PSD.1:5.1 - Contested flood-pump decision

A municipal resilience office asks a decision-support team to “solve the pump problem” before the next flood season. Operations staff prefer another permanent pump; finance questions capital exposure; residents contest which districts and harms count; and the emergency investment board owns the later funding and deployment decision.

The team does not begin with a pump model or consensus workshop. It first returns this bounded engagement question:

For the municipal resilience office, prepare a recommendation for the emergency investment board’s pre-season funding and deployment decision about the district flood-pumping arrangement over the next flood season. Compare permanent, mobile, staged, and no-new-purchase branches only after affected districts, operating conditions, safety limits, and material dissent are recoverable; the board retains the later choice.

The boundary is useful but incomplete. PSD.2 is next because affected residents, operating groups, concerns, and consequence-bearing Systems can change the engagement. PSD.3 is also live because “insufficient capacity”, “unequal protection”, “maintenance fragility”, and “unsafe deployment” imply different interventions. The team stops before model or option selection if the board’s authority, the decision horizon, or an affected district remains unrecoverable.