Book It On Outta Here

Over at Dustbury, there's a link to a story about a reading contest that a library changed when one kid kept reading the most books.

The first thing they did was ban him from the contest, and then change it into a lottery, where every entrant's name will be put in a hat and a winner drawn at random.

Although I'm not someplace where I can research it, I imagine the library uses some amount of public funds. I suggest that whatever level of government funds it receives be combined among all of the agencies that get that money and one name drawn from a hat to get all the money. Or maybe a random pairing of budgeted needs and available funding. And if the library doesn't get one of the accounts that has enough money for it to operate, then it needs to save money first by firing everyone who came up with the idea to change the contest.