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WELCOME

• First time attendees

• All of you

• Assembly guest – Julio E., GSO Staff

• NC Delegate – Jennifer D. Panel 61, Area 51

AND

• Our next Delegate and Alt Delegate

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61ST GSC FINAL REPORT

Includes:

• Detailed accounting of the business

• Reports from our Boards, Trustees Committees, GSO and Grapevine

• Workshop presentations by the Delegates

• Recommendations and floor actions not resulting in Advisory Actions

• Financial reports

• And more

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BOARD UPDATES

• The General Service Board will conduct an inventory in October 2011

• El N., our SE Trustee is on the planning committee

• The General Service Conference will conduct an inventory

• 3 year process

• Will begin in 2013

• Details of format and questions are in the Final Report

• The Grapevine Board will consider its composition and size

GSO Staff rotation July 2011

• SE correspondence – Gayle S.

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SOME RESULTS OF CONFERENCE ACTIONS

• New pamphlet – “AA for the Alcoholic with Special Needs”

• Updated version –“AA Member – Medication and Other Drugs”,

increased emphasis that AA members should not play doctor

• Updated version – “Understanding Anonymity”, more info on anonymity

in the digital age

• eBook version of the 4th edition Big Book and Twelve and Twelve

available in Nov 2011

• AA Membership survey was conducted in August – we had 9 groups

surveyed

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THE AA GRAPEVINE AND LA VINA

• New books – Emotional Sobriety II and Step by Step

• Updated website www.aagrapevine.org

• Web exclusive stories

• Discussions

• Polls

• Audio files

• Archives

• Package deals for magazine and online subscriptions

• FaceBook and Twitter – YIKES!

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TRUSTEES COMMITTEES’ REQUESTS

• Archives Committee

• Collecting success stories with archives collections – “Archives

Committee Activities – shared Experience” section

• Corrections Committee

• Sharing on new challenges and solutions in Corrections 12th step work

• Finance Committee

• Stories that humanize our 7th Tradition

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• Southeastern Conference

August 2011 – Raleigh NC

• Southern States Alcoholics

Anonymous Service

Assembly (SSAASA) –

November 4-6, 2011

Fairfax, VA

SOUTHEAST REGION

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2015 INTERNATIONAL - ATLANTA

• GSO accepting suggestions for the theme

• Registration and hotel information will be available

in September 2014

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DAILY REFLECTIONS

“AAWS recently requested an unauthorized source to stop posting Daily

Reflections online without permission and to refrain from emailing daily

excerpts to subscribers because this infringed on the copyright of this

book, and they have complied.” quoted from “Highlights from AAWS

• GSO received over 800 emails and phone calls

• GSO will consider providing this service

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THIS WEEKEND

• Redistricting proposal between 11A and 16B

• New map for District 13

• New website design – rolled out at Prepaid in Gainesville

• Distributed the 2012 budget proposal

• Ad Hoc Committee appointed to improve communication between the

Area and District 17, our linguistic District for our Spanish meetings

• Recommendation by our November DCM Planning Meeting

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THANK YOU!!!

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