Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: consequences in community

[OCC11NG (normangauss]

In our community there are some members who feel they have special 
circumstances and don't feel that community standards apply to them.

I have seen trash accumulated next to a person's residence, and when I call 
attention that there is trash piling up in the community, that person feels 
that I am picking on her.  In the past, she and her neighbor allowed their 
dog enclosures to be cluttered with numerous dog droppings.  When I 
published a note to the community that there are dog enclosures full of dog 
droppings, again I was accused on picking on them.

Another person allowed her dog to wander around off leash (we have a leash 
rule) depositing droppings here and there (not picked up).  That same dog 
even attacked another dog on leash resulting in injury needing vet's care. 
When asked to refrain from letting this happen, the owner didn't feel that 
our rule was necessary or that it did not appy to her because of special 
dispensations she thought she was entitled to.

Since none of these problems was brought up for discussion (too politically 
sensitive), nothing was resolved.

Norm Gauss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ilyse simon" <ilysefood [at] yahoo.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:07 AM
Subject: [C-L]_ consequences in community


> Hi,
> I'm researching consequences in various cohos. What happens in your 
> community when a member doesn't do her work requirement, or breaks a 
> community rule, or repeatedly doesn't pick up dog poop, or fails to pay an 
> assessment. I'm on a committee writing Rules & Regs for Ulster county Coho 
> and we need some ideas. After conflict resolution is ignored or fails, 
> what to you do then?
> Thank you,
> Ilyse Simon
> Governance, Ulster County Coho
>
>
> Ilyse Simon RD
> Nutrition Therapist
> 845 338 3876
>
> "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving 
> safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in 
> sideways, chocolate in one hand, feather boa in the other, body thoroughly 
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