Development/Construction Committees
From: SPINTUS (SPINTUSHULAW1.HARVARD.EDU)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 17:06 CST
At Cornerstone Cohousing, in Arlington, MA , we are HOPING that we are 
just about to make a deal with a property owner.  Of course, we've been 
hoping for many months now...  At any rate, one of the issues raised by 
our consultants/architects is whether we can manage the quick decisions 
needed during construction using our current consensus process, which 
entails bringing a proposal to one meeting, and then consensing it at the 
next meeting two weeks later.

A proposal on the table is that we have a development committee that 
would converse as often as necessary to make fast decisions, with the 
committee delegated to make those decisions by the group.  The assumption 
is that the committee would all have to reach consensus to make such 
decisions.

Our Steering Committee os wpndering what other groups have done with this 
issue/problem.  Did you have such a committee?  If so, how did it work?  
And what didn't work about it?  If you didn't have such a committee, what 
problems did you encounter as a result?

Thanks!

Susan Pintus, Cornerstone

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