Update for PAC – Committee Report Feb 2026

Policy & Admissions Committee (PAC) Report February 2026

What We Do:
The Policy & Admissions Committee (PAC) assists new groups in registering and listing their A.A. meetings on the OIAA meeting directory. Our responsibilities include:
• Reviewing new meeting submission forms for completeness and compliance with meeting directory listing guidelines.
• Ensuring that new meetings/groups retain a Traditions statement.
• Assisting new member groups in listing their Intergroup representatives at the time of registration.
• Helping meetings/groups regain their status for relisting in the OIAA meeting directory or as Intergroup representatives if they have lapsed.
• Addressing complaints and answering questions regarding meetings/groups listed in the OIAA meeting directory.
• Providing policy and guideline advisories to any interested parties.

What we did: Committee actions from February 1 to February 28, 2026:
• New meeting submission forms reviewed: 77
• International meeting submission forms reviewed: 4
• New meeting submission forms processed to listed completion: 18
• Meetings listed with an IGR: 6 (33% of January completed listings)
• Outstanding – waiting for reply: 24
• Requested Removal: 0
• Decided Not to List: 1
• Declined listings: 0
• Duplicates/Not a Lising/Update/Hold/Spam: 19
• Sent to Listers: 7
• Sent to Steppers: 0
• Sent to PIC: 1
• OIAA policy/guideline advisory: 0

The PAC Committee members continue to reply to meetings and groups who want to be added to our OIAA Meeting Directory. We currently have 4 active members who are engaged in this activity. A 5th member expects to resume training soon. We are all actively engaged in communicating with many group and meeting contacts.

February 2026 was a busy month but the percentage of groups listed with an IGR was lower at 33%. Many groups contact us initially and then, when we reply with a request for additional information, we never hear from them again. We are still discussing the challenge of the many groups which fail to reply to our email when we reply to them after their initial request.

At our January meeting we created a Sub-Committee whose primary purpose would be to create a mentorship program for new IGRs. Cam H. was appointed chair of this sub-committee. They held one meeting in February and voted to call themselves IGR Steppers, in keeping with the “Steppers” theme used by other OIAA Committees. They are in the process of making decisions about how they will go about assisting new IGRs. Anyone who would like to participate is welcome to contact Cam at pac.camh@aa-intergroup.org.

We welcome new members. Anyone wishing to serve on PAC may contact us at pac.bethd@aa-intergroup.org.

Respectfully submitted,
Beth D. OIAA PAC Chair