District 2 Meetingsept. 21,2014

+++District 2 MeetingSept. 21,2014

Attendance:

Trudy Alt DCM District 2,Garth Treasurer/GSR Sunrise, Carol GSR Cole Harbour, Dave D – Alt. GSR Cole Harbour, Cathy GSR Downtown Dart. Group,Rod – Alt. GSR Downtown Dart. Group, Karen GSR Colby Big Book, Sandy District 2 Secretary, Tim M – Area 82 Delegate Visitors – Dave – Colby Big Book, Steve M – Downtown Dart Group, Bill P - Newsletter

Group reports given:

Garth – Tradition 9

Next Month–Cathy Tradition 10

Treasurer Report–Passed out by Garth

Report accepted by Carol

• Secretary Report– none

• Corrections Report–Racquel – Alt. Chair
• August 2014
• Corrections Committee Report
• Districts 1 and 2
• I am pleased to report that meetings are going well on both sides with the exception of August 27th as the meeting on the woman's side was cancelled due to a lock-down.
• There will be five pocket big books going into the woman's side this week.
• Yours in Service,
• Maria R.
• Corrections Chair

CPC Report–Carol

none

• Public Information Report –

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• Treatment Report–Colin – Alt.

None

• Alt DCM District 2–Trudy

None

Workshop Committee – Trudy

No workshop this month. Cole Harbour will be doing a workshop tentative date Nov. 9 on the 5th Tradition at Club 24. Any group wanting to put on workshops in the new year contact Trudy.

Report accepted by - Karen

DCM District 2- Barry H

DCM REPORT DISTRICT 2 September 21/2014

Good Day Everyone,

I would like to start off by reminding everyone about our Assembly next month in Sydney. I t would be great to have a number of GSR’S from District 2 in attendance. It promises to be an exciting event with election of new area officers.

I am happy to be holding our nominations today for all executive positions in District 2. If we do not fill all positions today please go back to your home group and let everyone know we are looking for people to fill all positions still available.

Service is an exciting part of recovery and I know personally it has allowed me to grow in many ways both in my personal and professional life.

I attended the Central Service this month and I am happy to report I have accepted a nomination to take the Co-Chair position for the next 2 years. I wanted to thank all of you for allowing me to represent you as your DCM and I have fully enjoyed my term.

All the best

Barry Hayes DCM District 2

Report Accepted : Garth

• DCM District 1– Tom R – DCM District 1

Read by Sandy

• September 21, 2014
• Good afternoon Friends,
• My name is Tom, sober alcoholic, DCM for District 1. Good to be back and into the swing of things. As most of you know, I wasn’t here for the month of August as I was on a Medical Mission in Africa which was a very humbling experience. I would highly recommend that if anyone here gets the chance to participate in a mission involving a third world country take that opportunity, it truly is life changing.
• I would like to thank Fred D. for filling in for me at the last meeting and keeping me up to date. We are in desperate need of service positions being filled within the Districts 1 and 2 which we will be working on trying to fill here today as well as throughout the month. We are hoping to have the old but new nominating process to be past in our next District meeting. We are all getting ready for the NS/NFLD Assembly taking place in October in Sydney. Hopefully we will be well represented by our GSRs of both Districts 1 and 2. I’m aware that there is talks of unifying committees as one, ie: combining PI and CPC and Treatment and Corrections which I’m sure will be discussed further here today. I understand that elections took place within the Central Service which I will leave in the hands of Foster L. to report hopefully here today. Lastly, I encourage members with some experience in service and the suggested sobriety time (usually 2 years) to come forward and start getting involved with the service structure of Alcoholics Anonymous.
• Yours in service,
• Teamplayer DCM District 1
• Tom R

ALT DCM District 1 – Fred

Read by Sandy

> Report District # 1 September 21, 2014.
> There has not been a lot to report this month. I did attend the
> central Service meeting this month. They had their Elections and Tim
> and Tony ran them by Third Legacy Procedures There was some Elected
> Officers Foster is the new Chair and Barry is the Co- Chair for the
> next two Years. There were a lot more members Elected but I will let
> the Chair Foster of Central Service tell you about them.
> I have been attending a lot of meeting and speaking about what we need
> at the District when it comes to the committees. Well I know we are
> going to be holding our Elections soon and God I hope members come
> forward to be placed into some of these Committees.
> That about all I have for now and I am sorry that I could not attend
> because I have company from Ontario. I wish you all a great day and
> hope the Elections go well.
> Yours In Services Fred DeMone.

