The General Service Conference approved literature organized into piles at the back of the room is for the various Valleywide H&I Coordinators to distribute to the various hospitals, treatment centers, jails, and prisons throughout the Valley to the confined Alcoholics. If you chair an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a hospital or institution where the attendees cannot get out to a regular meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous you will coordinate with your respective coordinator to get books inside.
Used and new Grapevine issues can be donated by homegroups and will go to confined alcoholics.
I will make literature orders every 2 months and distribute up to 1/2 of the literature available in an attempt to ensure literature will be available for distribution to the Valleywide H&I Coordinators each month. Last month we spent $13976.40 purchasing books from the General Service Office in New York (GSO).
We got 114 cases of books. 74 cases of Big Books, 30 cases of 12X12s, 10 cases of small Big Books:
English
54 cases 1080 Big Books $6.23 each = 6728.40
20 cases 400 12X12 $5.74 = 2296.00
10 cases 400 pocket BB $3.28 = 1312.00
Spanish;
20 cases 400 Big Books $6.23 each = 2492.00
10 cases 200 12X12 $5.74 = 1148.00
Total spent on literature from GSO = 13976.40
For this month we spent 400 on meeting lists from SRI and 375 on meeting lists from Arizona Area. The Arizona meeting lists may be helpful to those in prisons or treatment centers that will be going to places other than the greater Phoenix area.
Last month the coordinators helped by signing for the books they picked up. Basically, they signed a receipt. We will continue this form of accountability. This month the Valleywide H&I Steering Committee has requested an additional form to be maintained through the cooperation of the various coordinators in order to track exactly where the literature is going. The new literature tracking form will be sent home with them to fill out during the month and turn at the next meeting. We are interested in being able to account for where the books are going.
Aaron B, Valleywide H&I, PO Box 80126, Phoenix, AZ 85060-0126