 5 also have 2 meetings every two months. We have meetings with a committee that we discuss some items and another one that will get some items to work with. We visit 3 groups a week. We do have have several committees that are working real good. We are trying to motivate all the groups so that we can work on some of the topics that we are going to have next month at the pre-conference. So, we can have our delegate really prepared and take more information. We have a lot of motivations to get all the groups so they can be present at PRAASA and also next month at the pre-conference. That is everything. Thank you.

At our last meeting we discussed how we thought the area assembly went, since we hosted it. We kind of critiqued ourselves a little bit. We also discussed reimbursement to the DCM to PRAASA. It has been approved that I’ll be fully funded to go. We are doing the same thing that I heard one of the other DCMs say. We discussed having a committee chair in our district that mirrors all the area committees so that we can have reports back from each of the committee meetings at every area assembly. We kind of broke it down and everybody picked one. Hopefully that will work. We also discussed and handed out the opinion poll for the next assembly. The GSRs will get that. We also started preliminary discussions on when and where we want to host our delegate date for when Jeanine gets back so that she can report to us what happens at the conference. Thank you.

District 10 has a new Alternate DCM and his name is Dave. Dave will you please stand up so everyone will know who you are. District 10 is doing well. The meetings are getting bigger. The Tahachipi groups are getting new GSRs for some of their groups. The Baker Street group hasn’t found a GSR to replace me yet. That is all I have to report. Thank you.

We were successful in formatting, printing and distributing Bus Plaques. We started that project somewhere around in July or August. We got them to the local transit system in our area. Right now they are riding around in all the buses. Formation of the standing committee that is similar to the area, that was a move for productivity and more attendance for the district. We prepared a bid for the May assembly lacking a facility commitment and price. We successfully completed the bid for PRAASA for 2005. Thank you.

Our district had a district meeting right prior to the combined district meeting on February 3. We introduced 2 new GSRs to the district, one from the San Fernando Group and one from the Fellowship of the Spirit Group. We had 15 GSRs present at the meeting. We discussed the importance of area assemblies, and how important it was for GSRs to attend the assemblies. We also discussed PRAASA. I gave them my experience from attending PRAASA and asked them to go back to their groups, and it couldn’t ask for their groups to have them funded to go to PRAASA. They all agreed that they would ask their groups. I also received approval for the DCM expense of transportation and lodging at PRAASA from our district. We had a new district secretary appointed, and I gave a report from the previous assembly for the GSRs that weren’t there and asked them to take that report back to their meetings or groups. Also, the Alternate DCM and myself are presently working on the district group list in order to determine which groups we need to visit in order to ask for GSR participation. On a side note, here, Scott M. the DCMC for the combined districts for 11, 16 & 17 asked me to say that we were going to give a bid for one of the Area Assemblies, either August or September, at the next General Assembly. That is my report.

We met on February 2 at the home of GSR Jeff J. Scott M. and Mark L. from the combined districts attended. We had 10 GSRs attend. We received committee reports from the January 2003 Area Assembly and continued our discussion on the viability to divide from the combined districts. WE are in the process of receiving direction from our groups and welcome any experience, strength and hope from other districts.

A motion to provide $60 for a food budget during PRAASA, for myself, was approved. We provided to a GSR who had a situation of representing 2 meetings that operate as a group, but meet in two different areas. The group will remain in District 17, Area 93, and will be listed as such with New York.

Our next meeting is March 2 at 6:30pm at 4750 Natick Ave., #8, Sherman Oaks, CA and all are welcome to attend.

Also, one of our GSRs, Richard W., offered a suggestion to get our meetings to fill out opinion polls. What he does he prints each item on one postcard and presents them to the group one at a time, like every other week, and he finds that he gets a better response than giving them a whole booklet to fill out. Just a little suggestion to you guys if you want to carry that back to your groups. That’s all I have. Thank you.

This month, we had 22 GSRs, district officers and visitors at our meeting. We’ve also started doing a presentation on the traditions and concepts at the very beginning. A more in depth thing than just reading them. We had 3 new GSRs. We have an army of people working on the March assembly. They are all looking forward to seeing you. We have three offices in our district that are still vacant, the Grapevine, Archives and Central Office Representative. The person from the Central Office informed us that our Central Office is probably going to have to find a new place to have the Central Office because the rent has sky rocketed so high that they can’t afford where they are at now. Our CPC committee is going to be working with the H&I Committee to bring a proposal that we go to the court system and drug and alcohol services, and when they send someone to AA, they send them to an orientation meeting first so that they have more of an idea of what they are getting into than just showing up. That’s all I have. Oh, we have 7 people that are going to PRAASA.

