Greetings Area 46,
I hope this report finds you well and in good health. As this is the April report we would have had the Area 46 assembly on March 27 and So my Assembly Report went something like this: NAAD (North America Alt Delegate) meet on the
1st of every month. At our February meeting our topic was the General Service Conference Agenda Items. Not necessarily the topics themselves but how do the areas discuss them, Some Areas send them out to the Districts and groups and wait for response. Others are like Area 46 where the Delegate sends them out to Committee chairs and Districts plus we have some form of Delegate sharing session at our Assembly. Some Areas have full Mock Conferences which take a lot of planning and they have been doing it for some time. They all give the Delegate some idea on how the outcome of the vote should go. Of course the Delegate still has the right of Decision.
The Area 46 Forum will make a Decision on April 10 if we go Hybrid or only Virtual. Our Forum is scheduled for July 24. I was Blessed to attend the 2021 SWRDA (South West Region Delegate Assembly) on March 12 and 13, it was virtual. Here, the Southwest Region Past Delegates help Delegates and Alt Delegates prepare for the upcoming General Service Conference with reports and workshops to simulate Mock Conference committee meetings. This year we discussed actual Agenda Items! Because they were Mock Committees meetings, no real results were given to the Delegates. What an experience and Blessing it was to be able to attend both 2020 and 2021 SWRDAs in my Rotation. At the March Assembly Bill L shared a Literature Video on how there is General Service Agenda Items About changing words in the first 164 pages, taking the chapter “To Wives” out of our Big Book. Other discussions were making work books, or a Fifth addition and changing the Preamble to make it more gender friendly. I took part in the Delegate Sharing Session on one of these topics assigned to me and the result was given to our Delegate Bill L. Of course I don’t have the results now because as I write this the Assembly has not happened yet!
Your Grateful Servant
Eloy M
Panel 70 Alt Delegate