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           First of all, as some would say in business, out of 200 ideas, 2 may be doable. Perhaps some of these ideas that I make are not doable.
      After looking at the California budget total Revenues online

http://2007-08.archives.ebudget.ca.gov/BudgetSummary/SUM/1249561.html

The following can be concluded. The state is hurting for money since 44.8 percent of its revenues are collected from personal income taxes. The unemployment rate rose in California. Resulting in less tax revenues to be collected. New creative ideas need to be generated to decrease the unemployment rate.
These students are upset at the rising cost of tuition. The following may be a solution to better the budget in California and local organizations. The solution may be to include scholarship awards for students and others for the state of California to save money and for other organizations to create new jobs. After all, the brains of any state may include college students. The winning ideas could be awarded money up to the amount California and local organizations would save. The more money the state and local organizations save and the more jobs created, the more money could be budgeted for college budgets.
    The following could be one idea for cities, states and the postal service could save money.  For example, what would happen if residents had their mailboxes and trashcans (on trash pickup days) placed on one side of a given street? One side of residential streets could begin no parking ordinances. The mailboxes and trashcans would be placed on the same side where cars are prohibited to park. This may save time and money (fuel) for trash and mail service so they will not have to drive around parked cars. Obviously, this could not be done on busy streets. Would this save cities, states and the post office time and money (fuel) to have their trucks pick up trash and mail running only once per street? Could having only delivered mail be accepted at street mailboxes be a saving to the ailing postal service budget?
     Could the idea of receiving mail at one’s street mailbox, yet dropping off mail at another place make sense? Could people send out mail at existing drive through service at pharmacy stores or bank branches a good idea?  It would not cost much to add a mail bin at these places of businesses. The post office could pay these businesses up to the cost savings of not having to pick up mail at people’s street mailboxes. This could be where one can pick up their prescriptions, do banking business and leave their mail at drive through services of these businesses.

         Neighborhoods need to be redesigned to raise the overall values of everyone’s homes and businesses, hence raise property tax revenues for schools, cities and counties. Students could use their brainpower to create these better-redesigned neighborhoods. This can create new jobs for everyone; hence create more income tax revenues for the state of California.  At the same time, Students could submit plans to create complete whole livable villages. Where people could walk to work, the grocery store and back home again. Imagine how this will reduce everyone’s health care costs and reduce overall air pollution by cars with people living and working in these newly redesigned neighborhoods.
      My main point is the following. Each organization, including mail and trash service, affects every other organization. Out of 200 ideas, 2 may be doable. If the state of California and its board of regents can create new scholarship awarded contests to find better business practices for all organizations; then the whole state of California wins, including its students.
     We were able to learn to fly and fly across the Atlantic with monetary awards. Why can’t a new system of scholarship award system be set up as well?