Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Appeals policy?

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

We don't use sociocracy, but we do delegate a good deal of decision-making
to committees.

If community members object to a decision that a committee has publicized
its intention to make, any three households can express an opinion that this
decision needs to be made at the plenary level, leading to various possible
paths forward for that issue. (The committee can appeal that opinion, too.)

This kind of appeal against a proposed committee decision has been very
rarely invoked, though it did occur during a period when 3 households had
serious disagreements with two committees. We adopted it to balance the
risk of a rogue or unresponsive committee against the risk of a single
community member who is determined to be a crank about one or more issues
and impede committees that are trying to get community business done in a
reasonable way.

   Muriel @ Shadowlake Village Cohousing