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# Proposals and Quorum

The following actions require the passing of a Proposal using the DAO’s governance tokens:

* Elections of Permanent Committee members.
* Amendments to the Charter.
* Allocation of tokens from the Treasury.
* Committing the DAO to specific objectives.

All other decisions are carried out by the respective Permanent Committees or by the responsible Teams.

## Proposals <a href="#id-7sle8rw9ag72" id="id-7sle8rw9ag72"></a>

All Proposals will conform to the default time period of a minimum of 7 days to vote.

A proposal shall pass by a simple majority and when quorum has been reached.

* Other thresholds or vote counting methods may be created by amending this Charter through a simple majority vote.

A Governance Sub-Committee or Team may be formed to help members write proposals and guide them through the governance process.

Initial proposal forum is Snapshot.org.

* This may be changed by the Governance Committee without a Charter amendment.

Proposals shall be posted in the DAO’s Discord and may be signaled with emoji votes — which are non-binding — to create feedback-only before they are posted for a binding vote.

## Quorum <a href="#ercx8lj5tbuv" id="ercx8lj5tbuv"></a>

Quorum is calculated from the number of $ALXIA tokens in “circulation among DAO Members”.

* “Circulation among DAO Members” is defined as the number of governance tokens held in DAO Member Wallets and tokens delegated to such wallets.
  * DAO Member Wallets are defined as one containing a valid DAO Membership NFT.

Tokens excluded from voting and quorum calculations

* Tokens held by the Treasury, the Committees, or Team wallets do not carry any voting power and do not count towards quorum as these tokens may not be delegated.
* Tokens held by non-members or that are not delegated to a Member in good standing are excluded from quorum calculations.
* Unminted tokens are not in circulation.

The default quorum threshold is 15% of governance tokens in circulation.

* E.g. If we have 1,000 total tokens in circulation, then we’ll need 150 tokens to vote to reach the quorum threshold.
* The DAO may change the default quorum threshold by vote.

The Quorum threshold is defined by the total number of tokens that have voted in a proposal.

* The DAO may create different types of proposals that require a higher or lower quorum threshold through the existing proposal process.

The Governance Committee is responsible for setting the process for proposals not explicitly defined in this Charter.

* If two consecutive proposals fail due to not meeting quorum, the quorum requirement is halved.
  * Once a proposal passes, the previous quorum threshold is reinstated automatically.