Delegate’s Report to Area Assembly, July 12, 2020

It’s been a pretty quiet month, but here’s some info I pass along, in no particular order:

• Updated since the July Area Assembly: The final 2019 financial reports have been audited and will be presented at an online meeting to the members of the 2020 General Service Conference. Tentatively scheduled for August 15^th.
• AA.org has online video content for the International Convention that would have been held in Detroit. It is available on the website for the month of July.
• The settlement with our insurance provider over the cancellation of the event in Detroit is ongoing.
• GSO has already started working on the 2025 International Convention, by sending out requests for proposals from 12 vendors that would set up arrangements in Vancouver.
• Contributions from the fellowship were way up in May. $840,000, up from the monthly average of $670,000 that we had in January through March of this year.
• There is a new Grapevine daily quote book available. It can be ordered from store.aagrapevine.org
• Big Books, in all formats, are 10% off this summer, when ordered from GSO
• There will be multiple board openings in 2021, with the positions starting immediately following the next General Service Conference:

• • The General Service Board chairperson – need to be a past or current trustee, either class A (non alcoholic) or B (alcoholic)
  • A Class B trustee at large, from the USA
  • Three Class A trustees – let me know if you are aware of anyone who might be approached for this (someone you deal with in corrections, legal, medical, religion, etc.)
  • A non-trustee director for AAWS
  • A non-trustee director for Grapevine/LaVina

In love and service,

Barb

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