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DCM - District Committee Member Trusted Servant Guidelines

From AA Service Manual p. 15, 2021-2023 edition Additional duties for District 8 Area 35 have been added at the end of this document.

Every district is different, but the following are relatively common service activities undertaken by DCM:

  1. Regularly hold district meetings. DCMs are asked to give reports to the GSRs on news, issues, proposals, and future events from the Area and G.S.O. It is also important for DCMs to keep the GSRs informed about Conference activities, perhaps even assisting the Delegate in reporting the proceedings of the General Service Conference, either by organizing report-backs or delivering the reports to their districts in lieu of the Dele-gate. GSRs are typically asked to report on what’s happening in their groups and DCMs can make sure that GSRs have what they need in order to assure good communication across the service structure. (See the section titled “Making Reports,” in Chapter 1 for a list of publications that can be helpful to DCMs in making reports to the District.

  2. Regularly attend area Assemblies. The number of Assemblies during the year varies by Area. All DCMs (and GSRs) from around the Area are asked to attend. DCMs (and GSRs) are voting members of these Assemblies. (See Chater 3 for more information on the Area and Assemblies.

  3. Reach out to groups in the District that do not have GSRs. (District 8 DCMs shall visit all groups during their rotation.) Some groups may have little or no history of electing GSRs. Some may have had active GSRs in the past, but no longer. The DCM is asked to open a line of communication with these groups. The purpose is not to badger them into electing GSRs, but to begin to connect them to A.A. as a whole.

  4. Organize workshops and/or sharing sessions on service activities.

  5. Bring Traditions problems to the attention of the Delegate.

  6. Help GSRs become acquainted with the A.A. Service Manual/Twelve Concepts for World Service. DCMs can also be helpful by introducing the GSRs to Box-459 and ser-vice material from the G.S.O., which includes workbooks and guidelines on an array of topics.

  7. Alert the District GSRs to new literature, service materials and technology applications from the G.S.O. and Grapevine. This includes new books published by A.A. World Ser-vices and the Grapevine. The literature catalogs of the two corporations are an excellent resource. DCMs often hear about new literature before it appears in the catalog, and it can be helpful to alert GSRs on what’s coming. The groups may have questions and comments on these. The DCM can help the GSRs address these while also passing them along to the Area and the Delegate.

  8. Assist Delegate in obtaining group contact information for A.A. Regional Directories. These directories are used for A.A. purposes only. They include information on indi-vidual groups by city within each province or territory, with contact information on group contacts.

  9. In many areas, DCMs attend Area Committee Meetings in addition to Area Assemblies. The purpose and scheduling of these meetings vary by Area. (For more information, See Chapter 4 of this Manual of the Area Committees.

GUIDELINES SPECIFIC TO DISTRICT 8

Updated February 2024

  1. At the December ACM prior to the first month of the new rotation, District numbers will be pulled from the hat, and the DCM from that District will be assigned to an Area service committee, such as Public Information, Literature, Corrections, etc. DCMs shall attend the Area Service Committee Meetings held at the Assemblies and Area Committee Meeting (ACMs).

  2. Area 35 has to Assemblies each year, April and October, and four ACMs, the first week-end of the month in February, June, August and December. DCMs shall attend all of these events.

  3. DCMs. Shall attend the annual West Central Regional A.A. Service Conference each March.

  4. DCMs shall attend the biannual West Central Regional Forum held in August or Sep-tember of the 2nd year of the rotation.

  5. DCMs will be funded by District 8 to attend all of these events. DCMs shall be prudent with their spending and will find others to share rooms and rides with, in order to mini-mize expenses to the District.

  6. Update the Trusted Servant Guidelines and submit the updates by June of the second year to the District Secretary.

  7. Send out reminders of upcoming District meetings via email.