Re: Searchable Decision Log? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred-List manager (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:33:56 -0800 (PST) |
David Heimann <heimann [at] theworld.com> is the author of the message below. It was posted by Fred of the Cohousing-L management team <cohousing-l-owner [at] cohousing.org> after deleting excess quoted digest. Digest subscribers, please delete most of quoted digest and restore subject line when replying. NOTE: Digest subscribers can make replying easier by using "auto folders" particularly Gmail and Outlook users. See http://justcomm.org/jc-faq.htm#Q6.5 -------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS -------------------- Hello Teresa et al, At Jamaica Plain Cohousing we have a Decision Log that resides on our internal site. It's a Word document that is a table with one row for each decision, with columns for the decision number, the description, and the date the decision was made. There's a table of contents at the top so you can click immediately to any particular decision (as a Word documment, you can also search it for any particular keyword or phrase). When we make a decision it is recorded in the minutes of that General Meeting and somebody (currently me) updates the Decision Log to include it. Only "definite decisions" (as Sharon has put it -- i.e., those reached by consensus in a General Meeting) are put into the log and are considered as enforceable policy. We've had several times where someone has insisted that we had reached a certain decision, but a search of the Decision Log and the General Meeting minutes doesn't show a record of it, so in fact we conclude that in fact no decision had been reached. This has stopped a number of potential disputes in the bud. Regards, David Heimann Jamaica Plain Cohousing Boston, MA Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:29:47 -0500 From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Searchable Decision Log? > On Nov 22, 2021, at 11:05 AM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l > [at] cohousing.org> wrote: > We don?t have a subgroup for decisions and we really need one. Our official > minutes are being stored as PDFs on our website which makes searching a > bizarre activity of bringing up 20 documents that all have to be opened and > read to find the search term. It is much easier to search Groups.io, which > has a very good and fast search function. In the search results you see the > snippet containing the search term and then only open the ones that are the > actual minutes. I left out a sentence. The person here who would most like to have a decision log is me, and I would be the one to figure out the best way to do it. But the problem with labelling anything ?Decision Log? is the subsequent discussion about whether it was actually a decision or not. There are definite decisions and soft decisions. A proposal that has gone through 6 drafts and finally has consent, is a definite decision and enters the universe as a policy. But many other decisions are not that clear. A small working group decides on a plan for the plantings in the side garden. 2 years later someone plants something else. Was the first decision a decision that was not expected to be violated? Or was it just a preference by those people that could be changed by the next person doing the work? The other problem is that if a decision is made and is recorded in the minutes of a meeting but is never listed in the decision log was it really a decision? Is the recording of the Decision Log part of its authenticity? At one point minute takers started recording decisions at the top of the minutes as ?Decisions Made: ? so other members could just read the decisions and not the whole set of minutes. But if you read the whole set of minutes there were often decisions embedded that didn?t get labelled. At the bottom of their minutes, teams often keep a To Do List or a Parking Lot of items it plans to take up next or that are waiting for next steps. But it is often not marked as a decision when an item is dropped from that list. A decision not to do something is also a decision and should be recorded. Decision Logs are not so easy. Sharon ??? Sharon Villines, Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC Fossil Treasure Trove: Earliest Evidence of Complex Social Behavior in Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs lived in herds, had communal nesting sites, and socialized by age ? Science Daily https://scitechdaily.com/fossil-treasure-trove-earliest-evidence-of-complex-social-behavior-in-dinosaurs/
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