1of4 motion to create committee

Each AA group makes a decision to participate.

    Each AA home group, by the group conscience of its members, makes the decision to assume their right and responsibility under Concept 1, “Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should
always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship ”. We encourage all groups to make that choice. The District Committee, to help the groups fulfill that responsibility, invite all groups to participate in their district committee and area assembly by selecting and supporting a General Service Representative.

The groups establish a district committee.

   Tradition 9 says this, “AA, as such, ought never be organized”.  We recognize that no individual or group should take it upon them selves to organize the district committee and induce the groups to support and participate. Organizing the groups is not how things are done in the spiritual fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.

   Tradition 9 does explain how a district committee is established, “but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.” This informs us that it is the groups of our district who have the responsibility and authority to establish the committee. In this manner, when the groups establish the committee, the committee becomes responsible directly to the groups.

The groups assume responsibility.

   The participating groups of the district assume the responsibility to establish the committee’s principals, practices, and provide leadership to the committee. The district committee stands only to serve the groups. Participation in the district committee is also, in effect, a decision by your group to connect yourselves to the General Service Conference and become part of AA worldwide.

   Here are the fundamental principals and structure the committee is committed to follow.  

• Our groups, by creating the District committee, would delegate only limited responsibilities, with limited and appropriate authority - not unlimited authority - to provide a service structure for, and services to, our groups and AA as a whole.
• The District Committee will provide regular meetings for the General Service Representatives (GSR) of all district groups.
• The GSRs will keep their group informed and represent their group conscience in the District and Area Committees, by participating in those meetings.
• The GSRs will select a DCM from the district’s GSRs, past and present, in the District Committee Election meeting every other year.
• The DCM will be responsible to help the groups, through their GSRs, make their group conscience part of AA as a whole, through the District Committee meetings and Area Assembly meetings.
• The District Committee will establish and oversee sub-committees as needed to serve the groups.
• The District Committee will place “Principals before Personalities”. They will not act as government or a political body for the limited interests of any group or individual.
• The District Committee will follow, to the best of their ability, under the groups leadership, the principals expressed in the Twelve Traditions, Twelve Concepts, AA Service Manual, and the District Committee Participation Principals.