Mideast Assembly Thread

[California8429]

Mr. Speaker,

After the education bill passes (I would very much assume), will you be bringing up the regional budget bill you've been working hard on these past few months I assume?

[California8429]

Would the Assembly be able to consider multiple bills at once? I am hoping to have action taken fairly quickly on the ConCon resolution to ensure that my administration can hit the ground running with the effort.

That sounds nice, but it would create a lot of confusion in the Assembly if we had multiple bills. If the Assembly thinks otherwise, I'd be open to trying it. I still think our best option would be a sub-board, but oh well.

I would encourage the Speaker and Assembly to quickly pass the ConCon resolution next, so the administration in waiting won't have to wait on our region to get it started.

If nothing else, I think we're ready for a vote on the education bill

[California8429]

Aye

[California8429]

Nope, I want your budget bill in before we do anything else in the Assembly mainly so we know what we'll actually have the money for and what we can cut, reform, etc.

[California8429]

With that the Weighted Grades Amendment is passed and presented to the Governor for his signature.

Now does anyone have any other bills to put forward before I put up my budget bill?

Can we do the ConCon first just to get that out of the way? I believe Ben proposed it. There was also the regional judge bill which was introduced. I'm just suggesting bills that wouldn't take a long time to debate so we can get them out of the weigh.

the budget is going to take longer than anything...since we'll have to come up with our first ever budget

[California8429]

With that the Weighted Grades Amendment is passed and presented to the Governor for his signature.

Now does anyone have any other bills to put forward before I put up my budget bill?

Can we do the ConCon first just to get that out of the way? I believe Ben proposed it. There was also the regional judge bill which was introduced. I'm just suggesting bills that wouldn't take a long time to debate so we can get them out of the weigh.

the budget is going to take longer than anything...since we'll have to come up with our first ever budget

And both of those bill would potentially take 2-3 days. After those, we'll be able to focus the rest of the session on the Budget instead of trying to cram them in at the end of the session. The ConCon resolution more than anything needs passed now.

sounds good

[California8429]

Aye

[California8429]

What are we voting on after ConCon? Since it has in theory, passed.

[California8429]

Are we waiting for the final talley and the next bill for any particular reason?

[California8429]

The basic purpose of this Amendment is just to make things easier - cases occur so infrequently that having someone on staff makes everything easier.  This person still will be reconfirmed semi-regularly, so they could be replaced if it is so desired.  This way, when a case does arise, we don't need to appoint someone; they'll already be there.

sounds good

[California8429]

Aye

[California8429]

Hurray that we can get to the budget!

[California8429]

Are we ready for the budget?

[California8429]

Good luck to Ben and his future.

[California8429]

I feel clause 4 is unnecessary (although if it stays in, let's fix it so majority is spelled correctly ).

^^^^

and Assembly in clause 5.

So to get this straight, any bill we pass that has to do with spending or taxes will just not take EFFECT until the next budget correct? Otherwise what else will we be doing besides the budget correct?

[California8429]

What are your thoughts on Section 2?

I mean that means it's a reboot for the region, do we really want that?

I don't think we've passed too many bills that they shouldn't be included, though with no real budget before, they really were all estimates of what the current tax and spending rates were, etc.

[California8429]

I understand that it's accepted as friendly, then?

The main change was to strike down the 2/3 majority clause, which I don't think is necessary (see previous comments).

yes

Now onto Section 2. What are all your thoughts on this? I'm opposed to it (slightly) I don't think we should just start over, you can't do that in RL and we really haven't passed THAT many bills

[California8429]

I understand that it's accepted as friendly, then?

The main change was to strike down the 2/3 majority clause, which I don't think is necessary (see previous comments).

yes

Now onto Section 2. What are all your thoughts on this? I'm opposed to it (slightly) I don't think we should just start over, you can't do that in RL and we really haven't passed THAT many bills

The bill would only strike down past spending bills, which were after all only guesses anyway and pretty much useless.

true. I guess I'm good with this bill then if we can start voting soon.

[California8429]

How would we precede on choosing a delegate?

Hold some hearings?

And are we ready to vote on the budget bill? There seems to be minimal debate

[California8429]

AYE

[California8429]

In accordance with Purple State, I say we keep accepting nominations for another two days before holding a vote on our regional delegate.

[California8429]

I also would like to express interest in being a delegate.

[California8429]

Should we vote on the delegates?

[California8429]

AYE

[California8429]

Point of order, the Assembly session ended on Friday at noon.

I agree with the point. We need to elect a Speaker, and then move back to the ConCon.

I nominate HappyWarrior for Speaker of the Assembly.

Can we just elect a Speaker then move straight to the vote? We've already got candidates up and running. Those who want it have shown an interest.