Board Thread:Staff/@comment-8846246-20200201073847/@comment-8846246-20200202083045

-Policy Hold Reform

Old policy: The Head Bureaucrat or a majority of council members can place things (such as demotions) on hold if in less than a week, a vote was scheduled relating to the topic.

New policy: The Head Bureaucrat may place any policy which does not prevent the councils from meeting, but the councils must vote on the matter within a week or the order will expire.

When policy holds were first created, councils worked a lot different, and the policy hasn't been revisited since. It's actually one of the oldest things the COA created. At the time we didn't even have Phases. As a result of never having been updated, it's become weird and confusing as is.

This reform does remove the ability for the councils to issue it's own policy holds, and the COTP also loses it's ability to propose a hold to the COA. This reform however doesn't effect the vote from last meeting that exempts 1 hold.

My next proposal will bring back voting for holds, but it doesn't work with the current policy. The COTP vote has no plans to come back.