Board Thread:Staff/@comment-8846246-20190402130200/@comment-8846246-20190402233353

-COTP Phases

This proposal would restructure the COTP's Voting & Proposals meeting. This would include Phases, something the COA adopted a long time ago. Hopefully some of these changes can speed up the meeting, similar to how the COA's equivalents did.

Phases:

The COTP V&P meeting would be broken into Phases.
 * Phase 1- Required Votes
 * RP Themes, Junior Chairs, and COA ties.
 * Phase 2- Presider Proposals
 * The Head Helper proposes a max of 3 proposals.
 * Proposals from the previous meeting's Phase 4.
 * Phase 3- Petitions to the COA
 * Petitions to firing Chairs, hire Senior Chairs, demote Helpers, etc
 * Phase 4- Discussion
 * Same concept as the COA's Phase 3, members propose ideas for the next V&P meeting.

For the COA, "Required Votes" and "Presider Proposals" are rolled into 1 Phase (Phase 1) since only the Head Bureaucrat starts these votes. However, the RP theme and Junior Chairs can be started by any member (specific rules though exist for each).

The new Petition system is similar to our Phase 2 and is the result of moving around some of the COTP's existing types of proposals and adding more.

Petitions would go to Phase 2 of a COA meeting. The Head Helper actually has some of these Petition abilities on the COA (and may get more soon), but the idea is to give the entire COTP the ability to have the COA look into something even if the Head Helper doesn't want to.

Petitions include most COA Phase 2 votes; Design changes, Helper demotions, Head removals, policy holds, Committee disbandment, Chair firing, Senior hirings. Senior hirings and Design changes are already apart of the COTP.

Phase 4 would be stripping the ability for members to start a normal proposal vote, but is doing so as to simplify and keep the meeting moving along.

The reasons the Head Helper would be limited to 3 proposals instead of 5 like the Head Bureaucrat is on the COA is because the COA sets it's own meeting times, while the COTP has to end it's meetings to start the next within a certain period of time and not doing so causes a "shutdown".