Re: How important is including consensus in bylaws? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: drmaryanngroups (drmaryanngroupsmac.com) | |
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 08:07:31 -0800 (PST) |
Our community, Manzanita Village in Prescott AZ, is governed by three documents: HOA CC&Rs (Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions), HOA By Laws, and our Villagers Guide (Policies and Procedures). The first two are traditional homeowner association documents while the third are our specialized (cohousing) document. There is little in the first two that sets us apart from other HOA-style communities except to note that the controlling documents for the community include all three (not just CC&R and By Laws). The first two were drafted for us by a lawyer specializing in this type of law and follow the requirements of the state.They can only be changed by a vote of the homeowners The Villagers Guide contains all the policies and procedures we've established including when and how we use consensus, how to deal with blocks, etc. It also includes all those little rules cohousing communities establish like vision/mission statement, description of our governance structure, community meals, pet policies, and the like. This document has been written by and for our community and can easily be updated, added to, deleted from by the community using the consensus process. We have found it very convenient to separate our legalistic HOA documents from our cohousing document. So in answer to your question, we don't say anything in our CC&R or By Laws about consensus but have pages of description of the process in our Villager's Guide where we can easily revise and refine it as required. Mary Ann Manzanita Village where our garden is just coming out of its winter hibernation PS If you're interested in getting a copy of our Villagers Guide there's a link on our website http://www.manzanitavillage.com/ -- The library is a large building filled with books and journals. It functions sort of like Google, but deeper. Mary Ann Clark drmaryann49 [at] mac.comhttp://homepage.mac.com/drmaryann/index.html
On Mar 02, 2013, at 07:34 PM, Willow Murphy <willowm7 [at] gmail.com> wrote:
The question our community is dealing with: How important is it to include your vision, values, and consensus process in your HOA bylaws? The only thing we're sure about is that we need to indicate in our bylaws that consensus is our primary form of decision making. Should we include a process for back up voting procedures in the bylaws, as well? Otherwise, we would include our consensus process, back up voting, and vision and values in our policies and procedures manual. Thanks, Willow Sand River Co-Housing Santa Fe, NM _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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How important is including consensus in bylaws? Willow Murphy, March 2 2013
- Re: How important is including consensus in bylaws? Diana Carroll, March 2 2013
- Re: How important is including consensus in bylaws? drmaryanngroups, March 4 2013
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