A Hybrid Economic Arrangement

The Holigent Delta Plan is a three-way agreement between participating employers, their participating employee-residents of the “Village” and a nonprofit developer/management organization. Economic security is achieved through the Delta Plan by maintaining balance between local and global economies. The Holigent arrangement helps generate and retain local value and wealth thus provides a ‘firewall’ to protect participating communities against the unpredictability of the general/global economy even during recessionary times.

Plan A   Normal Conditions

Under normal conditions an employee-resident’s time allocations are balanced between employment and community service according to their basic agreement. Participating employee-residents are under an individual or collective Delta Plan. All employee-residents participate in community service – earning Community Credit (C-Credit) and pay a portion of their rent with C-credit.

Plan B    Variable Conditions

During moderate economic hard times, affected employees’ commitments would be varied according to a negotiated or pre-arranged scale.  Affected companies would reduce some or all employees’ pay and/or work-hours in accord with agreements. Affected employees would work more hours in community service and pay a larger portion of their rent with earned C-credit. This option provides the opportunity for employees to work for lower wages thus create a competitive advantage while securing their quality of life.

Plan C    Dormant Conditions

During severe economic hard times, an affected company would go into a dormant state rather than shut down.  Their employee-residents would go on unpaid furlough rather than be laid off and would be recalled when work is again available. Increased community service allows furloughed employee-residents to retain their apartments and pay most or all their rent with earned C-credit. Participating employers, in order to avoid permanent shutdown, must be debt-free, insured, subsidized, or otherwise able to reorganize or freeze obligations to be covered for the dormant period. This plan would preserve a company’s physical, business, and workforce assets as well as its employee-residents’ workplace, housing and essential quality of life.

Delta Plan

Variable Commitment Allocation Agreement