Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common Meals accounting

[Tara Gallen (tarabytransit]

OUV in Vancouver (*small* urban cohousing - 12 units) has adopted (9-unit)
Seattle CHUC's model of no bean counting. Every chef foots the bill for
their own meal; we all cook on a fixed schedule. No accounts to reconcile,
no tickets.
You wanna cook lobster thermidor? Have at! But you will pay the tab.
It promotes equity - every cook lead gets to scale the meal to their
economic ability. Everyone is expected to cook something delicious and
nutritious, and no prejudice if it is humble and basic. It does need to be
inclusive of diets.
Love to see how this could be adapted to larger cohousing.
Yes, I know - we will learn lots of lessons when we move in. I'm sure we'll
take some retooling. But we are low-key people with slacker aesthetics. And
CHUC has it going already.
We have also decided to time our common meals as such, on a two week basis:
M-W-F-Su
Tu-Th-Sat
...to be explicitly offset with our neighbouring community Little Mountain
Cohousing, who has the same cadence on opposite days, so that we can
mutually feed.

Tara Gallen
Our Urban Village Cohousing at Tomo House - Vancouver, BC
Completing late 2022. Four units still available. oururbanvillage.ca


On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 2:09 PM <jro1229 [at] cox.net> wrote:

> Our community, Heartwood Commons-Tulsa is in the construction phase of the
> project. As a result, we're trying to get all our ducks in a row in
> anticipation of a June move-in.
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> What programs do you use in regards to Common Meals accounting? We use
> Mosaic as one of our portals. There is a component for Common Meals, but
> would be interested to hear how other communities track meals, expenses,
> reimbursements, etc. If you use Mosaic, how does the process work for your
> community? If you don't use Mosaic, are there effective programs you use to
> handle setting up, signing up, and  tracking
> expenses/billing/reimbursements? Many thanks!
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> Cheers,
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> John Orsulak
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> jro1229 [at] cox.net <mailto:jro1229 [at] cox.net>
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