The district monthly GSR meeting was held Tuesday August 30, 2011 at the district office, located at 373 Woodward Ave., Kingsford, MI.  The meeting was opened with a moment of silence followed by the Serenity Prayer.  In attendance were:  Marion H., Cliff W., Joanne B., Aaron H., Dennis S., Bruce L., Gordie P., Debbie G., Betty S., Bonnie C., Pete C., Nancy H., and John R.

Secretary’s report was read and motion made and accepted.

                               Balance from July 2011 report:                             $1275.96

                   Deposits:

                               Serenity Seekers-Crystal Falls                                  $65.00

                 Withdrawals:

                               7/27 ck#1281 B. Lange (3-Lakes expenses)             $30.75

                               8/13 ck#1282 AT&T-phone                                     $34.44

                         8/27 ck#1283 CCCU-10 big books  For corrections      $83.60

                              Balance August 2011                                              $1192.17 

        We are self-supporting through our own contributions

                    Joanne B., Treas. Dist. 17

Motion made and report accepted as presented.

Contacted Omar about Florence meeting and how it is going, he was happy to say it is going good and he looks forward to doing this meeting with James and Gordon.

The Iron Mountain Monday Early AA meeting donated two Twenty Four House a Day to the Florence Women’s AA Correctional meeting. I ordered and brought the books to the meeting so everyone could sign their name in support of this group.

Brad L. from the same group has volunteered to do the Men’s AA correctional meeting for Dickinson County with Terry G. during the winter months. Terry agreed to do the

Meeting only with him. We need the District to vote on approval for both as anyone entering the facility represents our district, not an individual’s desire to control.

Respectfully Submitted, Dennis S.

Motion made and report accepted as presented.

In the first part of August, through several reply emails with Hostek.com support, was able to gather new information on login procedures.

Simply, on July 18 the server that the district website is on was migrated into a new high availability Hosting Cloud, switching from the HELM control panel to their own custom built control panel for Hostek.com.

On August 16 with FrontPage software, had to go to the new control panel and uninstall the extension for FrontPage and then re-install the extension with new username and password so the ability to make changes to the district website by the Front page software could be performed.

Made all the necessary updates to the website with addition of district monthly newsletter, announcements, and archive page updates. At the district web-mail, read and updated emails, created new folders for storing e-mails, called Financial and Hostek folders.

I enabled a free feature called Smarter stats.

On Monday, Aug 29 at about 6 am, there was an area power failure lasting 30 minutes and the backup battery worked to keep the district computer on line.

On Tuesday, August 30 updated at the district office and prepared for the monthly district GSR meeting.

The District 17 Office has __150__ meeting cards in drawer.

The 0900 AA Hotline ___82___ hits, including __15__calls w/no option pressed.

The District website ___124____hits the past month.

Carol H and Cliff W will check with C J Graphics and present updated area meetings for the printing on 2,000 new meeting cards for the district.

As a regular monthly reminder, must train people (female/male) the operation as coordinator of the 0900 AA Hotline and as webmaster of the district website. Carol H will be taking over for Cliff W and anyone interested in getting involved with being webmaster or coordinator for 0900 AA Hotline please contact a District 17 committee member, or show up at the monthly GSR district meeting the last Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at District 17 Office in Kingsford.

Living my life 1-day at a time,

Cliff W. (Webmaster/coordinator, District17)

Motion made and report accepted as presented.

Pete C. brought in a folder for "National Recovery Month" and passed it around for everyone to look at.

There is a need for someone to fill this position. Information regarding what this position entails can be found on AA.org.

Not much active in the Area except for the cancellation of the Area 74 Concepts Workshop do to the Area 74 Finance Committee informing the Fellowship that the Area was not in a position to financially support the workshop. This was discussed at the Ontonagon Intergroup GSR meeting. It will be discussed on the monthly telephone conference call on the 31st of August. The Trustee report is available for those that are interested, copies handed out at Dist. Meeting.

When anyone anywhere reaches out I want the hand of AA always to be there and for that I am responsible. 

Respectfully;

Nancy H.  Secretary Dist. 17