Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Bylaws, the law, and Sociocracy

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Our Cornerstone Board was originally conceived as existing only under duress, 
for titular rubber-stamping purposes.  In more recent times, we've begun to 
feel that's a waste of a good committee, so now the Board has more real 
functions to perform.  The big difference, I think, is that in regular folks' 
condos, the association rarely meets, while in our coho and others, the 
association meets in a monthly plenary.  Some Sociocrats think this is a waste 
of valuable member time.

Philip Dowds

> On Mar 10, 2014, at 3:28 PM, drmaryann49 [at] mac.com wrote:
> 
> The Board is titular (holding a purely formal position without any authority) 
> and functions merely to rubber stamp decisions made by the group as a whole 
> in a Plenary session.