Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: specifying the location of business meetings

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

The proposer strongly feels that community business should not be done in
people's homes, and also preferably not during the day. The "community
need" (part of our standard request form for plenary agenda time) that
would justify making this change is described as: 1. All community members
need to feel like they have an opportunity to attend, contribute, and be
heard. 2. To establish and maintain clarity, openness, and trust with all
members of the community.




On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

> Muriel – I’m curious to know what is driving this request. Are you able to
> enlighten us as to what Is behind this?
>
> Ann Zabaldo
> Takomavillage Cohousing
> Washington DC
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> All typos ... curtesy of Siri  :-)
>
> > On Feb 5, 2018, at 11:27 PM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious whether any communities require your committee or team
> meetings
> > to be held in the Common House. Our committees and subcommittees
> sometimes
> > meet at someone's house, with due notice to the community of the meeting
> > and I think it's clear that anyone who wants to can attend any such
> meeting
> > the same as if it were held in the Common House.
> >
> > Now a community member wants to prohibit meetings anywhere but in the
> > Common House. Do any of you have a similar requirement?
> >
> > The second part of this proposal is a requirement to not meet during
> > business hours. It's been fairly common for committees to meet in the
> > morning or afternoon if all committee members are available then. They do
> > change to evening meetings if someone joins a committee who isn't
> available
> > during the day. (Many of our members work from home, and some are
> retired.)
> > Do any of you have a rule like this for your community?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >  Muriel at Shadowlake Village
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