PROPOSE

Standards, model bills & proposals

Step 2 of three. Specific enough to adopt, public enough to criticise, versioned so a change is visible.

Documenting a failure and stopping there is the characteristic failure of accountability research. Step 2 is writing the fix in language somebody could actually adopt — a resolution a board could pass, a standard a body could hold itself to, or statutory text a member could introduce without redrafting it.

Adoptable now

Published standards

What else is being written

  • Disclosure templates — reusable forms for reporting compensation, conflicts, campaign contributions, and vendor relationships. Not yet drafted.
  • Sector adaptations — each area of focus carries its own adaptation of the review practices and the Pledge. Only the residential adaptation exists today.

Standards are written from documented gaps, never from first principles — where the gap came from an entity’s own financial statements, the review points that surfaced it are published at Review Practices, and the classification of gap types is at Identify.

Everything above is published for criticism rather than as a settled position, and a standard nobody argued with is a standard nobody read. Drafts would be opened for formal public comment once the Accountability Council is convened; until then, comment goes straight to contact@tasfga.com and material changes are recorded in the version number.