# Opolis Commons Governance v1

## Core Principles

The goal at the end of the day is to empower and serve each other and the community at-large of employee members of the Opolis Employment Commons.

The employee members make up the core governance unit of the Commons and have ultimate responsibility for shaping the governance of the Commons on an ongoing basis.

The employee members have the right to delegate decision-making authority to the Board of Stewards and/or the Core team over any matters that the employee members deem appropriate to delegate to the Board of Stewards or Core Team.

## Starting Governance Breakdown

The Commons members will exclusively vote on the following topics:

* Fee changes
* Material, Major Core Feature Changes (Benefits and Payroll)
* Annual Budget / Plan
* Material Changes To Tokenomics
* New tokens
* Epoch difficulty
* Token burns or relaunches
* Expansion to new countries / materially different markets
* Major new products that represent a material shift in direction and fall outside the budget and/or material changes to current product that do the same.
* Material changes in governance structure
* New Board of Stewards members
* New membership classes, material investments, material asset sales, meaningful bylaw changes, acquisitions, or mergers of the Commons Cooperative (or as otherwise required by CO Coop law)

Most of these items should be put within an annual or semi-annual budget / plan that's presented to the commons. That way other votes would only be for material departures from the plan.

The Board of Stewards will exclusively vote on the following topics:
* Annual circle plans and proposals (i.e. product roadmap, marketing plans, budgets)
* The addition, removal, and compensation of key executives
* Detailed insurance plan updates
* Any new initiatives, not including material changes

The Core Team will be exclusively responsible for:

* Low- and mid-level hires
* Executing budget spending decisions
* Payroll operations and benefits compliance
* Product or technical sprints
* Membership / marketing operations

## Proposals

Any employee member in good standing may make a proposal via a forum post. The proposal will be considered for two weeks before a one week voting period. We will seek to push folks to make proposals as part of a semi-annual or annual planning and budgeting process.

## Voting

Only employee members in good standing are entitled to vote. Voting at the Commons level will require at least a quorum of 10% (unless otherwise required by law or bylaws) and votes will be caculated based on two methods:

* One member, one vote
* Quadratic votes based on staked $WORK

Any proposal will have to pass based on a simple majority with respect to both those voting calculations.

Voting may be done via Snapshot.

## Checks and Balances

For the first year, the Board of Stewards may override a vote of the Commons by unanimous consent. The Commons may override this Board of Stewards veto power by holding a second vote with a quorum of over 50% of the eligible voters where the proposal passes both voting calculation methods with 2/3rds support.

If the initial proposal passes with a quorum of over 50% an 2/3rds support, the BoS won't be able to veto that proposal.