Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: quorum

[Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah (welcome]

On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:16 AM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:

> We have Class 1 decisions which are financial and legal issues that  
> affect owners. There is one vote per household, a 51% quorum, 22  
> households.
>
> Class 2 decisions include everything else and the quorum is 51% of  
> all members which includes owners and residents who have chosen to  
> be associate members. That number is becoming difficult because ....

At RoseWind Cohousing, Port Townsend WA, long built, we have also  
defined Class One and Class Two decisions. We have 24 households.  
Quorum is based on household, and needs at least one member from 51%  
of the households. So 13. (which ends up with more people than that in  
the room, as many households have two people in attendance).

Class One decisions (budget, significant policy, selection of Steering  
Committee, for example) only happen a few times a year, normally.  
These require 10 days notice, and quorum. Other decisions do not  
require a quorum at all. (Facilitation could decide, on a common sense  
basis, not to conclude deciding a proposal if too many interested  
parties couldn't attend that meeting, but this is rare.)

We have no class of membership except ownership.

Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
www.rosewind.org
where a 2300 sf, 2 story, custom dome house is newly up for resale @  
$385K.