Oklahoma City Convention Business Meeting Report

[Convention planners decided that the convention business meeting, traditionally dealing only with matters pertaining to conventions, would, in this case, also bring up other matters. It was stated at the beginning of the business meeting that any suggestions or recommendations made on such other matters would be suggestions only, not binding on the fellowship.—Ed.]

The following report is from Jean P., who chaired the business meeting, held in two sessions:

At the business meeting of the Oklahoma City SA conference, January 12, 1991, the following motions were made and passed:

1. San Diego’s bid for the January 1992 conference was accepted by acclamation.

2. It was suggested that the fellowship investigate the possibility of having only one SA-wide international conference a year, in June. A motion was approved to ask Harvey A. of Nashville to appoint a committee to examine this possibility, to be composed of members on both sides of the issue, and to request that this committee report back to the business meeting of the July conference in Chicago.

3. Following a discussion of SA’s sobriety statement, a motion was made that this conference business meeting go on record as recommending that SA’s sobriety statement be left exactly as it is now written in the SA manual. After extensive discussion, this motion was passed 36 to 1, with 3 abstentions.

4. After some discussion of the current status of the International Group Conscience Committee (IGC), a motion was made to request the current members of that committee to meet together for the purposes of determining what went wrong with the IGC process and developing suggestions for either improving the process, or terminating it altogether; to ask the committee to report back to the Chicago conference and to the fellowship as a whole on those suggestions; and to request that the Central Office fund meetings of the IGC for that purpose. This motion passed (I don’t have a record of the exact vote).

5. Finally, a motion was made to request the Central Office to report to the January 1992 conference on possible ways of improving communications between the CO and the fellowship as a whole. This motion also carried (again, no record of the exact vote).