Adult Children of Alcoholics--World Service Organization
Agenda
Monthly Teleconference

July 11, 2015 - 2:00 p.m. EST

Access number:  712.432.0075, Pin 427266#   Press *6 to mute or un-mute.  Please notify the secretary with changes, additions, or motions for this meeting.

A.  Call to Order:  Please be sure that any background noises in your area are eliminated since the sounds make it difficult for participants to hear.  When speaking, please say your name first.  This will help us record your name with your input.  Thank you.

          1)  Open with the Serenity Prayer

          2)  Tradition Seven:  Every ACA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

B.  Roll Call of Board Members:  Larry A., Chair, and Literature Committee Chairperson; Mary Jo L., Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair; Majbrit M., European Committee Chair and Vice Chair; Ines Z, Secretary, Spanish Liaison and Spanish Translations Committee Chair, and Martin C, Finance Committee member.

C.  Establish Quorum

D.  Guests Introductions:

After the introductions: Non-Board members are welcome to listen to the Teleconference but are requested to remain silent unless called upon to participate.  We respectfully ask that guests hold their comments until the end of our meeting.  We ask everyone to press *6 if you are not speaking.  If someone needs to talk further, they may do so at the close of the meeting.

E. Minutes: Motion to approve the June 13, 2015Teleconference Minutes as posted on the website. (Joan and Ines)

F. Committee Reports: I will ask the Committee Chairperson to give their reports. (5 minutes each)

1. ACA WSO Finance Committee, (Treasurer, Mary Jo L.)

2.  ACA WSO Literature Committee, Larry A 
     a. Spanish Translations Update (Ines)  
     b. ComLine (Phyllis) 
3. ACA WSO Distribution Office,
4. ACA (MPS) Members and Public Service Committee,Denise
5. Hospitals & Institutions Committee, Joan B
6. Intergroup Liaison Committee, Martin C.
 7. ACA Website/Database Committee, Larry
8.  European Committee, Majbrit M
9. OPPM Review Committee, Joan
10.  2016 ABC Committee, Larry
11.  Executive Committee,

 G.  Old Business: From the June 13, Teleconference this motion was tabled until July with a unanimous vote of the Board:

Motion:  That we reduce the cost of the Identity Papers booklet from $2 to $1.50.  (Mary Jo)
 
Background:  We have a huge quantity of this item in the warehouse that was purchased in 2011. Because this booklet contains the foundational information for our Program, reducing the price may encourage more groups and individuals to use them as a topic for discussion.
For the record Martin stated that it would be good if the Board could find imaginative ways of dealing with this enormous amount of stock.

H.  New Business:

MOTION #1:   That the Board validate on the record the Board's Specific Concurrence to change the deadline for the submission of proposals for the ABC to September 30.  The proposals will be analyzed and translated into several languages, and sent to the registered ACA group and Intergroups by December 2.  The groups and Intergroups will have until February 28 to vote on the proposals.

Background:  In order to give the WSO more time to conduct its analysis of the proposals and obtain translations, and to allow the groups more time to consider and vote on the proposals, the WSO Board of Trustees has modified the deadline for the submission of proposals.

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Motion #2: That the Board validate on the record the Board's Specific Concurrence to pay for the machine translations of all the booklets, tri-folds, or free downloadable meeting starter information into Danish, Finish and Spanish at a cost of about $24,000.

Background: The non-English members of the fellowship currently do not have our booklets, tri-folds or free downloadable meeting starter information in their language.  As a result, some members have crafted their own makeshift literature that sometimes blurs the line between our program and others.  In order to offer a full line of products to our non-English speaking members in our Amazon Foreign Fulfillment effort, this motion will authorize the payment for machine translations of all of our booklets, tri-folds or free downloadable meeting starter information into at least three languages: Danish, Finish and Spanish.

Guest Comments:  To allow that all of our guests have a chance to share, we will limit guest comments to 3-5 minutes.  If someone needs to talk further, they may do so after the close of the meeting. 

Announcements: 

Close with the Serenity Prayer