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3.0 Governing Authority
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*[This section asserts the authority for governance of the GF.]*

**3.1** The governing authority for this GF derives in a decentralized manner from Project Catalyst Voters, and is vested in the Proposal Team for the funded PA/vPA Operations Treasury proposal.  Furthermore, the authority and accountability lies with the Board of Trustees established by the adoption of this Governance Framework. 

**3.2** Each member of the PA/vPA Operations Treasury Board of Trustees MUST maintain in this section their readily identifiable Community Identity legal names and current contact information.

**3.2.1**- Founding Trustee(s) 
- Nadia Hopkins (Nadiahopkins#6292 on Discord)

**3.2.2-** Ex-officio Trustee (vPA Working Group) - *currently shared by 4 members of the working group, in a pairwise rotation as needed:*
-  First appointment, November, 2022
  - Dan Mercurius (DanMercurius#7990 on Discord)
  - Viktor (Vgr#9617 on Discord)
- December, 2022
  - Simon Sallstrom (Salen#5312 on Discord)
  - Stephen (CaptainDang#3915 on Discord)


**3.3** The governing authority MUST maintain the  most recent versions of the GF Primary Document (this document) as well as all controlled and supporting documents in the following ways:
- **3.3.1** As publicly viewable markdown docs with unique URLs: HackMD
- **3.3.2** As publicly commentable online documents: HackMD via setting
- **3.3.3** As PDFs on each relevant HackMD page: done via HackMD interface
- **3.3.4** As a complete GF downloadable .zip file to serve as a local copy:  **[zip]**

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