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January 15th, 2012
Winter Service Assembly
Madison Senior Center
9:00 AM
9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Standing Committee Meetings/GSR & DCM Schools
Archives
Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC)
Corrections
Public Information (PI)
Special Needs
Treatment
Grapevine
Literature
Conference Advisory Committee / All future Area 75 Conferences
Area 75 Finance Committee
GSR School
DCM School/Sharing Session
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Break/Lunch
Agenda Committee will meet during lunch if necessary
Showing “Hope” video (approximately 15-minutes)
11:30 AM: Area Assembly
(Note: By assembly action: all persons giving a report to the area assembly are required to submit a written copy of their report to the area secretary (an advance electronic document if possible). We will utilize a stopwatch and a bell to indicate the end of the allotted time. This system is used at the annual General Service Conference and the Regional Forums. Please practice your report ahead of time to ensure that important highlights are covered.)
Open the meeting with the Serenity Prayer
Reading of the 12 Concepts (short form)
Secretary: Roll call and report
*Approval of the minutes from the 2011 Fall Assembly
Treasurer: Report (Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Expenses Vs Budget for 2010)
*Approval of the Treasures Report
Delegate’s Report
Chairperson’s Report
*Alternate Chair Report
Standing Committee reports (5 minutes maximum)
Archives
Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC)
Corrections
Public Information (PI)
Special Needs
Treatment
Grapevine
Literature
Conference Advisory Committee / All future Area 75 Conferences
Area 75 Finance Committee
Conference reports / Past and future (3 minutes maximum)
Spring 2012
Spring 2013
Spring 2014
Central office / Intergroup reports (3 minutes maximum)
4. Report of proposals to be on the agenda for the pre-conference assembly to be
held April 15th, 2012
5. New Business:
Approval of proposed 2012 Area 75 budget
6. Coffee Volunteers for Delegate’s Workshop (March 27th) and Pre-Conference
Assembly (April 15th), both at the Madison Senior Center.
The coffee volunteer is to take the coffee supplies with them at the end of today’s meeting and replenish supplies from the donation can if needed. Coffee pots are supplied by the Madison Senior Center, which opens at 8:00 AM the day of the event. The coffee volunteer is responsible for clean up of the coffee pots and transfer of supplies to the next volunteer at the end of the day
7. Ask it Basket (with 3 Past Delegates) this will be your chance to ask all the questions
you always wanted to ask ----- anonymously
8. Announcements:
Reminder that the elections are just around the corner (new rotation 2013) and everybody needs to be thinking/meditating/praying to find the willingness to stand and take the awesome/rewarding positions that Area 75 has to offer.
9. Close the meeting with the Responsibility Declaration:
“I am responsible, When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be their and for that: I am responsible.”
If you have not already done so, please register for our Area 75 Spring Conference to be held at the Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 1313 John Q. Hammons Drive, Middleton, WI.
Call 888-745-2032 for room reservations. Be sure to pick up flyers to take back and distribute to your respective groups & districts.
Upcoming dates
1/15/12 - Winter Service Assembly – Madison Senior Center
2/10-12/12 - Conference of Delegates Past and Present – Miamisberg, Ohio
3/25/12 - Delegates Workshop – Madison Senior Center
4/15/12 - Pre-Conference Assembly – Madison Senior Center
4/21/12--- 4/28/12 – General Service Conference – Rye, New York
5/4-6/12 - Annual Area 75 Conference – Middleton, WI
6/24/12 – Summer Service Assembly – Madison Senior Center
6/29/12 --- 7/1/12 – East Central Regional Conference (ECR), Grand Rapids, MI
8/10/12 --- 8/12/12 – “Additional” East Central Regional (ECR) Forum – Mt Vernon, IL
10/21/12 --- Fall Service Assembly “ELECTIONS” - Madison Senior Center