The District monthly GSR meeting was held on Tuesday, May 26^th, 2009 at the District 17 Central Office, located at 373 Woodward Ave. in Kingsford. The meeting opened with the Serenity Prayer. In attendance was Cliff W., Bruce L., John R., Debbie G., Kevin M., James B., Joanne B., Dennis S., Aaron H., Ken W., & Jen J.

Last months’ newsletter accepted as read.

Financial Chair Report: Attached May Financial Report provided by District 17 Treasurer, Bruce L. Thanks, Bruce!

John bought two boxes of hanging files for $28.40 & would like to be reimbursed. This was accepted.  It was proposed and accepted to add a link on our District website of District, Area, & New York addresses for AA Groups making contributions. 

Corrections Chair Report: Harry S. & Kevin M. will be doing jail meetings in Wisconsin. Debbie will be doing the women’s meeting in Dickinson County. Yah, Debbie! Still need volunteers for men’s & women’s meetings in Dickinson & Iron counties. (Two years clean time needed in Michigan, but not in Wisconsin.) James suggests a sign-up sheet to send around to meetings.

0900 AA Hotline: 122 hits with possible 32 telemarketers. Leslie from Vulcan wants to do the hotline, too. She’ll be our female voice.

District 17 central office: One master key for the deck door & stairwell door at 1st floor.

Archives Chair: John R. from Iron River the archives chair for District 17 has worked in getting the archives filing all straightened out. Nice work, John.

Public Information Committee Chair:  Our new PI chair, James B is working hard.  He needs a committee, but will be starting out on his own and as suggested will get a committee later on down the road.  Needs to get meeting cards to hospitals, schools, etc.  He received the PI guidelines from John R and met with Area chair, Andy, at the Spring Conference.  Bruce had read James e-mail & sees his point about needing $$$ for literature & pamphlets.  As was suggested the District WILL need to give James money for financing his job eventually.  The budget will need to be set up through the district.  Donated money will come to the district & can be allocated to James for PI.   Ken W. has volunteered to work with James on PI.  James received a donation of $5 from Dennis S.

Respectfully submitted, Jen J., District secretary.

Website: Our website can be viewed at http://district17a74.org. Please check it out for important announcements. Visit the Area website at http://area74.org to stay up to date with all area business.

Group Change Forms: If you have changes to your groups as far as times, meeting format, GSR’s, etc. please mail to the district at: P.O. Box 415, Iron Mountain, MI 49801