The Imperial Dominion of the South's Legislature

[Yelnoc]

Aye

[Yelnoc]

Looks good to me.  I believe we are ready to vote on it.

[Yelnoc]

Aye.

[Yelnoc]

Thanks for all the works y'all did on that bill. You are truly the DS's finest!

Thankyou.  If you had not proposed the bill we would never have thought about it.

Governor PiT, to be honest, I don't know how much money we will need and what our highest and lowest priorities are because I do not know the state of the various infrastructures in the IDS.  Is there a report or some source to find out or are we just supposed to come up with random figures (or do we base our figures off the state of the actual American Southeast rather than the Atlasian one)?

By the way, I have the flu, so I might not be very active over the next few days.

[Yelnoc]

I think that list is fine if you take out tourism.  We do not need federal stimulus money to boost it.  An add campaign showcasing our natural and historical attractions would do the trick.

[Yelnoc]

I think that list is fine if you take out tourism.  We do not need federal stimulus money to boost it.  An add campaign showcasing our natural and historical attractions would do the trick.

How much money do we have for an ad campaign?

How much money do we have?  I have not seen any figures for the IDS's budget.

[Yelnoc]

     Last time I saw, the IDS had net revenue of $632,000,000,000 & net expenditures of $630,000,000,000 for a surplus of $2,000,000,000. That was a while ago, though.

     To give us something concrete to discuss to hopefully move this forward, I propose:

$5,000,000,000 total
highest priority is infrastructure
lowest priority is sewer & water treatment filtration

That sounds good to me.  Does anyone have any objections?

[Yelnoc]

Sorry guys, I've been sick.  Though I notice we did not even have 24 hours to debate.

Anyway, what is a "cap on the creation and maintenance of Charter Schools"?  Does that mean the IDS only allows x amount of charter schools to be created each year?  If so, is that because of budget restrictions?

[Yelnoc]

Then aye it is.

[Yelnoc]

Any movement to degrade the IDS to the south shall  recieve a resound no from muahahahaha me.

[Yelnoc]

     I do think that Lord of Darkness is not that great of a title. How about Viceroy?

How about Lieutenant Governor? That law JBrase signed was a mistake, now it's time to restore the IDS to the SE...

     Try to convince all three Legislators of that.

I will. The names, with all respect, make our region sound silly and not serious. There is no such thing as an Emperor in a Republic, and I don't think there's ever been a Lord of Darkness is any government in the history of civilization (or at least I hope not).

There is now.

[Yelnoc]

I would be open to changing Lord of Darkness to something more managable.  I like Emperor PiT's suggestion of Viceroy.  And, for Svensson's benefit:

Southeast - Imperial Dominion of the South
Governor - Emperor
Lieutenant Governor - Lord of Darkness
Speaker of the House - Imperial Speaker
Assemblyman - Darth

[Yelnoc]

I mean, what's the point in having silly names for everything that make our region sound like some Star Wars fan club?

I think it was something along the lines of this:

[Yelnoc]

I mean, what's the point in having silly names for everything that make our region sound like some Star Wars fan club?

I think it was something along the lines of this:

I still don't like it. If we were to have anything other than your standard set of names (Gov., Lt. Gov., Speaker, etc.), at least make it sound less... ...dark.

What do you suggest?  And what happened to our third legislator?

[Yelnoc]

     I suppose I just like these titles.

There's those among us who don't.

At this point, I'd like to start using the SE/DS titles again and get a reasonable set of office names.

And if we want to have something other than your standard names (Gov, AG, etc.), we could at least make it sound less teenager-that's-spent-too-much-time-playing-wierd,-dark-videogames-ish.

As far as I can see, Lord of Darkness is the only kinda weird one and I am open to changing that.  I don't see what is "loony" about Emperor, Imperial Speaker, and the rest.

[Yelnoc]

Also, attached to this new bill we could transfer the position of Registar to me, as it appears we don't know who's in charge of that job right now.

I hate to be the ignorant sounding one, but what exactly is the function of the Registrar in Atlasia?  And how about we put the decision on titles to the people?  Let's hold a referendum.  Here is what I was thinking.  Of course the specific titles that would appear on the ballot are subject to change as decided by this legislative body.  Thoughts?

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[Yelnoc]

I say open up a referendum in the voting booth along the lines of what I suggested.

As to the Registrar General, is that really necessary?  Hans has us registered in the Atlasia Census Bureau already.

[Yelnoc]

    Since it's not especially critical, would it be alright with everyone if I waited until late Thursday night/Friday morning to open it? It might impact turnout negatively to have the booth open exclusively during the week, since people don't really expect one then.

That sounds good, though I'm pretty sure the only people who ever vote at our region's voting booth are elected officials (with maybe one or two exceptions).

The registrar general should probably be passed in the legislature.  I seem to remember something about the RG's duties being consolidated with another offices right before I was elected.  PiT, do you know anything about that?

[Yelnoc]

No, I talked to the Emperor and it appears no one knows

A. Where the hell the regional registration thread is

B. Who the job belongs to

and I'd like to add it to my role as Lt. Gov. to sorta revitalize the program. My job is bland as it is, don't get to propose or vote on anything (except in rare ties).

How about this.  You post a bill in this thread or PM it to me and I will officially bring it before the legislature so that we can "debate" it.

[Yelnoc]

I am sponsoring this for KS21.  I will go ahead and say I have no qualms with it.  Svennson?  Miles?

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[Yelnoc]

Debate ends at 9 PM Central.

And I may shut it down early if no one says anything...

Keep it up the whole time please.  Sometimes people can't make time for Atlasia until the very last minute possible; I know I'm one of those people.

[Yelnoc]

Aye.

[Yelnoc]

So are the SPCC and SLP going to organize actual regional parties or are you guys just registering that way because you can?

[Yelnoc]

I've recovered. Anyone got a bill?

Nope.  MilesC56?  SvenssonRS?

[Yelnoc]

It looks like the repeal of the What's in a Name? Amendment has passed with Miles, myself, Yankee, and Duke voting for repeal, Yelnoc, PiT, and Dibble against.

I must say I'm very pleased with this result.

btw-

Governor PiT,

The voting booth needs to be locked.

I've recovered. Anyone got a bill?

Nope.  MilesC56?  SvenssonRS?

I don't think either one has anything...

     Incorrect, it failed, due to receiving less than 2/3rds ayes. I made a mistake, though, because I did not realize at first that the 2/3rds figure excludes abstentions, which means that the second amendment passed.

     Also, I do not think that it can be proposed again until two more monthly initiative elections have been held (look at the sixth initiative in that thread), which is effectively never since we don't have them anymore.

Why don't we have monthly initiative elections anymore?  It sounds like we need to do some more Constitutional Amendment to bring the IDS up to date.

Viceroy KS21, it looks like you need to change your user title