MINUTES RA Meeting August 13, 2018

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MINUTES RA Meeting August 13, 2018

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MINUTES
of the 29th RA
August 13 2018
12 noon SLT (Pacific)

Attending: Bagheera Kristan - LRA, Tanoujin Milestone, Kiki Whatever
Citizens and guests
Missing: Rosie Gray, Laura Azalee

Meeting called to order at 12:16 pm slt

1) Administrative Business
1a) Review and approval of the Agenda
MOTION to approve Agenda. 1st Tanoujin Milestone, 2nd Kiki Whatever, carried
1b) Review and approval of the Minutes
No minutes to approve
1c) Executive Report
No report
1d) Report on the LUC
No report
1f) Report on the Road Committee
No report

2) Citizen Concerns
Tanoujin requested to keep in mind that Sudane is available on weekends to come to meetings, Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm and Sunday from 6 am to noon.
Bagheera said that she is concerned about the website and forums, and that we are being challenged in that those who manage them are not available when we need them, so we are a bit hamstrung.
Kiki thought that it would be a good idea to remind people earlier and more often about the RA meeting dates.

At this point a Bagheera moved item 4b up for discussion
4b) CDSL 21-05 Tier Collection and Land Reclamation Act discussion
Full law with amendments:

CDSL 21-05 Tier Collection and Land Reclamation Act
Enacted 26 October 2014
Four sections: Tier Collection, Private Sales, Reclamation – Special Circumstances

Part One: Tier Collection
Since 2011, CDS has used scripted rental systems to collect tier.
1. When a person first purchases a CDS land parcel, they will receive the first 30 days of tier on that parcel which will be given by an Estate Manager. Following the first month of ownership, citizens pay tier via the Tier Payment Unit assigned to their parcel. They have the option to pay for one or many months at a time. Citizens must pay tier – via the tier collection unit– on a parcel that lists them as the owner in the land tool and have it in good standing to maintain citizenship.
2. A landowner may request a refund from an Estate Manager when selling or abandoning a parcel.
3. The Executive shall employ the following procedures for tier collection, reclaiming parcels under ordinary circumstances and clearing (resetting) the tier collection units.
4. Parcel abandoned from the land tool – Executive clears the tier collection. A landowner may request a refund from an Estate Manager when selling or abandoning a parcel. The parcel is reset for sale.
5. The Tier Collection Units shall be set to use the notice functions that alert landowners of the expiration of their tier in advance of due date, and the days remaining until they are due. The unit also announces numbers of days overdue. Landowners are expected to be in world to receive such notices and/or have provided LL with an email address allowing them to receive IMs while offline. Landowners are expected to set preferences to receive IMs when off line. Landowners who do not make provision to receive IMs in email, nor provide an email to the Executive, are still required to pay tier in a timely manner. Landowners who disable the reminder notices are expected to track when payments are due themselves and keep their tier up to date.
The Chancellor is encouraged [to] maintain a list of citizens with the email addresses voluntarily provided by citizens on a no-modify notecard with an explicit request to notify them by the provided email address. “<date>: To the Chancellor: please use the following email address if you need to contact me about tier.”
Upon leaving office, the outgoing Chancellor will transfer that list to the incoming Chancellor.
6. The Estate Owner should include the following reclamation language in the CDS Covenant land tool: “The right to vote and stand for election is reserved for citizens in good standing, i.e. are current with tier.

Part Two: (Timing) When Tier Expires
1. Beginning three days before tier expires, the tier collection unit is supposed to begin sending IMs to the parcel owner.
2. Within 7 days of being in arrears:
The remaining time shows up on the tier collection system website, available to all Rental Managers.
The Executive notifies citizens (via IM, notecard, email) of impending land reclamation at 14 days of delinquency and loss of voting rights once tier expires. Refer to CDSL 16-03, Item 2 regarding potential loss of voting rights.
3. Once tier runs out
Tier collection unit continues to send IMs until the object is reset, unless the notices have been disabled by the citizen.
The Executive notifies citizens (via IM, notecard, email) to the (now probationary) citizen.
The 14 day time period begins in which the citizen can reclaim their parcel by paying all owed amounts. (Notification by IM, notecard and email – or IM when the citizen is not logged in.)
The Executive sends a final notice to errant landowner notifying them when the land will be reclaimed and their items returned.
4. In addition to the census, CDS has the right to make public the lists of provisional citizens from time to time, as reasonably needed for its administration of government. The Treasurer creates the list, with provisional citizens noted at the bottom. The Executive posts it to the Forum using the subject line “Census, (month, day, year).” Treasurer adds the lists to the Praetorium census dispenser. Additionally, the Executive posts a notice to CDS group, announcing the publication of the list and it’s availability via the Forum or the Census Dispenser at the Praetorium
During times of elections or by-elections the executive shall inform the scientific council about citizens who are on the census lists but have lost their citizenship afterwards due to giving up their last parcel or having gotten into arrear with tier payments.
5. At fourteen days overdue, if the landowner has failed to pay the full amount outstanding and unless absent due to a declaration of ‘special circumstances.’ then the Executive can reclaim the parcel. Objects on the parcel can be returned to the landowner and the parcels set for sale unless there are plans to temporarily take it off the market to redevelop.

