Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Question about using addendums

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

We're also reworking our Bylaws and have the same issues about what belongs
in Bylaws and what is guidance. The question we have in working on the
Bylaws update is the same one that motivated this thread: How can we append
the guidance in some meaningful way to the Bylaws? We want those concepts
to be accepted as community governance norms, but norms don't belong in
Bylaws.

I like the term "Implementation Guidelines" but am wondering how to tie
them to the Bylaws so that (in particular) new folks will know about them,
see them, and read & assimilate them.

     Muriel at Shadowlake Village

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:58 PM David Heimann <heimann [at] theworld.com> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>         We maintain a Decision Log that describes all the decisions we
> have made as an HOA in a General Meeting.  If someone needs to know what a
> policy is and it's not in the Master Deed or the Bylaws, one can find it
> in the decision log.  And basically, if the would-be decision is in
> neither of those documents, then we actually have not made it.
>
> Regards,
> David Heimann
> Jamaica Plain Cohousing
>
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:07:54 -0400
> From: Philip Dowds <rphilipdowds [at] me.com>
> To: Alan O?Hashi <adoecos [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Question about using addendums
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> Alan ?
>
> I?m not anyone?s legal expert, and am unqualified to advise you about
> bylaws.  But I think you?re on the right track.  At Cornerstone, we?re
> working on the same problem, and have tentatively concluded that the
> bylaws (hard to change) should be as simple and general as possible.  As
> much as possible, we want to govern ourselves via the ?policies? (which
> other, more conventional HOAs would call ?rules and regulations?).  The
> policies are relatively easy to change, as community experience and values
> evolve.  Just keep in mind ? It?s the "fine print" that really counts; the
> fine print is where everything truly important is encoded.
>
> Thanks,
> Philip Dowds
> Cornerstone Village Cohousing
> Cambridge, MA
>
> mobile: 617.460.4549
> email:   rpdowds [at] comcast.net
>
> > On Apr 16, 2019, at 7:07 AM, Alan O'Hashi via Cohousing-L <
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> >
> > We are rewriting our declarations and bylaws. We?ve been working with an
> > HOA attorney who has been advising us about the minimum specificity
> > necessary to comply with state law and then refer to particular
> > community policies for the ?fine print.?
> >
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > Alan O
> >
> >
> >
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