Archives

Online Service Area Archive Committee Guidelines – updated June 2022.

The purpose of the OSA ARCHIVE COMMITTEE is to collect, organize, categorize, copy, preserve and electronically store historically valued documents and  items produced by the Online Service Area of C.A. and make the history of the organization accessible to C.A. members and to provide a context for understanding C.A.’s progression, principles and traditions.

Contact the Archive Committee: archive@ca-online.org

THE ROLE OF THE ARCHIVE COMMITTEE

The OSA ARCHIVE COMMITTEE ought to maintain responsibility and authority, as suggested in Concept Ten, for the uses of the archives, as well as all other matters of policy through its collective group conscience, including: establishing policies, budgets, and procedures—exercising its group conscience in regard to matters of general policy. In all of its actions, the CAWS Archives Committee needs to be mindful of and guided by C.A.’s primary purpose, “to carry the C.A. message to the addict who still suffers.”

  • To Liaise with the fellowship
  • Establish working relationships with OSA Area Officers and Standing Committee Chairs
  • To make the Archive Accessible to the OSA fellowship
  • Rotating Positions
  • Be an Elder States-person

Archive COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  1. The OSA Archive Committee meetings are governed by the WSM, the 12 Traditions, the 12 Concepts, and Roberts Rules of Order, superseded only by the OSA Structure, Bylaws, and Standing Rules
  2. OSA Archive Committee shall hold, at minimum, quarterly meetings online at such times decided at the previous OSA Archive Committee meeting, to address, amongst other things:
    • Election of committee service Officers
    • Service officer reports
    • Old business / New business
    • Decisions of major importance

Committee Structure

Archive Committee Chairperson

  1. Clean time requirement: Two [2] Years
  2. 1 year of active service within online meetings
  3. Suggested Term of Commitment: 2 Years
  4. Organizes and presides over all committee meetings
  5. Coordinates all committee / Sub Committee functions

Archive Committee Vice-Chairperson

  1. Clean time requirement Two [2] Years
  2. 6 months of active service within online meetings
  3. Suggested Term of Commitment: 2 Years
  4. Assists Chair when required and stands in when Chair is unavailable.

Secretary

  1. Six months clean time
  2. 6 months of active service within online meetings
  3. Keep minutes of meeting
  4. Keep a record of minutes

Members

  1. Any OSA member can join the OSA Archive Committee