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Proposals · Part VI · Year Zero, the Lighthouses and the Pilot Centres

§6.2.1

Bringing the public in

Five ways in for diners and the public, from lightest to heaviest: follow, name a dish, give, volunteer, decide.

Hawker culture belongs to the people who cook and the people who eat, so both should shape the plan; hawkers can stop it through the co-design thresholds, and diners hold it to account through the sunset clause and a later public ballot. Anyone can follow the work through plain updates on what was decided, what was spent and what the evaluator found. Anyone can name the stall and dish they would most hate to lose, which feeds the Endangered Dish Registry as one signal among several, never a popularity vote on rescue. Once the endowment exists, a gift of any size is matched dollar for dollar until the $10M matching pool is used. People can volunteer as dialect interpreters, oral-history helpers or hands at the exhaust blitz and events. Later, an open public ballot on the plan's main choices would be held beside the hawkers' own vote and published in full.

Who pays

The library gives this mechanism no who-pays tag of its own.

Who gains

Diners
Follow it, name the dish you would most hate to lose, give, volunteer or, later, vote in an open public ballot (§6.2.1).
Hawkers
The hawkers' own vote stays: any public ballot is held beside it and published in full (§6.2.1).

Where the library discusses it

§6.2.1 · §6.2 · §3.6 · §6.6 · §7.6 · the Budget Book, B.6.1

Note: A subsection of §6.2 Co-Design With Veto. The open public ballot is a later step, and §6.2.1 gives no mechanics for it.

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This is a working paper for public discussion. Every number in it is an invitation to improve it. Corrections and better data are welcome.