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1 Minutes of AA East Rand Area Assembly Meeting Held on Saturday 13 th August pm At Area Office, the Central Methodist Church, 26 Bunyan Street, Benoni East Rand Area Committee Meeting: Every second Saturday of each month. Annual General Meeting: every September. Election AGM: next elections September Area Capacity Name Group Phone Att. sign Chairperson Vincent Brakpan AP Vice Chairperson Sandil H.A.T.S AP Delegate Suben Kempton Park P Alt. Delegate Anil Benoni City AP Trustee Rod NP / East Rand rodneywalkeruae@gmail.com P Rotates out Secretary Bonnie Airfield wadeleyb@gmail.com AB Treasurer Tony Springs tonyisaac599@gmail.com P Office Co-ordinator Archivist Treatment Facilities Actonville aaeastrand@gmail.com P Vacant Correctional Facility. Koos Phoenix @vodamail.co.za P PIC CPC Literature Vacant Vacant Vacant Eastrander/Website Colin Brakpan duffin@telkomsa.net AB General Service Rep. Tony Actonville P General Service Rep. John Airfield P Alternate GSR Paul Benoni paulventer@gmail.com AB General Service Rep. Yani Benoni None AB General Service Rep. Valerie Benoni South valbelle1981@gmail.com AB GSR-Alternative Shane Boksburg shane.raghunanen@gmail.com AB General service Rep Lisa Boksburg lisa.mckay@siigroup.com P General Service Rep. Glen Courage 2 C glenc31@gmail.com AB

2 Alternate GSR Ewen Courage 2 C Simewen1980@gmail.com P General Service Rep. Bharat Edenvale Bharat@litvinhack.co.za P General Service Rep. Niel Kempton Park z.qxr9000@gmail.com P General Service Rep. Trevor H.A.T.S trevorcusdin@gmail.com P General Service Rep. Koos Phoenix @vodamail.co.za P General Service Rep. Belinda Primrose belindap@za.ibm.com P General Service Rep. Michelle Springs michelehutch1@gmail.com AB General Service Rep. Release Tembisa AB Alternative GSR Zoey Phoenix zoemeyer71@gmail.com AB Contact Person Skipper Heidelberg sax5ave@mac.com P Contact Person Joanne Courage 2 C joanne.pamela.smit@gmail.com AB Contact Person George Highveld george.moolman@lantic.net AB Contact Person David Katlehong netshidp@eskom.co.za AP Horizon Clinic Contact Person Mandla Katlehong P Observer Brian Benoni City P Observer Mike Edenvale P Observer Adil P MINUTE 1. OPENING AND WELCOME Suben welcomed all and opened the meeting with the serenity prayer. OWNER Suben 2. CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES Koosl proposed, Niel seconded. APOLOGIES Vince, Sandil, David, Anil MATTERS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES Belinda requested that decisions taken at the July meeting regarding non-advertising of Germiston and Primrose events be reconsidered in light of the fact that Kevin has stepped down as a member of both groups and the decision would affect members who were not party to the

3 violation. This was discussed and approved by vote. Noted that there was an attempt to retract the newspaper article, but due to time constraints, this had not been possible. Belinda undertook to provide the Area Office with updated contact persons for these groups. All area events are to be forwarded to Area Office and will be discussed at Area Assembly prior to being advertised. Noted that traditions violation by an individual will be dealt with on a personal basis. As there has been no communication with the Area Secretary it was decided to advertise the position 3 VACANCIES AND APPOINTMENTS Positions still vacant: General Service Office East Rand Area Class A Trustee position will become vacant New vacancy General Service Trustee, Literature and Publications. Applications close 9/9/2016 Literature Representative PIC- ( Currently carried by Koos and Sandil) CPC- (Currently carried by Koos and Sandil) Current Chairman, Treasurer, Delegate and Alternate Delegate rotate out in September. An application for the Chair position has been received. Area Assembly Secretary Requirements for above positions can be found on the website alternatively;, Suben or Vincent can be contacted. GSRs requested to continue to advertise service positions at their groups for both GSO and East Rand Area. Vacant positions will be ed to GSRs 4 CHAIRPERSON S REPORT All Vincent Last month I was tasked with contacting our Area Secretary Bonnie to enquire if she was in a position to continue with her position considering that she was absent for the past 3 consecutive meetings. I have tried the contact number contained in the Area Minutes as well as her on numerous occasions with no response. got the contact information from her group which was the same as the minutes. Her group member reported that she was not seen at her group recently. In view of this, I would like to propose that we advertise the Area Secretary position for election at the AGM in September. I had communication from Frank (Chairperson of the Pretoria Convention) asking if the East rand would mind purchasing raffle tickets to raise cash for the convention coffers. These tickets will be sold in our area by SAYPAA members on the east rand. As most of you would know, Pretoria is also a small region with even fewer groups than we have. I have advised Frank that I foresee no reason for the East Rand not supporting this initiative, but if however, the assembly feels otherwise, I will gladly advise the convention committee of your decision.

