Thanks for the clarification, but I’m still not sure I understand. I think your argument is:
CEA has projects that are worth funding (say, arbitrarily, our comms team)
Additionally, we have projects that are not worth funding (in particular: the Forum)
However to make the case for marginal funding stronger we are presenting the stuff that’s worth funding as “marginal”, and stating that the stuff that’s not worth funding isn’t “marginal”.
Is that correct?
If so, I’m confused because the Forum is included in the list of marginal projects, which seems to violate (3).
Maybe alternatively you are saying:
3′. To make the case for marginal funding stronger we are presenting BOTECs about projects other than the Forum
But again this doesn’t seem right to me because one of the BOTECs was about the forum.
I don’t think you can justify a $2M/year expenditure with an $11k/year BOTEC ($38/hour * 6 hours/week * 52 weeks), because I think that the correct level at which expenditure in the forum should be considered marginal is closer to $1M/year than $10k/year.
Thanks for the clarification, but I’m still not sure I understand. I think your argument is:
CEA has projects that are worth funding (say, arbitrarily, our comms team)
Additionally, we have projects that are not worth funding (in particular: the Forum)
However to make the case for marginal funding stronger we are presenting the stuff that’s worth funding as “marginal”, and stating that the stuff that’s not worth funding isn’t “marginal”.
Is that correct?
If so, I’m confused because the Forum is included in the list of marginal projects, which seems to violate (3).
Maybe alternatively you are saying:
3′. To make the case for marginal funding stronger we are presenting BOTECs about projects other than the Forum
But again this doesn’t seem right to me because one of the BOTECs was about the forum.
I don’t think you can justify a $2M/year expenditure with an $11k/year BOTEC ($38/hour * 6 hours/week * 52 weeks), because I think that the correct level at which expenditure in the forum should be considered marginal is closer to $1M/year than $10k/year.