Cocaine Anonymous 1996 World Service Conference Minutes
1-35 Activities and Motions 1-12 on Wednesday, August 28, 1996.
36-63 Activities and Motions 13-18 on Thursday, August 29, 1996 (Including a list of Referrals to committee)
64-91 Activities and Motions 19-34 on Friday, August 30, 1996
92-199 Activities and Motions 35-95 on Saturday, August 31, 1996
200-243 Activities and Motions 96-121 on Sunday, September 1, 1996
8/28/96 Session Opened with the Serenity Prayer at 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday, August 28, 1996
- Motion 1 to Suspend the Rules to Recognize Nevada
Motion Passed
2. Motion 2 to recognize the State of Nevada as an Area for this WSC only.
Motion Passed
3. Motion 3 to Suspend the rules to recognize England
Motion Passed
4. Motion 4 to recognize the Country of England as an area for this WSC.
Friendly Amendment to change Country of England to the United Kingdom. Motion Passed as amended
5. Motion 5 to Suspend the Rules to entertain a Motion to elect a WSC secretary.
Motion Passed
6. Motion 6 to elect a secretary for the WSC.
Nominations received :
Karen Sullivan, Arizona
Deneen Grant., California
Erin Comstock, Utah – declined
7. Motion 7 to close the nominations.
Nominees are:
Karen S. – Arizona
Deneen – California
9. Deneen elected as WSC Secretary
10. Theme for this year’s conference is ” Unity begins with the individual”
11. Trustee Slates offered:
Atlantic North: Amy Beech
Pacific North: Heidi Jonathon, Andy White
Atlantic South: Walter Johnson, Susan Doch, Bill Acree, Dee Gyce
Pacific South: Meredith Amos, Carrie Calderon-Cook, Joe Stevens
Southwest: Randall O’Brien, Jay Finesilver
Midwest: No One (see Item #67)
WSO: Scott Stevenson, Susan Turnbull
No Non Addict Trustees nominated for any slate in any region
12. Atlantic North Slate Ratified
13. Atlantic South Ratified
14. Pacific North Ratified
15. Pacific South Ratified
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16. Southwest Ratified
17. WSO Ratified –
18. Motion 8 to accept Toronto, Canada as an area
Amended: Ontario, Canada Area as an area of CA
19. Withdraw Motion 8
Not accepted
20. Withdraw Motion 8
Motion Passed
21. Motion 9 to accept the Toronto, Canada area as an area of CA
Primarily the city of Toronto
Motion Passed
22. Motion 10 to have a back up of all Motions made at the end of each day and deposited at the world service office -effective immediately
Motion Passed
23. New Address for Board of Trustees:
PO BOX 492013
Los Angeles, CA 90049-8013
24. Final Quorum determined – 129 Votes
Quorum = 86
25. Trustee Reports
26. WSO Officer’s Report
27. WSO Director of Operations Report
28. WSO Financial Report
Written report submitted to attendees
29. Starter Kits consist of 3 Meeting formats, World Service Manual, 10 Newcomer Chips, of each chip through one year, 10 of each piece of literature, all current flyers available.
30. Motion 11 to Suspend the Rules for purposes of continuing the conference meeting.
Motion Passed.
31. Motion 12 to extend the time of conference meeting to 9:00 p.m.
Motion Passed
32. Public Information Report: (Received a standing ovation for work done on new PSA’s)
32. Address for the CA Web-Site:
(Will directly e-mail from web-site if you choose)
E-Mail Address:
35. 3 Out-Going Trustee’s share/speak for 20 minutes each.
Mike Pine
Lee Arter
Brian North
Thank you for Service Work well done.
Meeting adjourned until 9:00 a.m. Thursday, August 29, 1996.