June 30, 2015

Dear Adult Children,

ACA’s Annual Business Conference (ABC)[1], is the annual gathering of delegates from ACA groups and intergroups. At the ABC, the delegates consider fellowship proposals for possible action at the world service level.  During the ABC, delegates also receive reports from the ACA World Service Organization (WSO) and its committees. The ABC is usually held on the fourth weekend of April. The 2016 ABC will be held on April 22-23. The WSO is also hosting the Inaugural ACA World Conference (WAC) on April 24.  

For details, click here. 

ACA groups and intergroups are invited to submit proposals for the ABC to the WSO. Once received, the WSO analyzes and obtains translations of each proposal (where possible), and forwards the proposals and analyses to all ACA groups for their group conscience vote. In order to do this effectively, the following timetable has been adopted:

  • September 30th, 2015, is the deadline for submitting proposals. The WSO will take two months to analyze the proposals and obtain translations of both the proposals and the WSO analyses.
  • On December 2nd, 2015, the WSO will send the proposals, analyses and translations to all the registered groups and intergroups for their groups conscience votes. The groups will have about three months to review and vote on the proposals.
  • February 28th, 2016, is when the groups’ votes are to be received by WSO.   

Please mark your calendars accordingly. 

Only groups and intergroups may vote on the proposals. It is suggested that each group and intergroup carefully consider the proposals. Following ACA’s traditions, voting should take place within a group conscience.

Only those proposals that receive a 2/3rds favorable vote from the groups and intergroups are placed on the ABC agenda for the ABC delegates to discuss and to take possible action.  Please note: the ABC delegates may decline to act on any given proposal.

Kindly share this information with your group(s) in the event they would like to pre-schedule special group conscience meetings to review the proposals and/or to submit a proposal(s). 

ABC proposals should primarily concern matters that groups think should be addressed by the ACA WSO. In considering whether to submit a proposal, please consider whether the issue may be better handled at the group or intergroup service level, while the WSO may be better able to address issues affecting ACA around the world.

You may want to review the various reports and minutes in the Repository on the ACA website to determine if there are similar projects already underway at the WSO level. You might want to determine if the proposal is something that will benefit ACA as a whole.

In service,

The Board of Trustees

ACA WSO, Inc.