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Thanks to the hosting districts. You all have done a real good job. I’ve
given several Delegate’s Reports over the state. I haven’t kept up with
them. Every time I turn around there’s somebody calling and I’m headed
out. I’d like to thank Tim and several other individuals that that have
gone with me and made my job quite a bit easier.
I also attended the Southeast Regional Conference in Louisville and chaired a workshop there on the Seventh Tradition. It was extremely informative. Yesterday, you all were given the final Conference report. Please take those back and share them with your groups. I’m sure it’s a real bed time story for some of you. If anyone would like to have a few extras…we still have some directories left too. One of the upcoming events that fixing to take place is the Southeast Regional Forum in Atlanta. It comes off December 1, 2 and 3rd. I would like to see a good showing from Area 26 down there. You can gain a lot of knowledge. You get to meet your GSO staff or part of the staff and folks from the Southeast region. This year the GSO will not be printing any directories. You used to get those for the Southeastern US. The reason being, we were already supposed to have a computer program on line and it wasn’t brought on line. It was going to cost the GSO $25,000 to license the “one time thing”. They didn’t feel like it was frugal. I’ll talk more about the new computer program that was fixing to start. Literature Sales are down at the GSO. Some three-hundred and two thousand books. That’s “As Bill Sees it” and such along those lines, from the sixth month of 2005. The Big Book has actually sold 35, 488 more than it did this time last year. Group contributions are up some 13% which actually offset our monies. We were budgeted to lose some $240,000 and we lost $214,733. I’d like to talk about the “relocation study” at the GSO. You remember me making mention at the April meeting. We didn’t sign a new lease for the GSO. We just extended (the trustees) did that. In signing the lease, we had to do some remodeling to the tune of $709, 500. One of them was replacing the door to the Archives. I’m under the understanding that the door is a …it would be similar to a vault type door, fireproof door which costs $23,000. Remodeled the entrance to the lobby at GSO was $31,500. Replaced the carpet—was $220,000 and due to the changes in the fire codes and the wiring codes in the city of NY, will cost us $435,000 to replace that. We’re also having to remodel the Grapevine offices. The basic remodel was $130,000. To replace the lights in the ceiling tile was $62,000. Remodeling the Grapevine office cost us $192,000. The total there being- $901,500. The new computer program is happily named, “The Fellowship new Vision Project” which will cost us $130,000. It will go on line in January. When it goes on line in January, our registrar will be able to go on line, with a password and make changes instantly as she gets them. I’d also like to see if possible, that our registrar and our web master keep our information on our Area website more current. The Grapevine has in the first six months has actually lost a little bit of money. It’s lost $67,479. I was told that we shouldn’t be concerned with this as the Pocket planners and calendars at the end of the year have not been ordered but have already been printed and paid for. That’s about all I have. Any questions?
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