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Introducing: Citizen's Union Governing Committee! How To Get Involved :D

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Hi everybody :) Here’s my opening topic for the town hall meeting coming up this Saturday… so after some brainstorming, the idea of a citizen’s-level decision-making body has been tweaked to fit Cubeville’s structure a little better. It turns out that implementing distinct, even districts with their own senators is pretty much impossible on a server as extensive as CV- drawing up representational lines alone would be a daunting, plus potentially highly controversial, task. With that in mind, I’d like to present a modified structure – it’s based roughly on a school’s parent-teacher association, or PTA, which feels more closely related to how the Citizen’s Union fits into CV so far- the goal is to have it working alongside, though distinct from, the server management (that is, staff).

Here’s the idea of it:
  • There would be a decision-making committee of five players (ranked either C or R), who rather than representing separate districts of CV, would represent the whole of the player base as a group. These five would put their heads together with the president and/or VP to plan events, run competitions, do fundraisers (yes, one of the players would be designated a treasurer), set up ways to help new players, etc. They would meet weekly (adaptable), and will be elected by their peers- I’ll get to the election process in a sec. :geek:
  • Every other week would continue to be town hall meetings with anybody and everybody; these meetings would open with the committee presenting whatever they’ve been working on and letting everybody weigh in on it. After that, the meeting would proceed with open topics as it has before – topics that can be addressed at the peer level would be hashed out between us, and server-level topics would be pushed to the staff team as required.
And now for the committee election process:
  • 1. Over the next Saturday meeting (September 5 at 3pm EST), we’ll take nominations - each nomination must be seconded by at least one other citizen, and you can’t nominate yourself. (If you can’t make the meetings and you’d like to nominate somebody, message me privately sometime before the meeting with your candidate’s username.)
  • 2. Nominations will close at 6pm EST on September 5.
  • 3. Over the week following that, there will be an open vote, where everybody lists their top 5 candidates by preference and sends their list to me (Discord dm, forums private message, in-game pm, or a written/signed book dropped in the designated chest I'll set up will all work for getting your vote in).
  • 4. Just gonna add, bribes are not an acceptable way to get in a nomination or vote, thanks :P
  • 5. The voting period will close on 11:59pm on September 11, 2020.
  • 6. At the following day’s meeting, the top five nominees will be offered positions on the committee – yay!
  • 7. Rules and duties within the committee (such as the aforementioned treasurer) will be hashed out at the first committee meeting.
And there you have it, the concept that I’d like to try out – so you all have the next several days to start brainstorming who you would like to have representing you as a citizen and player on CV. I look forward to hearing from everybody! :D

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rofl lime. :lol:
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Hi again everybody ^_^ Nominations have started to come in, so I'll keep a running list of them on the original post- names in bold have been seconded and are unofficially candidates, congrats :D I'm keeping a personal spreadsheet on the side so that I can keep track of how many nominations everybody submits- I've decided on a maximum of five nominations per player; that's enough for you to nominate your dream committee, but not so many that I get overwhelmed. Thanks for the great response so far everybody! :)
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waiit smoeone nominted me... intresting...









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Do you want someone who respects ALL communities of CV, and makes sure the voices from even the most remote and unheard of corners of the server are heard? A literal megaphone for CV. Someone who supports struggling projects and lets peoples voices be heard. Some people cant come to meetings, or find it hard to understand certain things of like idea-making so they choose to stay out of it. That is why I am here to project the voices of all of our smaller communities as one. The voice of CV. Developing infrastructure, helping towns, funding projects, and supporting ALL of our communities such as our LGBTQI+ community and our creative world community. We will be a community, so vote for the nominee FREDLIME. For Cubeville. For the server. For our ambitions. FOR US!
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Thank you those who nominated me for this I think I would be great love you guys 💖 I believe in getting people's voices heard and making this server a better place for everyone I will make your ideas reality I will NEVER say no to an idea to bring up because no matter how big or small it is it is always something and it it is yours and you all matter out there no-one ever should be left out or treaten differently we are all equal! I want to bring this server together and make it the best server I possibly can vote for me and new excitement awaits(✯ᴗ✯)
Your vote represents cubeville and yourself I want to bring even more passion and enjoyment to the CV community. That is all from me for now. Stay awesome. Stay sweet. And don't forget to be nice to each other goodnight CV(•‿•)
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Hi again everybody! :) So today we’ll be going over voting procedure:

1. The voting period will run from 6pm EST on 5 September 2020 to 11:59pm EST on 11 September 2020.
2. To vote, list up to your top five candidates from the list of accepting nominees in descending order – your first choice will be #1, your second will be #2, etc.
3. Votes can be submitted by Cs or Rs by either by messaging me on Discord, messaging me here on the forums, pming me in-game, or submitting a signed written book to the designated chest located at my shop just west of spawn.

Last but not least, a certain equine on senior staff has asked me to remind you all to avoid being overly spammy during the campaign period – in his exact words, “it would be hard to serve on the CU if you’ve been banned from the server for spam”… please be respectful of server rules and everybody else’s happiness and sanity, thanks everybody! Have fun :D
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