Cohousing-L Mailing List: Meeting organization and structure

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

We meet as a whole group once a month for three hours, ten months of the
year. Teams manage most aspects of the work here, have their own budgets and
make decisions about their realm.  For example if something needs fixing,
you would bring it to the attention of the maintenance team, not the general
meeting.  Some teams meet once a month, others quarterly or seasonally. We
also have an executive board that handles financial and legal issues and
also is sort of an oversite  on the teams and community processes.   

The first 45 minutes or so of a typical meeting is a check-in activity, and
we typically have 2-3 agenda items to discuss and decide upon. Then we do a
polling process called other business, then break into open space, then have
a closing.  Of course there are variations in this routine from time to
time. 

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood  

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Heinich [mailto:robert [at] enocommons.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:12 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Fwd: Mechanisms for Resolving Community Challenges

Rob,

How long and how often are you meetings?

-Robert Heinich
  Eno Commons Cohousing Neighborhood
  www.enocommons.org
  Durham, NC
  where EnoWeen is this Sat 2007Oct27!