Re: associate members
From: Maggi (librarymaggigmail.com)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:00:35 -0700 (PDT)
Diana, you say that residents are automatically considered to be members.
Are there any situations in your community where a resident would not be
considered to be a member, or could have their membership revoked?

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:41 AM Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> No, by definition, affiliates are non-residents.  Residents automatically
> get full membership.  Affiliate membership has limitations, like they can
> come to meetings and participate in discussion, but if something comes to a
> vote, they don't get to vote.
>
> Like Liz said, we do not try to decide who is a resident. That's up to the
> household. In fact, once a year we survey -- who do you consider part of
> your household for the purposes of membership? We don't consider it our job
> to verify or second guess. No one really cares -- you are who you say you
> are.
>
> As far as I know, we have never had the situation of a romantic
> relationship where the partner was an affiliate. Doesn't mean we wouldn't
> do it, but it just hasn't been a thing. We've had non-romantic family
> related memberships (moms are popular :D ), but I think, if memory serves,
> that those family members lived in Camelot, our "sister" community who
> shares our land, so that's a different situation.
>
> Diana
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:26 AM Alan O'Hashi <adoecos [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Diana et al. - Thanks for your responses. Do Affilliates / Associates
> live
> > in your community or do they live elsewhere and participate in your
> > community?
> >
> >
> > I'm also interested in learning how a community decides that an
> occasional
> > guest such as a boyfriend or girlfriend who stays overnight regularly
> > becomes a resident.
> >
> >
> > Are your associate / affiliate membership categories tied to household
> > romantic relationship status (do personfriends ever join as associates /
> > affiliates to 'test drive' community life)
> >
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > Alan O.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Alan O'Hashi **Get Up Off the Couch*
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> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 01:52:42 AM MDT, Diana Carroll <
> > dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Adding on to what Liz said about Mosaic’s affiliates.
> >
> > Alan asked how we decide when someone has crossed from visitor to
> > affiliate. Our policy (after lots of discussion) is that an affiliate is
> > proposed by two “sponsors”. So it’s an active decision by the potential
> > affiliate and their sponsors. Also while that transition sometimes is as
> > you describe— they hang around for awhile and then find they want to.be
> > more involved — in fact the majority of our affiliates are people who
> used
> > to live here, and/or residents of our “sister” cohousing group with whom
> we
> > share land.
> >
> > Here’s the actual policy.
> > https://www.mosaic-commons.org/affiliates
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:25 PM Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] 
> > gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > In terms of people who sometimes live in the community, it is up to
> > the owner to decide who is a member of their household. So if they say
> > someone is part of their household and are members then they are
> > members.
> >
> > For people who don't live here, we have a category called "affiliates"
> > for people who want to have the privileges and responsibilities of
> > membership. They pay 5% of our average dues (we have a sliding scale)
> > and help with work and with the fun.
> >
> > We have called this thing associates, and then we changed it to friend
> > and now it is affiliate. Calling it a "friend" was a mistake, some
> > people thought that everyone who was their friend should be made
> > one---really, we want everyone to feel free to invite friends anytime.
> > Affiliate status costs money and has a [slight] commitment.
> >
> > Liz at Mosaic commons, Berlin, MA.
> >
> >
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