Ninth (9th) Pacific Council and Discussion Thread

[DemPGH]

I'll go ahead and start this now.

I will be proposing an amendment to the 4th Pacific Constitution that takes out the "0001 hrs." thing since it's confusing and it's odd. I prefer the "may begin any time" wording and "end 72 hrs. later." That makes a lot more sense, considering time zones and so forth.

Once the election goes final, I invite councillors-elect to post here or to offer any legislation they might like to see pass. Remember, we have a lot of money to spend and there are still a couple bills on the floor. I will bump those. We need to jump-start business, primarily, but we can spend in other areas too, like education.

I'm treating the tax restructuring as though it's been enacted.

Also, I'll permit carry-over from the 8th Council thread. I'd like for anything that anyone wants from that thread to be posted here, though.

[DemPGH]

I will offer this amendment to the 4th Pacific Constitution.

"Time of Elections Amendment"

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[DemPGH]

The new Council can check in, organize, and choose a Speaker in this thread. I believe it's just a majority necessary (2/3).

[DemPGH]

Flo will be Speaker!

I believe we have a few days before the new Council begins, but you folks can start thinking if there are bills you want to draft. With our open spot on the floor I want to bring up the amendment to the 4th Const. Will do that soon. There are a couple of spending bills on the floor as well, and we need to emphasize spending in order to create revenue.

[DemPGH]

Nice work, Flo! I also like the flag very much. It's much, much better than some of the others that I have seen.

[DemPGH]

Just out of curiosity, what's the status with the Wiki? Is someone keeping it up? I know PJ did a really superb job, so we'll need to do that.

If the 4th Const. and the amendment aren't in there yet, we'll need to get them up. I can work on that when I get time, but let me know.

[DemPGH]

I want to do a couple of educational bills, assuming I have the time. This is the first:

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[DemPGH]

Guys, let's think about this:

We need to come up with a dollar figure for two items: 1) the mudslide catastrophe and 2) the drought crisis. We'll request a dollar figure from the federal government for support. Anything else we can ask for as well, like personnel, etc.

[DemPGH]

Okay, I encourage everyone to monitor or participate in this thread.

Also, a couple question have been asked about infrastructure - absolutely. I only oppose, in the little time I have left, outrageous stuff like aliens and so on.

Guys, feel free to PM if you want, but we need to allocate expenditures for the stimulus money.

We have:

1. Drought emergency
2. Mudslide emergency
3. A rural housing bill that I'm not sold on
4. We need to invest in business
5. We can continue to invest in green causes
6. We can invest reasonably in education

Other ideas?

[DemPGH]

Yeah, in the coming days I'll start a 10th thread and you guys can talk amongst yourselves about who wants to be speaker. We can do that in this thread - the council just votes on that, and you guys swear in Friday.