The Whole Community
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
> belongs to an existing team, or if it's something that should be discussed by 
> the entire
> community at a future community meeting.

How do you decide what should be discussed by the whole community and what 
delegated to a team.

I’m concerned that fewer issues being discussed transparently and having many 
new people over the last few years, we are losing the sense of the whole 
community. Social events don’t bring people together like the pre- and after- 
move-in happiness and sheer panic.

Yes, things are under control but the founding members are still holding much 
of that together. None of our teams are led by people who moved in after the 
first move-ins, although some have taken on individual projects after being 
here 2-4 years. And joined teams. This is true of all age groups, not just the 
parents or busy professionals or those in graduate school or “old.”

Increasingly the founders are tired of the issues, the email, the discussions, 
and the new people don’t know what they are. We cancelled several meetings in 
the last year for lack of pressing agenda items. (Open discussion is not 
supported by our facilitators.)

I’m really missing a crisis that requires everyone to pay attention. 

On a postive note we recently installed solar panels. In addition to supporting 
it as a good idea, was looking forward to the community getting excited about 
it and coming together in getting the latest news the way we used to about 
finally getting mailboxes or finding a snowplow company that actually showed 
up. No. It was routine. The working group put together a very good proposal, 
knew where the funds would come from without raising fees. 

The biggest hub-bub was around ~8 people having to give up parking spaces for 
~6 weeks, and we had a borrowed parking lot right next door.

So what the whole community should be involved in has become “not very much.” 

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





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