The 2009 WSBC agenda questionnaire and list of motions for consideration has been mailed out. I have linked the files to our web site. They can be downloaded by clicking on the following links:
Something new this year, Questionnaire Summary
Please download and print (or have your designated downloader or ask your internet buddy do so) the above linked documents. If you know of a meeting you attend regularly that has no intergroup rep, please make them a copy too.
The object of the agenda questionnaire is to canvass the world’s OA service bodies (in our case, Space Coast Intergroup), for their opinion on whether or not these motions and amendments should be considered for debate and vote at the 2008 WSBC.
I recommend that each group consider these motions and amendments, fill out the questionnaire, and return it to your intergroup rep, the intergroup chairman, or the intergroup secretary. You may also return it to me and I will make sure it gets to the proper people. This should be done at a business meeting for the purpose, however, each group may follow its group conscious.
Here’s an excerpt from the agenda questionnaire instructions:
Please carefully consider each proposed new business motion and bylaw amendment in order to decide if the delegates should discuss and vote on it at WSBC 2009. Does its debate benefit OA at this time? Your “yes” or “no” vote is not a ote to approve or disapprove the content of the business motion or bylaw amendment. Those agenda items discussed nd voted on by the 2009 Conference delegates will affect OA as a whole for years to come; therefore they should be important to the Fellowship as a whole.
Only those new business motions receiving a “yes” vote from at least 30% of the responding service bodies, and only those bylaw amendments receiving a “yes” vote from at least 40% of the responding service bodies will be considered at SBC 2009.
Your service body is urged to vote on the items listed on the agenda questionnaire whether or not you are represented by a delegate at Conference 2009.
The deadline for submission of the agenda questionnaire is March 5th, 2009. Our intergroup chairman and/or the intergroup secretary must sign the form and send it in. One or both of them will tally the forms you return to them and determine how to answer each question based on the number of returns.
Remember: Leaving an answer blank counts as a ‘no’ vote.
If you have any questions, please email me at floridafryes@yahoo.com.
Ray F.
Space Coast Intergroup WSBC Delegate
