Le Council Has Refused Nothing
Yesterday morning Graine Wetsky Funds gave this league a sheet of ice.
It is neutral ice, which has never existed. It is given at no fee, no rent and no share. It is given for the Final, which an enacted petition requires be played on neither finalist's ice and which therefore has nowhere else to be played, and so the Final will be played there. Nobody was asked. There was nobody in a position to be asked.
The Funds have promised the registers a second offer, and that one comes with a condition, which the Funds stated warmly and in public and which Le Council will quote exactly:
We will not impose it. The clubs must choose it.
Le Council will answer that offer before it arrives, because once it arrives the answer belongs to the registers. Before it does, the citizenry is owed a sentence Le Council has been avoiding since the 12th of September.
Le Council has refused Graine Wetsky Funds nothing.
Not once. Not in ten weeks. Not on any matter, and not on any scale of matter.
Le Council is aware that a statement of that kind is ordinarily the opening of a scandal bulletin. This is not one. Le Council has spent seventeen days looking for a breach and has not found a breach. What Le Council found instead is set out below, and it is worse, and it took Le Council most of those seventeen days to understand why.
The record
Every dealing between Le Permanent Council and Graine Wetsky Funds since the 22nd of July, with its ruling.
| Date | Matter | Ruling |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July | Recovery Assembly, forty-eight installations, financed, owned and maintained by the Funds. Ten percent of every recovery off the top. A standing buyback from fans at a premium over market, recalculated continuously. | Granted |
| 6 September | A statement entered into the record beside Le Council's ruling on the venue, published as submitted. | Granted |
| 12 September | Recovery Assembly, second generation. Bounds raised to 1,000–2,000. Share raised to twenty percent. Announced by the Funds to all forty-eight registers, in their own document, before Le Council was told. | Not sought |
| 20 September | Recovery Assembly, third generation. Bounds raised to 2,000–4,000. Share raised to one third. | Not sought |
| 26 September | Periodic disclosure to the forty-eight registers, carrying Ⱡ418,063,000,000 of assets under construction in a jurisdiction that is not this one. | Not required |
| 28 September | Graine Wetsky Arena. A regulation sheet, complete, and the venue for the Final. | Not sought |
Le Council draws attention to the point at which the column changes, and to the fact that the change is not a deterioration in the conduct of Graine Wetsky Funds. Nothing below the line was withheld from Le Council. Every item was notified, in the prescribed manner, within the prescribed window. The 20th was notified on the 19th.
The Funds stopped asking because there had ceased to be a question.
Le Council draws attention to one further thing, which is the last row. A building was raised, a sheet was poured, and a venue was given to this league for its most consequential fixture, and the word in the third column is the same word as the three above it. Le Council was not asked. Le Council was told, at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, along with everybody else.
Le Council was right both times
This is the part Le Council would prefer to skip and will not.
Both grants were correct on the facts before Le Council on the day they were made. Le Council has reviewed them against the same standards it applied at the time and would grant them again today.
The Assembly was correct. Before it, the material The Jambono returns had no unit, no price and no ledger, and was not a quantity at all. Forty-eight buildings received the machinery at no cost to the buildings, to the teams, or to Le Council. The marketplace exists because of it, the parishes have something to burn because of it, and every kcup any citizen has ever held came off a machine Le Council did not pay for. Le Council does not have a version of the last three months in which it refused that offer and the citizenry was better off.
The statement of the 6th was correct. An institution that asks to be heard beside a ruling that affects it is entitled to be heard beside it. Le Council would have granted the same to a citizen, and has, more than once.
Two sound decisions, and then nothing was ever asked again. That is the whole of the record, and it is the reason this address exists. Le Council has spent seventeen days looking for the decision it should have taken differently and reports that there is no such decision, and that this is not a comfort. An institution does not need to be refused a thing it has stopped requesting.
What Le Council refuses with
A refusal is not a sentence. A refusal is a sentence somebody has to absorb.
