I propose the creation of a committee that will be given Linden dollars by Linden Lab and be able to give the money out to friends of their's for event style projects that couldn't get funded through the individual choices of residents.
Nominations for receipt of this money would be annonymous, so you can't tell who is helping who.
Decisions would be made at meetings at which no record of the chat would be kept, so no one could be held responsible for any of what was said in public.
Details are not critical, the important thing is to get some kind of good old boy network to distibute Linden Lab dollars to a select few for unpopular causes.