Motion: Sobriety requirement for OP’s - 3 months continuous sobriety with working knowledge of 12 Steps & 12 Traditions. Sobriety requirement for Officer positions - 1 year continuous sobriety with working knowledge of 12 Steps & 12 Traditions. Moved by NancyD – MOTION APPROVED (7/7/15)

Motion: I move that the SLAA online website discontinue the use or promotion of the outdated & unstable CGI program; and instead purchase the ad-free access for Mibbit at a cost to the group of $9.99 per month, allowing our members to use this excellent web-based client which they've grown accustomed to, without the triggering advertisements. Pending approval, I propose that a new link button be added on the SLAAonline.org website which connects members through the ad-free Mibbit program to our online SLAA chat room. Moved by NancyD – MOTION APPROVED (7/7/15)

Motion:   I move that we temporarily cut back our meeting schedule to Open Share meetings at 12:00 noon, 4:30 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. Eastern time, 7 days a week. Moved by Nancy - approved 6/2/2015

Motion:  That a committee of 6 members (each with at least 6 months of sobriety) of the SLAA online room be selected by the officers of the room to review the SLAAONLINE.ORG website & make their recommendations for revisions. I suggest that this group put special attention on our guidelines & officer qualifications. The recommendations of this committee should be submitted in writing to the officers of the group for clarification, then presented to group conscious at the next business meeting within 3 months (90 days) after the formation of the committee. (7/1/14)

Motion:  To send a Delegate to the Annual Business meeting and Conference of Fellowship-Wide Services of S.L.A.A. which will be held Tuesday August 5 – Friday August 8, 2014 (3/4/14)

Motion: To spend $895.00 of the treasury to register our delegate, the SLAAOnline Chair, to attend the ABM (keeping $140 in prudent reserve) (3/4/14)

Motion: Hope to be temporary webmaster on a volunteer basis with no Officer Status voted for approval by Group Conscience. (1/7/14)

Motion: Harold  Secretary voted for approval by Group Conscience (1/7/14)

Motion:  Treasury donation $170.00 to World Services.  (11/5/13)

Motion: New Website Design - And the Winner, by one vote is . . . design number 1! http://demo.templateworld.com/full-websites/098a/index.html (11/5/13)

Motion: Karishma to be approved and voted by Group Conscience for Co- Chariperson. Rose resigned due to other commitments. Karishma has been serving in this position. (11/5/13)

Motion: Resolved that in both the question asked of a new person in channels, and in pm, that they be written in such a way as to include that the person is considering that they might be an addict. Be it further resolved that our trusted servants be authorized to settle on the final wording. (11/5/13)

Motion:  "Motion for the Webmaster to conduct an online vote for group members to pick a new graphical design for the website at slaaonline.org. Group members will cast a vote for one of three options. The design with the most votes will be used. The vote will take place between now and the next business meeting.
1. http://demo.templateworld.com/full-websites/098a/index.html
2. http://demo.templateworld.com/full-websites/136c/
3. http://demo.templateworld.com/full-websites/001a/index.html
(9/3/13)

Motion: Thursday nights at 8pm EST, we have a meeting named "Healthy Relationships" focused on Chapter 8 "Building Partnerships" and excerpts from the SLAA Basic Text that discuss healthy intimate relationships. Proposed that the meeting be an hour and a half because the scripts would quote the SLAA Basic Text. (6/4/13)

Motion: Sobriety requirement for OPs changed to 3 months continuous sobriety.
Sobriety requirement for officer position, 1 year continuous sobriety.
Prior OP status requirement for officers, 6 months.
(6/4/13)

Motion: To have two Group Inventory Meetings modeled after the Greater New York Intergroup's format, which is detailed at: http://www.slaany.org/uploads/GNYI_Group_Inventory_suggested_format-adopted01Aug10.pdf and that these meetings be held annually in the month of June, one in the daytime, and one at night time, at regular meeting times 12 pm and 10 pm, and the ANONYMOUS answers be sent into the mailroom at SLAAOnline@yahoo.com. Links to the Inventory can also be sent to those who can't make the meetings. Final results will be tabulated and sent to all members. (4/2/13)

Motion: Add to our scripts, in the opening and perhaps also in the closing, a reminder of the 5th Tradition, that we have only ONE primary purpose, which is carrying the message of step 12, that a spiritual awakening is available as the result of working the 12 steps. (2/5/13)

Motion: Add in the "Respect 2" gentle reminder, both in the opening, and as a stand-alone script, wording explaining the !T post. (2/5/13)

Motion: That we donate $255.23 to World Services (60/40 donation) as we have had a lot of donations from members come in this past month. (2/5/13)

Motion: To establish that a spiritual reminder may be called for at any time by any member when it appears that things have become tense, hostile, contentious, or otherwise negative. A spiritual reminder defined is where a moment of silence is called for, for members to reflect on the fact that we are a spiritual program.  (12/4/12)

Motion: That at our monthly meetings we give the membership an opportunity to voice concerns and raise questions beyond the meetings resolutions of the day. The time should not exceed ten minutes and no member may have more than two minutes to express such opinions. (11/6/12)

Motion: An Officer or an Op who repeatedly and chronically relapses in their recovery may be asked to step down from their duties at the discretion of, and consensus of, the Board of Officers. (6/5/12)

Motion: For the purposes of recognition and security in the room each Member shall choose one nickname upon entering our community for the first time. This name must be a name that is not being used by another member in the room.

