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# Civics Committee Minutes 18th June 2026

**Attendees**

| Name                  | Attendance | Role      | Voting Seat (Y/N) | Election Term |
| --------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------------- | ------------- |
| Nicolas Cerny         | Yes        | Chair     | Y                 | April 2028    |
| Larisa Mcfarlane      | Yes        | Intersect | Y                 | N/A           |
| Megan Dyamond         | No         | Member    | Y                 | October 2026  |
| Thomas Lindseth       | Yes        | Secretary | Y                 | N/A           |
| Ken-Erik Ølmheim      | Yes        | Member    | Y                 | April 2028    |
| Simon Fleck           | Yes        | Member    | Y                 | October 2026  |
| Ian Hartwell          | Yes        | Member    | Y                 | October 2026  |
| Musa Ridwan Itopa     | Yes        | Member    | Y                 | October 2026  |
| Beatrice Anihiri      | Yes        | Member    | Y                 | April 2028    |
| Jose Miguel De Gamboa | Yes        | Member    | Y                 | April 2028    |

**Sources**\
[**CIVICS Committee (Intersect) Meeting - 2026/06/18 14:57 CEST - Recording**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13NFQd_I8kEyDNkEoL1orsyhzEP5sUe7i/view)\
[**CIVICS Committee (Intersect) Meeting - 2026/06/18 14:57 CEST - Notes by Gemini**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B-NxX7r51rLUTWvcI4OuTcIXy6Xdmij4eqmC8brCNVo/edit?tab=t.ous5oadcqiub)

**Agenda Items**

* Intersect Steering Committee (ISC) Updates
* Off-Chain Voting Review & Civics Budget Status
* Reward Policy Extension Clarification
* Working Group Progress: CAP & Governance Incentives
* Constitutional Committee (CC) Election Updates & Training Deficits
* Q3 Focus Areas & Strategic Prioritization
* Decentralized Coordination Frameworks & Tooling Friction
* SPO Participation and Kaelidus (Catalyst) Keys Integration

**Decisions/Actions**

**Decisions Made**

* Salvaging Budget Text for Q3/Q4 Planning: Following the on-chain submission failure of the Civics budget proposal, the committee decided to reallocate the core ideas and text to form the foundational baseline for Q3 and Q4 priority planning.
* CC Training Priority Integration: The committee agreed to formally include the development of a structured Constitutional Committee training and onboarding framework within the broader compensation and governance incentives tracking architecture.
* Methodology Deferral for SPO Endorsement: The committee agreed to support the ledger-level integration of Kaelidus keys for stake pool operators but deferred finalizing the formal delivery method until the next session.
* Bundling Future Constitutional Amendments: The committee established that subsequent technical and social constitutional modifications should be bundled into aggregated amendments rather than single changes to prevent systemic resource drain.

**Action Items**

* NC: Analyze the failed budget text to extract actionable, unfunded strategy priorities for the upcoming quarters.
* JD: Provide active Discord communication access links to NS for the ongoing ISC rewards policy review sessions.
* TL: Deliver a status briefing following the Monday implementation alignment call with development teams regarding the public CAP repository transition.
* KE: Draft a formal endorsement statement pushing for ledger-level Kaelidus key integration to simplify security setups for hard forks and parameter changes.
* KE: Review the multi-month governance incentives baseline statement inside CPS-20 and submit optimization ideas directly to S.
* NC: Study decentralized governance structural coordination trends across media networks to flag functional friction vectors for the group.
* The Group: Access the circulated planning document and log targeted operational focus commitments before the next weekly gathering.

**Topic Notes**

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| Topic                   | Discussion                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Notes                                                                                                                |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 1. Budget Performance   | NC noted that while the Civics proposal received considerable community support, it fell short of the on-chain submission threshold. Direct funding for workshops, travel, and custom tool builds is lost. | KE stated that 109 DReps cast a total of 5.05 billion ADA across the off-chain cycle, showing growing participation. |
| 2. Technical Status     | KE presented updates from the TSC regarding the successful deployment of the hard fork. Issues flagged by external teams regarding a memory leak were not reproducible during benchmarking.                | The TSC requested immediate CAP tool testing access to coordinate updating core protocol parameters.                 |
| 3. Policy Correction    | NC and JD clarified that shifting the reward framework deadline from June to December 2026 was a technical alignment correction rather than an extension.                                                  | Payouts only commenced in December 2025, requiring a 12-month window update to fulfill obligations.                  |
| 4. CAP Environment      | TL indicated that the current test setup runs on a free-tier hosting framework. The portal may automatically shut down due to inactivity and require manual rebooting.                                     | A coordination sync is scheduled to iron out repository ownership moves under Intersect domains.                     |
| 5. Liquid Democracy     | JD raised warnings that liquid delegation architectures are failing to flow dynamically. Communication channels must target core ADA holders directly, not just DReps.                                     | KE noted ongoing discussions with mobile wallet vendors to support push alerts for vote auditing.                    |
| 6. CC Election Quorum   | TL verified that five candidates have finalized verified slots, satisfying the base requirements to trigger a competitive off-chain choice.                                                                | Several applicants lack operational CC experience, utilizing open testnets to verify technical credentials.          |
| 7. Structural Strategy  | NC presented the Q2 achievement summary and mapped out long-term priorities. The group confirmed that compensation frameworks remain the top delivery target.                                              | Maximum priority caps will be locked at three distinct lanes to prevent splitting resource capacity too thin.        |
| 8. Media Dispersal      | S warned against deploying disjointed tools like custom Discord setups as core coordination layers, noting it risks splitting ecosystem discussion.                                                        | NC highlighted that current blocks command heavy voting power, risking centralized constitutional veto power.        |
| 9. Kaelidus Key Logic   | KE reviewed a decline in SPO voter turnout from 55% down to 37% due to the operational complexity of using air-gapped cold hardware keys.                                                                  | Connecting replaceable catalyst keys to pool IDs allows hot signature voting while protecting infrastructure.        |
| 10. Administrative Note | NC announced two weeks of upcoming travel absence, leaving operational chair management to the committee cohort until July 9.                                                                              | The group will handle upcoming prioritization votes and endorsement text reviews asynchronously.                     |

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