Part Three: Private Sales
For parcel sales to be complete, the new buyer’s name must appear both in the Land and Tier Collection Unit. If the seller neglects to clear their name from the Tier Collection Unit, the executive clears the seller’s name so the new parcel owner can pay tier. If purchased through a private land sale, the purchaser does not receive 30 days of tier.

Part Four: Reclamation – Special Circumstances
From time to time, real life circumstances – either personal or technical – prevent a citizen from keeping current with tier (coming in-world and paying). On the ‘in-world’ side, Tier Collection Units sometime fail to send proper notification; IMs are sometimes capped per LL and may prevent a citizen from receiving email. We refer to these as ‘special circumstances.’
In the event of special circumstances either before or after reclamation – where the Citizen does not intend to let tier lapse – the Citizen, members of a group to which the parcel is assigned, friends of the citizen, the community at large, and the Executive might
- offer to pay tier (parcel owner or partner of)
- contact the parcel owner
- notify the Executive of special circumstances
- notify the community of special circumstances and call for help
- petition the SC for relief
Citizens whose circumstances may require it can recruit someone to cover their tier. Note, tier payments made by someone other than the landowner does not confer citizenship. Repeated payment by someone other than the landowner can result in status change to ‘provisional’ and put voting rights in jeopardy.
This law repeals and replaces CDSL 13-03, any provisions of prior CDS laws (including CDSL 13-03) that specify land reclamation or rent payment methods, to the extent that they contradict the explicit terms of this law.
Changes and amendments made to CDSL 21-05 passed by the RA on August13, 2018

MOTION to pass amendments to CDSL 21-05 as above. Tanoujin Milestone 1st, Kiki Whatever 2nd, all in favour, motion carried

3) RA members concerns
No concerns

4) Old Business
4a) CDSL 24-01 Responsible Estate Management Act
MOTION to repeal the existing law and replace it with a law called CDSL 28-01 Region Divestment Act. Tanoujin Milestone 1st, Kiki Whatever 2nd, all in favour, carried

New law:

Rationale:
In the Confederation of Democratic Sims, it is the responsibility of the CDS government to ensure that the estate is financially managed in a responsible manner with an overall goal of keeping CDS in the black.

1) Tenancy fluctuations and long term vacancies can negatively impact the financial health of the estate. This bill establishes parameters for selling a CDS region if it remains vacant, in the red and a financial liability.
If the CDS fails to generate more than 90% of its monthly tier expense for and a region fails to generate more than 75% of its monthly tier expense for more than three consecutive months, or the CDS as a whole fails to generate more than 90% of its monthly expenses for six consecutive months.
2) The Chancellor or anyone is to notify the RA for review to determine if it is in the best financial interests of the CDS to divest of a region.
If the decision is made to sell, the Chancellor will determine the sale price of the region based on the average market sale price for regions of that type at that time. The Chancellor must give 90 days notice to all CDS citizens of the intention to sell a region both on the CDS forum and in an in-world CDS group notice.
3) The Chancellor must give 90 days notice of the sale to all citizens of the region via notecard. In the case of group owned land, the Chancellor will provide notice via notecard to the group owner.
Citizen owners’ responsibilities to abandon land and how to collect refund of tier balance.
4) Citizens of the region being sold are responsible for abandoning their land and may subsequently notify the Executive (Chancellor or Estate Manager) to issue a refund of their tier balance from the tier meters before the date of the sale. Otherwise they will be expropriated and refunded on a certain deadline to be announced by the Chancellor.
5)Three days prior to the sale date, the Chancellor will announce his/her intentions to sell the sim in the CDS Group inworld and on the CDS forums.
6) On the scheduled date of sale, the Chancellor will clear the region completely of all objects before placing the region for sale.
7) The Chancellor can confer the responsibility of clearing the region on a CDS estate manager
8.) At the Chancellor’s direction, Rudeen must place the region up for sale in the For Sale By Owner group. The Chancellor is responsible for writing up the text for the sales notice and for giving it to Rudeen.
9) Money from the sale of the region shall remain in the general CDS account (Rudeen).
10) Neufriedstadt is excluded from this act. Given the history of the region and the significance to CDS, Neufreistadt will remain until it is no longer able to pay for itself or SL service ends.

MOTION to pass CDSL 28-01 Region Divestment Act as above. Tanoujin Milestone 1st, Kiki Whatever 2nd, all in favour, carried

MOTION to table remaining items and move to scheduling the next meeting. Kiki Whatever 1st, Tanoujin Milestone 2nd, motion carried.

4c) Suggested changes to Neufriedstadt infrastructure

i) occupancy areas extending beyond parcel boundaries
ii) rentals versus parcel ownership within the city limits

4d) Estate management guidelines for linking estate owned prims on private parcels

i) citizen options and limitations to change/remove current installations
ii) estate manager guidelines regarding new installations that fall within currently occupied parcels without citizen-owner agreement

4e) Monastery changeover

5) New Business

5a) RA Appointments to the LUC

6) General Announcements

7) Next RA meeting
Saturday August 25, 2018 noon slt

Meeting adjourned at 1:36 pm slt

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