It may come to your attention later that the name you have chosen is already in use, and you may be asked to change your name by an Op.

Lastly, we ask that each Member use their name and refrain from constant name changing, in order to avoid confusion to others and to the ops who have to verify identities in the room. Name changes due to be afk, or disconnect are allowed. Only in compelling circumstance may a name be changed otherwise.

This motion shall be posted on the website (announcement page and behavior guidelines page) and new members will have a month to choose a nick name. (12/6/11)

Motion: Shorten Idle time before kick to 30 minutes when a meeting is getting ready to start, and 60 minutes in between meetings, so as to protect privacy in the room. (An unmonitored computer can be viewed by anyone passing by). Ops should query prior to kicking.( 3/1/11).

Motion: Members are prohibited from using the Trigger rule to *intentionally* interrupt, harass, or otherwise disrupt shares or conversations in the main room, as a form of spite or humor. The Trigger is to be taken seriously and should not be misused (3/1/11)

Motion: No one under the age of 18 may participate in our room (2/1/11)

Motion: Everyone (including non-ops) can have the scripts, so as to participate in the recovery process at the service level, as approved by the Officers (2/1/11)

Motion: At the discretion of Ops, Reserve the last ten minutes of the meeting for newcomer chips/introductions. If no newcomers are present or do not wish to share etc. we can re-open the floor for general sharing. If a Newcomer request the floor at anytime before the last ten minutes of the meeting Ops can still give the Newcomer the floor, and run chips and give all the salutations if they want to or if it is very busy and there are many newcomers, they can hold the chips until the last ten minutes of the meeting. This is so that the main body of the meeting is not interruped, but we can still introduce and welcome newcomers properly. (11/2/10)

Motion:
As per Group Conscience the following suggested guidelines for share times are as follows:

During Meeting:
at 4 minutes send 1 minute reminder in a private message
at 5 minutes send 1 minute reminder to main room
at 6 minutes thank for sharing
beyond 7 minutes de-voice

Out of meeting:
at 10 minutes send 1 minute reminder in a private message
at 11 minutes send 1 minute reminder to main room
at 12 minutes moderate
at 13 minutes thank for sharing
beyond 14 minutes de-voice

These guidelines are suggested only and actual times and actions are at the discretion of the Operator, as Operators know best how to serve the meetings they serve. (10/5/10)

Motion: Members requesting Ops cannot have had any warnings in prior 30 days (Date?)

Motion: The group has empowered the webmasters to make changes to the website (except major ones) without having to run everyone of the changes by the group. In other words, the webmasters are autonomous except major decisions. (date ?)

Motion: was made: which is to allow those who live in other time zones like Europe, or those who have to work at night to be able to apply for op by written letter being read in the business meeting. The motion was passed 5-09-2009.

Motion: Ops inactive 45 days will be deactivated (3/4/99),(9/15/05) We will delete obsolete masks on Cstar (10/15/01), Ops must be sent a notice first that their status will be revoked unless they contact us and exercise theirposition by chairing at a meeting with 30 days of notice before we can delete them. (2/5/08)

Motion: Whoever is to do work (on the website) recieves an email from slaaonline.org that states any work for this site is free of charge to the group and that it is also stipulated that all rights to claims of work for the group belong soley to the group that person(s) who help are to retun a reply email with that message in the body with the words "Yes I agree" to the above – motion carries 3/6/07

Motion: A member may only speak once per topic on a motion (precedence) 4/3/07

Motion: If the Chair resigns, Co-Chair is automatically elevated to Chair. (precedence set the first time 1/15/06).

Motion: Any member will be able to appeal to the group's trusted servants (Officers) whenever they feel an operator (officers included) has acted improperly in using the powers granted them to moderate meetings. Upon review of the complaint, the operator may be suspended from operator status until such time that a group conscience vote can be taken to address the issue. The group Conscience of the #SLAA Online community will determine
if the operator is to be re-instated as a trusted servant or not (8/1/06).

Motion: A prudent reserve was set as $143.40 for the Treasury (2/15/06)

Motion: We vote to accept the agenda (7/11/06)

Motion: A copy of the minutes should be sent to all ops so they know what is going on (9/5/06)

Motion: The shortened version of the serenity prayer will be used vs long. (5/15/04)

Motion: Speaker meeting shares may be posted on the website with the speaker's permission (2/15/03).

Motion: Vacant board positions may be filled by a vote in the business meeting (by precedence) 4/15/03.

Motion: Private messages and emails that are unsolicited may be considered problem behavior (7/15/02).

Motion: Time limit set on length of Business meeting. No more new business after 75 minutes (3/25/99)

Motion: Robert's Rules of Order are to be used in biz Meetings (3/11/99). Also: Please note how Robert’s rules of order are to be used: “In the interest of tackling all of the items on this agenda and allowing everyone the opportunity to speak on the extremely important topics, suggest the following format in this meeting: Each topic under New Business will begin with a motion being made: That motion will then either be seconded or set aside. Upon the motion being seconded, discussion will begin. During discussion, only friendly amendments will be accepted to the motion. An amendment will be considered a friendly amendment if the original provider of the motion concurs with the amendment. Everyone will be allowed one share on each motion presented. Each share will be limited to 3 minutes in length. The end of discussion will be the point at which a vote is taken. A vote was taken on following this format and the Motion passed. 2/15/07