As you remember, over the past year the fellowship has been asked to approve or reject a procedure for taking an international group conscience on issues that affect SA as a whole. What follows is a report on that process, prepared by Katherine D., the chair of the committee to determine an IGC procedure:

The conference call for the International Group Conscience committee discerned, from the responses generated by the fellowships at the local level, that substantial unanimity does exist to approve the procedure we developed. The vote was 5-1. According to point #14 in the procedure, the next step is for the five regions of 1) Chicago/Milwaukee/Minneapolis; 2) Pacific Northwest/Canada/Bozeman; 3) New York City/Boston/East Coast; 4) International/Germany; and 5) Baltimore/Washington D.C. to select a representative from each region. This is to be done within each region, much as local groups from one area join to form an intergroup. Each region’s representative will serve for a two-year term, and the minimum length of sobriety for members must be two years of sexual sobriety as SA understands it, according to the procedure. We hope the regions will take action as soon as is practicable. Later in 1989, at the behest of the Committee, the last four regions are invited to elect an inter-regional representative from the following areas: 1) Kansas City/St. Louis/Oklahoma City; 2) Nashville/Southeast; 3) Salt Lake City/Phoenix/Colorado; and 4) Los Angeles to complete the nine-member committee serving staggered terms of two years.

A special “Thank you” to the fellowship generally for making possible the committee’s work and for help in completing its task of rendering what we hope is a workable procedure for taking an international group conscience.