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Cabinet Meeting 5.1; Suggested agenda for the 5th Cabinet
Topic Started: 3 Apr 2013, 05:21 (1,016 Views)
Suceavija
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President of the Congress/World Assembly Delegate (P/WAD):
1. Opening statement from the President to the 5th Cabinet
2. Initiatives for the 5th Cabinet (President's wish list of things for the 5th Cabinet to accomplish over the next 75 days)
3. President's pet projects (President's independent projects to accomplish over the next 75 days, if any)
4. Select 5 featured nations for the week --> current nations are good through next Monday
5. Appoint Presidential World Assembly liaison (assistant w/ specific focus on reviewing solicited proposals in the WA for the President)
6. Award those banned by Cynthia McKinney, have MDA post them in the Hall of Honour using the medals of their choice from those created in the Design Studio
7. Appoint adviser, if desired

Items for the entire Cabinet to address (CAB):
1. LRA Charter & Treaty (essentially replaces the UDLR)
2. Peace Treaty with [region]The Internationale[/region]
3. Review jobs offered in the 'Help Wanted' subforum (if you want an assistant for your ministry, post the job in the subforum)
4. Charter amendment #36 (Haltari)
5. Charter amendment #37 (Terlibe)
6. Arnhelm Declaration of Recruitment Standards (ADRS)
7. Complete commendation for Grolsch
8. Prepared ministerial statements workshop (ongoing project)
9. Prohibitions on Cabinet members' extra-regional activities workshop (ongoing project to conclude with a Charter amendment)
10. Review your respective ministerial subforums to familiarize yourselves with them (each subforum has its own archive subforum)
11. Review the Charter to familiarize yourselves with the scope of your duties


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Items for individual ministries to address:

Secretary General (SG):
1. Update list of Charter Nations (coordinate w/ MoJ's audit)
2. Update Forum nation registry (admin CP tab in Forum --> coordinate with your list of Charter Nations)
3. Determine if appropriate to declassify previous closed-door Cabinet meeting notes (Current Cabinet meeting notes are never declassified during the current term) --> due to sensitive commentary about The Internationale, I recommend to wait until the peace treaty is resolved before you decide to declassify the meeting notes.
4. Prepare first referendum of the 5th term: R2013.04.01 to address LRA Charter, TI Peace Treaty, CA #36, CA #37, ADRS, Commendation for Grolsch, etc. (any other item requiring Congressional vote --> requires 7-day period of Congressional scrutiny once prepared, then 7-day voting period)
5. Press release in Solidarity announcing new Cabinet to readership
6. Delegate duties to volunteer assistant
7. Create Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section in 'Introduction' forum, edit 'About the Democratic Socialist Assembly' to include link to FAQ's.
8. Appoint adviser, if desired

Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA):
1. Appoint ambassadors to interregional partners
2. Create new password for ambassadorial nations in MFA closed-door subforum
3. Make embassy recommendations (if any) to P/WAD --> there is currently an invitation from [region]The Dominion of Ujjanistanian lords[/region]
4. Prepare interregional intelligence report for CAB
--Interregional partners/allies
--Interregional adversaries
--Other regions of interest, if any
5. Appoint adviser, if desired

Minister of Justice/Head of Supreme Court (MoJ):
1. Audit region for Civil Rights (CR), Political Freedoms (PF), and National Categories (NC) compliance --> Report to SG
--Give violators notice of probation, requiring them to choose either to improve their nations within the Charter-prescribed probationary period or enrolling in the RHP if they need more time (or face ejection if no action taken).
2. Make recommendations to P/WAD for nations to eject, if any
3. Appoint adviser, if desired

Minister of Immigration/Regional Promotion (MIRP):
1. Appoint recruitment staff
2. Review standard recruitment telegram
3. Determine target regions (verify none are included in the ADRS)
4. Verify if/when interregional leftist fair is being held
5. Appoint adviser, if desired
6. Coordinate with MDA the extent to which each ministry will address welcoming telegrams and RMB posts for new arrivals

