MIDPACIFIC SOVIET OF LETTERS
BUDGETARY COUNCIL FOR UNFUNDABLE REQUESTS
BUDGET COMMITTEE MINUTES – RE: RSD-1172-A
Filed under: MPSoL/BCUR/1172
Classification: Budget Conditional – Symbolically Justified
1. Opening Silence and Invocation of Frugality
2. Review of Subcommittee Request RSD-1172-A
3. Disputation on Line Item: ‘Stabilization Tea, Code 22-Quiet’
4. Clarification on ‘Symbolic Redundancy Testing Kit (Ink-Based)’
5. Vote on Provisional Allocation
6. Ritual Signing and Escrow Submission
7. Optional Comments (under muffling protocol)
- Chair: V. Tallis (dry authority, partial hearing)
- Auditor: ‘Reams’ (budget-realist, trained in denial logic)
- Proxy for Shadows Office: ‘Line-Dot-Line’ (absent, influence noted)
- Guest: Ursula (Applied Stillness, non-voting)
TALLIS: The requested amount is modest. But why must we supply tea?
REAMS: We’ve denied worse for less. Still, 22-Quiet is often requisitioned under symbolic redundancy. It soothes the bridge.
URSULA: The bridge must be soothed.
REAMS: (nods)
TALLIS: And this… symbolic redundancy kit?
URSULA: Ink. A spare pen. And a sheet to duplicate under pressure.
REAMS: So they don’t rewrite over signal loss?
URSULA: So they remember that writing is symbolic.
TALLIS: Fine. The rest is noise. The protocol costs less than one dream unit.
REAMS: Motion to approve.
TALLIS: Approved. Quietly.
Budget request RSD-1172-A is approved in full. Line item ‘Stabilization Tea’ to be transferred from existing Concordat Hospitality Surplus. No objections logged. No additional funds assigned beyond requested scope. Accounting Shadows notified.
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Filed in partial hearing. Approved without flourish.