Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: OCCNG11 (normangausscharter.net) | |
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:19:12 -0700 (PDT) |
In California, the Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for any
decisions the community makes. In our CC&R's, there is no quorum because
the only membership meetings recognized are the rigidly formal Annual and
Special Membership Meetings. These are the specified ways for electing of
board members and making certain financial decisions involving large amounts
of money, in which case a 75% majority of the entire membership is necessary
before passing a measure. All other membership meetings are not recognized
by State law as legitimate decision-making mediums. In our case all our
decisions in meetings are sent to the Board for ratification, thus
legitimizing our way of doing things.
In our informal community meetings, we have set a quorum at 14 out of 36 households which works out to about 40%. We are a Non-Profit Mutual Benefit Corporation and must follow the California Corporations code. Here the minimum quorum for any decision is 1/3 of the voting block. Since we use consensus, it works out to 100% of 40% of the households.
Norm Gauss Oak Creek Commons Paso Robles, CA----- Original Message ----- From: <tamgoddess [at] comcast.net>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:23 PM Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Quorums/Reopening decisions
Ah!â?"which brings me to a point I neglected to make. It doesn't really matter what happens in meetings, or it shouldn't. The vast majority of work on proposals and decisions gets done outside of meetings. By the time it gets to a meeting, everyone should have had a chance to talk about it with someone individually, if they have concerns.Meetings are really about making sure everyone's on the same page. Liz -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Kevin Wolf <kevin [at] wolfandassociates.com>N Street Cohousing doesn't have a quarum requirement. We just allow two weeks after a decision is posted for someone in the community to object in which case it is considered a block of consensus and then follows that process. A blocked consensus requires a meeting every two weeks for up to three months between the person(s) blocking and representatives of the consensus position. If after the six meetings, consensus hasn't been reached, the community will vote with a 75% supermajority winning. In 18 years of having this process, we have yet to get past two blocked consensus meetings before consensus is reached. We have never voted. And it is rare that someone blocks consensus on a meeting which they did not attend and didn't like the results. Kevin -- **************** Kevin Wolf N Street Cohousing Community member http://nstreetcohousing.org 724 N St, Davis, CA 95616 530-758-4211 kevin [at] wolfandassociates.com _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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- Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions, (continued)
- Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions Rob Sandelin, October 27 2006
- Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions tamgoddess, October 26 2006
- Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions Kevin Wolf, October 26 2006
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Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions tamgoddess, October 26 2006
- Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions OCCNG11, October 26 2006
- Re: Quorums/Reopening decisions Terry (Sarito) Whatley, October 27 2006
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