by SirEuric » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:42 pm
1. This proposal shows that Westmarch is in violation of its own Corpora by having members of the Monarchy holding multiple positions. Three members of the monarchy are doing this.
Who would those be? I see that Euric is holding PM and GMR, in the SHIRE of Falcon's Reach, but otherwise I do not see any conflicts. Would you be referring to myself, Grix and Hawk, who will be taking office after we are approved, and a new reign starts?
Don't know where it came to be that I am Guildmaster of Reeves. When we discussed it at my election as Prime minister, I seem to remember no one jumping up until Squire Torbjorn and Sir Cream Puff started discussing which one of them was to take it with as I remember no resolution ever being concrete. I made up the Reeves/Corpora test for Westmarch as I was quals Coordinator and there was not the Principality Guidmaster of Reeves in Place so I stepped up to do the job. As far as I am concerned Torbjorn or Cream Puff is the Falcon's reach G O R.
2. Unique per week not provided at the Westmarch level. Our Kingdom, Dragonspine, looks for unique per week not unique per month.
We were asked to submit audits for each of the lands. The weekly average is on each land's page. The numbers at the confederacy level are intended to give an easy view, but are not a part of the required audit. We could just add the average attendance of each of the lands and include that. However, because individual lands cancelled days for various reasons, a true weekly average of all lands combined would not be an accurate indication of Westmarch's actual attendance.
Seems this is already rectified.
3. What happened with the elections that has a different number of votes for each member of the Westmarch Monarchy? They range between 11 and 29.
Prime Minister elections happened at a different time than the other offices. Not as many people voted in that election. GMR does not allow for all voting members to vote, only the reeve qualified ones, so there would be fewer there. As for the 1 vote difference between monarch and regent, I suspect it came from one of the absentee voters who just voted for monarch and did not say anything else. They did not really abstain, they just didn't vote for regent.
Some people abstained!
4. I looked at random sign-in sheets for each of the lands. I found multiple of each sign-in where number of signatures does not match the number reported for that week. It appears that we are both under and over reporting the numbers.
We took the numbers from the ORK, and scanned the sign-ins to match. The discrepancies are unsurprising considering I have often seen people forget to sign in, and just tell the PM later, or sign in on a later week. This is something we will have to remind each Prime Minster to be more careful about in the future, but we are working with what we have for this year.
As for undercounted weeks, as Grix said, we did not count visitors, so even if they are on the sign-ins they would not be in the weekly attendance number.
SEE ABOVE!
5. There is no explination of missing sign-in sheets
Yes we have already heard that, and it was easily explained. Some PM's did not keep track of all their paperwork for the last year. It is something we will need to work on in the future. Hopefully having a confederate Prime Minister, and the realization that it does matter will help each land in the future.
There is, as Falcon's reach as A whole travels a lot. With Dame Ailanthus' very frequent Traveling, Sir Casting's mundane work/college etc , My health issues, Squire Torbjorn's health issues, if there are not enough to fight we tend to not meet. We are working on that as I can fight a bit now, and we have Squire Grix here.
6. Falcon’s Reach has 0 attendance for streaks of 4 and 5 weeks within the last six months. There is no explanation for this or the results of the Monarchy members missing four weeks in a row. Is this a failure of the Audit for this land?
As to the stretch in May we had my sons birthday, then the next week Was Darkshore, Then Mother's day and there was no attendance at the park. There is no vehicle I have seen on the ORK to show Attendance at events not in our park as we are trying to support the confederacy and make other groups in the confederacy's events as often as possible and usually the Entire Shire. We have been at Wyvernspur en masse 3 times I can think of and Crimsonwood 2 times in the last 6 months besides Darkshore.
Neither. FR is a small land and has often had to cancel weeks due to mundane issues. A cancelled week does not count towards a missed one. You are talking about a shire, not a duchy.
7. Are there contracts that each land signed with Westmarch? If so, why are they not included? If not, why not?
As is in our corpora, and was agreed upon by DS. We do not need a 3rd contract in addition to DS, and BL. As long as we are under their sponsorship, their contract is all we will be using. You were part of the discussion when we discussed this. If at some point in the future DS decides we need our own contract we will deal with that then. In the mean-time, let's not bring up issues that you already saw resolved.
8. Where is the bank account and PO box information for Westmarch? These are requirements according to the DS Corpora.
The King of DS has been very clear that he is uncomfortable with WM acting as a full land until AFTER DS approves us. Even the quals and election was more than was expected at this point. We did those because, as long as we don't give any awards, or claim anything from them, they are not stepping over any boundaries. Starting a bank account, and maintaining a treasury would be stepping past that line. Once we get the OK from DS, and have our first coronation we will be dealing with all those issues. Until that time I think it would be very disrespectful to proceed without the blessing of our sponsoring kingdom.
AS someone stated, we are not official so no need for those items and we don't want to step on toes assuming more than we have.
9. Did anyone check with DS to see if it would be acceptable to put this report on a web page instead of a mailed copy?
Yes
As to Crimsonwood being allowed in no questions asked, I was pretty sure that we stipulated they could have time with no reprocussions at the talks at Darkshore. Even if a vote is necessary only a foolish person would not want to include them as they were with us every step of the way. Yeah they didn't just smile and nod at every issue but that is a good thing. If your eyes are never forced open you run into a brick wall and sometimes pretty hard.
I vote that when Crimsonwood is fully ready they be allowed to join us as a founding land as they WERE TOLD they could.
Sir Euric Bloodstone[/i]