MINUTES
Representative Assembly
Wednesday August 1, 2014, 21:00 SLT
Praetorium, Locus Amoenus, Confederation of Democratic Simulators
Attending: Cadence Theas (LRA), Rosie Gray, Tor Karsvalt, Gwyneth Llewelyn
Missing: Cleopatra Xigalia
Guests: CDS citizens and friends
Before the meeting began, Cadence noted that Cleopatra requested a 7 day vote.
Meeting was called to order at 8:08 am SLT
1) Administrative Business
1.1) Review and approve agenda
Motion to approve the Agenda Gwyneth 1st, Rosie 2nd, all in favour, carried.
1.2) Review and approval of the previous July 10, 2014 meeting minutes
As there were no Minutes presented, there could be no motion to accept them.
Motion to accept Rosie taking the Minutes for this time. Tor 1st, Gwyneth 2nd, all in favour, carried.
1.3) Executive Report. Due to the short notice for this RA meeting, the chancellor has not been invited to participate nor to present his executive report.
2) Citizen Concerns
Gwyneth brought forward a notecard concern that had been given to all the RA members: Dated 7-31-2014 “I do have a question concerning the Census, Why is JerryDon Lane still listed in the CDS group as Citizen but the Census clearly does not show him as owning land?
Thank you,
Spider22997 Upshaw
CC: Chancellor
RA Members
Widget Whiteberry”
Motion as amended: To notify the Chancellor to remove all non-citizens from the Citizen role in the CDS group. Gwyneth 1st, Rosie 2nd, all in favour, carried. Cadence requested that Gwyn give a notecard to the Ceasar with the request.
3) RA Members’ Concerns
Motion that Cleopatra Xigalia be removed as Archivist of the RA due to not doing the job satisfactorily. Rosie 1st, Tor second, all in favour, carried.
Motion to approve Tor as the new RA Archivist. Rosie 1st, Gwyn 2nd, all in favour, motion carried.
4) Old Business
4.1) Legislative Project Agenda for the 21st RA term
Based on the results of the survey conducted to the RA members, the following legislative agenda for the term is proposed:
Order of Legislative projects for the 21st RA
1 Power of the chancellor
2 Checks and balances
3 New sim legislation
4 Building commission
5 New sim
6 Archie and Hippo access
7 Conflict of interest
8 Handling harassment
9 NSF School to Guild act
10 Citizen oversight
11 Liquidation of CDS
12 Referendums
This list does not preclude other legislative priorities that acquire circumstantial importance based on things happening in CDS or in other branches of government. The idea is to determine a calendar for the introduction of legislative projects, the assignation of study committees if the RA so decides, the participants of said committees (RA and non-RA members based on interest and knowledge), and a calendar of completion to present finished legislation to the RA for consideration. If there is no issue with this order, we can begin to address the projects in this session. When the time comes, I will be asking RA members to consider abstention from discussion and voting during certain issues, although hopefully this issue will be taken care of in part by the Checks and Balances legislation.
Motion to accept the agenda for legislative projects in the order currently identified on the chart. Rosie 1st, Gwyn 2nd. All in favour, motion carried.
Gwyn notes: just to make sure that citizens of the future understand that this was indeed a collaborative work from all their elected representatives.
5) New Business (65 min.)
5.1) First projects discussion. Topic to be determined based on final legislative project priority survey.
Motion: To establish two commissions, one to report on items 1 and 2 and the second to report on items 3, 4 and 5 of the 21st RA Agenda. Cadence 1st, Gwyn 2nd, all in favour, carried.
Motion that we accept Tor to head the first commission and Rosie to head the second commission. Cadence 1st, Gwyn 2nd, all in favour, carried
Due to the time, the rest of it items are tabled.
5.2) Other new issues
5.2.1) Bill proposal: Management of Official Media Channels of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators Act
5.2.2) Bill proposal: Consent for Snapshots and Machinima Act
( viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5233&p=29991#p29991 )
6) Commission Reports
7) General Announcements (5 min.)
8 ) Next RA Meeting (5 min)
9) Adjourn at 10:08 am slt.
Motion to adjourn and in principle we meeting two weeks, date and time to be decided later.. Cadence 1st, Rosie 2nd, all in favour, carried.
Transcript of meeting here: http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5277