(01-27-2017, 11:32 PM)Imperial Frost Federation Wrote: We apologize for the substantial delay in publishing an update.
An update from the Commission on Procedure.
The Commission has done work some work on assembly procedure. The commission has not planned for radical changes to current procedures. However, the commission is looking into how the assembly or legislators can notify and inform the CoA on proposals. We have a rough proposal drafted, but are currently tweaking and revising it.
After debate we moved to decorum, nothing radical on that front has been proposed. The general ideas were that people overall need to be respectful to others and their beliefs. We have also been discussing on codifying the procedure for moderator or admin suppression in the Assembly to ensure accountability and prevent moderators from going rogue (i.e. Suppressing users with little evidence).
The Commission has also discussed LC-Assembly relations to streamline or reform current procedures of interacting with members of the Local council to reduce meddling in both branches.
The Commission is still planning to discuss how to codify the specific powers of the Chair and Deputy Chair, and develop a list of motions for the Assembly. At this time, the commission recommends including a succession clause within the Charter allowing the DCoA to take over the role of the CoA in the event of the CoA’s CTE or removal.
The Commission’s current focus is on legislative format and syntax, as well as compiling an easy how to manual on legislation drafting to promote assembly activity.
Frost
Chair of the Commision
Omega
Chair of the Assembly
Ryccia
Deputy Chair of the Assembly
Griffindor
Commission Member
FOUR MONTHS and this is what you've come up with? What you describe here isn't even a proposal, it's a statement of common sense facts.
"The general ideas were that people overall need to be respectful to others and their beliefs."
Does this even need to be debated? This is an obvious statement on basic rules of debate, not a basis for a proposal. What constitutes not being respectful, how do you enforce it? Those are real questions and ideas.
"We have also been discussing on codifying the procedure for moderator or admin suppression in the Assembly to ensure accountability and prevent moderators from going rogue (i.e. Suppressing users with little evidence)."
Has this ever even been a problem? You make it you like this is a major issue but in my years of the Assembly I struggle to remember a single incident of major abuse by the Chair or our Admins in the Assembly.
"The Commission has also discussed LC-Assembly relations to streamline or reform current procedures of interacting with members of the Local council to reduce meddling in both branches."
Meddling? What meddling exists here, because I haven't seen any. If anything the largest problem seems to be the extended delays in the Office of the Chair sending these proposals to gameside, not meddling.
"The Commission is still planning to discuss how to codify the specific powers of the Chair and Deputy Chair, and develop a list of motions for the Assembly."
The powers of the Chair and even deputy chair (the only deputy even codified in the Charter) are already rather clearly defined in the Charter, what is there that is even ambiguous enough to need to be "codified"? And what does a"list of motions" mean? There's only one type of motion and it should go straight to vote.
At this time, the commission recommends including a succession clause within the Charter allowing the DCoA to take over the role of the CoA in the event of the CoA’s CTE or removal.
If nothing else this violates our entire democratic principles, allowing an unelected and unappointed successor to replace the elected Chair for what under current laws would be another full term. We elect a new Chair to replace the one we elected, not allow the Chair to select their own successor. And in the event of a removal the Chair and their Deputy are likely both compromised, and should be replaced for it.
"The Commission’s current focus is on legislative format and syntax, as well as compiling an easy how to manual on legislation drafting to promote assembly activity. "
I thought this committee was supposed to be about procedure. This seems to be branching off to a minor and entirely unrelated topics while we have seen quite frankly zero results in any of the areas that were actually the focus of the committee.
You've had four months, and entire TSP political term, to work on this and this is all you can present us with? Not a proposal? Frankly not even a single concrete idea? I wouldn't even call this a list of discussion topics, most of them are so broad and half of them didn't even need a discussion in the first place. This entire "report" would practically amount to the day one opening outline for a proposal writing, and your conclusion seems to just be that you need more time. After this long I had expected at least something from this "Commission".
