1995 WSC MINUTES
Raddisson Plaza Hotel, Manhattan Beach, CA, August 30 through September 3
Wed, August 30,1995
Charles opened the 1995 WSC with the serenity prayer
Mike Pine read chapter 5
Bob Campbell read the 12 traditions
Frances (non-addict trustee) read the 12 concepts
Chair welcomed everyone to the 12th annual conference
Charles Lewis (AKA Slash) introduces himself as chair, Tom Tabet as Vice-Chair/Parlimintarian and Michael McKinsey as Secretary.
Roll called; finished with 116 votes counted
Quorum was announced at 66 subject to change based upon new area petitions.
The chair made a ruling that one member is allowed to tape conference because he cannot write his notes.
Quorum is announced at 78 instead of 66 (mathematical error).
Motion 1: Steve Amelotte makes a motion to recognize Indiana as a new area. 2 applications have ben turned into trustees and will not be read unless asked Motion 1: Passes.
Motion 2: Steve Amelotte makes a motion to recognize Alberta as a new area. Passes. New number of votes stands at 118 and the Quorum is 79.
A seating chart is being sent around delegates are to place full name and number of votes
Erin announces unity committee statement and reads a portion from world service manual (AA).
Bob Campbell starts trustee reports
Bob is world service trustee. Have almost a full board. Are going to be replacing SW trustee. Have a total of 11 trustees. Are going to be replacing 4 trustees this year. Went back to 4 meetings a year instead of 3 because they felt they were falling behind. Made some decisions this year, elected new officers of WSB of trustees. Have new officers, new chair is. Sharon from DC, new vice chair is John H from Atlanta, new chair is Mike P from Pacific North. Bob is the world service trustee, he reads from page 42 of the manual the definition of the world service trustee. Bob is one of three trustees in pacific south, they are voting members of the world service office board. Bob is rotating off this year. Asks if anyone in the room has been to all 12 conferences.
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Sharon gives trustee at large report. Sharon trustee at large from Washington DC area. Sharon was not at the last conference, but has caught up with information. First meeting as trustee was in 10/94. Sharon has attended all the board meetings. She reports on activities that have taken place in her area. In Washington are 16-18 meetings a week. The Washington area has a new chair, vice chair and delegates. The H&I committee will have its first H&I meeting in a DC jail. They also have an H&I meeting in a methadone clinic. H&I is going into half-way houses. The help line receives 3050 calls a month. Her first task was to develop a trustee orientation package which will be available for the 4 new trustees this conference. She will be working with John Henson to organize the archives of the conferences.
Lee Arter Pacific South trustee gives report. There are 7 areas in the region. Over 350 meetings in region. Lee is also on the WSOB. WSOB has 2 meetings a month in addition to the 4 meeting a year for trustees. On conference committee, legal committee, and trustee nomination committee. The next major convention is in Laughlin March 3,4,5. Lee talked about the inter-area meeting. Pooling of insurance and events mentioned. Mentions passing H&I cans at meetings
Jim Scott Atlantic North Trustee gives report. This is his last report as Atlantic North Trustee. There are delegates here from 3 areas because the cost is high to come from the Atlantic North. A video PSA has been produced this year. Areas have reported getting them on the air. He will be rotatine off this vear.
Frances the non-addict trustee gives report. Mentions they have has 3 CA retreats a year at their monastery since 1984. Has attended all WSBT meetings. Attended Salt Lake City convention. Gave a talk on Spirituality not Religion at Salt Lake City convention. He is assigned to Literature chips and Format committee. He will not be able to attend the conference next year because of a meeting his church has.
Chris Phillips trustee at large gives report. Attributes growth in the areas to H&I. Texas has got 152 meetings a week. They are in the prison systems with H&I. Is going to call for an emergency caucus of the southwest region to put a delegate member on the election committee. Mentioned areas that agreed to send money in from conventions to world service. Is serving on finance committee. Was interim southwest trustee.
Craig Harris Midwest trustee gives report. Is also rotating out at the end of this conference. This is his 9th conference. Region has 8 areas that are all present at this conference. The region has about 460 meetings. Will continue to serve on the conference LC&F committee. CA home page on the internet is on equipment that he has donated the use of, and he states it will stay on.
John Hensen Atlantic South regional trustee gives report. Home of CAWS 1996 convention. Comments on the role of a regional trustee. In the region there are 10 states and 7 areas with 2 districted and 347 meetings. Delegates from 5 areas in attendance. Gave a count of meetings in each state. Spoke about the correspondence committee. He works on the convention committee. Is chairman of the trustee nominating and election committee. Gave report on the trustee nominating and electing committee. In 1995 there are 3 scheduled vacancies and one unscheduled. 4 new trustees will be elected.
