The Counting Rules
A Draft Instrument for Adoption

Nothing counts by assertion alone. A Contribution enters the record only as an event on a posting path this instrument admits, valued under the version of these rules in force at its occurrence, carrying the policy citation, the rate basis, and both deltas (Law IV, Law VII). These rules are prospective: they govern from their adoption forward, per Q3's own words, and no quantity is computed under them for any act before their effective date.

Two exclusions are named so no one wonders: the $100 membership share purchase is the Membership Interest of MA §1.4, and the $100 annual dues are operating revenue under Bylaws Schedule A. Neither is a Contribution; neither enters patronage under any Primitive.

The six Primitives of the Plan, a closed set. Each admits a Contribution only on the condition in its row; anything not on this table is inadmissible until an amendment names it.

A value is declared by the contributor and confirmed by a distinct hand: the Program's Coordinator of record for program-scoped work, the treasurer otherwise. No one confirms the value of their own Contribution. The valued event carries valuation_method and valuation_approver_agent_id, the columns the substrate already holds for exactly this, so the confirmation is in the row, not beside it.

PROPERTY above the §4 threshold takes a recorded board resolution before it posts, the same shape as TREASURY-POLICY's upper band. A valuation, once posted, changes only by an explicit correction event that names what it corrects; never by mutation.

The values only the board can set, drawn here as the drafter's cut so the board has something specific to amend or refuse:

The first accounting year runs from the adoption date of these rules through December 31, 2026; accounting years follow the calendar year thereafter. This is the prospective reading Q3 requires.

The allocation weights, 40 labor, 30 revenue, 20 cash, 10 community as proposed in the Plan, are not here. Weights belong to the Plan and to each Program's POLICY-PATRONAGE; these rules only make quantities valuable. A weight change never touches valuation history.

The Labor Schedule, the four labor tiers and their rates the board adopted June 24, 2026, enters the record as its own instrument under the code LABOR-SCHEDULE. The code SCHEDULE-A stands in the record with the Bylaws schedule of stock prices and membership dues, entered July 24, 2026; PATRONAGE §7's table amends to the new code by the decision record this draft carries. The tier rates themselves are not yet in the estate and enter with that instrument, from the Plan, before the first HOURS Contribution posts.

On adoption, the agreement.adopted event carries the machine-readable parameters, so the posting verbs read the version in force and no rate ever appears in code (PATRONAGE §7, Law IV):

-- proposed adoption payload · COUNTING-RULES v1
{
 "prospective_from": "<adoption date>",
 "first_accounting_year_end": "2026-12-31",
 "admissible": ["HOURS", "REVENUE", "CASH", "OUTPUT", "PRESENCE", "PROPERTY"],
 "hours":    { "requires": ["resolved_affiliated_opportunity", "distinct_confirmer"], "rate_basis": "labor_schedule_tier" },
 "revenue":  { "percentage": 10, "requires": ["reconciled_receipt"] },
 "cash":     { "basis": "face", "excludes": ["member_share", "dues"] },
 "output":   { "unit_source": "program_policy" },
 "presence": { "credit_usd": 15.00, "cap_per_year": 26, "requires": ["registration", "presence_mark"] },
 "property": { "basis": "documented_fmv", "board_resolution_above_usd": 2500 },
 "confirmation": { "distinct_hand": true, "fields": ["valuation_method", "valuation_approver_agent_id"] }
}