Re: Backup procedure for decisions | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:25:35 -0700 (PDT) |
Diane Simpson, JP Cohousing, Boston Massachusetts <daveanddee [at] verizon.net> is the author of the message below. It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> after removing the long document to a web page. Note that I am experimenting with doing this and need to develop a streamlined procedure for doing so. Such documents are accessible via the <a href="http://l.cohousing.org/">Cohousing-L References</a> web page. Which can be reached from the Info page - whose URL is at the bottom of every message. Note that an advantage of doing it this way is that noone quotes the long document in a reply :) Not sure if it is a net gain. Fred ----------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS -------------------- Hi Tom, You will need a backup procedure no matter how well you think consensus works going into this process. Consensus works very well for simple decisions or for decisions in which you have a lot of time to craft a proposal. It works horribly for decisions like "What twenty-five items shall we cut out of the budget?" or "Which shall be our primary goal: affordability, handicapped accessibilty, diversity, sustainability, or preserving open space?" In development you face a lot of complex decisions that are thrown at you all at once. I would choose "door number three." Below is < a link to > our condominium decision-making process which borrowed heavily from Cambridge Cohousing when we started out. Now I am passing this knowledge on to you. I hope you will read it carefully and discuss it in your group. http://l.cohousing.org/jp-dcid.htm Best of luck! --Diane Simpson JP Cohousing, Boston Massachusetts On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:06:15, Tom Hammer wrote: > From: Tom Hammer <thammer302 [at] yahoo.com> > Subject: [C-L]_ Backup procedure for decisions, and developers & > bankers > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > > > Our esteemed consultant, Ann Zabaldo, has instructed > our group to write a prospectus to give to potential > developers to help us in finding a developer who would > be willing to work with a cohousing group such as > ours--in an area of the country where cohousing is not > well known.<snip> > or > 3) Do we stablish a true backup procedure such as 2/3 > majority vote and write it into our internal > documents, and that way we can be totally truthful to > a potential developer and bank? Then we would be bound > to possibly using that backup procedure (and > apparently, crippling the consensus building process > during important decisions.) > > Tom Hammer > for Concord Village > http://www.concordvillage.org
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