Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Paying babysitters- the legalities

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

We have a separate bank account that takes in money for the laundry and
meals. (laundry is a token amount of 25 cents per wash or dry) It's run as a
"club" separate from our HOA, since that releases us from the worry of
taking in money and losing our non-profit status. I'm not sure, but I think
we might pay babysitters from that fund. We easily could, in any event. We
pay in a certain amount every month for babysitters. WE get billed every
month for the amount that we owe according to how many meals we've eaten,
loads of laundry done, and how much we've paid for in groceries is deducted.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] comcast.net
> From: Lynn Nadeau <welcome [at] olympus.net>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 03 11:09:06 -0800
> To: "cohousing L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_Paying babysitters- the legalities
> 
> 
> Having survived the scary potential of one hair-raising
> potential-liability-suit situation, at RoseWind we are very careful about
> "employees." 
> 
> As a community, we have a stated value on supporting young children and
> their families, and nobody objects to the community as a whole paying
> sitters for meetings. But our accountant says we are opening ourselves to
> liability if our annual budget has a line item that says "childcare
> $400", or if an investigator could even track down and show that in fact
> RoseWind was really paying a sitter, even if we decide to make it less
> obvious by calling it "children's activities" or decide to give the kid
> team money to steward for sitting somehow.
> 
> We want a system which spreads the cost evenly among the members, and
> which is easy. Passing a hat at meetings does neither, as we don't
> usually carry cash to the common house, and that would also suggest that
> some people would pay and others would not.
> 
> What do others do?
> 
> 
> 
> Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing
> Port Townsend Washington (Victorian seaport, music, art, nature)
> http://www.rosewind.org
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> photo)
> 
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