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Thursday, September 3, 1992
Lucy Snider, the Conference Chairperson, opened with The Serenity Prayer.
Formal Roll Call revealed 74 Delegates carrying 100 votes, 7 Trustees, 3 WSO Officers and 4 non-Delegate Conference Committee Chairpersons (w/1 vote @). The vote total was 114 with 76 votes being the quorum requirement.
Jim laffe, Convention committee chairperson, reported what the committee will be presenting during committee motions, that they would be accepting bids for the 1995 World Service Convention and described committee activities.
Burton Cagen, the Conference committee chairperson, reported a need for new members to join our committee (especially someone from Southern California who could represent the committee at the monthly WSO Board meetings), on the committee’s activities, and the results of the questionnaire tabulation.
Darryal Williams, Unity Outreach committee chairperson, reported that 5 committee meetings were held, an effort was being started to designate the last Saturday in September as Unity Outreach day, and requested that the forms that were mailed out be completed and returned.
John Pytel, the Public Information committee chairperson, read the committee’s statement of purpose, announced that a storyboard for a proposed PSA was on display and discussed PI activities on the Compu-Serve™ bulletin board.
Jim Van Namen, the Finance committee chairperson, reported several contacts with the WSO to verify that finance policies were being adhered to and detailed some of the areas that the committee will be addressing.
Steve Levine, the WSO Treasurer, gave special thanks to Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles for some large 7th Tradition contributions and encouraged continued contributions to meet increasingly tighter budget requirements resulting from the recession and increased conference committee demands.
THE MINUTES OF THE 1991 WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE WERE APPROVED WITH ONE CORRECTION (CHANGE “JIM S.” TO “JIM V.” TWICE ON PAGE 7 AND 12 TIMES ON PAGE 8).
Debbie Harris, the Trustee Nominating committee chairperson, briefly explained the trustee selection process and began the presentation of the service resumes of the Trustee candidates selected by the Southwest region. After the service resumes were read for Chris Phillips, Darryal Williams, Jennifer Williams, and Michael Doll, a member of fellowship offered personal testimony to each candidate’s service work. Following the Southwest region candidates were the Atlantic South region candidates, Don Plunk, Randy Denike and John Henson. All candidates were considered Conference-approved.
After the service resume for Carrie Calderone was read, John Davidson’s motion to SUSPEND THE RULES TO APPROVE THE SLATE OF CANDIDATES BASED UPON THE REGIONAL NOMINATIONS passed and John’s motion to APPROVE THE ENTIRE SLATE OF CANDIDATES PRESENTED passed. (The approved candidates included Carrie Calderone, Karl Urbach, Ben Lesko, Bob Carlson, Cynthia Chronkhite, Craig Williams, Ken Mullen, Andrew Kirk, Eddie Johnson, Kevin Dodd, Jim Van Namen, Darryal Williams, Mike Doll, Randy Denike, Don Plunk, Robert Lyle, John Pytel, and Ronny Mintz.
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Jim Jaffe – S&B – Reduce the number of Delegates at the Conference slowly
Amy B. PI – Send press release (CA info) to major media annually
Conv – Provide copies of Area’s Conv. bids to Delegates
S&B – Make Trustee selection more like AA’s (page S117)
S&B – Consider allowing WSO workers Conference voice & vote
Ronny Mintz – S&B – Reverse the Conference Trustee “disapproval” process
Jonathan D. – Fine – Prepare and present a balance sheet, a statement of cash flows and a one year cash flow projection
Rich L. – LCF – Make the Steps and Traditions pull-down banners larger
S&B – Rework the Trustee selection process
Roberto V. – S&B – Make Canada its own region with its own Trustee
WSO – Allow Canadians to approve French literature
Leon Strange – LCF – Amend meeting formats to read “Who is an Addict?” before reading “How it Works”
Charles DiCarlo – Fine – Prepare and present guidelines for how to raise money
Unity – Prepare and present guidelines for holding unity events
Trustees – C.A. letters and logo on too many products
Harry Crawford – LCF – We need a “Crack is Cocaine” pamphlet
Patrick Delaney – LCF – Use “Hope Faith and Courage” motto instead of logo sign
Charles Lewis – PI – Wants crack use in the PI video PSA
Wants to see a minority member in the video PSA
Kevin Murphy – LCF – Develop a traditions checklist
Andrea Dener – LCF – Develop and distribute a meetings schedule update form
Jerry Moore – Unity – Define what a “bad” area is
Conv – Give preference to Areas that have never hosted a conv
Larry R. – H&I – Develop a method to contact prisoners
Carrie C. – LCF – Develop and sell a “principles of recovery” medallion
Darryal W. – Conf – Make available a map of restaurants near the hotel
Jim Wilson – LCF – Make recovery literature available in Braille
Charles DiCarlo – Fine – Reduce the dependency upon chips and literature sales to support the WSO by other fund raising means
Kevin Lynch – PI – Develop hotline/helpline guidelines
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Jim Thayer – Trustees Sending WSO Chair & Director to Montreal was wrong
Steve Amelotte – LCF Produce medallions for over ten year’s sobriety. Develop a “Big Book” meeting format. Print paper sobriety chips for use in prisons and hospitals
Rusty Shimp – Book – Make first edition storybooks available early to donors
Jim Scott – PI – Create a national hotline coordinator position
Chris Phillips – Conf – Move some Conference work down into the regions
Amy B. – WSO – WSO should send out quarterly reports of their activities
Lee King – Conv – Develop a convention speakers exchange program
Roberto V. – WSO – Can we have sobriety medallions in French?
Kevin Murphy – LCF – Remove ref. to speaker in participation meeting format
Jim Wilson – WSO – Make the storybooks available to hospitals and institutions
Andrea Dener – Conf – Limit Trustee and committee reports to 15 minutes. Print Trustee/Committee repons for Delegates to take home.
Leon Mason – WSO – Could we create and maintain a tape library of CA speakers
Jim Thayer – Conf – Let’s review/acknowledge wisely spent WSO expenditures
Jim Wilson – Book – Put the storybook on tape for the blind
Brian North – All – All committees should be represented at the monthly WSO board meetings
Jerry Moore – All – Could committee meetings be held by 3-way phone calls
Steve Levine – Book – A nicely covered first edition book’s profit could help WSO
Susan Turnbull S&B Develop guidelines for how to do twelve step calls
Tom Tabet’s motion to SUSPEND THE RULES TO CONSIDER DISPENSING WITH THE GENERAL SHARING SESSION passed. Tom’s motion to SUSPEND THE GENERAL SHARING SESSION SO THAT COMMITTEES MAY CONTINUE THEIR WORK passed.
After announcing committee meeting locations, Lucy closed the Conference session with The Serenity Prayer.