Re: Common spaces and decision making (Katie Henry) | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Monty Berman (mberman116hotmail.com) | |
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:24:00 -0700 (PDT) |
7/14 Katie, Pretty discouraging to have a bunch of "hoops" to hurdle. How about saying what decision-making process you suggest. Monty Berman EcoVillage at Ithaca, founding member All we need to do to lead a fruitful and satisfying life is to be in our here-and-now. (That's right, it's All we need to do) MSBerman > From: cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org > Subject: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 102, Issue 15 > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:16:18 -0700 > > Send Cohousing-L mailing list submissions to > cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.cohousing.org/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > cohousing-l-owner [at] cohousing.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Cohousing-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Common spaces and decision making (Katie Henry) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:16:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net> > Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Common spaces and decision making > To: cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org > Message-ID: <1342217779.93098.YahooMailRC [at] web80013.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On 6 Jul 2012, at 2:22 PM, oz wrote: > I'm pretty clear that our current > process discriminates against people who > are less willing/able to write out > their ideas and make requests. Its easy > to sit in judgment about these > non-proposers, saying things like "they are > just not willing to do the > work." > Its much harder to help them meet their > needs if that support is needed and > welcome. > > A different perspective -- In my former community, I implemented a capital > improvement project that required a lot of work making sure the project > met the needs of the community, identifying contractors and products, and > coordinating and supervising the work. There was no question that the project > would get approved -- everybody wanted it, and the money was already > allocated -- but I deeply resented that, in addition to doing weeks of > legwork on the project, I also had to jump through the proposal hoops -- > paperwork, three presentations at membership meetings, etc. It seemed > (and still seems) to me that communities should have a person or team > specifically to assist with the proposal process. There were other > projects that I wanted to undertake but decided not to specifically > because I felt it was unfair that I should have to do everything all by > myself. > > Katie Henry > > ------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > End of Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 102, Issue 15 > ********************************************
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Re: Common spaces and decision making (Katie Henry) Monty Berman, July 14 2012
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