Aug 30, 2001 – Day 2 – Summary of Motions – Public Information Committee Opening Report

Cocaine Anonymous World Service Conference 2001 Thursday, August 30, 2001 – Day Two Summary of Motions and Activities

1. Session opens with the Serenity Prayer.
2. Announcements
3. Roll Call

Total of 132 voting members. Quorum is set at 87.

4. Kevin: Point of order – According to our WSM 2001 edition, 3.8, paragraph 22, line C, Standing Rule 22…“In the event that a Conference officer is unable, or unwilling, to perform his or her duties, the Conference shall elect a replacement from the Conference as the first substantive order of business, after the vacancy occurs, such replacement to be elected to a full term.” Our conference co-secretary, due to illness was unable to attend this conference. We will need to fill this vacancy immediately.
5. Chair: Chair reads the qualifications for the co-secretary position.
6. Amy Beech: If the potential candidate is a delegate, they may pass their vote to an alternate delegate for their area, if available.
7. Chair: Open the floor to nominations:
   1. Robin Chase – I humbly decline.
   2. Kellie Federici – accept the nomination
   3. Kathy Honesty – accept the nomination
8. Joy: Motion to close nominations, seconded, passes. 

9. Chair: We will now hear from our nominees.
10. Kellie: 7/23/96 sobriety date, has served as a delegate for 4 years, served the area in many capacities, I work with a computer every day, and I’m capable of filling this position.
11. Chair: Are you capable of touch-typing?
12. Kellie: Yes.
13. Chair: If she is elected, there is the possibility that one of her votes may be dropped.
14. Heidi: Point of order– According to Standing Rule 22; she could proxy her vote to anothermember from her region.
15. Kathy H.: 10/10/90 Sobriety date, has served at the group, district, area and world levels, and meets the qualifications.
16. Chair: Would the nominees please leave the room for the vote?
17. Jay: Is there going to be discussion now on the candidates.
18. Chair: We normally do not debate the nominees.
19. Please prepare yourself to vote. Our new conference  co-secretary is Kathy Honesty.
20. Chair: Whom are you transferring your votes to?
21. Kathy: One vote to Una Hogan and one vote to Terry Bradford

22. COMMITTEE REPORTS
23. Public Information Report – Dale S. – acting Public Information Chair.
24. Dale S.: I had received a call over a month or so ago that our current chair, due to health reasons, would be unable to attend. I’d like to publicly thank Shauna for all of her work on the committee.
25. Last year we were given several referrals, we hope to present to you the, “Dear Abby” letter. This will be a new addition in the P.I. handbook. We will be working on the 1999 survey and guidelines.
26. We’ve also created a Public Information Committee Internet information site, where members of the committee and any Public Information Chair, from any Area, can go to retrieve

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information, Current Public Information events and other Public Information related documents that may be needed. If you’re interested in getting some more information on this, please address your questions or concerns to the P.I. Secretary, John W., so he can help you and your local Public Information Chair get this position.

27. Angela C.: What are we doing with the information (the survey), and why are we doing this every two years and vs. every five or seven?
28. Dale: One of the reasons that we do this survey is, mainly, to help with outreach, to find out where we can reach out to the addicts that are still suffering. Recently throughout the nation there have been a lot of Federal funding cuts in treatment, and the survey helps us to pinpoint and streamline our efforts on how and where to focus our efforts on carry the message.
29. Kevin M: When we did the first surveys in 94 and 96, we noticed great differences and trends. Do you still see the significant amount of changes in the survey results? And do you continue to see changes in certain trends, and is this the reason why you feel it should be redone every two years?
30. Dale: We do see an increase in sobriety, increased ways of “using,” and other information…
31. Kevin M: You feel that this information would be helpful to other committees, such as LCF in determining what types of literature to develop, etc.?
32. Dale: Yes.
33. Jeane F: I helped to compile some of the results from the 99 survey, and I saw some frightening downward trends regarding service work and sponsorship…at the end of the P.I. report when it was discussed about not sending out the results, because of the charts…it may be helpful to remove the verbiage comparing the two.
34. Angela: You mentioned talking about, and asking about the different drugs. Now, are we not asking the newcomers to focus on their uniqueness, once again, when we tell them that they need to be focusing on similarities? I see a division.
35. Dale: This is one of the reasons that the survey was not released.
36. Chair: Please address your ideas or advice to the committee in the form of a referral.
37. Steve E. Could you transmit those charts to the WSO for use in other avenues?
38. Dale: The survey is a priority to our committee this year, and we would like to get this out.

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