As of the statement:

"Moving forward, should the LC wish to do so, the Council encourages the LC to submit a written request on these forums formally petitioning for a reconsideration of this matter."

This is a request from an LC for the re-evaluation of the distribution of border control powers.

This has been an issue for a while now. Many LC's and game side members of the South Pacific have requested that the LC be given border control powers so that the issue with spammers and the absence of BC members can be dealt with. Over my time as Deputy Councillor and now currently Local Councillor, I have seen many events in which a spammer has wreaked havoc on the RMB for a long period of time. Usually this can happen for around half an hour but the worst I have seen was an hour. This usually results in the spamming becoming a game mod issue which is disappointing as it shows we cannot deal with our own problems without a mod having to get involved. Many residents believe that this is worthy of the LC's getting BC powers. However, due to understandable security concerns, the security council have decided that this is not necessary. I believe however, that there may be a way around this. Below, I am going to explain how I believe the LC can wield border control powers without posing a significant risk to the regional security of the South Pacific.

In order for this to work, the following set of criteria could be implemented. The Security Council should evaluate members of the Local Council in order to determine who they believe would be mature and able enough to use BC powers. Another way would be for prospecting LC's to submit a request themselves for BC powers outlining why they believe they would be able to use these powers without abusing them and also outlining any weaknesses they believe might hinder their ability to use them. Once a member/s of the LC have been chosen and given BC powers, they should follow the following set of criteria:

1. Members of the LC can only ban nations who have only entered with the intent to spam, troll, abuse or cause chaos in the region. This includes any obvious ad bots, Nazi nations (including any other racist intent), and ban evaders.
   
2. Members of the LC can only ban above nations if the nation in question has an influence level below that of the maximum attainable influence score of a nation without endorsements.
   
3. Members of the LC can only ban above nations if the nation in question has a residency level below that of 50 days (could be 25 if that is believed to be too much)
   
4. Members of the LC must inform either a member of the security council or the delegate of a ban so that they can check that all of the above criteria have been met during a ban by either a personal forum and/or discord message.
   

I believe that this criteria should be able to prevent any significant risk to the South Pacific. However, if this is believed to not be sufficient enough, members of the LC can always make a forum account so that faster communication can be achieved.

Thanks,

Trivalve, Local Councillor