SR - Principality Work Mirage (even longer)

[Lee Cavett]

Greetings to the list!

Tim Lozos wrote:

> Greetings!
> Donal said:

> (snip)

> > the Regional officer
> >system could easily be made to act as such a proving ground, by the simple
> >expedient of decentralizing the offices. This is why I added the caveat about
> >"If utilized properly." Also, I was not previously aware that anyone was
> >concerned about a lack of experience among Kingdom officers - certainly, no one
> >has approached me with any such concerns.
>
> I have no problem with the work the Kingdom officers are doing, of course, I
> dont check their P's and Q's. What do you mean by decentralizing the
> Regional Offices??

I actually meant decentralizing the Kingdom Offices. Under the current CoH system (I
cannot speak for anyone else) the Regional officers handle hire and fire, rosters
for their regions, and collecting reports, which they then abstract and send a
report to me. Although they are not required to check submissions, most do comment
on a regular basis. This takes care of most of the administrative end, and I do not
feel that decentralizing the submissions process would be effective - though a
principality would probably have its own submissions herald under the kingdom
submissions herald. I actually have no problem with the idea of any of my current
regionals taking over as Star Principal Herald, under our current system.

> >And Dieterich said:
>
> >> I'll be darned- with incentive comes volounteers.  How the hell did that
> >happen?
>
> And Donal said...
>
>  I see a great number of people who do a great deal of work, and don't
> >seem to be in it for the awards. But they get spread pretty thin.
>
> I've seen this problem before. Ask the Officers of some groups who have held
> an office or rotated offices for *YEARS* because no one else will. In
> Raven's Fort we now have deputys for all our officers, and are trying to
> bring people along so they can step into whatever role needs to be filed in
> the future.

Then you serve as an example of what all branches should strive for.

> Donal said...
>
> >Got me there. I was in Houston, fulfilling a previous promise that was
> >called in at the last minute, otherwise I would indeed have been in Tempio.
>
> Sorry you couldnt be there. I hope to see (and debate) you at one of the
> next meetings....

Looking forward to it.

> I'm not sure who said.........
>
> >>Later in your post you continue...(Dieterich, quoted by me)

> >>>> at each event (Dieterich, quoted by me, quoted by Dieterich, quoted by me)
> >>>
> >>>of which you propose to add at least four (me, quoted by Dieterich, quoted by
> me)

:)

> We do have alot of events. Our law (or is it custom?) allows an event in
> each region each weekend except for Crown/Coronation.

Kingdom Law V.2.1. - Crown Tournaments and Coronations shall be the only events
protected from coinciding with  any other events within the boundaries of the
Kingdom of Ansteorra.

In other words, enlightened self-interest is the only thing keeping events close by
from overlapping - nobody wants to go up against another close event, for fear of
hurt feelings and low attendance.

> Thats a bunch. Then
> you end up woth weekends like the last few where you have 4 events in one
> weekend and only one the next.

Time for a break......

> Take a look at other kingdoms event scheduals. Trimaris, for example, Had
> only *ONE* schedualed event in March. That was their coronation. The other
> event was Gulf war (not in their kingdom). I vaguly remember looking at the
> Outland list, and thinking "gosh, they must have everyone come to each
> event, because there are so few".
>
> Humm, Trimaris might be an interesting example to take a closer look at.
> They only have three Baronys and it's roughly the same size as the southern
> region.
>
> Does anyone know where to get population counts? Ours and other kingdoms? I
> know the one on the Anst web page, but thats over a year old.

Try the Seneschal's office.

> Timo

Donal

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