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//Present at weekly meeting: Anita (Beau), Tony (Larry), Nicole (Lilliana), Amy (Fern), Dee (Audrey) //

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Copy also sent in email on 13th August, 2011

Dear Team,

We are now well and truly on the home stretch, with merely 8 days to go until TeamVortex has made the Island ready for citizens to start their new life. TeamVortex does indeed Rock!!!

So what needs to be finalised in the next 8 days: POSSIBLE LOCATIONS FOR SETTLEMENT - This needs to be finalised and justified. Please add your contributions INFRASTRUCTURE - This has definitely been started by Audrey, but I think that we need some more information and some thinking behind it in order to appease command. PROFILES - Audrey, if you could please just add your photo, then this section will be complete. ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF - Please add anything that you can think of adding to complete the WIKI and to make our thinking, questioning and suggestions transparent / clear for command. GOVERNMENT - As laid out below and discussed on Thursday, we just need to complete the topic about government designated to us. If you can indeed contribute to somebody elses section, please do. If for any reason you are struggling, please call out and ask for help. We are after all a team and should be able to help out. In the three years since your last directive there have been some changes at Task Force Command. Things have progressed significantly based on your excellent recommendations. But it is time to start thinking about handing over responsibility for The Island. Events elsewhere in the world are affecting our time-line and we need to move more quickly. Task Force Command has the following message for you:

1. (Larry) What is the role of government in representing the people?

To help provide citizens of the island with what they want and need (including essential services for ALL people in ALL areas).

2. (Larry) What are its functions and what services does it provide( laws, public order, currency, defense, education, health, parks and libraries, protection of national borders, protection and management of natural environments, etc etc)

3. (Audrey) Does the Island need more than one level of government?

4. (Audrey) These questions are based on an assumption that we have a democracy on The Island?

5. (Audrey) Is this a reasonable assumption?

6. (Fern) What other forms of government might be considered?

7. (Fern)What are the values of democracy, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship?

8. (Lilliana) What are the key tasks of a member of parliament or councillor?

9. ( Beau) How does parliament make laws? What laws does The Island need?

Lets bring it home TeamVortex. Contribute when and what you can, I know that we all have crazily busy lifestyles contributing to our individual professions out of hours, but our contibutions will matter to command.

That is all from the Island News,

Lilliana S.M.I.T.E <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">Team Vortex