Minister of Domestic Affairs (MDA):
1. Verify factbook entries of DSA Capitol City are up to date
2. Update DSA's NationStates Wiki page
3. Determine winners of both Factbook contests --> record winners in Hall of Honour with respective medals
4. Establish new contest (see badges and medals of honour in the Design Studio for ideas)
5. Declare new juicy/interesting debate in Debate Hall
6. Set up new fun poll (see Arcomo's poll in the [region]Global Humanitarian Initiative[/region] for ideas)
7. Determine best way for region to recognize/celebrate DSA day on 8 April (2nd anniversary)

Minister of Cartography (MoC):
1. Verify all nations on map are:
--Existing
--Reside in the region (domestic puppets okay, too)
2. Add nations from map opt-in subforum who request placement on map
3. Coordinate with Terlibe to create database of old maps
Edited by Suceavija, 4 Apr 2013, 01:38.
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Ratateague
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That could promote creative competition and give hope to some who take longer than others. "Some" being me, of course. :P
As an alternative to 1st 2nd 3rd, we could have an Overall Winner with a title like "Assembly's Choice", with runner-ups like Most Original, Best Layout, Most Thought-Provoking, etc.

During my expected downtime between audits, I shall familiarize myself with the charter's laws to better serve as a Justice.
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Gervase
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Registration on NSWiki is definitely a problem. I was getting the same error no matter what I tried -- getting on the neighbor's wireless, using my smartphone network, going to friends' houses. I finally succeeded when I visited a friend's house in a city a few hundred miles away and used his network, so short of that I don't know what to tell you. Anyone able to make an account?
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Gervase
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As for Ministry-related information, I'm going to play around a bit with our recruiting letter -- I created a new nation to see what other regions are using for their letters so I could do a bit of research. I think short and sweet works well, and I think we could make more of our leftist credentials. Leftist nations are the coolest, after all.

Additionally, I've registered with the (very impressive!) regional recruiting tool. Putting out a job posting for a recruitment team is on my short list of priorities.
Edited by Gervase, 4 Apr 2013, 15:23.
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Grobladonia
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Well, no chance of me going to another city until May so that's not really an option :(
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Gervase
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I'd actually like to suggest one item for the rest of the Cabinet to consider: We should think about having secret ballots for elections. I think it's a fairly easy but very meaningful enhancement we could make to the democratic process in the region, and could ensure that the region adheres to a basic tenet of modern democratic elections.

There are websites that will allow you to do this -- I've looked at Ballot Bin, for one. One of the advantages of their system is that it provides each voter with a unique security code, which we could then telegram to each charter nation. Having a telegram and direct link for every election could significantly increase voter turnout.

There are details to be worked out, but I think it's a worthy item to add to our agenda.
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I'd also like to suggest something that I think needs to be addressed at one point or another, and that's a backup to the P/WAD and SG for starting nominations and elections. With RL always so unpredictable I think that there needs to be some sort of fail-safe to make sure that elections start on time.
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Haltari
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@Gervase We tried to do an undisclosed poll earlier, but the only problem was that you could not change your vote after it had already been cast. Also, it's great that you have already started using the recruitment tool. It took me a few days to get the hang of it.

@Grobladonia the backup idea sounds great. I'll add it to the agenda, but I don't think I'll be idle anytime soon. :)
Changing the forum skin is quite easy to do, so that wouldn't be any trouble. However, I think that there is too little time left to organize a flag contest before DSA day.
For the factbook competition, the quarterly competition sounds like an interesting idea, but I don't know how many people will actually change their fact books between each competition. I haven't edited mine in a long time. :ermm:
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@Gervase: I have accepted United Republic of People as the Assistant to the Secretary General. Once I get the hang of running the forums, I'll be giving him things to do. I'm sure he would be glad to serve as the back-up if either the P/WAD or the SG are unavailable.

If there was an Assistant to the SG last term, things would have been much easier, so your idea is a good one.
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Haltari
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@Terlibe Did you mean to address that comment to Grobladonia?

I also cannot register for an account on the NSWiki. I don't understand why the wiki considers my IP address a proxy.
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Ohh yes I did, Haltari, thank you for pointing that out.
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