It came down to the wire, but all 12 government executive boards have now signed onto my/our bikeshare system! Huzzah. This project has given me a new...look into the legal profession. Mostly in how extremely shaky said profession appears, considering the nigh impossibility of doing anything with legal text such that other lawyers can't raise objections. I've had enough "ask 3 lawyers and you get 4 opinions" situations over the past year that I'm genuinely starting to wonder what on earth the point of the profession is beyond verbose perfectionism.
No snark? Lawyers exist as advocates and combatants in a system designed to solve conflict without violence. The system is not intended to lay down absolutes, it's designed to lay down the battleground for disputes. "Ask three lawyers and you get 4 opinions" is absolutely true until the dispute is adjudicated, at which point one opinion reigns supreme. It's like asking generals who will win a battle: they don't truly know until the white flag is waved.