CoDA Board of Trustees
Virtual F2F Board Meeting Minutes
July 10, 2021
Attending: Nancy O/Canada, Don B/SoCal, Barbara/NorCal, Gail S/Nevada, Yaniv S/Israel, Faith J/Canada, Matt T/Texas, Joe R/Guatemala
OLD BUSINESS
Minutes Virtual F2F Minutes June 26, 2021
Board Presentation – The Board reviewed and made changes to the CoDA Board Presentation to the CoDA Service Conference (CSC).
Board Policy & Procedures Manual – The Board reviewed the July 3, 2021 version of the Board Policy & Procedures Manual (PPM).
Board Annual Report Update – Barbara provided the Board with the additional Financial information for the CoDA Board Annual Report to CSC.
CSC Agenda – Barbara provided the Board with a copy of the most recent version of the CSC Agenda for review.
SoCal Voting Entity Issue (VEI) – There has been no word back from SoCal on how they prefer their VEI submission handled.
Voting Entity List from Outreach – There was discussion regarding the contact list Outreach provided to the Board which appears to be a list of CoDA Meeting contacts. Action: Yaniv to write to Outreach to see if they have been updating the CoDA Area Contact or Intergroup Contact lists on website (ie, https://coda.org/coda-area-contacts/ and https://coda.org/coda-area-contacts/intergroup-contact-list/)
SPO Website – July 16, 2021 – Nancy advised the Board that she has been advised by Spanish Outreach that they expect to have the Spanish version of the coda.org website 50% translated by July 16, 2021 and that they would like to launch the website with only 50% completed. The Board would like to know more before making the decision whether to support their request.
NEW BUSINESS
World Connections Committee (WCC) Documents for Delegate Package – The Board discussed the email sent by Matt to WCC regarding the report, goals and flyer submitted for the delegate package. The Board will await a response from WCC before deciding what to do with the documents.
Voting Entity Issues
Copyright Trademarks for Columbia – Discussed the email Gail sent to the Board regarding our copyright attorney recommending that we apply for Trademarks for Columbia. We all agree if the attorney feels it is important, to apply for this. However, the Board also wants to know if we should apply for TMs for more countries, ie other Latin American and Spain.
Action: Gail is to clarify with the copyright attorney what other countries we should consider applying for.
2022 CSC/ICC Dates – The Board discussed the email sent by Barbara asking us to consider Events request to approve the dates of August 19-28, 2022 at the Best Western, Rapid City, South Dakota for the 2022 CSC. These are the only dates available.
Next Virtual F2F or WorkGroup Meeting – Sunday, July 18 at 8:00 am Pacific
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