WOODLAND HILLS, CALIFORNIA

Mary T., Alternate Delegate, opened the meeting with the Serenity Prayer. There were 28 in attendance.

Approval of the Minutes from August 20^th 2000, meeting, Motion and seconded with no amendments.

Approval of the Agenda, Motioned and seconded with no amendments.

First on the Agenda was finding host Districts for the first three Calendar events. Which were as follows.

a. January 21^st 2001 the First New Area 05 Assembly.

b. February 24th 2001 the First New Area 05 Area Committee Meeting.

c. March 31^st and April 1^st the 2-Day Pre-Conference Area Assembly.

After some discussion there were 2 proposals on the floor for hosting the 1^st New Area 05 Assembly they were:

The Spanish Speaking Combined Districts 33, 35, 49, & 55 Vote: 19.

West Side Combined Districts Vote: 5

The January 21, 2000, Area Assembly will be hosted by the Spanish Speaking Combined Districts 33, 35, 49, & 55

Voted by a sense of the meeting, the Downtown, Wilshire, Hollywood Combined Districts will host the 1^st Area Committee Meeting Saturday February 24 2001.

Voted by a sense of the meeting, the West Side Combined Districts will host the 2-Day Pre-Conference Area Assembly March 31 and April 1^st 2001.

The next item on the Agenda was who will be eligible to stand for Area Officers. At the last meeting we voted to have 7 Area Officers.

At this time those eligible to stand are Area Committee members, but no one is eligible to stand for an office in which he or she has ever served a full term in any Area they are as follows;

a. DCM’S c. Officers e. Standing Committee chairs

b. DCMC’S d. Past Delegates f. Ad Hoc Committee chairs

After much discussion, the following changes were suggested.

a. Add Past Area Committee Members with 80%

attendance at Assembly & Committee Meetings Votes: Add 8, Don’t Add 12

b. Current Alternate Standing Committee Chairs Votes: Add 7, Don’t Add 14

c. Alternate DCMC’S Votes: Substantial Majority not to add.

d. Current Eligibility except past Delegates Votes: Substantial Majority to keep in

e. District Officers. Votes: Substantial Majority not to add.

The Minority voice was heard on all of these.

There was a sense of the meeting to have eligibility be for this election only. Vote: 21 to 1 for. The minority voice was heard.

There was a sense of the body that no one could stand for an office that he/she held for a full two years, in any area. Passed with substantial majority.

New Motion: All Members of Area Committee only including past Delegates would be eligible to stand for Area office. Passed with substantial majority.

Next Priorities:

1. Group Participation votes 0

2. Standing Service Committees votes 16

3. Assembly Agenda votes 0

4. Districts (redistricting) votes 0

5. Acceptance of current Guidelines & Policies votes 2

The next priority would be Standing Service Committees.

After a lot of loving discussion a motion was made, and seconded:

Combine Cooperation with the Professional Community with Treatment Facilities. Leave all other Standing Committees as they are. And add the Translation Committee. Voted for overwhelmingly.

So our Standing Service Committees are as follows.

Archives, Audio Visual, CPC/TFC, Finance, Grapevine/La Vina, Guidelines & Policies, Literature, SCAAN, Public Information/Web Site, Registration, Translation.

The ad hoc committees are up to the new panel. The two that we discussed at length were the Young peoples and GSR growth out reach.

There was a sense of the meeting that the Trustee run the business portion of our meeting as well as the elections in November.

There was a sense of the meeting that the Trustee will do the roll call.

After discussion, it was voted overwhelmingly that the New Area 05 Implementation decisions would be voted on at the November Assembly No one from the minority side chose to speak.

Motion: We request the Trustee to present this package in a fair and neutral manner and open it up for discussion and run the business meeting appropriately. Passed overwhelmingly.

Mary thanked everyone for their great level of participation.

Lorrie thanked everyone for allowing her to be of service.

Respectively Submitted by

Lorrie Lee F.