We are currently working on getting group contributions. Our Registrar is doing a fantastic job completing all of our group’s unknowns as well as keeping our current 89 groups up to date. Our PI Augio Visual is current and accounted for and up to date. Our Archives Chairperson (Anne) is doing a fantastic job retrieving all of our groups histories and compiling them into a simple (history of AA in Santa Barbara). Our Literature Committee remains open. Our CPC is still working with the professional community. Accessibility continues to bring meetings to those unable to get to them. Finally, we are putting a committee together to bid for an assembly.

Discussion came up about a service function in our district. We were so inspired by a skit you guys put n a couple of assemblies ago, we are going to put on a secretary, tradition and newcomer workshop. It is going to be next Sunday, the 23^rd. It is entitled the Meeting from Hell. Traditions and meeting etiquette will be badly violated. Then a big group round table will come up with solutions to the problems. We fill feed them, humor them, then educate them. I have flyers if anyone is interested. It is next Sunday in Simi Valley. It is at noon. Our PI Committee is getting literature out to various facilities and AA information is being posted on the local television. The district is funding their DCM to PRAASA; however, no gaming budget was asked.

District 28 is hosting another Caring and Sharing Workshop on April 5, 2003, 9:00am to noon with 8:30 registration. The theme is ”Sponsorship: Good, Bad, Right, Wrong. Flyers will be out soon. Also, over the years District 28 has published a number pamphlets and guidelines. We are getting together a committee to archive, review, and possibly some of these documents.

I’m Spence, I’m the Alternate DCM. Mike R. is resigning as our DCM to take a new job down south. Dave M is going to stand to succeed as DCM and has the complete support of our district. We are going to change the district meeting date, our March meeting to March 2 only for the month of March. After the district meeting we will hold an assembly pre-pre-conference workshop in prep for March 15 pre-conference workshop. Our Grapevine Committee is alive and well and moving forward with good work from our Committee Chair, Linda. The District 52 guidelines are being finalized with committee chair, Bob. As a note to District 22, District 52 is fully supporting District 22 in hosting the March 15 & 16 pre-conference workshop and assembly as huggers and greeters. Thanks for allowing me to be of service.

I’m the chairman of the new committee for the FORO which we are going to have in the second week in October. We had our first meeting at the building where the district is working in our area. Our meeting started at 10:00am with the legacy of service. We read the 12 Concepts. Present were Districts 3, 4, 5 & 7. The only district that was not present was the district from Santa Maria. We conducted business. Were we are going to have our meetings, the way we are going to plan this forum. We came to the conclusion that the meeting is going to be the same every month. They are going to rotate the meetings at different districts. Which way the contributions, which way will be better to contribute to this forum. At every meeting, they are going to ask that whatever they collect for the 7^th traditions, what they are going to do with that money. What we have been doing is 2 times that we go around with the basket, we ask the district what they are going to do with the 2^nd basket, are they going to keep it or they going to give it to the event. They closed this meeting at 2:00pm with prayer. The next meeting is going to be at District 5, March 2. It will be 10:00am to 12 noon.

1. Inform Delegate about bid for PRAASA 2005 and FORUM 2006 (David W. Beady, Theresa report on sites)

I’m Beady, and I’m an alcoholic. I have a couple of things to report. I called one of the information people at the bottom of this year’s PRAASA flyer, and she thought that the 2005 PRAASA had already been bid for. It is going to be in Arizona. I told her, OK, that is great, but could I have the information anyway. She gave me a couple of names and numbers of people who are on the outgoing PRAASA and on the current PRAASA committee people. I also contacted Holiday Inn Select, and they have about approximately 200 rooms and it would cost us $81/night for single/double occupancy. There is also a bunch of motels right around there. They happen to be in the same block with Continual Gardens and the convention center. I have his number, and the form we have to fill out in order to get that building for our main meeting room because the hotel itself doesn’t have a room big enough to hold 1000 people. I have all the information here.

I’m Theresa, and I’m a real alcoholic. I called the Embassy Suits in San Luis Obispo. They cannot accommodate us. They just can’t do any more than 300 people. I called Santa Barbara, the Fess Parker. That is the biggest hotel, they would have been able to accommodate us but the cost per person would be $200 to start.

The Delegate asked if Area 93 wants for PRAASA 2005 or Pacific Regional Forum 2006. She added that having co-hosted one Pacific Regional Forum and one Special Hispanic Forum, the General Service Office takes care of a lot of the stuff that has to be done. The Area doesn’t need lots and lots of people from the local area. PRAASA takes a lot more planning and meetings, and everything else. Looking into the future, 3 to 4 years, the Delegate asked if the Area wants to have it in Bakersfield, and which does the Area want, PRAASA or the Forum?

Joe V. suggested that the key to obtaining a PRAASA bid is to have a low registration fee.

