The Tuesday Group finally decided on option 2 for now, with the emphasis on ‘for now’.
Since Project Zero had been willing to hand out autonomy for the security services and construction, the Tuesday Group decided their best step would be to ask them to formalize the volunteer greeters who staked out the arrival spots, and maybe have Proeject Zero turn the library over entirely, and a few other things that did not majorly impact anything, just as a test. Basically just create a process by which Project Zero was willing to hand local groups money to do things.
There was a lot of criticism that this was incredibly slow, especially considering the likely turnaround on this, but regardless they spent good chunk of HY 17 working on it. Trying to carefully carve away things that Project Zero would not care about, making sure to point out that there was a functioning economy and a lot of this was simply Project Zero collecting Haven money and then spending the Haven money to pay Haveners, with a lot of autonomy now, to do things for Haven.
Project Zero weren’t really needed as a middleman there, the residents could take that over entirely.
Brian Torres still had his connections and was very respected in InterAct, just like he was on Haven, and next year was InterAct’s turn to hold Project Zero leadership, which would be formally handed over from Legacy during the Founding Celebration, which happened every year on January 1st. Not only would plenty of the Project Zero staff there, but just general employees from the TEAs came.
It was hoped that Brian could approach InterAct beforehand and get permission to make a speech and hopefully get some public response, to try to directly influence the people who would be making the decisions.