Re: community size
From: Mary Ann Clark (drmaryann49mac.com)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
We have solved a portion of this problem by maintaining a separate Policy and 
Procedure manual that keeps all those decisions in a more rational format. It take 
diligence to maintain and every couple of years needs to be re-published as many 
people don't update their individual copies when a new decision is made or we change 
our minds about something. But still it makes a handy source everyone can use to 
remember what we decided about. . .

Mary Ann
Manzanita Village in beautiful Prescott, AZ where were enjoying the fruit an 
exceptionally wet summer with more rain in the forecast

--
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.com
http://homepage.mac.com/drmaryann/index.html

On Sep 14, 2014, at 09:38 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
wrote:



On Sep 14, 2014, at 12:00 PM, audrey <audrey [at] galisteo.com        > wrote:

       > well, we’re going to do it with 9 households at Capital Hill Urban 
Cohousing in Seattle. Scheduled to break ground September 29 of this year. so far 8 
children and 15 adults. need one more family.
       > one challenge: feels like there are as many committees as there are 
adults. (right now, 12 teams)

Congratulations!!!! One good thing is that as time goes by and more decisions 
get made, the fewer you have to make. But one caution, clear minutes and 
records of decisions are important. Then you know what you decided and can 
either change a known decision or go forward with your already made decision. 
It saves a lot of time and angst in the end.

Unless you stringently restrict your minutes to decisions with only a sentence 
or two explaining the decision, I also recommend a separate decision log, each 
entry with a reference to the minutes, .

My community likes to have both announcements and all comments and all comments 
in the final evaluation recorded. The result is reams and reams of digital 
records, many of which are unsearchable except as individual documents. It's 
often nice to read as history but a holy mess when looking for a specific 
decision. I'm hoping to get these on the website in Wordpress so they can be 
tagged and searched but.... A huge task after 16 years. 14 living in and 2-3 of 
development.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org




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