Mmh. I have no good reason for disliking the proposed new name, but on reflection, for some reason, I just do.

So, a contra from me.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on April 13, 2024, 02:26:08 PMHearing no objection to this motion since its introduction over two weeks ago, should we regard it as having been given unanimous consent?

Sounds reasonable to me.

The first complication that crosses my mind is that on the early part of the list of current citizens, you have people from the era when citizenship was granted by legislative act, which you have a bunch of people who have identical first dates of citizenship because they were all on the same Clark. After Gjermund Higraff you have a two-way tie, immediately after that you have a three-way tie, and then there's another two-way tie.

Second, if it's by first date of citizenship, there's still a version of the "become citizen to become king" and "experienced, knows Talossan culture and has a track record of sticking around" issues -- someone whose citizenship lapsed long ago and re-citizenships.

These issues can even combine -- there were five other people who became citizens on the same Clark as Gjermund Higraff. If one (or more!) of them show up next week, theoretically you've got a tie for head of the line.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC EiP on April 11, 2024, 03:44:23 PMThat's a fair concern. Would a set time limit to veto be considered Organically-compliant? Otherwise the indefinite refusal of the King (and in our local case, the Cunstaval) to acknowledge the nation's existence would prevent anything from getting done.

To avoid prejudging the matter (since a time limit adopted by the province might be challenged before the Uppermost Court), I will simply point out that the last sentence of Article VII, Section 11 is "If the King neither signs nor vetoes a Bill before the last day of the month in which it was passed by the Ziu, he shall be deemed to have signed it."

So, off the top of my head:

1) The "automatically becomes law" provision is explicitly inOrganic, as it does not allow for a veto of legislation by the Cunstaval. "No Cunstavál shall proclaim any provincial constitution, nor shall any province pass a constitutional amendment, which  . . . grants to the Cunstavál royal powers less extensive than those granted to the King on the national level", and the King's royal powers include a veto.

2) See above on the lack of Cunstaval counter-signature for gubernatorial proclamations, compared to the same for Prime Dictates. (Also compare Fiovan executive orders requiring Cunstaval and Captain.)

That Discord invite link is either invalid, or it won't let me join. Can that be fixed, either way?

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on June 30, 2022, 07:00:33 PM
More on how I got confused. When I took over at STUFF/Tech, the attached was the screen I looked at to see what needed renewal. You can understand why, looking at this screen, I thought the domain names were up for renewal on 18th October, rather than 2 July.

Yeah, this is part their fault, part mine.

The their-fault part is that they based the renewal dates there not on when the domains expired, but when the domains were transferred from the previous administering body to DoRoyal. (Back when the King was handing this privately instead of the Kingdom, he had bought the domains in July and renewed them in July, but the transfer of the domains from the King's hosting to DoRoyal happened in October.) They've apparently acknowledged this on their part, and have decided to renew our other two domains (the ones not authorized in this PD) for free, which is nice enough.

The my-fault part is that I noticed that back last October and that we were okay though this July, and accordingly pulled the pin on the renewal panic back then, but I did not make noise about this early in June even though I knew it was coming up. I've got issues that explain why I didn't (I've had some physical health issues lately on top of my mental health ones), but I still should have said something.

On the general hosting renewal, there just isn't a place I could find to pay an invoice that hasn't been sent. They'll invoice on the auto-renewal, and I'll pay it then, same as I did last year.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on June 30, 2022, 06:21:26 PM
Apologies, Istefan. I found out about the $4 difference yesterday and asked the Seneschál to update the PD, but he didn't get to it before the King signed it.

Well, you currently have a semi-functioning Burgermeister instead of one who's on top of things. If I'd been up to how I used to do this job, this would have been handled a few weeks ago.

On the webhosting renewal, there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to pay it right now, so I'm waiting to be invoiced in a few weeks. Don't panic, my eye is on it.

Okay, I went through and paid the domain renewals from the Kingdom's PayPal account.

Contrary to the numbers listed in the PD, the fees for the two renewed .net domains were $20.95 instead of $18.95.

I went ahead and paid them anyway, y'all can either pretty that up in the regular budget legislation or decide to bill me the $4.

Cosa: PRESENT

Referendum:
RZ9 -  Abstain
RZ10 -  Abstain
RZ11 -  Abstain

Provincial Election: PRESENT

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 18, 2022, 10:38:32 AM
@Istefan Perþonest, you have been in the position for years but do you recall your appointment process?

Oh, yes. It was a very simple "process". I was the Minister of Finance in the government of the day, we needed to appoint a new Burgermeister, I volunteered, the Sensechal recommended me to the King (since the appointment procedure in that era was through the Seneschal).

It was not exactly a textbook model of careful vetting, but it worked out well enough.

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Quote from: Istefan Perþonest on March 17, 2022, 05:06:12 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 17, 2022, 04:55:22 PM
OK, on official matters, can you confirm you have not received the payment for the Talossan National Congress? They are not listed in your initial post.

There have been three PayPal payments of $10 since January 28th that are matched to those three parties, and no $10 payments since then that are unmatched. I have not received anything in the mail, or email notification of a payment through some other method.

There have been some receipts of $25 donations; if one of those was intended as a party-fee-plus, I don't have any communications that make that clear.

Yep, there should be a $25 donation from copebh@gmail.com or Brandon Copeland or Our Commonwealth. Those are three possible senders. It was $10 for the party fee payment and a $15 voluntary donation to the Treasury.

Okay, that would be the TNC registration fee, then.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 17, 2022, 04:55:22 PM
OK, on official matters, can you confirm you have not received the payment for the Talossan National Congress? They are not listed in your initial post.

There have been three PayPal payments of $10 since January 28th that are matched to those three parties, and no $10 payments since then that are unmatched. I have not received anything in the mail, or email notification of a payment through some other method.

There have been some receipts of $25 donations; if one of those was intended as a party-fee-plus, I don't have any communications that make that clear.

1) The ICRC donation for Ukraine has been made, not that I communicated about it.

2) I am rather backlogged on sending out purchased stamps and coins, sorry

3) Received party fees so far for this election are from the FreeDems, RCT, and Independent Monarchist.

4) My snail address for anybody who needs to send a check/cash for a party fee is is 645 Moondale Drive, El Paso, TX 79912

5) It would, in fact, be a relief to me to pass off the Burgermeister and related stamp/coin job to someone else. I'm having anxiety issues every time I deal with it (thus lack of communication and backlogs), and medication is just not working like it should. So, if you guys line someone up, I'll ship the stamps and coins, send the PayPal password along, and transfer the Ally account balances. (The relevant email addresses should be redirectable to the new person by the website management.)

This is not a positive request to be replaced. I'm willing to muddle along. But I'm definitely going to be muddling through this anxiety stuff, so I'm not remotely going to object to being relieved of the responsibility.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 16, 2022, 07:51:12 AM
@Istefan Perþonest Is there an alternative to Paypal in paying the election fee? I am unable to transfer money into my Paypal account for some reason.

Sure. While PayPal is the form most personally convenient to me, past party fees have been paid both by check and cash physically mailed to me, and we can try to work out some other method if you like.