Getting people to do work or pay fines
From: Rob Sandelin (floriferousmsn.com)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:29:37 -0700 (PDT)
 One way to do this is to charge everybody the fine as a monthly assessment,
then payback those that do the work, and not payback those that do not. In
that way there is little problem raising the money which can be used to hire
people to do the work. And there may be people who choose to pay rather than
work and this allows them to do that without feeling negative about it. 


Rob Sandelin
Floriferous [at] msn.com
Writer, Naturalist  The Environmental Science School
Snohomish County, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave and Diane [mailto:daveanddee [at] verizon.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:26 AM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Accountability for doing community work or workshare

Hi there, fellow cohousers,

Wow! These responses make me want to rush out and sing a couple of choruses
of "everything is beau--ti-ful....in it's own wa-a-a-a-a- yyyyy.."

I think it's great that some cohousing communities can afford a, shall-we
say, "laissez-faire" attitude about whether the work gets done or not. At JP
Cohousing in Boston, we have a strong affordability platform in our mission
statement, and it's a matter of making condo fees for everyone go up if the
work does not get done.  
We have a 4-hour monthly work requirement in our condominium bylaws, and
fines are an option if the work requirement is not met. Our board has asked
the Community Life committee to look into various options on how to get
non-compliant members to contribute and when I have more news on that item,
I'll let you all know.

We also have non-mandatory work (in other words, it isn't specifically
addressed in the bylaws) regarding work days. On these days we have either
an indoor or an outdoor event to which the entire community is invited to
participate. We do a lot of gardening and cleanup work on these days, and at
the end we all have supper together. People who can't do the physical work
are invited to help make the supper.

In short, if you can afford to hire someone to do your work and the
community participation is just icing on the cake, great. If you really need
people to get out there and work or stuff starts falling apart, then you
need to figure out a way to make that happen.

--Diane
outreach facilitator
jp cohousing  617-522-2209
Box 300420 boston ma
http://www.jpcohousing.org
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"The people who surround you define the quality of your life."



On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, at 23:48:49, Martie Weatherly
<mhweatherly [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> In Liberty Village, all our work is done totally by volunteering and
> trust. We specifically came to agreement that we were not having any
> rules about doing the work.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, at 18:12:35, "Rob Sandelin"  
<floriferous [at] msn.com> wrote:


> At Sharingwood we have ONE mandatory work task...<snip>
> We don't worry about accountability, we worry about people being  
> happy. If
> somebody is unhappy that they are doing too much, we encourage them  
> to let
> go of some things.  The important stuff generally gets done, and we  
> don't
> sweat the less important stuff too much, it eventually gets done
> also...usually
>






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