I remember this being a point of conversation brought up a good while ago and the main pushback was the purpose.
The role(s) in question needs to be something that bring something of value to the server AND serves a purpose with functionality. The idea set out in the suggestion doesn't give a purpose that has functionality on the server. It gives roleplay purpose but no functional purpose. The role(s) would have to do something that wouldn't require staff/management/dev intervention (like what should change within the server) as all of that would be pointless as by the time the devs/management/staff get the opportunity to do said changes, your term will potentially have been up. (This all coming from conversations back when I was a dev, opinions may have changes since then however.)
Back when the city council was a thing, it had the prominent members of the community (faction leaders, devs, top crims, so on), it was basically a discussion had OOC but in game about balance changes and things people would like to see changed. All these people were vetted however by the powers at be, not appointed by the populous, so this would be similar to the MPs idea, but unfortunately, the council eventually disbanded due to it being redundant and I can see the MPs being the same.
The idea of a Mayor, imo is the best bet of bringing in a role of politician to the server, whilst still giving functionality.
I would suggest if the Mayor position to be created, it would entail the following:
Job Outlines:
- Term length of 3 months.
- Voted by members of the public (using the voting booth in city hall).
Campaigning starts at the start of month 3 into 3 month term.
- Vetted by Staff leads/Management on the winner.
If no one deemed fit to win the position (approval by Staff lead/Management) the prior Mayor may retain their position (approval by Staff lead/Management).
- Decision on Mayor could take up to a month to be decided (Votes counted) to allow for this decision to take place (worst case scenario).
[*]Relatively clean record.
Cant be a prolific criminal.
- Clean record for 2 months (no serious offences e.g similar to judges/police stature).
[*]G6 privet protection.
Privet protection upon request similar to Judges.
[*]Direct contact with Judiciary.
[*]Direct contact with CoC.
[*]Payment of £500,000 per month of term.
[*]Mayor bank account.
[*]Judiciary paid for solicitors for any litigation (subject to scrutiny. Gross negligence and you're on your own).
Limited to the usual solicitor fees outlined by the judiciary.
[*]Access to Mayoral helicopter.
May employ privet pilot to fly around at the Mayor's own expense.
[*]Access to inspect the prison (like judges do).
Job Purpose:
- Given £2,000,000 per month of term into Mayor bank account. (Arbitrary number but seems realistic with current economy and money left over from previous Mayor will not persist).
This money is money that can be given to either the Police, NHS, G6, social events (parties) or benefit for certain businesses do doing well (subject to high scrutiny, i.e. no giving it out to your friends or pocketing the money yourself).
None of this money could be given out to individual members of the public (punishable by ban, similar to Judge situation).
- Money is there for the Mayor to give to said areas of the server for incentive purposes (e.g. bonus to certain division in the Police/NHS/G6, host parties for supporter moral or business events [e.g. sell x amount of cars in 20 days win £50,000 per employee partaking, limited to 5 employees]])
[*]Speed camera operational deployment.
A system which allows for certain speed cameras to be non-operational and additional speed cameras be operational (minimum requirement of 75% operational and maximum of 125% operational [Resets per 3 month term])
This gives opportunity for the Mayor to be influenced with money (or potentially threatened) during campaigning/sitting term (lobbying during campaigning but corruption during sitting term) to deactivate certain speed cameras around the island or activate more speed cameras around the island.
This gives potential to have a de-fund the police type Mayor or a all for the police type Mayor e.g. the firm don't like the speed camera outside their establishment and lobby the Mayor in hopes they deactivate the camera outside their spot.
[*]Input towards CoC for businesses.
This would simply be advisory towards the CoC about what the Mayor thinks would be advisable to have on the island.
This could entail putting forward a certain individual for consideration for a business or advisory that a certain business should be shutdown/taken away.
[*]Council Tax increase/decrease.
The Mayor could increase the tax or decrease the tax (Up or down by 5%).
Increasing the tax would increase the Mayors pay by 10% (not public knowledge).
- Decreasing the tax would decrease the Mayors pay by 10% (not public knowledge).
- Default tax would leave the Mayors pay as is (not public knowledge).
[*]Opportunity for weekly news letters.
Facilitated by Weazel News (£50,000 per news letter paid to Weazel News out of Mayoral bank account).
Opportunity for the Mayor to give updates the people of San Adreas.
[*]Access to the Legislation Review Group.
This is an already current group who gets input on proposed legislation.
The Mayor would get access to input on new legislation they wish to have implemented.
[*]Access to the Courts Solicitor chat
An already current chat that has prominent members of the server in it.
[*]Prison activities.
Allow or disallow prisoner visitation.
If the Mayor believes too much crime is occurring at the prison, they may prevent visitation from occurring for a set period (scrutiny by the Judiciary).
[*]Randomized searching.
If the Mayor believes too much crime is occurring at the prison, they may request G6 to conduct randomized searches in prison for a set period (G6 may already do this but it would just mean an increased amount of searches)
[*]Solitary confinement.
The Mayor may believe solitary confinement is unconstitutional (Me looking for the uk constitution...) and prevent G6 from utilizing solitary confinement.
- The Mayor may believe in solitary confinement and request G6 to increase their use of solitary confinement for mediocre offences in prison.
[*]Opportunity for monthly in game meetings with Police/NHS/G6
This give opportunity for the Mayor to understand the ongoings of the island and the people who run factions within it to be able to speak to the people at public support rallies/campaigns/meetings to inform them.
[*]Opportunity for the mayor to take meetings with members of the public in the current CoC office (changed from CoC office to the Mayor office as it would be more used.)
Mayor to take meetings for roleplay purposes.
I'm sure people may be able to come up with more things to add to this position but I believe the outlined would be a good start and be functional but not damaging ideas. Potentially there could be a possibility to allow for a Deputy Mayor position to be brought forth but this be ideal for the moment.
This layout of what I personally believe would be ideal is obviously up for scrutiny, and very well may not see the light of day on the server, but it is worth while comprising a comprehensive idea of what it could be in the hopes it comes to be for those that desire it.