Session Opens – 8.09 am
Serenity Prayer
Announcements
Roll Call- 145
Quorum 97
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT
INTRODUCTION AND OPENING COMMENTS
Our committee worked year-round to bring this Conference to you. The outcome has been truly awesome, as well as spiritual. We as a Committee made our best effort to meet the needs of this fellowship. We hope all of you have found this experience to be memorable. Has this been a rewarding Conference for you all? We Reduced our budget by $700.00.
Based on your evaluations, we did lengthen the Conference this year. We believe this has been a positive change for the Conference. Those here seemed to be less stressed and therefore more enthusiastic about the business at hand.
Our commitment is to continue to meet the needs of the fellowship and the members of the Conference. We understand that we must remain open-minded to your evolving needs. In the future we look forward to working in cooperation with other Conference Committees and with the WSO. We truly appreciate the opportunity to be of service to this fellowship.
REFERRALS OR ITEMS REFERRED TO OTHER COMMITTEES; WORLD SERVICE OFFICE, OR BOARD OF TRUSTEES
#4416
Please discontinue all use of non-delegate chairs at the Conference.
Response: Referred to Structure and“ Bylaws with recommendations” to add a bullet point to page 3.5 of the WSM under Committee Chairs Item as follows:
- j. Non-Delegate Chair positions expense reimbursement is not guaranteed.
#4519
Could we make it normal procedure in the minutes to have a specific name listed as the seconder of a motion to avoid any further confusion?
Referred to Structure and Bylaws
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REFERRALS THAT DID NOT RESULT IN MOTIONS,
#4498
That“ the reading” at the“ opening of Conference” floor (prior to roll call) be changed from How It Works to We Can Recover . The reason for this is that I believe Cocaine Anonymous is recovered enough to stand behind its own reading and participate in our own program, particularly at WS Conference.
Response: No action taken. Setting the agenda (including the readings) is the prerogative and the responsibility of the WSC Chair, pursuant to the WSM. The Chair will of course consider this and any other suggestions when setting the agenda for future conferences.
#4542
That we begin to recognize those delegates or former delegates who have passed at a time during the Conference as deemed appropriate by the Conference Committee. I would suggest possibly at the beginning and/or when we thank outgoing delegates. (Uncle Jay Guzofsky from OCCA passed away in December 2004)
Response: No Action taken’. Acknowledgments and announcements during the conference are already the Chair s prerogative and are not part of the agenda. Identifying all such honorees would be difficult.
#4559
Motion to limit debate on all Conference main motions to three (3) pro and three
(3) con/against for the 2006 Conference of CA.
Response: No action taken. The conference already has the power to limit debate. To permanently limit debate would be a flagrant violation of the 4th Concept, Right of Participation.
NEW COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AS OF THIS CONFERENCE
Chair – Kim Sherwan
Vice-Chair – Jenn Scheible
Secretary – Robin Long
Coordinator – Leslie Groter Administrative Coordinator ñ Kevin Amos
Special mention and thanks to Deborah Botz!
CLOSING COMMENTS
Please fill out the evaluation forms regarding this Conference located at the back’ of the Conference floor. We look forward to reading your thoughts regarding this year s changes, and potential changes for the future. Please turn them in before you leave the Conference. We truly appreciate your attendance and participation at this Conference. We are grateful to see the work of CA advance further at each Conference, and to those that serve. At this time, I would like to thank Deborah Botz for her outstanding job helping all of us in the office. She has been a tremendous asset to this committee and the
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Conference membership. Also, we would like to thank Sandy Paschall for her help with the daily Newsletter.
A special thanks to John Bodkin: we will miss you, but realize you will always be with us in spirit. It has been a pleasure working with you on this committee.
And to all of you, thank you for letting us be of service to you. We look forward to seeing you next year.
2005 COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Kim Sherwan – Chair
Leslie Groter–“ Coordinator”
Scott Botz – Coordinator
Robin Long Secretary
Deborah Botz, Kevin Amos
Respectfully Submitted:
Kim Sherwan
Conference Committee, Chair
Conference Officers–
Steve Edwards – Chair
Kevin Murphy – Parliamentarian
Kellie Federici – Secretary
Beth Reinhardt – Secretary
WSBT / WST / WSOB
John Bodkin
Carl Warlick
Jay Finesilver
Judy Weissman
Questions
Bob Lemon- Conference Committee are you going to like you have done all year like you have done all year Eric Rosene- Are we working on moving the conference still?
Kim Sherwan – We will be at this hotel next year and this committee is looking at future conference spaces.
END OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT
Jackie Schickler- Motion to suspend standing rule 15, today September 3,2005, that
Jackie Schickler be recognized as voting member in this particular instance. Second
Tammy Peacock – Parliamentary Inquiry- Does this apply only to Jackie Only?
Parliamentarian- This motion is not debatable.
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Parliamentary Inquiry–– Cynthia Cronkhite, is a point of information in order at this time? Parliamentarian No
Tammy Peacock– Parliamentary Inquiry- Can I amend?
Chair- No
Bryan Sied- Parliamentary Inquiry Can the maker of the motion withdraw her motion? Chair – The maker does not wish to
Motion fails, 65 for 47 against.
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