General Board (Mesa)

The General Board was the official governing and legislative body of the planet Mesa and its solar system.
== Membership ==
The General Board consisted of representatives both elected by the freeborn citizens of Mesa as a whole, and appointed by the major corporations based on the system on the basis of taxes paid by each corporation to the government. Only one-third of the General Board's membership consisted of elective representatives, while the remaining two-thirds were appointed by the corporations; this gave the corporations virtual control of the Mesan government. 
As the Mesa System's largest corporation, Manpower Incorporated had the largest number of corporate representatives to the board, and combined with those of other corporations nominally independent but actually controlled by Manpower, such as the Jessyk Combine, Noroguchi Nanotech, Cybercom of Mesa, and probably Mesa Pharmaceuticals, the slaver corporation controlled up to thirty percent of the General Board. ()
In 1922 PD, the membership of the General Board consisted of:
* Brandon Ward - Chief Executive Officer
* Regan Snyder - Director of Commerce, Manpower Incorporated representative
* Bryce Lackland - Director of Culture and Information
* Jackson Chicherin - Mesan Genetic Consultancy representative
* Brianna Pearson - Technodyne Industries representative
* François McGillicuddy - Director of Security, Atkinson, McGillicuddy & Shivaprakash representative
* Gannon - Director of Industry
* Barbara Suchein - Director of Foreign Affairs
* Anson Cenáculo - Director of Treasury
== Powers ==
The members of the General Board elected among thmselves the Chief Executive Officer of the system. The CEO Mesa System presided the General Board. The corporations practically controlled that appointment in fact.
The Board was responsible for approving the budget proposals sent by the CEO. Though these proposals were usually confirmed without much debate, a rejection by the board of a budget presented by the CEO, amounted to a vote of no confidence, which required the CEO to resign from office. ()
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