Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Hire Babysitters?

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

We have a workshare position for handling childcare needs to allow members
to attend meetings, and a budget to go with it.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:16 AM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net>
wrote:

> Coho Folks —
>
> At Cornerstone in Cambridge, MA, we greatly value the maximum
> participation of everybody at our business meetings — most notably our
> monthly plenaries, but also committee meetings as well.  But for our
> numerous families with small children, parental participation is often a
> challenge for both single parent AND two parent households.  Accordingly,
> we’re now looking at proposal to fund babysitters during certain meetings,
> at a total annual cost estimated at $1700 (appx $53 per household).
>
> My question is:  How do other communities liberate parents for meeting
> participation?  Any details about your version of a babysitting pool?
>
> Thanks,
> Philip Dowds
> Cornerstone Village Cohousing
> Cambridge, MA
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