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 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. Non-General Service Conference Approved Literature will not be distributed by this committee in keeping with the traditions, the 6th in particular.
Currently, we make a literature order every 2 months and distribute up to 1/2 of the literature available over a 2 month period in an attempt to ensure literature will be available for distribution to the Valleywide H&I Coordinators each month. For July and February we spent $10,231.20 purchasing books from the General Service Office in New York (GSO).
After distribution to the coordinators last month we have this left over in stock;
3 cases of Big Books, 13 cases of Spanish Big Books, 9 cases of Spanish 12X12,
52 cases of AA in Prison, 9 cases of As Bill Sees It, and 3 cases of Daily Reflections.
This month we got 84 cases of books. 60 cases of Big Books, and 24 cases of 12X12s.
60 cases = 1200 Big Books $6.23 each = 7476.00
24 cases = 480 12X12 $5.74 each = 2755.20
Total spent on literature from GSO = $10,231.20
We spent $800 for 800 meeting lists.
In this literature order we purchased Big Books, 12X12s, and meeting lists. We will distribute up to half of the literature this month as mentioned above but we will not hold back on distribution of meeting lists. As always, I will accept any feedback, comments, and/or questions by individuals or homegroups concerning anything you feel may be important to confined alcoholics, alcoholics, Alcoholics Anonymous, Valleywide H&I, individuals, homegroups, and/or yourself.
We will, next literature order in August, be getting some large print Abridged Big Books for the confined alcoholic who does not have accessibility to corrective eyewear in the hospital or institution they are being housed. They are sold at $4.92 each when bought in a quantity of 200 or more
Aaron B, Valleywide H&I, PO Box 80126, Phoenix, AZ 85060-0126
PS – Because I had planned a vacation in July, we made the literature order a bit earlier in the month than usual. This difference is shown in the amount of money that was available to spend on literature as reflected above.