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. This 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
Total spent on 200 meeting lists from SRI = 200.00
This month I will having the various coordinators who receive books fill out a form that confirms how many books they asked for and how many they received. Also, I hope to coordinate with the Literature person that was on the Valleywide H&I Inventory Ad-hoc Committee to implement a form that he has made that will track where the books went into, precisely. Eventually, the Valleywide H&I Steering Committee may request these forms to be maintained through the cooperation of the various coordinators in order to better serve AA as a whole. Assistance will be made available in filling out the forms.
Aaron B, Valleywide H&I, PO Box 80126, Phoenix, AZ 85060-0126