Chair Report - January 2025

Good morning Area 41!

I have had an exciting quarter full of reading through inventory results. I want to say that I’m grateful for Janine to help compile the results into a more readable format than the notes I had created. A report will be available in April with our committee showcase, in our report and available on the website.

The agenda committee and I always welcome your feedback on the agenda for our assembly weekends, we do our best to accommodate whatever committees ask for time to hold workshops, and we’re open to try new things. If you are interested in this, anyone is welcome to join our zoom meetings where we finalize the agenda, you can help us design this schedule. The extended meal breaks, while it seems like it cuts into our time, the pay offs appear to be that we’ve seen an increase in participation in evening sessions and overall lower stress.

If you have agenda items you’d like to submit, please get them to me by Jan. 22 so we can get them distributed to their proper committee. The agenda committee will meet virtually on Jan. 22 at 6:30pm, if you’d like to join us let me know I’ll send you the information. A reminder, a couple days after this meeting the schedule for the April assembly, the voting items, items assigned to committee and items still in committee are posted at area41.org. You can access them just that quick! No need to wait for a completed newsletter, you have the available information as soon as 16 days after the assembly, then Erin sends them out with the highlights.

I look forward to seeing you all in 2 weeks in St. Paul at the 4 corners workshop, in a month in Casper Wyoming and don’t forget to spread the word about Scott H. coming in April. It’s not often we get the chair of the GSB to come to our assemblies, the agenda committee has plenty of time for him to not only share his recovery story, but his service journey and lots of time for Q&A. You and your group will be able to share your feedback with him and your delegate on GSC items and the GSB happenings. If this isn’t enough you’ll be able to do it all again in September at the forum in Omaha. As always thanks for allowing me to serve and continue to learn and grow as I do this thing. I look forward to our committee showcase and hearing your feedback on these new ideas.

Yours in Service,

Cara G.