May 27, 2008
I’m very sorry about the lateness of these minutes. I’ve had a rough month.
The District monthly GSR meeting was held on Tuesday, May 27th at the new District 17 Central Office, located in the old Re-Entry house, 373 Woodward Ave. in Kingsford. In attendance was Cliff, Dennis, Bruce, Robert, Todd, & Jen.
Corrections: Please see attached corrections report. Thanks Dennis, for all you do. Dennis paid the district $64.50 for 500 meeting cards for the jails.
Financial: See financial report on the following page provided our District 17 Treasurer, Bruce L. Bruce has compiled a chart of all the meetings in the district to see who is actually donating. Per usual, it’s the same groups.
2009 Spring Conference: The established dates for the 2009 Area 74 spring conference are 15th, 16th, & 17th of May 2009. The place is at Pine Mountain Resort in Iron Mountain. We discussed menus for our buffet, as well as establishment of panels. Aaron & Dennis agreed to chair the hospitality committee & handle the marathon meeting. Jen will head the Alanon committee. & work on establishing Alanon panels for our theme ~. Which brought us to the next topic? : a theme. Since it is a spring conference, Dennis & Cliff suggested "Celebrating the Trillium … Service, Recovery, & Unity" … Legends to Legacy. Jen will ask Floyd about getting a picture of a Trillium for our banner. For the next conference meeting, we need to contact Dodie, Steve, or Len to find out if this is a working conference or just for fun. We also need to start assembling AA panels & find a Keynote speaker for Saturday night. We decided not to open a new P.O. Box as we can just use our District Box. THE NEXT CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 24TH AT 6:00 PM, JUST PRIOR TO THE DISTRICT MEETING. PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND. Any questions, please contact Steve S. (906)-774-8258.
Computer: The computer went out over the weekend during the electrical storm due to a power spike. Unfortunately, a back-up battery won’t help with that. Cliff will make extra keys to the back door in case he can’t get to the office when this happens again. Steve & Bruce will have extra building keys
Meeting cards: Cliff contacted C J Graphics about the errors on the meeting cards & they apologized but didn’t give him a refund. They did promise to correct the mistakes for next time though.
The meeting closed with The Our Father.
The next district meeting will be held Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at the new District 17 Central Office, located in the old Re-Entry house, 373 Woodward Ave. in Kingsford
Respectfully typed by Jen J. District 17 Secretary, Page 2
Website: The District 17 website had over 80 hits this month & can be viewed at http://district17a74.org. Please check our website for important announcements. Check our area website at http://area74.org to stay up to date with all area business.