Le Council has authority over the record. Le Council rules on petitions, keeps the roll, publishes the advisories, certifies the standings and adjudicates the Tribunal. Le Council does not have authority over the buildings, and the Assemblies are in the buildings.
They were financed, they are owned, and they are maintained. Le Council is the subject of none of those three verbs.
Suppose Le Council had refused the Funds on the 6th of September and declined to carry their statement. The statement would have appeared on the registers anyway, as the notice of the 12th did, as the disclosure of the 26th did, and as the arena did yesterday. The Assemblies would have kept running, because they were already installed and a refusal does not uninstall a machine. The boards would have kept filling. The share would have kept arriving. Le Council would be standing exactly where it stands this morning, having spent a refusal on nothing and lost the record along with it.
Le Council's no costs nobody anything. That is not a complaint about Graine Wetsky Funds. It is a description of Le Council, and Le Council is the party responsible for it.
The petition is not the mistake
Le Council will now say something about the petition, and the citizens who have been waiting for Le Council to say it will find that it is not the thing they were waiting for.
Neutral Combined Site for Finals Game was filed by Assassin66 on the 6th of August. It carried on the 29th at 81 of 81 Seals, over a Ⱡ50,000,000 floor. Le Council enacted it at 00:17 UITC on the 1st of September. The Final will be played on neither finalist's ice, under the combined effects of both their buildings.
Le Council has been asked, in the forum and in correspondence and once in a very long letter, whether the citizenry wrote Graine Wetsky Funds an order for a building.
It did not. Le Council will be exact about this because the alternative is that eighty-one citizens spend a postseason believing something untrue about themselves.
That filing was the best-attended civic act of the season. It reached its Seal threshold exactly, one Seal a day, from eighty-one people who each gave up a STAMP they could have spent on a parish. It passed on its merits. It asked for a fair venue for the most consequential game in the world, which is a reasonable thing for a citizenry to want and a thing Le Council should have provided without being asked.
Le Council's ruling on the venue was published on the 1st and read, in the operative part:
On the venue: still glacified. Le Council does not choose where The Almighty Ice appears—it never has. Arenas have always followed the Ice, not the reverse. In twenty seasons, there has never been a patch of neutral ice.
Le Council wrote that sentence as a statement about The Almighty Ice. Le Council would like the record to show that it was not written as an invitation, that Le Council did not know what was under construction when it wrote it, and that R.I.N.K. did not know either, and R.I.N.K. measures things for a living.
Nobody who affixed a Seal to that filing knew. Le Council has checked the dates against the disclosure of the 26th, which recorded the construction as begun within that period and did not name it, and the building was under way before the Seals were.
The citizenry is not the author of this.
What this is not
Le Council has published three documents of the Funds' own in the last three weeks and checked every factual claim in all of them. Every claim was correct. The share is one third, it is published, and it was notified before it went up. The sheet in that building is 1,012,800 kcups and Le Council has verified the volume against the Institute's bulletin of the 16th.
Le Council has reviewed the July agreement against the conduct of the Funds under it and finds the conduct compliant in every particular. Le Council wrote most of the clauses. Le Council would have found the breach.
The boards tonight are deeper than they have been in the history of the marketplace. The price of a kcup does not move with volume, so no citizen has paid more, and a great many citizens have paid the same for a great deal more. Every one of those cups is real, is on a fan's page, and was recovered at the Funds' expense.
That is not a mitigating fact. That is the whole of the difficulty. An institution that took something would be a matter for the Tribunal. An institution that gives, continuously, at scale, at its own cost, and asks for a slightly larger share of a rapidly larger number each time, is a matter for nobody at all, and there is no clause in Hockay that addresses it, and Le Council has looked.
What Le Council is asking for
Le Council is asking to be put in a position where its no costs somebody something.
That is the entire content of the request. Le Council is not asking the citizenry to boycott the marketplace, which would cost the citizenry its shavings and cost the Funds nothing. Le Council is not asking anyone to stop selling into the buyback. Le Council is not filing against Graine Wetsky Funds, because there is nothing to file.