4 Thinking along convention lines, the East Rand will be hosting the 2019 Convention. I would like to suggest that we make an early start by electing the Committee by the end of the year and get the ball rolling. I would also like to thank Suben, Sandil, and Koos for the hard work and dedication they put into spreading the message to the still suffering in their respective sub-forums. Thanks to Suben for getting another meeting started in Tembisa. Well done. The East Rand Rally is around the corner. Fellow Eastranders please assist the Inter group committee in any way you can to make this event a memorable one. Spread the message to those in your community to attend, after all, Rallies are meant to be public information channels for the still suffering. Yours in the fellowship Vincent N. 5 DELEGATE S REPORT AND COMMUNICATION Suben 1. The date, venue and program for our Northern Regional Forum is confirmed for Saturday the 22nd of October 2016 at 9:30 am at Benoni Central Methodist Church. We need to decide on costs and catering please. Invites need to be ed out by our Area office please. Budget of R2000 approved by Area 2. Regional Class A Rep training, Saturday 17 September, venue provisionally booked at UJ Campus Auckland Park campus, what times will work? Provisional time-table is from 9:30 to 14h00, I propose we adjust the times to 11h00 to 14h30. who is available to facilitate? Which candidates may be invited as Class A reps? Social workers, doctors, teachers, psychologists, care workers, etc. We need to identify at least 2 candidates please. After meeting I spoke to Varosh who suggested we combine this workshop with JWRA at Wedge Gardens on Saturday 3 September from 11h30-14h30. This was later confirmed by Frank V. 3. Social worker CPD workshop has been confirmed for Friday 30 September, venue has been booked, we need to cater for teas and coffees only. Budget of R2000 approved by Area. 4. AA meetings in the mines no progress which mine first? Who would like to take responsibility here? Forward suggestion to at Office. 5. Traditions break corrective action Kevin from Primrose group contacted me as delegate to say that he has stepped down as responsible member for Primrose and Germiston groups, Area should not hold the groups accountable for the actions of one person. 6. We have requested and approved 10 Copies of AA in Prisons to be used to supplement the 10 Big Books that was approved at last Area meeting for prisons. I am aware GSO is out of stock here, when will we receive the books? A special order has been placed with GSO since they do not stock large quantities of this stock item. 7. We have requested 6 literature packs for the Area from CF /TF National Committee project. Received and distributed 8. We have requested 5 Xhosa and 5 Zulu Big Books for our work in prisons from National Literature and Publications committee we will receive with next literature order to be given to Koos for Boksburg Prison. 9. Regional trustee application submitted to GSO

5 10. Letter to the Board regarding subsidizing Delegate fees submitted to GSO 11. New Sunday meeting in Tembisa at 11am at 43 Benin Street, Ethafeni Multiskills Centre, Behind Ethafeni clinic, starting Sunday 14 August 2016, contact Suben or Nala , please pass it on 12. Please follow-up and order a copy of the Zulu Big Book Audio when available from GSO. 13. I rotate out as Delegate this month, thank you for the opportunity to serve. Feedback on conference part three of three. National CPC & PI Committee 5 Class A Resources to be elected in the different regions. Training program for those to be conducted by Class A Trustees. Continue with Facebook advertising and add Twitter advertising. Social worker workshop details to be captured. Areas will be asked to follow up and stay in contact. Set up workshops in De Aar and/or other areas. From Plenary (full conference) 7. Conference is requested to approve that GSO conduct service arms workshops for attendance by local areas and that the material used then be sent to all areas for them to conduct their own workshops. - Proposal not accepted. GSO can send material to areas to conduct their own workshops, but cannot host the workshops as its stature is national and not regional; on this basis it cannot be seen to be favouring areas which have easier access by virtue of geographical location. 8. Proposal that Social Media Guidelines be approved by Conference. - Proposal accepted and guidelines approved. These guidelines will be updated each year. The National Finance and IT Committee will refine and expand on current document to make it inclusive of any online activity. 9. Proposal that AA Zimbabwe be accepted as part of the AA SA structure. - Proposal accepted. AA Zimbabwe will join the Northern Region as an Area. Concerning GSO and other Areas: The following items were ed to the Delegates and our Area office, and is available from our Area office or the national website once logged in.

