Agenda Questionnaire Summary World Service Business Conference 2016 Please DO NOT return this summary. This summary is for tallying your members’ responses. Your intergroup or service board should return the Agenda Questionnaire available on the OA website. Agenda Questionnaires should be postmarked by March 3, 2016. Questionnaires postmarked after this date will not be counted. Proposal A
Submitted By Board of Trustees Janice S., Conference Planning Committee Chair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Board of Trustees Cyndy L., Conference Bylaws Committee Chair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
Motion Move to amend WSBC Policy 1979e by striking and inserting the following:
Intent/Rationale To make sure the Conference report placed on the website does not include full member names, phone numbers, or email addresses. The names, phone numbers and email addresses will be sent in another report that is not placed on the website.
It was adopted to: To ensure personal anonymity be maintained, the online version of the Final World Service Business Conference Report will only include first names and last initials in minutes and reports. The contact section of the report, which Iincludes names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of delegates only in the hard copy print version of the Final World Service Business Conference Report will be emailed to all service bodies and delegates following Conference. “For Use Within OA Only” should will appear at the top of the list. In the online version of the report, all names and contact information of delegates will be redacted; only first names and last initials will be used in minutes and reports. Move to rescind WSBC Policy 1980a. This old policy has been replaced by a new one. It was adopted that: The purpose of each proposed amendment to the World Service bylaws be clearly verbalized by the proposing body.
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Bring to WSBC? Yes/No
Proposal C
Submitted By Board of Trustees Cyndy L., Conference Bylaws Committee Chair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Central Jersey IG, R7 Ross M. Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Board of Trustees Cyndy L., Conference Bylaws Committee Chair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
Motion
Intent/Rationale
Move to amend WSBC Policy 1992c by striking and To change the policy to match inserting the following: what is being done now. Literature is not sold at the It was adopted that: Conference, only at We, the 2002 Conference of Overeaters Anonymous, ask Conventions. that AA literature sold by the OA World Service Office also shall be available for purchase at all World Service Conventions and Business Conferences. Move to amend WSBC Policy 1986a by striking and To change when Unity Day is inserting the following: celebrated from February to June. It was adopted that: Overeaters Anonymous celebrate an annual worldwide Unity Day on the last first Saturday in February June at 11:30 am pacific standard time. Move to amend WSBC Policy 2005a by striking and To make sure rules that are no inserting the following: longer needed are recommended for removal. It was adopted that: Business Conference policies that have been completed or the purpose of which have been served and are no longer required, or has passed their “sunset” date, shall be presented by the Bylaws trustee cochair to the chairman of the Board of Trustees for consideration of removal at the next Business Conference.
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Proposal F
Submitted By Board of Trustees Vicki W., Public Information Committee Chair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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WSBC Bylaws Committee, Dora P. Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
Motion
Intent/Rationale
Move to amend WSBC Policy 2011a by striking and To make it clear that it is okay to use social media to attract members to OA as long as there is no risk to The following policy statement was adopted: members’ anonymity. It Statement on Public Media reminds members they are While Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues, including social media, the delegates of the 2011 responsible for maintaining 2016 World Service Business Conference recommend their own anonymity. against that any OA member, group, or service body endorsing (sponsoring, creating, funding, or using) for OA purposes any public media of communication where the personal anonymity of OA members cannot be maintained using social media for OA public information and public awareness maintain the personal anonymity of OA members. inserting the following:
Members of Overeaters Anonymous are anonymous. The Fellowship is not. Members of Overeaters Anonymous using social media are responsible for maintaining their own personal anonymity. Move to establish an OA Virtual Services Conference To set up a committee to help Committee. The committee would focus on virtual groups the virtual service boards and and would assist in forming new virtual service boards, virtual groups. presenting virtual workshops, and other projects that support the virtual groups and virtual service boards (VSBs). This will help build infrastructure and support for VSBs and virtual groups.
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Proposal
Submitted By
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Region 10 Trustee, Faith M. Virtual Services Trustee, Stephanie D. Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Board of Trustees Cyndy L., Conference Bylaws Committee Chair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Board of Trustees Cyndy L., Conference Bylaws Committee Chair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
Motion
Intent/Rationale
Move to rescind WSBC Policy 1999.
To remove the policy, which was made a part of the bylaws definition of a group back in It was adopted that: An online or telephone group will be registered with World 2008. At that time the policy Service as long as the listed group meets the following was no longer needed. criteria: 1) Takes place in “real time;” 2) Is fully interactive; and 3) Fulfills the definition of an OA group as contained in Subpart B, Article V, Section 1 of Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. Bylaws. Move to amend OA, Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article VI – To add the Intergroups by inserting and renumbering the following: service body the bylaws. An intergroup shall be a duly registered service body. For the purpose of this document a service body is defined as a service entity that provides services beyond the group level. Move to amend OA, Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article VII – To add the Regions by inserting and renumbering the following: service body the bylaws. A region shall be a duly registered service body. For the purpose of this document a service body is defined as a service entity that provides services beyond the group level.
