World Service Office Board Of Directors Minutes
February 8, 1996
Proposed Minutes
MEETING was opened at 7:40
SERENITY Prayer was led by Scott S.
TRADITION Eight was read by Susan
CONCEPT Eight was read by Brian
ROLL Call:
Scott S. – Chairperson
Jeff S. – Vice-Chairperson
Ed G. – Treasurer
Brian N. WSO Trustee
Roger G. WS Trustee
Susan T. – Director
K.D. Zager – WSO Director of Operations
QUORUM was met.
MINUTES of 01/25/96 were read and approved as submitted.
OFFICER’S Reports
Chairperson: Scott reviewed the financial statements received by Roger A. Brown & Co. He continues his research on employee compensation. Will report more in Old Business. Info is skeletal.
Vice Chairperson: Jeff is looking to serve on a new WSC Committee. Treasurer: Ed reviewed the Cash Flow Statements. Scott requested a review of our prudent reserve contributions from K.D. K.D. will report back. No extra money at this time.
Secretary: Chuck still out on family emergency. He is expected at the next WSOB meeting.
Director: No report.
TRUSTEE Reports
World Service Office Trustee. Brian reported that the Trustees will meet February 9th. We will review the submitted draft of the WSO report during New Business.
World Service Trustee. Roger was in contact with Kevin M., WSC P.l. Committee Chair. Deadline for P.l. committee survey is mid to end of June. Nothing new on the World Wide Web. Roger asked if any
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NewsGram articles had been received from the Trustees. K.D. reported none had.
Pacific South Trustee. Not present. No report.
OFFICE Report
K.D. read her report {attached herewith). Received insurance certificates for CAWS ’96. Guide to the Twelve Steps is ready to go to print, and an application has been sent for it’s copyright. K.D. has contacted several Georgia state agencies to apply for our upcoming convention. California Associates of Non Profits application has been requested. Literature is ready to reprint. Discussion tabled to new business. Bar code, and royalties discussion tabled to new business.
OLD Business
French Translation/Printing – we received a written bid from Letourneau, however, storage and fulfillment issues were not addressed on the bid. K.D. will check into it.
Health Benefits – tabled.
Employee compensation survey – Scott received data from one individual. Department of Labor and EDD data are voluminous. Scott will be ordering a more specific wage survey and hope a comparable position is found. Ed G. suggested using a job placement service or temp agency. Scott will look into that as well.
Staff hours/wages vs. Budget – tabled.
NEW Business
A consensus was reached to recommend to the Trustees, copyrighting the french version of the book.
CAWS Bank account signatures were discussed. Procedures were discussed. Scott suggested have the convention treasurer fax us a list of disbursements before monies are transferred. Ed suggested a national brokerage house to use for our accounts. He will research and report back.
Motion: The three signatures on the CAWS operating checking account at the WSO wiii be the Chairperson, Treasurer and the WSO Trustee. Seconded. Passed.
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Motion: To have the CAWS Convention Trust account signature be the same as the signatures on the regular WSO bank accounts. Seconded. PASSED.
Motion: To have three board members review requests for funds before monies are transferred. Seconded. Amended to have the fund request be accompanied by copies of in voices. Passed.
Scott will contact Bill A. in Atlanta to review.
Motion: To have Mifier Litho print our next run of English literature. Seconded. Discussion. Passed with one abstention.
Motion: To place a bar code on the cover of future printed books. Seconded. Passed.
Motion: To accept the following policy on royalty payments from other countries printing C.A. literature. 25% is to be deducted from the printed number as a courtesy for their H&l and P.i. pamphlets that are given away. Of the remaining 75%, the country will pay us 50% of their selling price, in their currency (preferably converted to US$). Seconded. Passed.
Motion: To adjourn. Seconded. PASSED.
Meeting adjourned at 9:43 p.m. with the Lord’s Prayer.
Respectfully submitted,
K.D. Zager
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