We should start discussing a few things before Friday hits and we have a mess here.
Andrew, TJ and Seatown will be departing from our midst and Marokai Blue, BK, NVTownsend and Hagrid will be coming in.
For the committees, this will be a bit tricky because all three who are leaving are committee members. We may run into a problem with the voting again, especially if we have more then three running for each committee. Since the Vice President will be in charge of this mess (and I plan to PM him about this tomorrow or Friday) my recommendation is to switch to some kind of preferential voting in that situation.
There is one more slight oversight that we missed when we were cross checking the committee resolutions to ensure they functioned as similar as possible. The Government Oversight Committee Resolution (fitting place for an "oversight"
), makes no mention of a renewal process at the beginning of each Senate, it just makes provisions for the replacement of leaving members. While my devilish side would like to take credit for this a masterfull scheme
, such wouldn't be the truth as it was purely a missed deviation (or was it?
). We can alter the resolution with a subsequent one, but not by Friday and the start of the new Senate. Ben and Scott aren't leaving the Senate hence creating the situation of a committee crossing over a Senate term with its previous membership and not getting reapproved. I don't know what there plans are regarding there continued membership in my subchamber of hell, so it may not be as acute a problem as it appears.
Now on the flip side, it is likely that current topic will carry over into the next Senate and thus avoiding an upheaval in the membership would be advantageous from the perspective of ensuring that it is finished in a satisfactory manner. So what do the current and soon to be Senators think about this matter?