Cohousing-L Mailing List: Just for fun- spurious progress report

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

We get so serious sometimes--- feel free to plagiarize or spin off if 
this might entertain your neighbors! Some of it is RoseWind "in" jokes, 
but think of it as a strategy to lighten things up some day when your 
group is mired in fuss. (This originated with Pete Lauritzen, a member of 
our "real" Steering Committee.) ---Lynn Nadeau
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Minutes of Special RoseWind Steering Committee Meeting
Present: A Quorum

The Development Committee represented by Leonard Zweig presented a new 
proposal recommending development of the home-occupation lot as the 
RoseWind 
Funeral Home. This usage would represent the ideal cottage industry in 
which everyone in RoseWind could participate. We have a unique 
opportunity 
to offer the Port Townsend Community economical, understanding services 
and 
do worthy community outreach as well.  We can offer services "with 
whimsy", 
which are much desired locally.  We already have extensive experience 
with 
specialties like: cremation bonfires every full moon, group composting 
and 
personal worm bins, and we can offer scenic burial plots around the 
commons 
for those destined for Heaven or in a thicket for the others.

However, the Steering Committee felt that a Casino is a far better choice 
for this lot.  Everyone at RoseWind is asking for more "fun" 
activities and no more convenient "fun" exists than having a casino on 
the 
commons. Now that RoseWind has obtained official tribal standing [local 
paper titled an article on us "Tribal Living...."], no legal 
barriers remain to running a casino at RoseWind.  For a small percentage 
of 
the profits, Harrah's Club has generously offered to pay for all 
materials 
if RoseWind will provide the volunteer labor to build and run the casino. 
Helen Kolff of the Casino Task Force reasoned that "we will never get 
consensus on the Casino, so let's just approve it as an emergency action".

Starting next week, we will schedule daily work parties on the Casino, 
pausing briefly every other week to do a little work on the Common 
House.  Lynn Nadeau has volunteered to order the bright, but tasteful, 
flashing neon signs needed so the casino can be seen from Discovery and 
San 
Juan Avenues.

Howard Pack, Treasurer, announced that the Finance Committee will soon 
convert all remaining RoseWind funds into "chips" to be played at the 
Casino.  This new investment will provide double benefits to 
RoseWind.  Members can have "fun" playing the chips at the Casino. If the 
member loses the games, RoseWind benefits through higher Casino profits. 
If 
the games are won, RoseWind collects all the winnings.  This will be 
definitely a "win-win" investment strategy for RoseWind.

Jack Gordon reported that the Facilitation Committee is tired of trying 
to 
help RoseWind members reach consensus again and again at each business 
meeting.  It's boring, time consuming and definitely not "fun".  Jack 
proposed a by-laws change that would enable the Committee to have more 
flexibility in resolving difficult consensus decisions, a welcome role 
for 
our newly pro-active Facilitation Committee. The Committee would like to 
try the ancient and noble sport of dueling to resolve difficult issues.  
We 
would not only achieve quick resolution, but also gain the additional 
benefit of providing amusement for RoseWind members who observe the 
duels.  The newly organized Weapons Task Force, headed by Don Stromberg, 
will choose weapons that are decisive and "fun".

This newest task force will also aid the Landscape Committee in its new 
plans to allow hunting on the Commons to control the deer and reduce the 
excessive bird population. To share fairly in the experience, only the 
vegetarians will be allowed to hunt.  All the meat will be divided among 
the non-vegetarians.

Please do not reply with comments and concerns. The Steering Committee 
doesn't want to hear them.