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Proposal 3
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Submitted By
Motion
Intent/Rationale
Board of Trustees Cyndy L., Conference Bylaws Committee Chair
Move to amend OA, Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article VIII – To add the definition of Service Boards, Section 1 - Definition by striking and service body to this part of inserting the following: the bylaws.
Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
For the purpose of this document a service body is defined as a service entity that provides services beyond the group level. A service board shall be a duly registered service body. with tThe purpose of a service board is dealing to deal with issues that require a combination of membership and financial resources of intergroups and groups not otherwise served within the existing service structure. The service board shall serve and be responsible and accountable to those groups and intergroups. These service boards may be known as national service boards, language service boards, or virtual service boards. Move to amend OA, Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article XI – To make it clear the Region Conference Committees, Section 4 – Region Chairs Chairs Committee (RCC) is Committee by inserting the following: not to travel out of North America for RCC meetings. a) The Region Chairs Committee shall provide a channel of information and communication between the members and the Board of Trustees through the regions and a network for the purpose of sharing resources and solutions. b) The Region Chairs Committee shall be composed of the current region chairs only. A region chair may designate an alternate, such as the region vice chair, to serve on the committee in her/his absence. c) Section 6 of Article XI does not apply to this committee. d) The Region Chairs Committee meets only in North America.
OA South and East England IG, R9 Caroline M. Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Bring to WSBC? Yes/No
Proposal 5
Submitted By WSBC Bylaws Committee Cyndy L., Trustee Cochair Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Region 10 Trustee, Faith M. Virtual Services Trustee, Stephanie D. Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
Motion
Intent/Rationale
Move to amend OA, Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article VII – To change the way a service Regions, Section 1 – Composition by striking and inserting body asks to move from one the following: region to another if they want. c) Should S states/provinces/countries/territories within a region, or intergroups/national/language service boards within a state/province/country/territory may petition the Board of Trustees for transfer to another region that is geographically more convenient. The transfer will be in effect immediately upon BOT approval. The BOT shall submit wish to transfer to a region that is more geographically convenient, the body petitions the region they intend to join. Upon regional approval, the body notifies their current region of their intent to leave, and petitions the Board of Trustees of their intent to join the receiving region. Upon BOT approval, the BOT submits a motion to WSBC to amend Subpart B, Article VII, Section 1 of the bylaws. Move to amend OA, Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article V – Overeaters Anonymous Groups, Section 1 – Definition and Section 2 – Composition by striking and inserting the following: a) These points shall define an Overeaters Anonymous group: 1) As a group, they meet to practice the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, guided by the Twelve Concepts of OA Service. 2) All who have the desire to stop eating compulsively are welcome in the group. 3) No member is required to practice any actions in order to remain a member or to have a voice (share at a meeting).
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To remove the limits on how virtual groups operate. To make the registration rules the same for all meetings.
Bring to WSBC? Yes/No
Proposal
Submitted By
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Region 10 Trustee, Faith M. Virtual Services Trustee, Stephanie D. Contact WSO for maker’s contact information.
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Motion 4) As a group they have no affiliation other than Overeaters Anonymous. 5) It has affiliated as an Overeaters Anonymous group by registering with the World Service Office.
Intent/Rationale
Bring to WSBC? Yes/No
To remove the limits on how virtual groups operate. To make the registration rules the same for all meetings.
b) Virtual groups (groups which replicate face-to-face meetings through electronic media) may be an Overeaters Anonymous group if they: 1) otherwise meet the definition of Overeaters Anonymous groups; 2) are fully interactive; and 3) meet in real time. Jill M., ConferenceMove to amend OA, Inc. Bylaws, Subpart B, Article XI – To make the name of the Approved Literature Conference Committees, Section 1 – Conference Literature committee more exact. To Committee Delegate Cochair Committee by striking and inserting the following: update the wording in the policy to match how members Linda J., Conferencea) The Conference-Approved Literature Committee are actually selected. Approved Literature (CLC) shall be composed of twelve or more Committee Trustee Cochair delegates selected by the cochairs of the Conference-Approved Literature Committee of the Board of Trustees from among delegates at the Contact WSO for maker’s Conference, to obtain good geographic representacontact information. tion, strong abstinence, and a willingness to serve. b) The cochairs may appoint Ooutgoing delegates, if they desire, may to serve an extra year on the committee in an advisory capacity.
Please DO NOT return this summary. This summary is for tallying your members’ responses. Your intergroup or service board should return the Agenda Questionnaire available on the OA website. Agenda Questionnaires should be postmarked by March 3, 2016. Questionnaires postmarked after this date will not be counted.
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