Minutes, RA meeting 18-June-2019

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Minutes, RA meeting 18-June-2019

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Minutes, RA meeting 18-June-2019

Attending: Lyubov, Rosie Gray, Laura Azalee, MadMaxSoulLover, Em Warden
Also attending: Lilith Ivory, Pip Torok, Nailah Carlucci, Cathy Sabre

*1. Administrative Business

1.1 Review and approve the agenda
Motion to approve the Agenda as presented. Ljubov first, Laura Azalee second, all in favor, motion carried.

1.2 Review and approve the minutes 4-June-2019 http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9021
Motion to approve the minutes as posted to the forum. Ljubov first, Rosie second, all in favor, motion carried.

*2. Executive Report

No report.

Discuss proposed budget for 31st term,

Discussion about the fees and the effectiveness of advertizing. The conclusion was, that the budgeted sum was generous but defendable, since the effectiveness seemed good enough.

Rosie informed that we recently paid for the website hosting and domain renewals. She reminded us that these recurrent costs have never been included in the CDS budget, but that they ought to be, since they are a substantial part of our SL budget. We pay for a year at a time, and the budget is made for a 6 months term, so only half of the costs shall be budgeted each term.

Rosie wanted to make it clear that nobody has expected the Chancellor to set aside money for webside hosting and domain renewal in her budget, since it has never been budgeted before. It has been dealt with separately.

Rosie moved that we ask the Chancellor to include half of the costs for one year of webside hosting and domain renewals in the budget for this term. Lyubov seconded,all in favor, motion carried.

Em motioned that these costs shall be included in every CDS budget from here on. Rosie seconded the motion, all in favor, motion carried.

*3. Report on the LUC

The LUC is scheduled to meet on Sunday June 9. Lyubov therefore motioned that the remaining part of the LUC items be tabled untill the next RA- meeting. Rosie seconded the motion, all in favor, motion carried.

3.1 CN - Forum, Village status
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3.2. Regions Review
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3.3. At 7-January-2019 meeting, a motion carried to allow the LUC 60 days to experiment with layout and to draft a new covenant, http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8821
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3.4 Commercial discussion
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*4. Citizen Concerns

Pip informed that he would put in an effort to make Nailah Carlucci stay as a CDS citizen.

*5. RA member concerns
Em suggested that someone take over the task to clear the democracy wall regularly, to make room for new posters. Rosie saw no reason to erase the old ones, since any citizen could just paste over the existing posters with her/his own. Em thought that doing so could provoke bad feelings. Lyubov expressed her hesitation to cover other peoples' posters. Pip suggested that the Democracy wall had stopped serving it's original purpose (to relieve public pressure). Lilith proposed a poster that gives a notecard with instructions for use of the wall. No concensus was reached, and Lyubov asked if the discussions could continue outside the meeting, which was agreed upon.

*6. Old Business

6.1 Status report of MoCA Working Group and plans for new exhibition
The Chancellor and the MoCa-group have not yet come together, and the Chancellor is abroad untill July 5th, so the discussions are to be continued.

6.2 Forum discussion regarding MoCA Act, http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8937
Lyubov is planning to post her thoughts about the future of MoCa in the Forums.

6.3 Review NL 3-6 MoCA Act, https://cdsdemocracy.org/faqs/nl-3-6-moca-act/

*7. New Business

7.1 Review NL 4-6 Financial Reserves Act, https://cdsdemocracy.org/faqs/nl-4-6-fi ... erves-act/
http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9023

7.2 Review Constitution and laws regarding campaigning, see Forum post at http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8965

7.3 Review laws with archaic references including "Al Andalus" and "Neualtenburg"

The Financial Reserves Act need to be considered for review and updating, mainly by removing archaic references. Rosie offered to identify problem areas and publish a draft with suggested changes on the Forums. The citizens can then comment on them. The Treasurer Act and the Estate Owner Act also need to be considered for updating, but it was agreed that those two shall be treated as a separate item.

*8. General Announcements

8.1 LUC meeting, Sunday 23 June at 0900 SLT

8.2 Renew Premium by 24 June
Lyubov reminded all SL Premium members to renew no later than noon on June 24, to maintain the current billing price for another term (monthly, quarterly or annual).

*9. Next Meeting

Lyubov proposed that the next RA meeting will be hold Monday 8 July at 1200 SLT. All voted for, none against.

*10. Adjourn
Motion to adjourn the meeting, Rosie seconded the motion, all in favor, motion carried.

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NL 3-6 MoCA Act

This Act establishes a Museum of Contemporary Art to be build by the Guild and owned and operated by the city.

The maintenance and operation can and should be outsourced to a private group
(either from within the guild or not – guild gets first choice). So there will be no “deed”.
Just a standard contract agreed between the City and the private group, where the
private group is entitled to all the revenues and benefits on the MoCA (and it even gets
the building for free), but the City owns the land beneath.

The “contract” should have a duration (say, 3 months) and set some goals (eg. number
of artistic & cultural events held there, number of visitors, traffic generated for the
City, etc.), and be automatically revalidated if all goals are achieved. If they aren’t, it’s
up to the City to discuss more reasonable goals, or make a new contract with a
different group.

NL 4-6 Financial Reserves Act

The city shall move 1 month’s tier in USD to a separate line item (reserve account), and make those funds unavailable for other use.

Funds in the account shall be disbursed at the discretion of the RA to pay recurring expenses in the event of a sudden and unexpected drop in $USD income.

The city shall augment this account as funds are available until it contains enough funds to pay all recurring city expenses for a period of two months absent other income.

When you go through hell- keep walking!

Winston Churchill
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