[Businessmtg] Curtailing Donations to the WSO

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Emee and all Biz-Pals, 

  

The back story regarding the curtailing of donations to the 

WSO, quite frankly, began with one strong personality who 

reasoned that since the WSO doesn't do much for on line 

groups that ASP ought look elsewhere for making donations 

(my summary, not this person's words.) 

  

The business meeting took this up and passed a motion (as 

noted in one of my past shares here in this meeting) to stop 

making WSO donations until the Business Meeting had resolved 

certain and defined issues. 

  

As Treasurer I was not about to go against the Group Conscience 

by continuing making these donations. So that's the reason WSO 

donations stopped. This Business Meeting decided it should be 

so. 

  

My regret, here in this month's meeting, is that we seem so very 

close to resolving one of the reasons for not making donations: 

that we accept the WSO as the sole appropriate benefactor of any 

Excess Funds we donate. I have heard nothing but agreement that 

this point reaches the "consensus" threshold. With days left 

in the month - and perhaps with a few days borrowed from March - we 

could put this to a vote and perhaps resolve one part of the difficulty. 

  

Then we could wrestle with the "how much" and "prudent reserve/booklet/ 

chat room" parts of that past motion in our next meeting. After years 

and years of awaiting the opportunity to resolve this it seems a shame 

to be so close to making some progress only to set it all aside once again. 

  

Exceptionally discouraging that we are not being allowed, once again, 

to agree where we agree. Some of us have been waiting for this topic 

to even get to the Business Table for years - a problem in and of itself - 

only to see it slip away completely unresolved . 

  

Jerry 

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