A road can cross a proposed border in an afternoon. The bill for maintaining it is harder to divide.
That is the problem beginning to emerge from the fiscal material now before Korda's Convention. The Clerk has recorded the first collection of transfer schedules, service accounts, asset returns and preliminary transition estimates received by the Joint Committee on Transition Facts. The filing, NRS-Y13-0706, is a receipt and inventory. It contains no committee recommendation.
It does, however, make the next argument more specific. Delegates cannot compare Korda's possible futures simply by drawing a line around the revenue collected on either side.
Money received, money requested
The federal schedules separate transfers actually paid to Korda from capacity requests still awaiting a decision. That distinction matters in a Territory whose long wait for infrastructure funding helped bring whole-Territory statehood into this dispute.
An outstanding application may describe work that is badly needed. It is not money the administration can spend. Nor can every payment already received be treated as unrestricted income: the schedules identify the purposes and restrictions attached to it.
Dessa Orin has supplied the fiscal material she said she would submit, cross-referencing territorial receipts, outstanding requests and service obligations. Its admission to the committee register does not make her submission the committee's view, and it does not resolve her case for whole-Territory statehood.
The service does not divide itself
The territorial returns record some expenditure by district and some for Korda as a whole. The committee has not yet reconciled how shared costs should be assigned between the certified corridor and the remainder.
That is more than a bookkeeping inconvenience. If a service loses some of the people it serves, its buildings and minimum staffing costs do not necessarily fall by the same proportion. If a facility serves people on both sides of a new boundary, somebody must still maintain it, provide access and settle the account.
The initial inventory therefore asks separate questions about ownership and operation. An office using a facility is not necessarily the office that owns it. A maintenance obligation may be recorded in a contract that has yet to be supplied. The Clerk's filing leaves those entries open for verification.
The earlier freight records already showed why a single corridor-wide average could conceal as much as it explains. Northern districts trade more heavily toward Kelvant. Southern lake districts share more of their working transport network with Korda's interior. The fiscal returns must now be read alongside those differences.
More than one kind of cost
Keeping Korda whole would avoid dividing the territorial accounts across a new internal boundary. It would not make the work required for statehood free. Administrative preparation, the capacity needed to discharge State responsibilities, and recurring service costs still have to be identified. The committee's estimates cannot substitute for the Monitor findings required under §15.2.
A departure by the full certified corridor would pose a different set of questions: which revenue and obligations would move, which facilities would continue serving the remainder, and what arrangements would be needed with Kelvant. A smaller geographic change would require its own calculation. It cannot be costed simply by cutting the full-corridor figure in proportion to the population involved.
Those are comparisons the evidence will need to support, not three priced offers on a table. No delegate has introduced a resolution drawing a replacement boundary. The committee has adopted neither a total for any option nor an allocation of shared costs that would make such totals comparable.
The preliminary submissions also separate one-time administrative work from continuing annual expenditure. Adding them together may produce an impressive number. Without explaining the period it covers, it would produce a poor comparison.
What the filing settles
For residents, the practical questions are less abstract: whether a familiar service remains reachable, whether its budget still covers the journey, and who answers when something needs repairing. Along the southern shore, family and Indigenous community ties to the lake also reach beyond anything a transport ledger can value.
Jalen Mire and Tomas Rell remain co-chairs of a shared inquiry, with different positions on what should happen to the Territory. Receiving more evidence does not announce a change in either position. Orin's submission keeps the whole-Territory case before them without turning it into an agreed answer.
The Convention still has to produce its own proposed resolution under §15.5.a(3), and any proposal must then follow the applicable voter-ratification and constitutional processes. The committee's internal compilation target does not extend the Convention's time.
For now, the useful advance is that delegates can ask which payment, which service and which obligation a claim refers to. The records have arrived. Making them comparable is the next piece of work.