The IC assembly should not have to approve an OOC administrative position. If Global Moderators don’t need a confirmation vote, why do Administrators?
XII. THE ADMINISTRATION TEAM
Creating an independent, apolitical body to manage and moderate communications.
(1) The Administration Team will be responsible for the technical maintenance of the region’s Discord servers, forums, and the integrity of the database. The Administration Team will be responsible for developing a policy for the appointment and removal of its own members. Administrators will not be given responsibilities of a political nature.
(2) The Administration Team will be responsible for the appointment and removal of its own members, except when an administrator is removed from the position following a guilty verdict in a fair trial for abuse of administrative powers. Additionally, new administrators must be approved by a majority of the Assembly before being granted administrator permissions.
Agreed, especially since the Criminal Code limits the corruption (abuse of power) charge to “public office”, which the Administrator position is not. The other Administrators should be able to remove an Administrator who abuses their power.
The Assembly has never been responsible for appointing administrators, I’m not sure where you get that idea from. The Admin Team appoints new administrators and new admins need Assembly approval before they can be given admin access.
You should maybe specify that the Administration team is responsible for either developing a policy on new members / dismissals (i.e. unanimous consent of all incumbents, and all other than the one slated for removal) or put that threshold in the text itself.
Striking (2) removes the main concern around self-selection, and Assembly approval already provides external legitimacy for appointments. Beyond that, the Charter doesn’t need to prescribe internal decision-making thresholds for how the Administration Team operates day to day.
I’m fine with this as is, though I might prefer “shall develop a policy for the appointment and removal of its own members” to “will be responsible for developing…”