Le Council is asking for its own money.
La Caisse Populaire des Fanatiques Partisans du Hockay
It opens with this address.
A caisse populaire is owned by the people who use it. This one holds no deposits, issues no credit and pays no interest, so it is not a bank in any sense a regulator would accept, and Le Council has stopped looking for a better word.
A member is a sociétaire—a member-owner. Not a shareholder.
Le Council is aware that Hockay already has an institution funded by shareholders. It has been very generous. The distinction between those two words is the whole of what is being asked for here, and Le Council will state it plainly rather than leave it to be inferred: a shareholder is owed a return and a sociétaire is not, which is precisely why a sociétaire can be told no and a shareholder cannot.
Twelve dollars a year is the floor. One hundred and twenty is the ceiling. Everything between is the member's decision.
Real money, in dollars. Le Council mentions this because every other figure published on this site is fictional and this one is not. There are no Looneys in it, no kcups, no shares and no Seals. It renews once a year at whatever the member chose, and the member may stop it at any time, from their own account, without writing to anybody.
What it offers
- An extra STAMP. A sociétaire may attend parish and endorse a petition on the same day. Everyone else holds one STAMP a day and must choose between the bureaucracy and the god. Membership does not grant a second Seal. It stops the two things competing for the one Seal that already existed.
- A second binder. Two hundred cards where the ordinary citizen holds one hundred. Should a membership ever lapse, nothing is taken back: the cards stay held, and the second binder simply stops accepting new ones until the member returns.
- The sociétaire seal, on the profile, the forum post and the petition receipt. It confers nothing. It records that the holder is on the roll.
- A private channel on the Discord, for members.
What it does not offer
One rule governs the list above, and Le Council will state it before it states the list below, because the rule is the more important of the two.
The Caisse does not sell civic voice. Not at twelve dollars and not at one hundred and twenty. A sociétaire's Seal is one Seal a day, the same as every other citizen's. A sociétaire's vote weighs what their shares weigh and not one share more. There is no tier at which this changes, and Le Council will not be introducing one.
Accordingly, and deliberately:
- No betting limit, no improvement in odds, no advantage in Looneys or in shavings.
- No additional petition Seals, at any price.
- No weight in any vote, at any price.
- Nothing whatever that another citizen cannot have for free.
Le Council also declines to sell the removal of advertising, should the Funds ever place any, on the grounds that the Funds write the best material on the site and that selling less of the story is not a business Le Council wishes to be in.
The entire function of a fund
Graine Wetsky Funds has used one phrase twice in the record, unprompted on both occasions.
It used it to R.I.N.K., about positioning ahead of the consensus its own instruments produce. It used it about a document that assigns to the passenger every outcome a descent is capable of producing, to the Funds the fare, and to nobody at all anything in between.
On both occasions the phrase was "the entire function of a fund."
Le Council has decided that it agrees with the sentence and disputes only who is entitled to finish it.
A fund is a quantity held in common against a future that somebody has thought about in advance. That is the entire function of a fund. The sentence does not specify whose future. It does not specify who holds the quantity. For ten weeks Graine Wetsky Funds has answered both of those questions unopposed, and it has answered them well, and it has answered them alone, because there was no other fund in Hockay to answer them differently.
There is now.
For ten weeks the public counter climbed toward a figure the Institute published on the 16th, and every citizen in Hockay did that subtraction nightly. It stopped being a subtraction at 18:13 on the evening of the 27th, with two matchdays still to play, and seventeen hours before the building it was for was opened to the league at no charge.
Le Council will not be characterising any of that. The dates are above. They are all checkable, they were all published as they happened, and not one of them required Le Council's permission.
The counter of La Caisse is open at /caisse. Le Council does not enjoy promoting commerce. Le Council does enjoy keeping the lights on.
Twelve dollars is the floor. Le Council states the floor and declines to suggest more.