Hello Folks,

As you’re all probably aware, /u/chrispytoast123 has been standing in for me as Chairman of Ways and Means and Head of the Constitutional Team since the 25th April, however I now have less than a third of the exams that I started with (24 at the beginning, 7 left!), so I’m pleased to say I am back. Now, I have written a preliminary constitution that I am going to take to the committee, which we shall be editing, adding to and taking away from over the next week or so. For too long now we have been left with a constitution that is defunct and unworkable, and I hope that by the middle of July we will have a functioning constitution.

It should also be noted that I am leaving some aspects of the constitution unwritten currently, as I think it is important that we get the views of MHoCers on some more controversial and recently discussed parts of it.

A plan of action:

12th June - Share preliminary constitution with committee members to comment on.

17th June - Share basic version of constitution on /r/MHoCMeta and invite people to comment on it. There will be some surveys that I will ask people to complete so we can get an idea of what changes you would like in the constitution on the bits that won’t have been written yet.

24th June - Take in results of surveys and comments on the basic version of the constitution to the committee to write the sections needed, with input from the community surveys.

1st July - Share fully written constitution with the community on /r/MHoCMeta for more comments and debate.

• If no major issues are presented, then

4th July - Vote held.

8th July - Results of vote.

• If there are still some issues, then

4th July - Comments taken on board back to committee.

8th July - Final version of constitution presented.

10th July - Vote begins on final version - any issues will hopefully have been resolved, or it has been decided that it is not an issue.

14th July - Results of vote will be announced and the new constitution will be enacted.

If we can speed some sections of this up we will, because we need a new constitution as quickly as possible.