Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Your Participation Policy

[David Heimann (heimann]

Hi Phil (and others),

	Interesting.  Is the community OK enough with losing two 
common-space rooms that everyone is paying for and that detract from 
would-be sales, enough to not do anything about it?  Has this been 
verified at a General Meeting?  Has anyone exercised "reverse 
consensus", i.e., making it an issue enough to force it onto the table 
to address?

Very curious,
David Heimann
Jamaica Plain Cohousing


At Cornerstone in Cambridge, MA, we?ve had a very light touch since the 
beginning, operating under the premise: ?No volunteers? = Not important!

But is it true that ?everything gets done?? ?For instance, in an urban 
community where every square foot is expensive, limited and precious, 
our workshop has turned into a junk dump. ?Lacking a volunteer for 
stewardship, it?s now pretty much useless and unused. ?The putative 
exercise room is only a tad better.

Maybe this is how we ?vote", how we decide that a space is 
?unimportant?, without the formality of holding a meeting. ?But the 
premise feels a bit Panglossian to me. ?(Just one opinion among many ?)

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Thanks, RPD

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