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

From the District:

The Alcathon will be hosted by the Alano Club.  And will be held Christmas Eve and Christmas. All meetings were covered by the 8:00am on Christmas.  Contact the Alano club for details.

Discussion held on how District 2 can better support GSRs.  The Website is being developed to provide GSRs with a lot of good information for orientation.  Groups are encouraged to promote alt-GSRs so that some training can occur prior to a GSR starting.

The District approved the budget for 2025.  The budget is $5,000 but the district only has $4,000 in its account.  Accordingly, there is a $1,000 shortfall for next year as of now.  Groups are encouraged to make end of year contributions to support the District.

The District is considering creating a third-legacy chairperson position.  This position would be responsible for encouraging and educating groups on service work in the District.  In other districts the position is traditionally held by former DCMs.  Groups are encouraged to discuss the desire to have this position in the District.

Current open chair positions are Archives chair, Grapevine chair, and Corrections chair.

The District is in need of storage space.  The CPC chair, Events chair, and Archives position, all have lots of items that they are storing in their homes.  It would be hard for someone to fill these positions without storage space.  The groups are encouraged to discuss options for the District regarding storage.  The cost of a commercial storage space may be a significant increase in the District budget but may be necessary.  Please discuss with your groups.

From the Area:

Does the District or groups want to present a motion on electronic voting at area assemblies?  Please discuss with your groups.

Do the groups support an increase in the stipend to the Area chairpersons, officers, translators, and former delegates?

Christina H will be sitting on the Ad-hoc Area Assembly Committee, please bring forth any suggestions regarding assemblies.

From GSO:

The GSO quarterly financials were released.  See attached.  Share with groups if they are interested.  The biggest issue is Grapevines $570K+ shortfall.  The Grapevine is creating a new 5 year plan as they are not making their previous 5 year plan goals.

GSO released the General Service Conference (GSC) proposed agenda.  See attached.  These will be the topics that will be discussed at the next GSC and will likely be discussed at the Spring Assembly.

After the meeting a GSR asked the cost of the Plain Language Big Book.  The answer is that the Plain Language Big Book cost AA GSO $140,000.  $100,000 was for the writers and $40,000 was publication costs.  He also asked about the 5th edition costs but those numbers have not been made public yet.

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