Department of City Relations (Defunct)
The Department of City Relations (DoCR) was a department within the executive branch of the government of Stratham responsible for managing the affairs relating to private cities such as managing mayor shops, keeping contact with and advising mayors and their counsels, enforcing city and town requirement bills, approving expansions, and promoting communication between cities and other departments. The DoCR was established on February 14th, 2021 and was officially disbanded on September 25th, 2021 and replaced with the Department of State.
The Department of City Relations had one government job in its purview called "City Advisors." In the department's original configuration, there were 3 City Advisors with each managing 1 city and 1 town.
History
Formation
After extensive cross branch discussion pertaining to the developmental issues of the private cities and towns, the DoCR was proposed in the 21st Parliament by MP stinkycow. The Bill, simply titled "Department of City Relations" passed in a unanimous vote of 9-0-0 on February 12th, 2021. Two days later the DoCR was officially ratified and added to the bills page on the 14th of February. Prime Minister Info nominated stinkycow as the first DoCR minister and the nomination was approved the same day.
Below is the original bill drafted by stinkycow and proposed on February 8th, 2021.
- Title: Department of City Relations (DOCR)
- Type: Creation- Reason: Cities and towns do not receive very much help from Cabinet, currently town and city affairs are a secondary responsibility of most departments despite the needs of cities especially after decentralization.
- Bill: The Department of City Relations is created. The DoCR has the following responsibilities:
- Creating and replying to City and Town Grant requests
- Managing Mayor Shops
- Keeping in contact with Mayors in Mayor chat as well as advising them
- Enforcing city and town requirement bills
- Sending requests from cities and towns to respective departments and overseeing their completion
- Approving town expansions with the DoC
Notable Actions
On March 9th, 2021, Cabinet voted to remove the government owned city of Westridge. The removal included moving player's property out of the city into the remaining cities and towns which was managed by the DoCR itself and a reclamation project which involved destroying Westridge's infrastructure and replacing the natural landscape which was managed by the Department of Agriculture.
On September 2nd, 2021, Mayor of Orico Zzz_king sold the town to the government for the startlingly low rate of 45 thousand Krunas. Orico remained relatively untouched by the government after the purchase, used mostly as event space.
Creation of the Mayor Shop, The Mayor shop was an exclusive store available only to mayors which sold common building materials to city owners in order to promote their expansion.
Ministers
The DoCR only had 2 ministers in its history.
- stinkycow (Formation - May 14th, 2021)
- Tracefais (May 14th, 2021 - Disband)
Disbanding
In September of 2021 it was decided that the DoCR's responsibilities would be rolled into the proposed DoS's jurisdiction. When the DoS was officially formed later that month, the DoCR was disbanded. City Advisors from the DoCR were brought into the DoS.