Legislators of the South Pacific, There has been a seconded motion to bring an Assembly Resolution on Local Council Reform Efforts to vote. The debate thread can be found here. This is an amendment to a resolution on constitutional matters, according to the Legislative Procedure Act requiring a majority greater than 60% to pass. The voting period will be 5 days, thus concluding on 1650655835 (20:30 in London, 15:30 in New York, 05:30 on Apr 23 in Sydney). Please vote by poll if possible. If you cannot vote by poll, post 'Aye', 'Nay' or 'Abstain' in this thread. Please do not vote both by poll and by post. Comments and discussions belong in the debate thread and should be posted there. Assembly Resolution on Local Council Reform Efforts A resolution to set deadlines and consequences for Local Council reform efforts The Assembly of the Coalition of the South Pacific, Recognizing the Charter mandate of the Local Council to "encourage activity on the gameside, and administrate itself on issues unique to the in-game community", Concerned that the Local Council has historically fallen short of meeting this goal, Noting as evidence for this the generally thoughtless and "spam" nature of most activity on the regional message board, the lack of initiative by Local Councillors in hosting regional events or media on gameside, the lack of broader legislative or executive activity on the gameside, and the lack of motivation or political energy stemming from the regional message board to rectify these flaws, Hoping that the Local Council can address these issues itself, thus maintaining the general principles of gameside self-determination, while resolving issues which affect the prosperity of the entire regional community, Hereby: Requests that the Local Council enact meaningful reform, within the March-July 2022 term, that generates a suitable gameside governance structure and substantially addresses the shortcomings identified in this resolution. Declares intent to consider an amendment to the Charter to abolish the Local Council, should meaningful reform not be successfully enacted within the requested date.

(This post was last modified: 04-22-2022, 05:37 PM by The Haughtherlands.)

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Final Result Assembly Resolution on Local Council Reform Efforts
Ayes: 20 46.5% | 60.6% (discounting abstentions)	Nays: 13 30.2% | 39.4% (discounting abstentions)
There were 10 Abstentions (23.3%); 26 legislators were absent. Thus, attendance for this vote was 62.3%.
In light of these results, the proposal passes, having achieved the required majority (>60%).

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