[Businessmtg] Fwd: Re: January 2024 Business Meeting - Group Rep Report

[Anne OHara]

Sorry- platform is 2nd and language is 3rd
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> On Jan 9, 2024, at 2:55 PM, Lynne <lynne at asp-afg.org> wrote:
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> From Tori. Anne or Steve, do you know the answer to this?
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> Hugs,
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> Lynne
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> Is 'language' first or last? See underline
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> On Jan 9, 2024, at 9:10 AM, Lynne <lynne at asp-afg.org> wrote:
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> From Anne:
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> Happy New Year Business meeting friends!
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> In December, our GEA (Global Electronic Area) had two presentations scheduled for GRs - I attended both.  The Districting Task Force  presented their recommendation for assigning districts.  There was a Q & A session after the presentation and now the GRs will attend the January 20th assembly to vote on the recommendation.
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> Note that this GEA leadership team (not the districting  thoughtforce or taskforce)  is approaching districting a step at a time, so voting on situations in front of us without a larger plan, this means If the recommendation below passes, we don't know what happens next, and if it fails, we start the discussion all over again with a new Task Force.
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> Recommendations of the GEA Districting Task Force
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> * All groups registered in the GEA, regardless of whether or not they have a GR, will be placed in districts.
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> * Groups will be assigned to districts. Groups will not choose their district.
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> * Districts will, whenever possible, consist of up to 20 groups.
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> * DR terms will align with the terms of the current panel. Thus DRs elected during this panel will serve until 12/31/24.
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> * Because 57% of the GEA groups do not have a GR, it is recommended that districts include a mix of groups that have and do not have a GR, so as to avoid inadvertently creating districts in which none of the groups have a GR.
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> * The UTC meeting start times displayed in the electronic meetings list on al-anon.org are to be the primary consideration for sorting groups into districts. Language and platform will have the next highest priority followed by language.
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> * To promote unity and understanding in the GEA, each district where possible will include a mix of at least two platforms.
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> The primary means of sorting groups into district will be based on meeting start times, and those will be mapped to UTC - Coordinated Universal time.  The Task force had a pie chart that broke the world into these "buckets" - a great visual that was not shared with GRs to bring back to their groups.   And while, I don't have the pie chart that illustrated how the groups would be mapped to districts, this site has helpful information UTC Time Standard (timeanddate.com) [1]
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> The taskforce used the KBDM process to put together their recommendation, It is not perfect but it is a start. For us as an email meeting that meets 24/7, our placement into a district that is based on UTC and meeting start times will be tricky.  I haven't really heard much about how that will work for the 24/7 groups and there is still the question of accessibility for those groups that are not English, French or Spanish speaking.  Again, the plan is not perfect but is a start and one that I am sure will be refined over time.
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> Looking forward to a discussion on this topic.
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> Yours in Service,
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> Anne
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> [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc
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