CA World Service Office Board Meeting
May 6, 1999
Approved minutes
PRESENT:
Scott Stevenson, Chairman
Jeff Schachter, Vice-Chairman
Kevin Murphy, Secretary
Steve Edwards, Director-At-Large
Joe Stephens, Pacific South Trustee
Meredith Amos, World Service Trustee
Susan Turnbull, World Service Office Trustee
Mary Hukill, WSO Office Manager
Meeting called to order at 7:55pm.
Mary read the 11th Tradition;
Meredith read the 11th Concept.
Minutes of April 22, 1999
- Motion (Steve/Joe) to approve
- Approved as amended.
OFFICER REPORTS:
Chair:
Written report submitted.
Vice Chair:
No report.
Treasurer:
No report.
Secretary:
No report
Director-At-Large:
1Q99 NewsGram printed and distributed. 2Q99 NewsGram will follow shortly (before Milwaukee). Meeting scheduled at Convention regarding NewsGram with Trustees.
World Service Trustee:
No report.
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Pacific South Trustee:
Attempting to get additional computer bids. Will coordinate with computer bid subcommittee.
Check requests from CAWS99 are not being documented correctly. We have a check request for a Harley Davidson, rather than the “certificate” that was agreed upon. They need to resubmit the request.
World Service Office Trustee:
No report.
Office Manager:
Written report attached.
(BREAK)
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Webmaster:
Updated convention page.
OLD BUSINESS:
Office computer network:
Peer to peer network (Windows 98) 10BaseT. See attached Dell/Micron bids for representative computer bids. Will replace all 3 computers with new. Will use the existing office manager’s workstation as basis for fileserver. All work files will be stored on the central system, which will have extensive backup capabilities.
See also PacBell documentation for discussion of DSL service. Training and maintenance contract.
Web policy
Regarding submission formats:
Next month
MOTION: Kevin moves to consider tabled motion from 4/22/99 regarding referring to Trustees issues regarding Acrobat insturctions.
Motion withdrawn.
MOTION: (Kevin/Jeff) to authorize the webmaster to post instructions for obtaining software required for viewing any documents on our website, with appropriate disclaimers regarding non-endorsement.
Motion fails.
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MOTION: Meredith/Susan: Have the webmaster post instructions for obtaining any software needed for viewing documents posted on our web site, without using a link.
Motion passes 4-2.
NEW BUSINESS:
MOTION: to suspend for time. Passes
MOTION: to extend 15 minutes. Passes.
Executive session 9:55pm
End Executive session 10:10p
MOTION: (Joe/Jeff) Increase CAWS99 Committee account by $1000 over its policy maximum amount. Passes
MOTION: (Joe/Susan) Postpone signing motorcycle dealership check until letter of clarification regarding gift certificate is received by office.
Passes.
Insurance
Received additional quotes for insurance. All are higher than current quote or deficient in coverage with respect to current quote.
MOTION: to approve current carrier’s (Searcy/Philadelphia Indemnity) bid and pay balance of bill. Passes
Motion to adjourn (Jeff/Steve)
Next meeting 5/20/99 7:30pm
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