6 All Areas, Board and GSO minutes of meetings. Convention 2017 Newsletter - 14th 16th April It works - it really does - Pretoria Boys High School busy fund raising please support accommodation and meals needs to be pre-booked if required cost R100 for registration Northern Region Forum programme to be ed. No entrance fee will be charged; there will a collection. 6. TRUSTEE S REPORT Confirmed that the proposal for Regional Trustee is under consideration Rod 7. SECRETARY REPORT. No Report Bonnie 8. TREASURER S REPORT See attached financial reports. Camp Eden recon complete; there was a profit realised. Agreed that financial report will, in future, show the budget for future events, as per a member s request. Upcoming events were discussed Social Worker s Workshop a budget of R2000 was approved Regional Forum a budget of R2000 was provisionally approved An advance of R5000 to Intergroup for the East Rand Rally was approved 9. REPORT FROM AREA OFFICE Office Analysis a. 12 Steps 13 b. Literature 9 c. General Info 128 d. AA member visits 36 e. AA member calls 36/TOTAL 215 f. PIC 6 g. CPC h. Internet requests 14 PIC Nampak x 2 PIC Tony Springs Michelle Airfield and Shane Boksburg. And volunteer Open and Closed meetings clarification. New comers thinks that the closed meeting is non functional. Clarification to be added to list Literature: Highest recorded sales for the month of July. Special projects R Office: The room adjacent to the office has now been cleared of all church goods and is being cleaned out by myself and Koos. Work in progress Group contributions have been low and inconsistent. GSRs to discuss/distribute literature : Self-Support, where money and spirituality mix Groups to please lend their group tablecloths for the ER Rally Tony Tony /Colin GSRs GSRs

7 10. A) B) REPORTS FROM SPECIAL SERVICES Archives The cabinet is being set up and catalogued and should be ready for viewing at the East Rand Rally. Treatment Facilities: A starter pack was approved for donation to The Manger C) Correctional Facilities Koos Boksburg Prison These meetings are running extremely well. Attendance averaging about 10 inmates. We are busy with Step work meetings. Skippers help have been immeasurable, I just want to thank him for his help. Feedback from social workers and other DCS staff have been very positive. Moderbee Prison All the paper work have been sighed according to Mr. Sibiya. I am just waiting for him to return from leave and then we should start negotiations with social workers to get a time slot. Summary We request GSRs to ask their respective groups for volunteers to help carry the message into Prisons. We would like to thank Suben and GSO for the Big Books in Zulu and Xhosa. Litrature We will be requesting Big Books at the next meeting. D) Co-operation with professional communities: Assistance and volunteers needed. E) Public Information: No report, see Office report Sandil 11. INTERGROUP Intergroup requires help sourcing external speakers for the East Rand Rally as well as area members to serve on the Rally committee. Posters for Rally are required ASAP. Sandil offered to assist with design and printing. 12. EASTRANDER AND WEBSITE: Anil and Vincent Colin No Report

8 13. GROUP FEEDBACK GROUP ATTENDANCE ANNOUNCEMENTS Actonville 8-10 Airfield Tues Step meeting Benoni City Brian is the new GSR Benoni Lunch Time Same Benoni South Same Boksburg 8-10 Same Brakpan 2-6 No report Courage to Change 8-12 No change Edenvale Mon-20 Wed-12 Thurs - 28 Germiston 8-10 Celebrating 51 years on 26 th September Heidelberg 8-10 Here Are The Steps We Took 6-8 Hambesa No Report No Report House of mercy 6-8 Highveld 8-10 Katlehong 8-10 Kempton Park Newcomers meeting going well Phoenix Step meeting last Tuesday each month Plantation 5-6 Need speakers Primrose Springs 10 Same Word of Mouth No report No Report.

9 14. GENERAL A new meeting has started in Tembisa at 11am on Sundays Koos requested posters about new meetings Suben requested that Area purchases a copy of the Zulu audio Big Book and pass it on to him. 15. NEXT PLANNED MEETING GENERAL EAST RAND AREA ASSEMBLY MEETING. AT 14H00 ON SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 2016 AT THE CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, 26 BUNYAN STREET, BENONI.

Attendance: P- present; AP apologies; AB absent; NA Not applicable ITEM # MINUTE OWNER

Attendance: P- present; AP apologies; AB absent; NA Not applicable ITEM # MINUTE OWNER Minutes of AA East Rand Area Assembly Meeting Held on Saturday 11 th April at 2pm at Area Office, The Central Methodist Church, 26 Bunyan Street, Benoni East Rand Area Committee Meeting: Every second Saturday