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Business meeting of SLAAonline: Tue Jul 11 22:03:05 2006

Agenda:
I. Reading of Minutes and Approval
II. Treasurer's Report
III. Old Business – Tabled motions from previous meeting are suggested to be completed after first item of New Business as discussion about elections is one that is of a time sensitive nature.
IV. New Business

A. Elections report and installation of new officers
B. 8 Motions regarding guidelines
1. (Charles) Motion: All meetings held on SLAA Online are to be guided by the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. SLAA online shall be operated in accordance with rules
set by Starlink, provided that those rules do not conflict with the Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions or divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
2. (Charles) Motion: The decisions of SLAA Online Group only pertain to scheduled
and/or moderated meetings of SLAA Online Group. Any activities outside of a scheduled and/or
moderated meetings, such as general chat or private message, do not fall under our group
conscience, EXCEPT IN CASES OF VIOLATION OF STARLINK RULES.
3. (Charles) Motion: To keep people safe during moderated meetings, we vote to give
the trusted servant of each meeting the right to devoice someone if they are disruptive only for
the length of each meeting.
4. (Eric) 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.
5. (Ket) Motion: That the following 2 motions be rescinded / tabled. As they do not
reflect the true conscience of the SLAAonline group and because it was called to table both of these
motions at the April SLAA Business Meeting and the group was misinformed and was told it could not
table a seconded motion:
a. Moved and seconded to answer requests to become an operator with a standard
email, this email would state that we have received their request and would like them to attend the
next business meeting, and their appointment would be voted on by group conscience and a "tutor"
would be assigned and scripts would be given to them via a mirc installer which has the scripts
preloaded. Motion passed.
b. Moved and seconded to change the wording in the guidelines from "A fourth
problem incident yields a 90-day to 1-year ban and requires 30-days self-defined sobriety to return
to the room. The length of the ban is at the discretion of the current officers when the problem
occurred, even if it extends into the following term of officers." To "A fourth problem incident
yields a 90-day to 1-year ban. The length of the ban shall be determined by a vote of members
present at a group conscious meeting specifically called for the purpose of discussing the ban of
the individual. Motion passed.
6. (Ket) Motion: To rescind/remove the below guideline/rule as it does not serve
SLAAonline group as a whole and for the guideline to read. All officers serve for a one-year term,
and if an Officer is called upon to serve for an extended period, this should be voted upon at a
Slaa Business Meeting by a well-informed SLAAonline group conscience:
a. All officers serve for a one-year term, however, there shall be no limits
on the number of terms an officer may serve. [3/25/99]
7. (Curtis / Charles) Moved to change the guidelines so that "Remaining in a room
while not at your computer for long periods can under certain circumstances be considered an
invasion of privacy. If an operator considers this a problem, you might be kicked or temporarily
kicked/banned for a short period. This is, however, rare. It would typically occur if a member
has been idle (away from keyboard) for more than 90-minutes and a meeting is about to start or
between meetings if a member is sharing a very personal story." becomes "Remaining in a room while
not at your computer for long periods can under certain circumstances be considered an invasion of
privacy. If an operator considers this a problem, you might be kicked or temporarily
kicked/banned for a short period. This is, however, rare. It would typically occur if a member
has been idle (away from keyboard) for more than 120-minutes."
8. (Eric) Whereas there is an agenda item on the SLAA Conference-wide Annual Business
Meeting regarding respresentation of this online group, it is moved that a committee be formed to
explore the general structure of this group to see if this group in fact qualifies as an
"intergroup" and thereby could apply for representation at said Business Meetings, function as
an intergroup in relation to the duties of its Trusted Servants and better support the Primary
Purpose of each and every meeting hosted on this forum; "to carry its message to the sex and love
addict who still suffers."

With the large number of motions for this meeting, I am proposing that the
meeting format follow a modified set of rules. I am going to suggest that when dealing
with the motions, each member present will be given the chance to share once per motion.
Additionally, the shares will be limited to 3 minutes. Any member may request a motion
be tabled and a vote will be taken at that point to decide if the motion should indeed
be tabled. Additionally, if any member wishes to call the question on the motion a vote
will be taken at that point to determine if discussion should be closed on the motion.
Once all who wish to and are eligible to share or the question has been successfully
called, a vote will be taken on the motion. All 8 Motions have been listed here. If the
hour is late, the motions must be addressed. Tabling the motions
immediately upon the motions being presented is, however, an option.
At this time we will vote first on the agenda itself and secondly - as well as separately - on
the proposed rules for the meeting.

Move to accept agenda.
Move to accept amended agenda!
seconded
Agenda accepted 8-0-2

motion to accept the modified rules for discussion
seconded
Rules for discussion are accepted by vote of 7-0-3

move to table the approval of June's minutes until next month
seconded
Approval of the minutes are tabled until next month by vote of 9-0-5

Treasurers Report Accepted 10-0-4

result of last month'e elections

Chair
Lynn had seven votes
CUrtis had six votes
Evan had two votes
Co-chair:
Evan had six votes
Lynn had four votes
Curtis had Three votes
<ewg> we have a motion on the floor to hold the election as invalid...do we have a second?
<Chase> I second, we do not have any attempt at a quarm
<ewg> motion is seconded. Discussion will onctinue on the motion. CArol is your discussion regarding Ket's motion?

voting to end discussion on the election results
discussion is ended 13-1-4

Please vote to invalidate the election results
The election results are upheld by vote of 3-9-6

1. (Charles) Motion: All meetings held on SLAA Online are to be guided by the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. SLAA online shall be operated in accordance with rules
set by Starlink, provided that those rules do not conflict with the Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions or divert us from our primary spiritual aim.

seconded

<CharlesC> I withdraw my motions completely
<CharlesC> from the table.
<ewg> I withdrawal my motions and resubmit them for next month's agenda

6. (Ket) Motion: To rescind/remove the below guideline/rule as it does not serve
SLAAonline group as a whole and for the guideline to read. All officers serve for a one-year term,
and if an Officer is called upon to serve for an extended period, this should be voted upon at a
Slaa Business Meeting by a well-informed SLAAonline group conscience:
a. All officers serve for a one-year term, however, there shall be no limits
on the number of terms an officer may serve. [3/25/99]

seconded

<Ket> remove my motions off the table

can we have motion to adjourn?

seconded
so moved