Area Assembly Agenda - April 2026

January 25, 2026 January 25, 2026

Trusted Servant

Please reach out to the Area Chair at chair@area41org if you have any questions about the Assembly Agenda. The agenda is subject to change!

🛜 NOTE! The April 2026 assembly will be hybrid (both in person and online). Please get acquainted with how to join online at area41.org/hybrid.

Area 41 Assembly with Business Meeting (Hybrid: In Person and Online)
April 11-12, 2026

Quality Inn and Conference Center I-80 Grand Island
7838 S Hwy 281, Bldg A, Grand Island, NE 68803
308-384-7770
(In order to get the Area 41 reduced rate, you must reserve your room four weeks prior to the Area 41 meeting.)

[Zoom Meeting ID added week of event]

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Schedule

Old Business: Voting Items (4)

✅(VOTE) Agenda Item 2026-01-10 009 Agenda

Area 41 submit a proposed agenda item for the 77th General Service Conference to consider changing the policy for how the Conference agenda is set to give Conference committees the ability to have a formal role in setting their agenda, instead of the General Service Board having exclusive authority to set the General Service Conference agenda.

📌Background (click to hide/show)

In recent years, the Fellowship has submitted more than 100 proposed agenda items for each General Service Conference, and very few of those make the Conference agenda, even when submitted by one or more multiple Areas. The current policy only empowers the General Service Board to set the Conference's agenda. The area delegates, representing the Fellowship, have no formal role to set their agenda. While committees can and do discuss items not on their agenda, it is without the benefit of background information and widespread Fellowship discussion. Other Structures around the world give area delegates much more authority in setting the agenda for the Fellowship's Conference.

✅(VOTE) Agenda Item 2026-01-10 001 Finance

Amend Area 41’s Financial Guidelines to update the dollar amounts set for what expenses can be approved by the treasurer, from $100 to $150 and the Finance Committee, from $400 to $500 as outlined in Section 4, paragraph 1, sections a, b, and c.

📌Background (click to hide/show)

The current guidelines were approved in 2008. Suggested increases are in line with inflation and maintain the spirit of the limits.

✅(VOTE) Agenda Item 2026-01-10 003 Finance

To remove any “Sponsorships or Incentive” payments from outside venues when considering hotel bids. Area 41 will not accept such offers.

📌Background (click to hide/show)

7th Tradition states, “We are self-supporting, declining outside contributions.” When considering hotel bids for 2027 and 2028, two hotels offered payments from their local Visitors Bureau. These were removed. In the future, any such Sponsorships or Incentives will be deleted from any hotel bids submitted to Area 41 for presentation to the Fellowship.

✅(VOTE) Agenda Item 2026-01-10 010 Agenda

Area 41 submit a proposed agenda item for the 77th General Service Conference to consider requiring candidates for new Non-Trustee Director and General Service Trustee positions to have been rotated out for at least one year from previous Conference or Board-level service.

📌Background (click to hide/show)

The spirit of rotation is a core principle of A.A. service and plays a role in ensuring principles are placed before personalities. Tradition Nine says that rotating leadership is best. At the General Service Board level, area delegates must have rotated out for a full year from their last conference before being eligible for Board-level service. The same break is not currently required for appointed committee members or non-trustee directors. This means someone could serve for up to 12 years consecutively.