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Hello Fellowship, I know it has been a long time since you’ve heard from the Board of Trustees Chair, so let me get right to it. Quite a bit of work has occurred since before the Annual Business Meeting in August 2022. We appreciated the wonderful service Seth S., Rick S. and Christina M. provided while in their time on the Board of Trustees. We also welcomed new Board members; Julie M. from Los Angeles, CA, Phoenix G. from Houston, TX, and Rick B., from the Largo, FL area. We also confirmed to the Board Juanita J. from DC and Sam E. from NJ during the in-person meeting.
Board Committee chairs and Conference Committee liaisons have shuffled and as of now stand as follows:
Board Chair & President of the Corporation: Suzanne D. (TX)
Treasurer of the Corporation: Jay G. (OH)
Secretary of the Corporation: Rick B. (FL)
Board Committees
Board Copyright and Translation Committee Chair: Julie M.
Board Development Committee Chair: Suzanne D.
Board Finance Committee Chair: Jay G.
Board Human Resources Personnel Committee Chair: Juanita J.
Board Outreach Committee Chair: Hernan V.
Board Publishing and Distribution Committee Chair: Phoenix G.
Board Technology Committee Chair: Gabriel G.
Board Seventh Tradition Committee Chair: Rick B.
Board Programs and Membership Committee Chair: Gabriel G.
Liaisons to the Conference Committees
CAC: Phoenix G.
CBC: Rick B.
CCC: Suzanne D.
CDC: Gabriel G.
CFC: Phoenix G.
CHRC: Hernan V.
CICC: Juanita J.
CJC: Julie M.
CLC: Sam E.
CMRC: Rick B.
CPIC: Hernan V.
CSC: Jay G.
CSPC: Julie M.
CSTCC: Sam E.
CTIOC: Julie M.
Chairs Committee – Suzanne D.
The budget for 2022-2023 was approved and this year the Delegates and F.W.S. must fund the cost of putting on the first ever hybrid (integrated) Annual Business Meeting. The meeting is set for August 1st through August 4th, 2023. The in-person meeting will be hosted by the Orange County, California Intergroup, at The Hilton in Costa Mesa, California. Currently much work is being done towards that end and it will be interesting to see how that comes together.
Other big news this year is that our office staff moved the office to a more efficient and appropriately-sized office still within San Antonio, Texas. The move went smoothly and we appreciate Pam, Christina and Hector, as well as the vendors who made it all possible.
We expect the new meeting finder technology to become available in the next few months and we are excited for you to finally get meeting and committee information more easily than in the past.
Our Life Saver program was a success and got us safely through the Pandemic years. The automatic contributions that many members and groups continue to make are vital to funding the ABM and everything we do. These contributions now exceed the match that a number of members and groups pledged and paid and we would welcome additional pledges to match contributions. We are a self-supporting fellowship after all, and could sure use that support this year!
On the Literature front, we have several bundles available in our on-line store and coming soon is the Making Outreach Calls pamphlet that became Conference-approved August 2022. It has been approved to be sold as a PDF and in paper form and will be added to applicable bundles.
Editor’s note: A subsequent announcement was made by the Board that the 2023 Annual Business Meeting will be in-person and not virtual or hybrid. Please see “Board of Trustees Statement regarding the 2023 Annual Business Meeting” on page 23.
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