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#SLAA Online Group Officers

Nominating and Voting Procedures

Thank you for your interest and participation!

In February, 1999, the #SLAA Online Group began conducting business meetings and formed officers in June, 1999.  We welcome and encourage all members of the #SLAA Online Group to participate in both the nominations process and the voting process.  There are six officer positions, and they serve a one-year term of office:  Chairperson, Co-Chairperson, Secretary, Liaison Officer, Webmaster and Co-Webmaster. 

Both submitting your nominations and subsequently your votes is easy.  Each member may nominate any person or persons for the six officer positions (or some of them).  You are permitted to nominate yourself.  You may nominate (and later vote the same way) at any time within the timeframe above.  Please submit your nominations and votes in either of two ways:  via email OR via chatroom (covered in the next paragraph).  A person may wind up being nominated for more than one office.  This is allowed, however, we discourage individual members from nominating or voting for one person for more than one office.  Once a member is nominated, we will quickly email them to see if they accept or decline the nomination.  As of June 1, you may vote for members who have not declined the nomination.

To nominate or vote via email, please send your email to our Trusted Servant email address for this purpose slaaonline.org, and include your usual #SLAA chatroom nickname and your nominations or votes for each of the six office positions (or some of them).  To nominate or vote via chatroom, please message (privately or publicly) ANY operator (the ones with the "@" by their nicknames).  They will email this information on your behalf.  Only the officers have access to this information.

Following is a list of the responsibilities and requirements for each of the six offices:

• Note that the suggested requirement for the Chairperson and Co-Chairperson is six months as an operator within the room.

1. Chairperson

• Be responsible for #SLAA channel to follow server rules (per StarLink-IRC.Org guidelines)
• Lead committee to develop policy and guidelines for channel
• Finalize any scheduling conflicts with OP's
• Lead officers in establishing consensus determining conflicts over restriction/bans applied for inappropriate behavior when an incident is not clear or not covered in guidelines
• Lead a review committee when a claim of unfair treatment occurs
• Becomes 500 level op minimum (owner) in #SLAA and 499 level op minimum (co-owner) in #SLAA2
• One year of recovery is suggested as a requirement
• 6 months as OP is suggested as a requirement

• Perform all functions of Chairperson in his/her absence
• Serve on all committees with Chairperson
• Assist Chairperson as requested
• Becomes 499 level op minimum (co-owner) in #SLAA and 500 level op minimum (owner) in #SLAA2
• Provide input to establish officer consensus determining conflicts over restriction/bans applied for inappropriate behavior when an incident is not clear or not covered in guidelines
• One year of recovery is suggested as a requirement
• 6 months as OP is suggested as a requirement

• Be responsible for minutes of all Member (business) meetings
• Serve on all committees with Chairperson
• Maintain the email inbox, replying to information requests and forwarding business email
• Provide input to establish officer consensus determining conflicts over restriction/bans applied for inappropriate behavior when an incident is not clear or not covered in guidelines
• Becomes 450 level op minimum
• Three months of recovery is suggested as a requirement

• Serve on the S.L.A.A. FWS Internet Committee (CIC)
• Keep the #SLAA Online Group's membership aware of S.L.A.A. FWS issues of interest
• Keep S.L.A.A. FWS aware of the #SLAA Online Group's meeting times and any changes
• Work with the Webmaster in keeping #SLAA meetings and website URL posted and accurate in other recovery site links
• Provide input to establish officer consensus determining conflicts over restriction/bans applied for inappropriate behavior when an incident is not clear or not covered in guidelines
• Becomes 450 level op minimum
• Three months of recovery is suggested as a requirement

• Maintain #SLAA website
• Be responsible for keeping notice of #SLAA meetings and website URL posted and accurate in other recovery site links
• Ability and technical knowledge to manage and modify #SLAA website required - preferably knowledgeable in FTP and HTML
• Assist in #SLAA (and #SLAA2) channel technical needs and training
• Provide input to establish officer consensus determining conflicts over restriction/bans applied for inappropriate behavior when an incident is not clear or not covered in guidelines
• Becomes 450 level op minimum
• Three months of recovery is suggested as a requirement
• Post the monthly minutes prepared by the Secretary to the website

• Perform all functions of Webmaster in his/her absence
• Assist with maintaining #SLAA website
• Ability and technical knowledge to manage and modify #SLAA website required - preferably knowledgeable in FTP and HTML
• Provide input to establish officer consensus determining conflicts over restriction/bans applied for inappropriate behavior when an incident is not clear or not covered in guidelines
• Assist in #SLAA (and #SLAA2) channel technical needs and training
• Becomes 450 level op minimum
• Three months of recovery is suggested as a requirement
• Ability and technical knowledge to manage and modify #SLAA website required

7. Treasurer

• Suggested one year of sobriety, one year as an op (will be 450 op level),
• provides input to establish officer consensus determining conflicts over restrictions/bans applied for inappropriate behaviors when an incidence is not clear or not covered in the guidelines.
• Maintains ledger of debit, credits and balances of account and submits monthly treasury reports to Fellowship.
• Collects donations from fellowship from SLAAOnline P.O. Box, regularly, (p.o. box to be in the area wherever the treasurer is)
• Pays website fee monthly, pays for domain name of website yearly, pays for P.O. Box yearly
• Maintains prudent reserve of $140 dollars and sends excess in donations to SLAAFWS as per group conscience

Other notes:

• Members are permitted to nominate themselves for an office.  This is equivalent to volunteering yourself (into nomination for office). [4/16/99]
• We provide one full month for nominations, follow by one full month for voting.  This is to insure that every member has the opportunity to participate, helping to establish true group conscience. [3/25/99] [4/15/02]
• All #SLAA Online Group members are encouraged to participate in both the nominating and voting process.  Voting is conducted in the same way as nominating.  We realize that some members may see their preferred nominations have already been listed by another member, so they might only nominate for some officers (or none).  During the month of voting, however, we encourage EVERYONE to participate. [3/4/99]
• It is up to the #SLAA Online Group members to vote wisely, knowing the intention and spirit of the suggested requirements and S.L.A.A. Traditions. [5/2/99]
• In most 12-step groups, the requirement for officers is sobriety time. In SLAA, we set our own bottom lines (which may be altered at anytime we see the need), and we stress time in recovery as well as time of sobriety.  Therefore the suggested requirements reflect time in recovery. [2/23/99]
• A member or operator may not have experienced any warning and/or ban in the prior 30 days to be able to serve as an officer. [2/15/02]
• All officers serve for a one-year term, however, there shall be no limits on the number of terms an officer may serve. [3/25/99]
• It will be possible in the future, if needed, to add/change/delete responsibilities or move them between officers. [2/23/99]

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