Government Question Time Act
Rationale:
In order to make the government more accessible this Act establishes an informal Government Question Time with at least one government ‘official’ from each branch of government present, once per month. The Chancellor may schedule additional Government Question Time meetings based on public demand. These meetings will be open to all CDS citizens to come and ask questions. The meetings will rotate to suit the RL hours of our community.
- The Chancellor is charged with organizing a Government Question Time at least once per month. All members of the government (Executive, Legislative and Philosophical branches) will be invited to attend with at least one official from each attending.
- The Chancellor is charged with facilitating representation from all three branches.
- The Chancellor will rotate the hours of the Government Question Time to take into account the different time zones of the CDS community and to ensure representation from the different branches of government.
- Meetings will be chaired by one of the government officials present and will be open to all citizens to attend. The Chair may be handed over to another government official present by a simple majority vote of those in attendance.
- GHQ meetings will be summarized by the chair of each meeting, identifying who represented govt, what questions were asked and a transcript of the answers. These summaries will be posted in the Q&A Forum within seven (7) days.
- For each Question Time, the Chair will — at least seven (7) days in advance — announce date, time and meeting location in the Forum and via group notice. In the minutes before each Question Time begins, the Chair (or an alternate) will announce date, time and meeting location via group notice and in group IM.
- Citizens will be invited by the Chair to ask questions at the beginning of the meeting, or to submit written questions via notecard in advance to the Chair, who will forward these questions to the Chancellor, Dean, and LRA in advance of the scheduled meeting.
- The Government Question Time meeting may be adjourned after all questions have been addressed or after 60 minutes, whichever comes first.
Original version passed 5 August 2007
Revised by the 25th RA, 10 September 2016
Updated by the 32nd RA, 5 April 2020
Updated by the 38th RA, 21 January 2023
Updated by the 38th RA, 6 May 2023