Motion: Members are prohibited from using the Trigger rule to *intentionally* interrupt, harass, or otherwise disrupt shares or conversations in the main room, as a form of spite or humor. The Trigger is to be taken seriously and should not be misused (3/1/11)

Motion: No one under the age of 18 may participate in our room (2/1/11)

Motion: Everyone (including non-ops) can have the scripts, so as to participate in the recovery process at the service level, as approved by the Officers (2/1/11)

Motion: At the discretion of Ops, Reserve the last ten minutes of the meeting for newcomer chips/introductions. If no newcomers are present or do not wish to share etc. we can re-open the floor for general sharing. If a Newcomer request the floor at anytime before the last ten minutes of the meeting Ops can still give the Newcomer the floor, and run chips and give all the salutations if they want to or if it is very busy and there are many newcomers, they can hold the chips until the last ten minutes of the meeting. This is so that the main body of the meeting is not interruped, but we can still introduce and welcome newcomers properly. (11/2/10)

Motion:
As per Group Conscience the following suggested guidelines for share times are as follows:

During Meeting:
at 4 minutes send 1 minute reminder in a private message
at 5 minutes send 1 minute reminder to main room
at 6 minutes thank for sharing
beyond 7 minutes de-voice

Out of meeting:
at 10 minutes send 1 minute reminder in a private message
at 11 minutes send 1 minute reminder to main room
at 12 minutes moderate
at 13 minutes thank for sharing
beyond 14 minutes de-voice

These guidelines are suggested only and actual times and actions are at the discretion of the Operator, as Operators know best how to serve the meetings they serve. (10/5/10)

Motion: Members requesting Ops cannot have had any warnings in prior 30 days (Date?)

Motion: The group has empowered the webmasters to make changes to the website (except major ones) without having to run everyone of the changes by the group. In other words, the webmeisters are autonomous except major decisions. (date ?)

Motion: Ops inactive 45 days will be deactivated (3/4/99),(9/15/05) We will delete obsolete masks on Cstar (10/15/01), Ops must be sent a notice first that their status will be revoked unless they contact us and exercise theirposition by chairing at a meeting with 30 days of notice before we can delete them. (2/5/08)

Motion: Whoever is to do work (on the website) recieves an email from slaaonline.org that states any work for this site is free of charge to the group and that it is also stipulated that all rights to claims of work for the group belong soley to the group that person(s) who help are to retun a reply email with that message in the body with the words "Yes I agree" to the above – motion carries 3/6/07

Motion: A member may only speak once per topic on a motion (precedence) 4/3/07

Motion: If the Chair resigns, Co-Chair is automatically elevated to Chair. (precedence set the first time 1/15/06).

Motion: Any member will be able to appeal to the group's trusted servants (Officers) whenever they feel an operator (officers included) has acted improperly in using the powers granted them to moderate meetings. Upon review of the complaint, the operator may be suspended from operator status until such time that a group conscience vote can be taken to address the issue. The group Conscience of the #SLAA Online community will determine
if the operator is to be re-instated as a trusted servant or not (8/1/06).

Motion: A prudent reserve was set as $143.40 for the Treasury (2/15/06)

Motion: We vote to accept the agenda (7/11/06)

Motion: A copy of the minutes should be sent to all ops so they know what is going on (9/5/06)

Motion: The shortened version of the serenity prayer will be used vs long. (5/15/04)

Motion: Speaker meeting shares may be posted on the website with the speaker's permission (2/15/03).

Motion: Vacant board positions may be filled by a vote in the business meeting (by precedence) 4/15/03.

Motion: Private messages and emails that are unsolicited may be considered problem behavior (7/15/02).

Motion: Time limit set on length of Business meeting. No more new business after 75 minutes (3/25/99)

Motion: Robert's Rules of Order are to be used in biz Meetings (3/11/99). Also: Please note how Robert’s rules of order are to be used: “In the interest of tackling all of the items on this agenda and allowing everyone the opportunity to speak on the extremely important topics, suggest the following format in this meeting: Each topic under New Business will begin with a motion being made: That motion will then either be seconded or set aside. Upon the motion being seconded, discussion will begin. During discussion, only friendly amendments will be accepted to the motion. An amendment will be considered a friendly amendment if the original provider of the motion concurs with the amendment. Everyone will be allowed one share on each motion presented. Each share will be limited to 3 minutes in length. The end of discussion will be the point at which a vote is taken. A vote was taken on following this format and the Motion passed. 2/15/07