The Chairman asked for a sense of the of the ACM should we host the next available PRAASA. The ACM said, yes to host the next available PRAASA. On the Pacific Regional Forum, the Chairman asked for the sense of the body if Area 93 should bid an opportunity for us to host a Forum. The ACM wants the delegate to submit a bid for Area 93. It w.as decided that Area 93 should bid for PRAASA 2005 & Forum 2006

Debbie mentioned that at our Area Assembly in September, we took an inventory of Area 93 to see how we are doing. It is the Officers’ responsibility to discuss those inventory items that came up. She had some highlights. Does the Area want to have some discussion here today? One of the first questions that came up was how effectively we communicate with our GSRs. One of the highlights that seem to come out of that was to have the officers of the area visit the districts. Discussion was called for to decide if the Area wanted the Officers to come and visit each district. Each officer would visit each district over the course of two years.

All of the officers would be going to all of the districts within the two year period.

Debbie asked if the officers should visit the district either by invitation or by schedule. The sense of the Area Committee Meeting is that the officers would work out a schedule to visit the districts.

District 15 (Bakersfield) put in a bid for the May Assembly. The May Assembly will be held in Bakersfield.

No districts came forward with a bid for the August/September Assembly. Debbie asked for bids to be presented at the March Assembly.

2. Special PI presentation at March or May assembly about the “do’s and don’ts” of public speaking in AA

You will notice on the agenda, we got the idea for this at our last Public Information Committee meeting. I wanted to address this to the group. In an effort to share or demonstrate the AA guidelines for carrying the message at non-AA events or meetings, I move that the PI Committee members present a 15 to 20 minute presentation or skit at the May or August or September whichever one we have meeting. The title would be the “Do’s and Don’ts of Speaking at non-AA Meetings – or Did He/She Really Say That?” We got the idea at our last PI Committee meeting. We would be using pamphlets such as “Speaking at non-AA Meetings” and of course the AA guidelines for speaking at a Public Information meeting. I got this idea, I don’t know if Lisa remembers this, but we did go to PRAASA and one of the workshops that we attended, a PI Committee workshop, and they were discussing the need to have classes in your district telling people, particularly the younger people, how to go to high school meetings or just general meetings, Rotary Clubs, etc. We heard stories about the way they were dressed, the language that they used, the drunk-a-logs that were shared. Even the requests for AA members not to return. We thought that this would be a good subject to review and maybe could be taken back to the various districts and implemented. Thank you.

Debbie asked if the ACM would like to discuss this item. It will be discussed at the next assembly.

Debbie explained that the 4 Area DCM Sharing is an Area event. It is sponsored by one of the four Southern California area each year. Two DCMs from our area have been working on that.

Jesse talked about attending the Four Area DCM Sharing committee meeting. It is going to be hosted by Area 09, Mid-Southern California. Present there were 7 DCMs from Areas 05, 08, 09 & 93. We decided to have the event on March 29. All the DCMs from these area get together and they share their experience, strength and hope. There will be round tables. Mary T., Past Delegate, will be the speaker. Every one is encouraged to participate. Area 93 will host the event next year.

Debbie explained that DCMs that are in the 2^nd year of their commitment are the ones that host this event. The event is to help DCMs learn more about their position. Everyone is invited.

Debbie explained that we will have a shortened assembly that day because the pre-conference workshop finishes up on Sunday morning. The second vote on the change in the Assembly calendar and accepting a bid for the August/September Assembly. A brief report of the 4 Area DCM Sharing will be made. What else would this committee want on the agenda? Round tables on what was done at PRAASA was suggested. A play on the Traditions that GSO passed out at the Special Hispanic Forum was suggested. The play on the concepts that was presented at the San Fernando Valley Convention was also suggested. It was decided that PRAASA round tables would be at the March Assembly.

Debbie asked how many had a copy of our Guidelines & Policies. Everyone should have a copy. It is proposed that we change Appendix H, Suggestions for Hosting Area Assembly.

Spence explained about the change that is proposed. The Finance Committee approved the change twice in committee. On Page 3, it was suggested that we remove the references to the exact dollar amounts. The proposed change will read: “Reference Section 8.1 of the CCAA Financial Guidelines and contact the Area Treasurer for the current budget. Also, consult with previous hosts for guidance.” The budget has assembly costs listed.

Motion No. 2: To be put on the March Assembly Agenda. This suggested and approved twice by the Finance Committee change to the Guidelines & Policies be made so that Paragraph 1, Appendix H, Money, will be revised to remove the first sentence referring to the dollar amounts and replace it with this following text: Reference Section 8.1 of the CCAA Financial Guidelines and contact the Area Treasurer for the current budget. Also, consult the previous host for guidance.

Roll Call:	DCMs/Alternates	18
	DCMCs/Alternates	4
	Committee Chairs/Subcommittee Chairs	9
	CCAA Past Delegates	1
	CCAA Officers	6
	Sound Dude	1
	Guests	3
	Total	42