Mike Pine Pacific North trustee, new chair of trustees to be. Pacific North region is the largest region geographically. Visited Alaska and Alberta this year. Alaska was planning on being here but financial problems held them back. H&I is active in areas, there is a CA meeting in San Quinten. They hosted the 1995 CAWS convention in SLC. It was fairly successful and raised $22,000 for World Service. Utah has approximately 21 meetings and put on a world convention. Spoke about needing to draw locally to support a World Service Convention. In 1996 a regional meeting will be held in Boise, Idaho. Is his 11th conference and has 11 years sobriety. Was on convention committee and will be helping out with the Unity committee and take on the Literature committee.
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Brian North, world service office trustee gives report. This is his 9th conference. Speaks about his history and the change of the conference. Talks about the fact that everyone in CA is part of one unified group. Asks everyone to go to page 11 of structures and bylaws manual. Reads the 3rd concept. Reads the 6th concept. Reads the 11th concept. Talks about the way the board of trustees and the world service office works with the world service conference. He mentions the copy of the phone bill from the 1-800 referral number. There over 1300 calls in the month, average of 43 calls per day.
Bob talks about the accessibility of trustees to people from the fellowship and asks for any questions of the trustees.
Scott Stevenson world service office board chair gives report.
Mentions world service office board duties. Gave report of what happened over the year. Three new members on the board this year were introduced. 2 members will be rotating out this year. Office manager K.D. has returned after maternity leave. Office staffed filled an average of 25-30 orders a week. Starter kits distributed to various countries. PSA is available. The translation of the storybook to French is 100% complete, a hope to have it done by year end is stated, no promises.
WSO has searched for a new office and moved downstairs. The lease is short term. They also replaced the copier. A new CPA firm was hired. The H&I bookmarks are now available. The board has reduced the price of the H&I hard cover from $6.50 to $5.00. Showed the labels for the soft cover H&I version. Scott took several questions. Scott took questions on taking off the “free” from the Newsgram, the extra costs in sending literature to Canada, ordering H&I books and other topics.
Report from Convention Committee
Rich Lieberman chair of the world service conference convention committee gives report. States their job is to create excitement about the CAWS convention. Mike the chair of ‘celebrate around the world’ gives a report. Talked about convention guidelines, will distribute guidelines for special events. Over 50% of the operating budget comes from the convention committee. Thanked Utah for putting on the CAWS convention. 1997 CAWS convention will be in Denver, the committees are working already. 1996 12th annual convention will be in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mike Avery the chair of the 1996 CAWS convention gave a report. The number at the Doubletree is 800-222-TREE to reserve rooms in Atlanta. Registration forms will be distributed to every delegate.
Barry Goldstien world service office financial officer gives a report as part of the world service office report. He reports that a projected deficit did not come to pass. The world service office is doing well financially. A special thanks to the Illinois area for the $5000 donation. Chips and Literature sales are up 50%. 7th tradition revenue is up 70%. Sales of the storybook proceed at a slightly higher rate than projected, but the sales have leveled out since the original surge of sales upon release as expected. Overall expenses were lower so far this year through June, we are on a pace to come in under budget. The rent is lower, because instead of moving into bigger quarters they moved into more efficient quarters. Thanked Lenny for doing such a good job while K.D. was gone on maternity leave. Overall office expenses was about 6% below budget. There is about $100,000 in the reserve accounts. The reserve for the WSO is about $40,000. They are talking about a prudent reserve and attempting to decide what a prudent reserve is. The storybook reserve is sitting at $40,000 to do the French translation and to do the second printing of the storybook. The stoiybook reserve comes from a percentage of the storybook sales. The conference reserve sits at about $20,000. The 7th tradition contributions must continue to come in. Barry took questions from the floor on corrections that will be made for the second printing of the book and why would the prudent reserve be more than 2 months like it is for meetings, Brian North gives a point of information mentioning leases and such things that groups do not have. Barry mentions the available means to be of service in deciding what a prudent reserve is. Barry is going to suspend his work with world services, his two year term has ended.
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Committee Reports Conference Committee report:
Randall Obrien the chair of the conference committee gives report
He asks for feedback regarding the hotel moving. There will be an open meeting with the outgoing trustees speaking at 8:30pm tonight. There will be a unity luncheon costing $15. Tomorrow morning at 7am there will be a breakfast. Computers, Copiers etc. are in the palm room. Tonight at 8:30 there will also be a SW regional caucus in the palm room.
