Minutes for May 4th, 2021 at 12 noon ET
NancyD moderated the meeting.
Serenity Prayer
Announcements
Election of SLAA Online Officers for mandate period July 2021 through June 2022
Annual election held in June.
Nominations welcome throughout May for the seven Officer posts:
Chairperson
Co-Chairperson
Secretary
Liaison Officer
Webmaster
Co-Webmaster
Treasurer
Please send nominations to the Office at slaaonline@yahoo.com
For details of the Officer posts duties and requirements, see the Officers webpage: http://slaaonline.org/officers/
Read and approve May agenda - Link on website homepage - APPROVED
Read and approve March minutes - APPROVED
Read and approve Treasurer's report - APPROVED
Read and review Liaison Officer's report - READ & REVIEWED
Op Applications
None
Old Business
Motion to Approve SLAA Online Group Delegate to the SLAA ABC/M 2021 - jamie APPROVED AS DELEGATE
SLAA Online has approved sending a yearly delegate (funds permitting) to the SLAA Annual Business Conference/Meeting.
This year the SLAA ABC/M is an online virtual conference on August 3rd-6th 2021.
Current funds appear to be permitting.
Unopposed candidate: jamie
Approval procedure:
For candidate: Submitted written motivation followed by max three minute share.
No floor discussion of candidate.
After presentation, candidate asked to leave the #slaa2 room (but not the server) during the vote, by typing /part
Remaining present members vote to approve/disapprove/abstain.
After the vote, candidate invited by leading Op via PM to return to #slaa2 room.
New Business
Presentation of SLAA Online Group Inventory 2021 Report
SLAA Online Group Inventory 2021 - Report (pdf)
10 min Open Forum
Lotus - overall, I'm pleased with the report, to me it shows the Room has become a much safer place with good boundaries in place and a safe Room with safe guidelines
NancyD - while i am pleased with the responses themselves it is a bit disappointing that so few members did respond at all; in the future, i would love to see more members participate
15 min Group discussion of material that will be discussed at the SLAA ABC/M 2021 in August
IFD: A Framework for Living: The Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions, and Twelve Concepts of S.L.A.A.
- the latest draft for discussion now includes all the Steps and Traditions and the first Five Concepts
NOTE! Contact slaaonline@yahoo.com for a copy of this draft text
No member discussion
Serenity Prayer
Meeting adjourned