RE: Work Requirements | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Mariana Almeida (mqapacbell.net) | |
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:57:52 -0600 (MDT) |
Hi Rob, In light of the recent "what size is best?" discussion, how many households and how many adults do you have in this energetic community? Mariana East SF Bay (looking for a site) Cohousing At 10:33 AM 6/18/00 -0500, Rob Sandelin wrote: > >Sharingood is an 13 year old cohousing community. > >We rotate the cleaning of the commonhouse monthly through all the members, >so in addition to the regular cleaning it gets around dinners, a team of >people do deep cleaning once a month. This is mandatory, but people do trade >off or pay someone to take their shift. > >We have one large group meeting a month, lasts a couple of hours at the >most. >We have several small groups which hold meetings whenever they want, >depending on the team or issue. For example community meals may have a >discussion circle to get ideas and talk, and then hold a decision circle to >make the decision. These circles are open and advertised to all, only those >most interested usually come. Most of our decisions are made by small >groups. > >The board meets once a month. The board is sort of the coordinating >committee and meta problem solving team. > >Dinner and such has its own sign up system, people sign up to cook, help and >clean. All who do so are given 2 free meals. > >Teams of people do things that need doing. The landscapers do gardening, the >maintenance people maintain stuff, the commonhouse team takes care of the >commonhouse issues and such. > >There is an expectation that you be on at least one team. How much you >contribute to that team or other efforts is up to you. We have plenty of >willing hands so things that need doing usually get done. Usually all it >takes is an announcement that help is needed doing X for the community. I >can't recall the last time that strategy did not bring forth someone to do >the job. If anything, I would suspect we have lots of latent work will, >people who WANT to do stuff that don't have anything to focus on. > >We hold weekend work parties whenever it would be useful to have many hands >on a job. For example, we did a trail drainage work party and in a couple >hours got a drainage system installed, closed over, and the pathway >chipped. Sometimes work parties are swamped with more people than are >actually needed to do the job. Sometimes barely enough people show up. It >varies and you never know until the event happens. > >Rob Sandelin >Home again at Sharingwood, where to my surprise a building lot is actually >up for sale! First one of those we have had in quite awhile. Apparently >while I was gone there was a bunch of renter movement around. I think we >also still have a rental space available, but I might be wrong, these things >change fast around here. >
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Work Requirements Sharon Villines, June 16 2000
- re: Work Requirements Stephanie Fassnacht, June 16 2000
- RE: Work Requirements Rob Sandelin, June 18 2000
- Re: Work Requirements Jim Snyder-Grant, June 18 2000
- RE: Work Requirements Mariana Almeida, June 18 2000
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