Did that happen or not? [ was Budgets before finding a site | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 06:33:59 -0700 (PDT) |
> On Oct 2, 2016, at 9:36 PM, Susan Adams <sadams430 [at] gmail.com> wrote: > > The figures I provided were for our pre construction development. Which is > the budget which was requested. The figures came directly from Village > Resources, and I assumed that they were correct. A few years ago we had a highly contentious issue. People who joined the community 10 years after the first incident had a totally different view of the issue and its resolution. They maintained the sky would fall on our heads if we addressed it —it was a neighbor’s issue with our property. The facts stated in the meeting were at almost total odds with my memory which is pretty good. I also read all the minutes and am on all the team email lists. But I needed proof that what was said was not the way things happened. I went back through ALL our email list archives including lists we no longer used. The issue related to the “south alley” so I had to search multiple spellings of “alley”. It took a long time with Yahoo’s primitive search engine but it was worth every minute. What I discovered was that each team remembered what happened in their meetings and on their email list. The information from each team formed a set of facts that did not include information from other teams. Admin didn’t know what Facilities knew and the reverse. Even factual information like what date was this first reported was totally wrong in one team or the other. It happens to the best of us that one hand thinks another is misrepresenting things, particularly when new members don’t have old memories. Everyone thinks the community started when they did. Advice: use email because it is the easiest way to write things down. A written record can be invaluable. It can resolve a lot of issues about what happened and what didn’t happen. Sharon ---- Sharon Villines Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org
- Re: Budgets before finding a site, (continued)
- Re: Budgets before finding a site Virgil Huston, October 2 2016
- Re: Budgets before finding a site Alice Alexander, October 3 2016
- Re: Budgets before finding a site Cohousing, October 2 2016
- Re: Budgets before finding a site Susan Adams, October 2 2016
- Did that happen or not? [ was Budgets before finding a site Sharon Villines, October 3 2016
- Re: Did that happen or not? [ was Budgets before finding a site R Philip Dowds, October 3 2016
- Re: Budgets before finding a site Lynne Markell, October 4 2016
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