RE: Does your community get all adults in aconsensusdecision?
From: Eileen McCourt (emccourtmindspring.com)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 21:53:01 -0600 (MDT)
For our project LLC, we have established quorum as 70% of individual members
in attendance in person or by proxy.  We have discussed whether "member"
should be member households, or individual members, but so far we have been
able to establish quorum using the total adult members in the LLC as the
divisor, since many members have provided proxies.  The proxies are
effective unless specifically noted as not being effective for a particular
issue (although I think that legally proxies need to be renewed every 6
months).  We establish quorum at the beginning of the meeting, and quorum is
maintained until the meeting is adjourned, even if people leave and the
number drops below 70%.  We do make our best effort to make sure that all
burning souls are notified well in advance of an item they have an interest
in being on the agenda, and scheduling the discussion to a meeting they can
attend, if they want to be there.

Maybe it is the stage of the project (a few months before the start of
construction) but we seem to have very good participation, even though some
people live up to 450 miles away from some of our meetings, and most of our
group regularly travels 200 miles once a month to attend a meeting.  We meet
twice a month, one time in the location of the site, and one time in the San
Francisco Bay Area, where the majority of our members live.

I have assumed that we would use the same model for our HOA, when it is
formed.  But now it seems that there are lots of other ways of doing it.  I
like 70% of households and the use of proxies in this phase of the project.
50% plus one seems low, and anything higher than 70% would make it difficult
to get things done.  Is there any reason for an HOA to have a different
model from the one for the LLC?

--eileen

Eileen McCourt
Oak Creek Commons
Cohousing in Paso Robles, CA
emccourt [at] mindspring.com
http://oakcreekcommons.org



-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Sharon Villines
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 8:31 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Does your community get all adults in aconsensusdecision?

> Do you use the quorum concept, and proxies?

We are still very young and I don't think have ever used proxies, or needed
to. I think the bylaws do provide for them if necessary.

We have a pretty strong commitment to trying to work things out to
everyone's satisfaction and a lot of effort goes into it. Small group
discussions have been very useful.

Said she, in the 100th hour of revising a policy for the fourth time after
the second evening of listening to small group discussion on the topic.

Sharon
--
Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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