40.
Would the Fellowship discuss, share experience and make recommendations on whether the intent behind Tradition 9 is being upheld when questions submitted for consideration by Conference are being rejected by Conference Steering Committee as being the responsibility of some other service board or committee?
Background
•
Tradition 9
• Summary of questions not accepted for Conference 2014
• The Conference Charter‐Great Britain, AA Structure Handbook for Great Britain 2013, pp104‐107
• Concept IV and V
A number of questions submitted last year for Conference 2014 were rejected under submission category 7 as being the /responsibility' of some other service board or committee.
Tradition 9 states that ‘AA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.’
Pages 104 to 107 of The AA Structure Handbook for Great Britain 2013 state that ‘The Conference will ... be the vehicle by which AA in Great Britain can express its views on all matters of vital AA policy and all hazardous deviations from AA Tradition' and that ‘Since 1966 Conference has been for all practical purposes the voice and the effective conscience of the Fellowship in Great Britain'.
Concepts IV and V give a ‘right of participation' and a ‘right of appeal' to all members of the Fellowship.
My intention behind asking this question is to ask Conference to consider the intent behind the Traditions and the rights outlined by the Concepts, and for Conference to find a better way to uphold these when questions are being ignored by Conference Steering Committee and swept into an accountability vacuum between Conference and the Board of Trustees and, with Conference Steering Committee decisions only being revealed once per year, there being no right of appeal.
• Summary of questions not accepted for Conference 2014
• The Conference Charter‐Great Britain, AA Structure Handbook for Great Britain 2013, pp104‐107
• Concept IV and V
A number of questions submitted last year for Conference 2014 were rejected under submission category 7 as being the /responsibility' of some other service board or committee.
Tradition 9 states that ‘AA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.’
Pages 104 to 107 of The AA Structure Handbook for Great Britain 2013 state that ‘The Conference will ... be the vehicle by which AA in Great Britain can express its views on all matters of vital AA policy and all hazardous deviations from AA Tradition' and that ‘Since 1966 Conference has been for all practical purposes the voice and the effective conscience of the Fellowship in Great Britain'.
Concepts IV and V give a ‘right of participation' and a ‘right of appeal' to all members of the Fellowship.
My intention behind asking this question is to ask Conference to consider the intent behind the Traditions and the rights outlined by the Concepts, and for Conference to find a better way to uphold these when questions are being ignored by Conference Steering Committee and swept into an accountability vacuum between Conference and the Board of Trustees and, with Conference Steering Committee decisions only being revealed once per year, there being no right of appeal.
Terms
of Reference No. 7 A new system is in place and the Terms of
Reference of the CSC have been updated to reflect this.
Comment:
Steady now! Risk of democracy breaking out!
Cheers
The
Fellas (Friends
of Alcoholics Anonymous)
PS
For AA Minority Report 2013 click here
PPS
Plymouth Intergroup corruption (see here)
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