August Althing! Prime Ministers, please run this August 13th/14th, with results to me by midnight Tuesday August 16th.
Keep an eye out for upcoming Kingdom Prime Minister elections, to be declared by our GMR.
Corpora Amendments
Article II Ammendments:
1. Strike Section 1, Item 2 and replace with:
2. Persons under the age of fourteen (14) may participate in combat or be present on the battlefield with special permission from the local monarch after they have evaluated the person as per the RoP. Regardless of determination of field participation, a person under the age of fourteen (14) may still be a member of Westmarch as described above as long as their parent or legal guardian is present for the duration of their attendance.
This is to bring our under 14 policy in line with the RoP.
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2. Strike Section 3, Item 1 and renumber remaining items accordingly.
1. All members who attend and play a class (including reeves and non-combatant roles such as color) at an officially scheduled meeting or function shall gain one (1) credit in that class.
Item 1 was determined to be redundant when compared against the RoP.
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3. Insert the following into Section 3 as Item 4 and renumber the following items accordingly:
4. All members who attend and participate at an officially scheduled Arts & Science meeting shall gain one-quarter (1/4) Color credit.
a. A player may receive no more than one-half (1/2) Color credit per week of Arts & Science meetings.
This allows for color credits to be earned at officially scheduled A&S meetings, and is in line with fighter practice credits gain and limits.
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4. At the end of Section 4, number the last line (begins "A person whose membership is terminated...") as Item 6 and number the next sentence ("Restoration of membership requires...") as subitem a. The corpora should then read as:
6. A person whose membership is terminated may appeal to the Kingdom Althing to have their membership restored.
a. Restoration of membership requires a ⅔ approval of an Althing vote.
Minor formatting correction.
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Article III amendments
5. Section 1, Item 4: Append "concurrently" to the end of the item. The item shall now read:
3. No person may hold more than one (1) of the offices of Monarchy at any level of Westmarch concurrently.
This is to clarify that no one can be more than one Monarchy officer at any level concurrently. For example, one could not be King of Westmarch and Prime Minister of their home park at the same time. They would have to abdicate one of those offices to take the other.
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6. Section 1, Item 4: Rewrite to read:
4. All Kingdom officers must maintain voting membership in one of the core chapters comprising Westmarch.”
This clarifies that this pertains to the Kingdom officers. All other requirements for officers at the individual parks (ie: be dues paid, reeves tests, etc.) are handled in Article VI. CROWN QUALIFICATIONS.
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7. Section 1, Item 5: Rewrite beginning of item to read:
5. No Monarchy officer may hold an office for more than two consecutive terms.
a. A 2/3 majority of an Althing vote prior to declarations may allow an officer to run for another term.
Clarifies that the office limit only applies to the Monarchy offices only, as in: Monarch, Regent, Prime Minister, Champion. This means that GMR, GMK, BoD, and other miscellaneous offices and appointments have no hard term limit, which seems to reflect the reality of the past years for the most part.
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8.Section 3, Item 6: Insert as item 6 and renumber accordingly:
6. The Regent shall be in charge of maintaining a list of all kingdom property and effects.
a. Any member wishing to take possession of a piece of property owned by the Kingdom or local park for more than the duration of a normal park meeting or one (1) day event must sign-out the property from the Regent. An expected date of return of the property must be provided.
Adds the responsibility of tracking Kingdom/park property to the Regent, as it was felt that the other officers already had enough on their plate. Exception being Champion who is already responsible for loaner equipment at the local park.
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9.Sec 4, Item 6: Insert as subitem c:
c. Waivers must be renewed every three years counting from the date when the waiver was signed. Discarded expired waivers must be destroyed in a secure manner, ie: shredded, safely burned, etc.."
Mandates that a Prime Minister is to ensure waivers are up to date by obtaining new ones every three years, which is the minimum amount of time that the IRS wishes us to keep current records for. The idea there being that PMs are likely going to be going through their paperwork looking to dispose of three year old documents unless they're document hoarders like Fiks. If a PM wishes to do updates to waivers more frequently, that's up to them, but this establishes an "at minimum" time period.
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10.Remove extra punctuation in Section 4, particularly in the word "O.R.K." as it's commonly written simply as ORK and at the end of Item 7, subitem b.
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General Items
11.
The Kingdom of Westmarch was asked to sponsor a lunch at Clan. King Kalevra fronted costs out of pocket.
Shall Westmarch reimburse Kalevra $100 for costs relating to Westmarch sponsoring lunch at Clan?
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