Interesting conversation.... (1 of 3)

[kirby urner]

May 4 (1 day ago)

to Robert, Math-teach
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Robert Hansen <b...@rsccore.com> wrote:
> Are you sure that the school budget is 100% state funded? Generally they are 50/50 local/state, and that was the compromise/solution to the issue of uneven funding.
>
> Bob Hansen
>

Yes, you're correct. From School Finance 101 page:

"""
The General Fund is the largest of a school district's funds and
covers the operations of schools, including expenditures for salaries
and benefits, supplies, textbooks, utilities, and other general
expenses.

Revenues for the General Fund comes from two main sources: 1) money
from the state. The state money, called the State School Fund, is
taken mainly from Oregon's income tax. All public schools in Oregon
receive State School Funding each year, and 2) local property taxes,
which are collected from homes, businesses, and other property within
the school district's boundaries.
"""

They say State School Fund is mostly from income tax. That's where
I'd like to drill down to see the pipe system, with the width of the
pipe = $ energy volume, unless we go with a 3D depiction, in which
case cross-section (rate of flow could be presumed constant, with
width the only variable?).

Does the Oregon Lottery feed in at all? The thing about conventional
Lottery games is when you end up funding the state, you're called a
"loser" and you get no discretionary powers to deposit your "losings"
in this or that fund.

In the CSN model, you're a champion for philanthropic causes, and how
well you play is correlated with how much you get to give AND you have
discretionary powers, which takes different shapes.

So if there's a pet government program that is open to this kind of
private donation, per CSN as a conduit / infrastructure, then you're
welcome the "earmark" in that sense fund accounters use -- Foundations
get to say what their check is for, even to a finer grain than the
target organization. I'm not promising that level of granularity, but
then the smorgasbord of eligible receivers is a growing roster, lots
of choice.

Can you specify yourself, your own cause, your own NGO as a recipient
and just net winnings for the home team? That will be possible to
some extent, but in some subcultures it's looked down upon to be so
self absorbed. Even more than before, charities will be called upon
to support other charities, to help show where they stand. Fence
sitters might have to come down, given how CSN helps organizations
articulate their relationships more clearly.

Anyway, fun and games for down the road. The circuits are described
in more detail in other venues. All the chiefs are volunteer, making
this more like a Food Not Bombs operation (not on IRS radar because no
revenue for the model, and according to European judges, you don't get
to copyright APIs either). We have chiefs of human resources,
marketing, technology, security and finances. CEO is a figurehead
only, a lightning rod, a "corporate person". I'm chief of marketing.
Most of the other chiefs are women, which is appropriate given our
Athena based branding (not repeating mistakes made by West Point here,
leading to leadership top heavy with XYs).


Kirby