A significant portion of our endowment is restricted funds. The GTAA is not allowed (without getting court approval in a contested proceeding) to use those funds to pay down construction debt.
In my experience, people who give money like to do so when it seems like their gift will have positive lasting impact for a long time... the kind of thing that will be around long enough to need its own name. So endowed scholarships are popular because they're around indefinitely. Funding specific construction needs is popular because everyone sees your name on it and it'll be standing for decades, hopefully. What's not popular is paying for something that's already been built and is already old news.
i have to do it all around here.
we take the annual debt, divide it by the number of stingtalk posters minus one.
that’s what we have to pay per year to keep van hayes from being unbanhammered.
we don’t meet our debt, he comes back.
solved, sugar bear.