CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees

Minutes
April 2nd, 2022

Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Time

Acknowledging that we are all here for our personal recovery.
The mission of the CoDA Board of Trustees is to ensure the longevity and fiscal health of the organization, to support the Fellowship’s ongoing service work, to promote CoDA unity and to reach the still suffering codependents.

OPENING  

Attendance and order of Round Robin – Barbara, Faith, Katherine, Yaniv, Caryn T (Co-NNections - Chairs Forum representative), Gail

Absent: Florence, Joe.

CONSENT AGENDA

Minutes:

MOTION TO APPROVE: 2-20-2022 Board Face2Face Workgroup Minutes

Moved by Barbara, Second by Gail, approved unanimously via email.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fo78XAwQbg_QOrAOKfsf6ZoR21SV8Ss_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107223816073683518936&rtpof=true&sd=true

MOTION TO APPROVE: 3-5-2022 Board Public Meeting

Moved by Barbara, Second by Gail, approved unanimously via email.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6d7ju3gm_VvRCDjJ_37pFAyNyxatg3H/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107223816073683518936&rtpof=true&sd=true

MOTION TO APPROVE: 3-20-2022 Board Face2Face Workgroup Minutes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14HGdGSeYThlSD65MsuYj8RaaMUHJle7y/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112086583512314525037&rtpof=true&sd=true

Moved by Gail, Second by Faith, approved unanimously via email.

Treasurer’s report/Financials      

MOTION TO APPROVE: Above Consent Agenda.

Moved: Barbara   Second: Faith  Vote: Unanimous

Website: 

• CoDA.org issues being worked on:
   

• Meeting Search Issues (Time Zone Strategy & F2F/Hybrid meetings) .
• Member Resources page.
• Site map for CoDA.org.

OLD BUSINESS:

• CODA Teen (codateen@coda.org): Spanish Outreach Committee (SPO) is taking the English material and translating to Spanish.

• MOTION – to authorize Treasurer Barbara Delantoni to transfer $200,000 from Chase Bank to Wells Fargo Bank and put into Certificates of Deposit.
  Moved: Barbara, Second: Gail, Vote: Unanimous
  
  Background: There was too much in Chase Bank for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). At the 2021 CoDA Service Conference (CSC), there was a motion to allow us to earn interest.

NEW BUSINESS:

• Translation Management Committee (TMC) and Service Structure Committee (SSC).

The duties of these 2 committees will be given to the new Fellowship Service Worker. There will be motions at the 2022 CSC to dissolve these two committees.

Next Public Board Meeting: May 7, 2022 (1st Saturday of month)

Strategic planning meeting: April 10, 2022 (2nd Sunday of month)

Next Workgroup Meeting: April 17, 2022 (3rd Sunday of  month)
 

Move to EXECUTIVE SESSION:

Motions from Executive Session:

• MOTION – to approve contracting with Patrick for Audio Visual Services for CoDA Service Conference/International CoDA Conference (CSC/ICC) at $9,000.00.
  Moved: Barbara, 2nd: Gail, Vote: Unanimous.

• MOTION – to hire Monica as Fellowship Service Worker (FSW) to do the SPO requested Outreach work for SPO.
  Moved by Barbara, 2nd: Gail, Vote: Unanimous
   
• MOTION – to authorize the Board to purchase the two licenses:

Creative Cloud for teams - $958.88 per year.
Creative Cloud All Apps for individual - $635.88 per year.
Moved by Barbara, 2nd; Gail, Vote: Unanimous

2019-2022 minutes: https://coda.org/service-info/board-minutes/

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