GENERAL SERVICE NEWS
Nassau Intergroup, the monthly treasurer’s report
Friendly reminder to all groups who have a General
details our use of contributed funds.
Service Representative to please have him or her
Nassau Intergroup wants to acknowledge your
attend this month’s Pre-Conference Assembly on
contributions. Currently, acknowledgment letters
Saturday, April 14th, 2007. See March’s issue of our
go out shortly after contributions come in. If you
have made a recent contribution and have not
directions. Perhaps GSRs and DCMs could arrange to
received an acknowledgment, it is because we do
carpool to this event. Here is your chance to let our
not have a proper address for you. (Many letters
SENY Delegate know what your group’s conscience is
go to the place where the group meets.) Please
regarding this year’s Conference Agenda items. At our
remember to put your group’s NIG number (found
upcoming Nassau General Service Group (NGSG)
to the right of your group’s name in the county
meeting, we plan to discuss resurrecting or forgoing the
Nassau Big Meeting. NGSG officers are available to
meeting list) on all contributions, and specify a
help facilitate group inventories. Huge thanks to the
return address. I would be happy to re-direct or re-
groups for your contributions.
issue any acknowledgment letters that have gone
In Service,
astray.
DCMC Nassau
In service,
nassau@aaseny(dot)org
Treasurer
treasurer@nassauny-aa(dot)org
The Archives Committee thanks the member from the
Bellerose Group for his work on the history of the 4th
SHARE-A-DAY 2007
Step Workshop.
This is it. April is finally here. Share-a-Day is a
little over two weeks away. When I first took the
From the Treasurer
commitment to chair Share-a-Day 2007, I thought I
'Contributions'
was in over my head. I could not have been more
The long form of Tradition Seven suggests we
mistaken. I temporarily forgot that in AA we do
should “view with much concern those AA
things together, not alone. In the past eight months
treasuries which continue, beyond prudent
I have learned just what a Group Of Drunks can do
reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated AA
if service is their motive.
purpose.” A bloated group treasury is often an
Our next meeting will be Wednesday, April 11,
invitation to controversy and disunity.
2007 at 8:00 pm at the Nassau Intergroup office, it
Once a group has established any reserve
will be our last meeting before Share-a-Day.
needs, it may consider what to do with excess
Please join us, we still need your help. If you can’t
funds. The usual course is to pass any excess
make the committee meeting, please come to
along the AA service chain, from the home group
Share-a-Day on Saturday, April 21, 2007, and
to AA service groups. Locally, that chain includes
enjoy the fellowship.
Nassau Intergroup and Nassau General Service
See you there.
(district and county). Beyond these local service
Your AA Brother
groups is your General Service area (SENY, Area
2007 Share-a-Day Chair
49) and your General Service Office (AAWS).
shareaday@nassauny-aa(dot)org
While each AA group is free to determine how
A message from Ed, the Literature guy:
often and how much, if anything, it may wish to
Available now at Nassau Intergroup:
give to any AA service entity, some suggested
distribution schemes are offered in the pamphlet,
Fourth Edition Big Book on CD,
Self-Support: Where Money and Spirituality Mix.
Including Fourth Edition Stories
The group must break up and specifically direct its
&
contributions if it wishes to see them go to more
Twelve and Twelve on CD,
than one service entity. Also, even very small and
comes with a table of contents booklet
infrequent contributions make a meaningful
addition spiritually linking your group to the
The office is open 9:00am to 4:30pm
for the sale of books,
broader AA service structure and purpose.
and the phone reps do not carry change.
Also, it may help groups deciding how to deal
with excess moneys to look at how the various
NOTICE: Meeting list changes
service entities use the funds they receive. For
Deadline for additions and deletions is May 3
at Nassau Intergroup office.
