CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees

Minutes
September 10th, 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, Florence, Katherine, Lisa, Steve, Tina, Yaniv, Jay (Outreach Committee Chair - Chairs Forum representative), Gail

*Absent: Joe (with advance notice)

CONSENT AGENDA

Other motions via email or Executive Session:

MOTION to approve Minutes from 8-6-2022 Public Board Meeting:

emailed out 9-7-2022

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W8gg4N6TVBSiaL37W0PE5S3YVrtf3Gdf/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112086583512314525037&rtpof=true&sd=true

Moved: Gail; Second: Barbara        Vote: Unanimously approved on 9-8-2022

MOTION: Move to hire Carole from Events Committee as a Fellowship Service Worker (FSW) in the position of interpretation coordinator.

Barbara, Second: Faith   Vote: Yes unanimously

Voted on at Exec Session on Aug 6, 2022

MOTION to approve the Board Policies and Procedures (P&P) dated July 3rd, 2021

Barbara moved, Yaniv second, Vote: Approved unanimous
Voted on during Board Face2Face in South Dakota on 8-19th & 20th, 2022

MOTION to authorize the Legal Liaison to communicate with our Copyright attorney on a as needed basis to review and update current Translation Management (TMC) contracts.

Moved: Barbara, Second: Yaniv Vote: unanimous approved

Voted on during Board Face2Face and email on 8-21-2022

Treasurer’s Report:

Highlights

 - $6375.66 income from International CoDA Conference (ICC)

 - $28,645.43 July Royalty from CoDA Resource Publishing (CoRE) paid in August, highest ever received!

 -$200,000 moved from Chase Bank to open an account with Wells Fargo in August 2022

MOTION TO APPROVE: Above Consent Agenda.

Moved: Barbara         Second:   Faith                     Vote: Unanimously approved

WEBSITE

• CoDA.org update - issues being worked on:
   

• Meeting Search Issues (Time Zone Strategy & F2F/Hybrid meetings):
  August report: No update, still in process.
   
• Member Resources page: New sections have been completed: 1) How to start a meeting; 2) Meeting Materials; 3) What do you think?
  August Report: Added a 4th box for Service Info. Meeting materials page still needs some work. “What do you think” is for opinions for literature, will be re-worked some. Need to add “40 Questions and CoDA teen materials”.
   

Site map for CoDA.org website: 
This will be worked on after Member Resource page
Difficulty accessing the old website which is causing delays.

Minutes:

Sent via email on July 8th:

MOTION TO APPROVE Board Public Meeting Minutes for June 4th, 2022.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/194ipH4MrKg14LuWzt_1l5qj65ecMFufV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112086583512314525037&rtpof=true&sd=true

Motion Gail, second by Barbara, Vote: Unanimously approved

WEBSITE

• CoDA.org update - issues being worked on:
   

• Meeting Search Issues (Time Zone Strategy & F2F/Hybrid meetings):
  Meeting search will now automatically list the meetings in order of the times and availability of meetings specific to the person doing the search.
  Face to Face meetings will be done next.
   
• Member Resources page: New sections have been completed: 1) How to start a meeting; 2) Meeting Materials; 3) What do you think?
  Still in progress.
   
• Site map for CoDA.org website:  This will be worked on after Member Resource page.

• OLD BUSINESS: 

   

• CoDA Service Conference (CSC) in South Dakota presented unique challenges due to the Hybrid nature of the conference this year. Our Fellowship Service Worker (FSW) is almost complete with transferring the Delegate page files to our archive website at:
  https://www.codependents.org/CSC/2022/2022.htm
  
  This includes the full Motions Database for this year’s CSC motions at: https://www.codependents.org/CSC/2022/2022_Files/Motions-Report-8.22-25.22-FINAL.pdf
  
  And soon we will post the Motions Summary with the simpler version to read without all the details.
  
  We have a wealth of archived CoDA info on our www.codependents.org website.
  
  Once the archived Delegate page is complete, we will send out an email to our Fellowship, stay tuned.

NEW BUSINESS: 
 

CoDAteen is no longer a Task Force! It is now a Standing World Committee. If you are interested in participating, please email CoDAteen@CoDA.org
Sept meeting was postponed to October 13th (2nd Thurs of each month)

CoDA Service Conference (CSC) approved a new Task Force called: Delegates Relations Task Force (DRTF).

Alternate Format Meeting Task Force - AFMTF
AlternativeFormatMeeting@CoDA.org Sign up by email invitation.

Next Public Board Meeting – October 1, 2022 (1st Sat of month)

Next Workgroup Meeting: Moved to Sept 25, 2022 (typically 3rd Sunday of month)

Move to Executive Session:

board@coda.org

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

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