Area Inventory Questionnaire

The AdHoc Committee for Idaho Area 18 Inventory, would like your input to determine the questions for the Area 18 Inventory. Please rank each section’s questions from most important to least important. Please complete the questionnaire no later than April 30th – on April 30 the questionnaire will be removed from the Area 18 website

Area Inventory Questionnaire

Area Inventory Survey

Your District

Your Home Group(Required)

Money

Most Important(Required)

How might we make better use of Fellowship contributions within Idaho Area 18?

Has our Area become the seat of perilous wealth and power, or do we have an effective system for accounting and reporting of funds?

Do you understand Area 18 finances? If not, what can be done to help understand?

Less Important(Required)

How might we make better use of Fellowship contributions within Idaho Area 18?

Has our Area become the seat of perilous wealth and power, or do we have an effective system for accounting and reporting of funds?

Do you understand Area 18 finances? If not, what can be done to help understand?

Least Important(Required)

How might we make better use of Fellowship contributions within Idaho Area 18?

Has our Area become the seat of perilous wealth and power, or do we have an effective system for accounting and reporting of funds?

Do you understand Area 18 finances? If not, what can be done to help understand?

-Trusted Servant Selections (Area, Districts, Groups)

Most Important(Required)

Are officers (Group, District, and Area) picked with care and consideration on the basis that officer ship is a great responsibility and opportunity for Twelfth-Step work, or are personalities put before principles?

How can we improve the methods of encouraging and selecting effective leaders as well as nurturing leadership qualities in our trusted servants?

Has our election process become one of mechanical rotation rather than careful consideration?

Less Important(Required)

How can we improve the methods of encouraging and selecting effective leaders as well as nurturing leadership qualities in our trusted servants?

Has our election process become one of mechanical rotation rather than careful consideration?

Least Important(Required)

How can we improve the methods of encouraging and selecting effective leaders as well as nurturing leadership qualities in our trusted servants?

Has our election process become one of mechanical rotation rather than careful consideration?

Area Business and Assemblies

Most Important(Required)

With respect to Concept 1, do the Groups in Area 18 feel they adequately hold and exercise the final responsibility and ultimate authority for AA world services? If not, what might Area 18 do to help that cause?

Do the Steps, Traditions, and Concepts guide our decisions and actions when we conduct business at assemblies?

Do the Groups and Districts in Idaho Area 18 feel that they are included and fully informed about the Area Business Agenda for the Assemblies? If not, what might Area 18 do to help?

Less Important(Required)

Do the Steps, Traditions, and Concepts guide our decisions and actions when we conduct business at assemblies?

Do the Groups and Districts in Idaho Area 18 feel that they are included and fully informed about the Area Business Agenda for the Assemblies? If not, what might Area 18 do to help?

Least Important(Required)

Do the Steps, Traditions, and Concepts guide our decisions and actions when we conduct business at assemblies?

Do the Groups and Districts in Idaho Area 18 feel that they are included and fully informed about the Area Business Agenda for the Assemblies? If not, what might Area 18 do to help?

DCM Participation

Most Important(Required)

What can be done to help Groups and Districts feel connected to and involved with Area 18 between our assemblies?

What can be done to prevent Groups from going dark and how can we all help?

How well are first time assembly attendees informed of what takes place at an assembly and their part in it?

Less Important(Required)

What can be done to help Groups and Districts feel connected to and involved with Area 18 between our assemblies?

What can be done to prevent Groups from going dark and how can we all help?

How well are first time assembly attendees informed of what takes place at an assembly and their part in it?

Least Important(Required)

What can be done to help Groups and Districts feel connected to and involved with Area 18 between our assemblies?

What can be done to prevent Groups from going dark and how can we all help?

How well are first time assembly attendees informed of what takes place at an assembly and their part in it?

Growth

Most Important(Required)

Do we effectively integrate new people into the Area Assembly?

Are we attracting new people to participate in the Area 18 service structure? What could we do to improve?

Area 18 willing to try more ideas for growth?

Less Important(Required)

Do we effectively integrate new people into the Area Assembly?

Are we attracting new people to participate in the Area 18 service structure? What could we do to improve?

Area 18 willing to try more ideas for growth?

Least Important(Required)

Do we effectively integrate new people into the Area Assembly?

Are we attracting new people to participate in the Area 18 service structure? What could we do to improve?

Area 18 willing to try more ideas for growth?

Outreach

Most Important(Required)

Are we attracting a good cross section of new people to participate in the Area 18 service structure?

What more can the Area 18 do to carry the message?

What more can our Area do to carry the message to the still suffering alcoholic?

Less Important(Required)

Are we attracting a good cross section of new people to participate in the Area 18 service structure?

What more can the Area 18 do to carry the message?

What more can our Area do to carry the message to the still suffering alcoholic?

Least Important(Required)

Are we attracting a good cross section of new people to participate in the Area 18 service structure?

What more can the Area 18 do to carry the message?

What more can our Area do to carry the message to the still suffering alcoholic?

Special Committee Functionality

Most Important(Required)

Considering that most A.A. members are introduced to A.A. by sources other than A.A. members, what might the Area 18 Committees, or Area 18 as a whole, do to better support the Districts in carrying the A.A. message to these sources?

Does the Area carry its fair share of the job of helping Districts with Special Committee functions such as Archives, Grapevine, CPC/PI, TAC and YPAA?

Is the Special Committee system really performing as well as it could?

Less Important(Required)

Does the Area carry its fair share of the job of helping Districts with Special Committee functions such as Archives, Grapevine, CPC/PI, TAC and YPAA?

Is the Special Committee system really performing as well as it could?

Least Important(Required)

Does the Area carry its fair share of the job of helping Districts with Special Committee functions such as Archives, Grapevine, CPC/PI, TAC and YPAA?

Is the Special Committee system really performing as well as it could?

Inclusivity

Most Important(Required)

One of the Area’s responsibilities is to communicate service information among trusted servants, Groups, Districts & the Area Committee. How effective is the Area Committee in serving this purpose? What can be done to improve its effectiveness?

What keeps Groups from attending an Area Assembly? What could be done to remove these barriers?

What are we doing to attract a good cross-section of our community, including those with accessibility needs, foreign language speakers, etc.?

Less Important(Required)

What keeps Groups from attending an Area Assembly? What could be done to remove these barriers?

What are we doing to attract a good cross-section of our community, including those with accessibility needs, foreign language speakers, etc.?

Least Important(Required)

What keeps Groups from attending an Area Assembly? What could be done to remove these barriers?

What are we doing to attract a good cross-section of our community, including those with accessibility needs, foreign language speakers, etc.?

Technology

Most Important(Required)

Is Idaho Area 18 fulfilling the technology needs for the Groups and Districts?

How would your Group or District like to use technology to enhance communication?

Is the hybrid technology sufficient and necessary for keeping the Area informed?

Less Important(Required)

Is Idaho Area 18 fulfilling the technology needs for the Groups and Districts?

How would your Group or District like to use technology to enhance communication?

Is the hybrid technology sufficient and necessary for keeping the Area informed?

Least Important(Required)

Is Idaho Area 18 fulfilling the technology needs for the Groups and Districts?

How would your Group or District like to use technology to enhance communication?

Is the hybrid technology sufficient and necessary for keeping the Area informed?