• Central Service– Foster L – Chair

Read by Sandy

• District 2 GSR Meeting
• Central Service Report ~ Foster L., Co-Chair Sun. September 21st, 2014

• Greetings from Central Service, my sincere apologies for not being present, however, due to family illness I am out of town.
• At our last meeting we held elections for the 2015-2016 terms and were successful in filling the following positions:
• Committee Chair -Foster L
• Committee Co-Chair -Barry H
• Newsletter-Bill P
• Telephones-Leah C, Chair; Heather C and Laura E, Co-Chairs
• Entertainment -Samaira G, Chair; Tara M, Co-Chair
• We still have key positions to be filled, namely, Treasurer, Secretary, Hospital Visitation, Webmaster, Web Email Coordinator and Literature. All of these roles are vital to the local AA community and we are hopeful interest in them will be shown at the October meeting.
• The annual picnic at Point Pleasant Park was a success, the weather cooperated nicely and all enjoyed themselves. It would always be good to see extra support for those who work so hard to facilitate this. The Entertainment Committee is planning the New Years Eve dance to be held at Str. Theresa’s Church hall. Tickets will be on sale this month at a cost of $12.00. Anybody interested in selling tickets is asked to contact Raquel R. whose contact information can be found in the Bluenose Bulletin.
• Groups interested in hosting the December 24th afternoon social are asked to make it known at the October meeting, when a decision will be made on who will host. Financial support is provided by Central Service.
• The 80th International Convention will be held in Atlanta in July 2015. Information can be found on the GSO website and Bluenose Bulletin has some pertinent information.
• If you have any suggestions for our committee please feel free to contact me at any time and I encourage you to read our meeting minutes on the website for the full details of our meetings.
• Yours in Service,
• Foster L.

• GS Delegate- Marilyn R –

None

Visitors – Tim M. to run elections under new business and discuss Area 82 Assembly agenda (see New Business).

• Old Business

Guidelines discussed – each group gave feedback

Carol – Cole Harbour Group Her group agrees that the way it is is the way it will be done in the future.

Cathy – Downtown Dart. Group – Guidelines were distributed among the members. (so feel inaccurate and wrong) . She wondered if stuff could be taken out that the groups were not involved in. Bill P was asked to comment by Barry – he said this was prepared by the Executives District 1 and 2. The DCMs wanted a complete guideline it is not voted by the Execs as law just meant to be brought to the GSRs. Barry (District 2 DCM) said they used the general service manual as a guideline and Bill added that it was then tailored to be specific to our districts. Barry added it’s purpose is to open up lines of communication in order to get people involved in service, basically they are trying to simplify positions.

Cathy asked if it would be voted on later and Barry advised Yes so they have time to bring it to the groups again.

Karen – Colby Big Book – Chris gave the guidelines to his group and they had a few questions.

On 1.3.2. – They wanted clarification on the term retroactive. Bill said it means if you make a change it begins when the change is made and Trudy clarified it with this example. If the change was that the treasurer has to have 10 yrs and the current treasurer has 5 he is not asked to step down.

On 9.3 – Detox meeting sobriety time (3-4 people) at least 6 months sobriety. Barry advised that both districts had voted and approved this when Pat (former treatment chair) suggested it.

Garth – Sunrise Group – Emails were sent out to all members but was not discussed at last business meeting. He will make sure it is brought up at next business meeting.

Cathy asked if all GSR’s in District 2 were given these guidelines to look over even the ones who do not attend the meeting and Barry advised Yes.

• New Business

Voting to be done today by the Nomination Process – Tim M Area 82 Delegate to proceed over the election.

Barry advised that he has been canvassing and will continue to do so and hopefully by January all positions will be filled.

Before elections began Cathy DDG asked about the process – if they asked 3 times (she advised it use to be the DCM was voted in by the outgoing GSR’s and the Alt. DCM by the incoming GSR). Barry and Tim advised that anyone could nominate someone as long as that person was aware they were nominated.

Tim took over for elections – he advised that should more than one person be nominated the 3rd legacy procedure would apply.

He first called for nominations from the floor for DCM – Barry nominated Trudy. Tim called 3 times. Trudy accepted nominations she advised she has been sober 12 yrs and has done service the whole time. She has done the steps and has an AA and a service sponsor. She was alt. GSR, GSR, alt DCM and DCM District 1 and now Alt. DCM District 2. All were in favor Trudy is now the incoming DCM for District 2.

Tim next called for nominations from the floor for Alt. DCM – Barry nominated Cathy, Downtown Dartmouth Group. Tim called 3 times. Cathy accepted the nominations as long as she could continue to act as GSR for her group, she advised she has been sober 11 years has a sponsor, done the steps and has done lots of group service as well as being the Alt GSR and now GSR for her group. All were in favor Cathy is now the incoming Alt. DCM for District 2.

Tim next called for Treasurer 3 times then Secretary 3 times no ones name was put forth so these were held over and Barry asked that all GSRs bring forward to their groups the need to fill these positions.

Barry said it was important that all GSRs have their groups discuss the proposal of combining the following service positions. CPC and PI and Corrections and Treatment. Currently these are 4 separate positions but the suggestion is to make them 2 with a Chair and Alt Chair and then these 2 form committees. This to be voted on in November.

Visitors – Rod commented that people have lost perspective at the group level. Dave D. said if someone is voted in as GSR or Alt. GSR it is their responsibility to come to the monthly meeting and if they can’t they shouldn’t take the position. Cathy suggested a phone call instead of an email might be better as there is a personal touch, she said that is what corrections does before scheduled meetings and it works. Barry agrees this is a great idea to implement.

Karen from Colby Big Book had one more thing to bring up from group They wanted to know if phones could be brought back to being set up at Club 24 and how late were the phones to be answered on the weekend.

She was advised to contact the Telephone person – contact information in the newsletter and that the phones were 24/7 on the weekend.

Meeting closed with the Responsibility Pledge

• Announcements

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Next Meeting – October 19th, 2014