Ordinary General Meeting 30th November

Hi

Just to let you know that the deadline for submissions of motions for the
meeting has now passed. Three motions were submitted before the meeting.

The meeting will be held at 7.00pm on Tuesday 30th November in Elvet
Riverside 142 and the agenda
is shown below:

1) Minutes of last meeting (available from www.dur.ac.uk/r.j.taylor)
2) Apologies
3) Motions (texts available at http://the-requiem.net/forums/index.php in
the Durham Rules Discussion forum and also on the newsgroups)
3.1) Proxy Voting
3.2) Monster Credits
3.3) "Rule 7"
4) AOB

Ammendments to the motions should be sent to treasure.tra RemoveThis @durham.ac.uk by
email to arrive no later than 1 hour before the start of the meeting.
Ammendments can also be proposed at the meeting.

There will be an interactive as usual on Thursday, this week held in the
Cornucopia casino (IC, but still Vane Tempest OOC).

See you all at an event soon.

Rob Taylor (Secretary)


*** Durham University Treasure Trap -- the Entity on the Ether ***
(Message Sent By: Rob Taylor on behalf of DUTT)

The motions are:

3.1) Proxy Voting
The Society Notes:
I. The current unaccountable method by which proxy votes are handled at
General Meetings.
II. That we don't know who will be nominated for election before the
time of the election.
III. Motions can be ammended up to the time of dicsussion.

The Society Believes
I. All proxies should be written down
II. The chance that a member could have multiple people holding their
proxies should be eliminated.
III. The voting process should be more transparent.

The Society Resolves
I. To require all members of the society who wish to cast proxy votes to
send their proxies by post or email to the Secretary, who shall have a
written record of those proxies at the meeting.
II. That this motion shall take effect after the General Meeting in
which it passes.
III. That proxys cannot be cast for elections.
IV. That proxys fail if the motion is successfully ammended (unless the
ammendment is proposed by the person submitting a proxy vote.)
III. That the constitution be amended as required.

3.2) Monster Credits
The Society Notes:

I) Character turnout for adventures is high, monster turnout isn't.

The Society Believes:

I) Monster turonout should be higher.
II) Turnout could be improved with a monster credit system

The Society Resolves:

I) To introduce a monster credit system.
II) This system will give further reward to people who act as monsters.
III) Every time you monster an adventure, you get 1 credit
IV) Every time you character an adventure, it costs 2 credits.
V) To ref an adventure costs 1 credit from the adventure Head Ref.
VI) The refs and the treasurer have discretion to award more credits for
certain adventures.
VII) Everyone starts with 3 credits.

3.3) "Rule 7"
The Society Notes:
I: the Treasure Trap Constitution
I a: that the Constitution goes up to rule 6 only.
II: legends that previous attempts at injecting humour into the
constitution have fallen foul of DSU's Equal Opportunity Policy.
III: the existence within LARP circles of "Rule 7"

The Society Believes:
I: We should get something amusing into the Constitution
II: That this is taking the piss, but it is funny.

The Society Resolves:
I: To mandate the secretary to append the below to the constitution,
to take affect after re-ratification:

7. "Rule 7"
I. Don't take the piss.
i. Unless it's funny.
a. The refs decision is final.

(note that the quotes around Rule 7 are intended to be in the constitution)