Structures and Bylaws Committee report:
Jennifer Cole chair of S&B committee gives report. They met in SLC and did the final version of the S&B manual. She covered very quickly, many different issues to be covered during the conference.
Unity Committee report:
Walter the non-delegate chair of the unity committee gives report.
Walter welcomed all the new delegates to the conference. The spirit of unity is catching on, many calls came into the unity committee, they will be making guidelines for starting a unity committee at the local level. They will also be working on the unity pamphlet. They had several articles in the Newsgram this year. Walter will be rotating out in this conference.
Public Info. Committee report:
Diane Dick the chair of the PIC gave a report. A new version of the PI handbook is in the new delegate packets and will soon be in the old packets also. The CA fact file is available for $1. New order forms were done with trustee approval for people who ask for information. The PSA’s were completed. 2 PSA’s one female voice and on male voice, the female voice has the 800 number on it. Available on 1″ or 3/4” tape. Jim gives a report on the internet. A home page on the WWW is up now. Craig has told us that 1500 hits weekly (accesses) to our home page occur. The info-line numbers on the net are updated regularly. Many issues regarding electronic PI will be discussed this year.
Literature Chips and Format committee:
Heidi Jonothan acting chair of the C&L committee. Several pieces of literature are in different phases of the 12 step literature approval process. She does not know what phase pieces are in the process. Responding to a question, the guide to the 12 steps was sent to sub-committee for revisions after a meeting of SLC and is in the 6th step of the process and will not come before this floor this year.
Hospitals and Institutions committee:
Craig Shell, the Hospitals and Institutions committee chair give report. The nationwide survey has beeiTcompleted. We estimate that 90% of the meetings are counted. Last year we carried the message to 350,000 addicts. 57.4% in hospitals, 9% in jail, 33.5% were people in halfway houses.
The H&I newsletter is printed in the Newsgram and has more detailed information about the survey. The meeting in SLC was very helpful enjoyable and informative. Since last year the H&I labels have been available and monthly we here of people who start using the labels, and attempt to stay out of local problems regarding using the cans have been successfully taken.
Motion 3: To amend the minutes from the 1994 world service conference to show that motion 140 actually failed, not passed. Motion passed.
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Motion 4: To approve the minutes of the 1994 World Service Conference as amended. Motion passed. 1 opposed.
Jim Scott NW regional trustee reads the world service conference statement of purpose.
John Hensen chair of the trustee nominating committee addresses the conference to ratify the nominee slates for trustee elections. Gives information on process of how slates are ratified and elections are handled. We will be electing 4 new trustees by 2/3 majority vote.
Pacific North Slate:
Rose Christensen
Jim Schodowski
Heidi Jonathan
Bud White
Motion 6: To ratify Pacific Northwest Slate. Passes
Atlantic South:
Randy Denike
Walter Johnson
Norith Ellison
Bill Acree
Motion 7: To ratify the Atlantic South slate. Passes
Midwest Region (one opening):
Scott Stokes
Jim Jaffee
Lawrence Jackson
Andrew Kirk
Motion 8: To ratify Midwest slate. Passes.
Pacific South Slate:
Roger Gray
Carrie Calderon-Cooke
Meredith Amos-Barkle
Motion 9: To ratify the Pacific South slate. Passes.
Atlantic North Slate (opening):
Robert Freedman
Charles Lewis
Motion 10: To ratify the Atlantic North slate. Passes.
Southwest Region Slate (opening). The SW regional trustee resigned and a vacancy was created. A decision was made to wait until the conference to elect the new trustee, instead of using the slate that existed at the time that the vacancy occured:
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Old SW regional slate:
Steve Amelotte
Jay Finesilver
Bob Quanz
New SW regional slate:
Steve Amelotte
Hugh MacMillan
Bob Quanz
Randall O’Brien
Motion 11: Chris, trustee at large makes a motion to suspend the rules (to combine both old and new slates for the SW region). Passes with opposition.
Motion 12: To combine both slates for the southwest region.
Motion 12 amendment (a): The southwest regional slate will be amended to include:
Steve Amelotte
Bob Quanz
Randall O’brien
Hugh MacMillan
Jay Finesilver
Passes with opposition (1 opposed)
No nominations for non-addict or WSO trustee at this time.
Motion 13: To ratify the Southwest regional slate as previously described. Passed. (1 opposed 3 abstentions)
Motion 14: To close the session. Passed, (with 1 opposed)
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