A Word From Our Co-District Committee Members

Here is the overview of the district meeting and things coming up in the Area:

From the District:

• The District has a new Zoom account!  Info for the meetings will be on the agenda.
• The District voted to send the overage of $199.61.  The District voted to have this amount purchase three boxes of grapevines to distribute for district needs.  One box will be in Spanish.  The remainder will go to the Central Office.
• The Website Committee provided some language changes to the website policy on the events that we will have on our website.  Please review with your groups.
• Marci M was nominated and elected temporary Alt DCM to participate in the Spring Assembly.  We are still looking for a Secretary and Alt-DCM.
• The District apologizes for late deposits the last two months.  The bank account was frozen due to someone hacking the account.  It took two months to get a new account set up.  We have a new account so deposits should be processed more smoothly.
• The CPC Committee did their first panel at CMU in February.  If anyone wants to participate in future panels, please contact Todd.
• Meetings are currently going into Community Corrections and Mind Springs Treatment facilities, both men and women sections.  Please reach out to the District if interested in volunteering for either of these groups.
• The DCMs will be looking into the cost of storage for our Events and Archives equipment/documents.  Please discuss with your groups the possible expense of covering a storage facility, which may be as high as $1,000 a year.

From the Area:

• The Area passed two motions from the Website committee, these motions include the ability to add hotel links to the Area website for the Area Assemblies and State Conventions and the ability to add District links to the Area website.  This includes District Zoom links for Zoom meetings and District Website links.  We should discuss in the future if we want to add these to the Area website as we have both.
• The Area passed a motion to increase the stipend of the area officers, translators, and committee chairs from $195 to $300.  Individuals would have to submit expense reports to receive this money.
• The Spring Assembly is to prepare the Delegate to go to the General Service Conference (GSC) in April.  Topics that would be discussed at the GSC were discussed at the Assembly.  These included: changes to the founder’s writings, changes to Living Sober, the financial issues with the Grapevine/La Vina, processes for filing a grievance on actions of the GSC, etc.  Martha, the Delegate, will be reporting back to the District after the GSC.  Usually she comes to Grand Junction sometime in May.
• There will likely be many more conversations in the near future on the Equitable Distribution of Workload (EDW), which changed the date of submission of Proposed Agenda Items (PAI) to the GSC from the end of the year to September 30th.  This is a problem because the Area usually discusses PAIs in the Winter Assembly, which usually occurs in November so the Area may have to change how it does business.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:  The next District Meeting has been moved from April 20th (which is Easter) to April 27th.  

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