Public Records Minister

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

It seems to me that it might be a good idea to eliminate this office, and assign its functions (monitoring the Scribery and updating Infoteca) to another member of Cabinet.  I'm not sure however, and certainly any such change would not be made immediately.  I'd be particularly interested in the opinion of @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on this matter, if he's willing to give the benefit of his wisdom.

[Mic’haglh Autófil, O.Be]

To be clear, in this case you are arguing not in favor of keeping multiple roles in as few hands as possible -- something you campaigned on:

Consolidate positions.  Where possible, preference should be given to someone active and letting them serve multiple positions, as opposed to picking less active people to round out the numbers.  If the active person encounters a crisis they're not equipped to handle, then they can ask for help from someone with more expertise but less attention.

But are instead arguing in favor of merging this position with another one outright. Do I understand correctly?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I'm not sure it particularly matters whether or not Job A and Job B are done by the same person, versus Job A and Job B being merged into one position.  The key point is that we shouldn't be picking less active people to round out the numbers of the Cabinet, and I still want to avoid that.  Otherwise you end up in a situation where, at any given moment, only 2 out of 5 Ministers are actually doing anything.

As far as I can tell, the Public Records Minister doesn't have a lot to do, and so it seems like it doesn't make sense to have it as a whole Cabinet position.  But you just got done in the job, and I didn't want to reach any hasty conclusions -- maybe there's more than meets the eye, or additional responsibilities I haven't thought of.  Was there more to it?

[Mic’haglh Autófil, O.Be]

The idea behind breaking a massive position (such as the Ministry of STUFF) up into smaller pieces is that smaller workloads are more easily handled. This could be done by, say, dividing them between multiple people, or by lightening the "mental workload" if someone has more than one job -- something like executive dysfunction becomes easier to manage when you break things down into smaller tasks.

Combining the Public Records Ministry with some other office would undo that flexibility.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Sure, and that makes sense. It's a spectrum, though. That's why I was wondering if there were more duties than met the eye.

Ok, thank you!