Public companies/projects
This essentially mirrors public services that exist in our current system.
- Any member can propose a public (regional) company/project
- Public companies have an ongoing monthly budget, where some fixed (or proportional) amount of their costs are assigned to the regional cost pool. Examples:
- Library
- Police dept
- Fire dept
- Public projects have a fixed budget (also assigned to the regional cost pool). Examples:
- Building a bridge
- Tree planting campaign
- Non-budgeted costs (ie, costs above the set amount) must be covered via orders (providing a product/service)
- Public companies allow electing some members of their board by regional members, proportional to the costs the region covers
- If a company has 10% of their costs covered by the region, and they have 17 board seats, then the region might get 2 board seats, elected via regional members
- Need some cap (if the region covers 100% of costs, then the company board would still need some worker representation)
- Need some way of defining and enforcing these parameters in the system (possibly a separate issue)