Council Meeting: Video/ Dining Car's ICP is Muted

[runs_on_batteries]

[ooc: Each header is different topic for the council members to discuss. Please tag as one group thread underneath. If you want, you can add new headers for additional conversations. Handwave Tony either bringing this up for your character or when he asks if there is any other business, your character presented the topic. Also OOC note, this was the best way I could come up with, so hopefully this works.]

[Following an announcement early that day, Tony let everyone know where the council meeting was being held and that they were going to have it over the ICP so everyone could see it. He promised at that time that there will be a chance for asking questions at the end.

Tony has rigged the ICP in the dining room to stay on video and it's angle is at one end of the long table and he is at the other. The volume on the ICP in the dining room has been disconnected, but everyone else can hear it.

For the council members, they will find a stack of agendas and pens when they arrive and at a side table there is coffee, tea, lemonade, and a few hor d'oeuvres prepared.

Tony is wearing his three piece suit instead of the usual train garb and greets everyone with a mildly friend smile.]

Welcome, please take a seat. Grab a refreshment if you'd like.

[Once everyone is settled..]

Thank you for coming to our first council meeting with our newly elected group. Congratulations, you just got handed a thankless job that everyone will have strong opinions about how you're screwing this up. That's politics and you need to be able to take some heat because of it. Fortunately, there's a majority on this train that believe you have shown great leadership skills and you've earned their trust. If we all do our best, then we can sleep with a clear conscience.

So here are the cards we've been dealt. We're a group of very different individuals from a myriad of backgrounds and skill sets who have been taken against our will from our lives, our family, our time, and our world. For some of us, this is a positive, but the majority it is not. We want to find a way to get people home who want to go back to their old lives. In the meantime, we're tasked by an unknown power to save worlds on the brink who badly need rescuing. We've been given a limited amount of resources to do that and everyone here could likely list a dozen or more things that should be here to complete those tasks that aren't. In fact, probably everyone here has their own set of goals that may or may not coincide with the ones the train has given us or our train-mates would be pleased about.

The goal of this council is obvious. We want everyone to be safe, healthy, and supported on this train. Exactly how we're going to achieve that is what's up for debate.

Comments

Council Meetings

[runs_on_batteries]

Is having the ICP broadcast our meetings good enough? How do you want to handle the question and answer portion at the end of the meeting? How often should we meet?

[marriedanidiot]

"Goodness, I still don't know what people were thinking, voting me in for this! I've never been the sort for this sort of thing, my law-brother could tell you so, if he were here!"

She shrugs. "But it seems to me that if you wish to, as it were head things off, you want something that is both very accessible and also relatively frequent. I can tell you that Arafinwe saw complaints once a week, but we had a system already in place where the nobles took complaints from their leaseholders, and then brought them to court only when they could not be resolved otherwise. You could look to put something less complicated in place, as we are hardly a full city!"

[sweetnessandfight]

"My village in the Steppes heard complaints every two weeks, and these sessions were led by the shaman and our clan leader. Though we were small enough that anyone could stop by and talk to both, or either as they chose. Truly, if the problems were small enough, the actual meetings were very boring indeed!" She flashes a smile at Nerdanel.

Sarai shakes her head, then. "I do wonder if there are people who simply do not know that they can speak to any of us, even if we are not their team leads, to get their problems heard? Certainly there will be people who do not think of their questions during the meeting duration, or who are too shy to speak up, and I would either urge them to speak to myself, any of the other council folk, or someone they trust who will relay it to us."

[luckybucky]

"Some of us are pretty intimidating, so maybe it would be better to have a comments box. A place for anonymous notes that can bring important things to our attention." He knows he can be pretty intimidating, and he's relatively certain that most people on the train could be, given the right situation.

[runs_on_batteries]

How about we do both? We should have a suggestion or comment box and have a regular time to hear grievances.

We could make this one of the roles of the team leaders. They are the first person they go to on an as needed basis and then if there is a bigger dispute or a satisfactory resolution can't be made, then the council rules on it?

What do you think? Once every two weeks? Once a week?

[marriedanidiot]

Nerdanel smiles.

"Both would probably be wise. Not everyone is going to be comfortable with one or the other." She taps a finger thoughtfully against her lip.

"I don't think that having it too frequently would make sense, there are really not that many of us! Every two weeks would be better, I think. If anything is truly urgent, then we can always convene as an emergency, but there's no need to make things too complicated."

[runs_on_batteries]

If we're doing both, perhaps we don't even need to meet that frequently. What about once a month? We could also- like you said- meet if there's an urgent matter.

[marriedanidiot]

"Agreed." She nods. "If it is known that we are easily accessible, I think that will make it easier."