Re: participation in decision making | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: John Beutler (jabeutlercomcast.net) | |
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 06:04:19 -0800 (PST) |
That sounds fine! JAB Sent from my tricorder > On Jan 8, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Emilie Parker <emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:10 AM, John Beutler <jabeutler [at] comcast.net> > wrote: > > Non-profit? Not sure how that supports development of a property. > > > Hi John, > > I'm following the topic closely about consensus and blocking. Our group is > not at that point. > > Thanks John, for asking the question. I'd like to see what people think. > The non-profit will not support the actual homes or common house areas. > Since we are all artists in addition to cohousing, we are building a > separate shared studio building to set up artist studios, music practice, > art-making equipment and to work cooperatively in on art works -- including > a gallery. > > Our sustainability model for the studios is that we will allow cohousing > artists and local community artists to be members of the shared studios for > a small fee. Even though they may not be living in cohousing they will > come in to use the studios and be trusted studio members and have a key and > 24/7 access to that building. Local artists membership fees will pay for > the overhead and management of our shared studios, with a gallery and art > education/performing arts center. The art center is already a successful > non-profit partner and a legal relationship with them has not been > crafted. For now we're legally 100% separate from the art center but their > director is on our new board. > > Our plan is that the studios will be run as a non-profit and we haven't yet > figured out exactly how the governance of that dovetails with our cohousing > governance Our flegling board for Synergy Arts just met for the first time > this week, so even though the sun is shining, we are knee deep in slush. > At the Boulder cohousing conference this year they highlighted a cohousing > community that runs a tree farm but I don't have contact info for them. > I'd like to collaborate. If I remember correctly several members run it > and hire cohousing members to keep funds in the community and cover some > expenses. > > We currently have an LLC that we started a year ago and that's our legal > entity for creating our cohousing community for now. We started the > non-profit in addition because we wanted to have an option of offering > financial participation in the shared art studios to local donors and > philanthropists to enable their participation in the development of the > studios. Shared art studios will be a community service for local artists > and others will want to be part of supporting that. Shared studios is part > of our plan to incorporate a new-urbanism model with cohousing. > > And the property we are going to build on is zoned commercial and has to be > rezoned for live/work and commercial so that's a big push right now -- > getting that all figured out, timed out, negotiated out and paid and > planned for. It's a bunch of puzzle pieces. > > We have 43 artists and they all want to know if they can afford it and what > the homes will look like but we're not there yet. > > Thanks for asking, > Emilie > Louisville Artists Cohousing, LLC > Synergy Arts Creative Community, Louisville, CO > > > ----------------- > Emilie Parker > emilie.v.parker [at] gmail.com > 303-317-4558 main > 240-350-8533 cell > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > >
- Re: participation in decision making, (continued)
- Re: participation in decision making Ann Zabaldo, January 7 2015
- Re: participation in decision making Emilie Parker, January 7 2015
- Re: participation in decision making John Beutler, January 8 2015
- Re: participation in decision making Emilie Parker, January 8 2015
- Re: participation in decision making John Beutler, January 9 2015
- Re: participation in decision making Sharon Villines, January 8 2015
- Re: Possible Cohousing/Permaculture based farm project near Ann Arbor, MI Vasi Toneva, January 8 2015
- Re: Possible Cohousing/Permaculture based farm project near Ann Arbor, MI Sharon Villines, January 9 2015
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