Cohousing-L Mailing List: Babysitting concerns?

[Marjorie Kamine (mkamine]

I'm on Finance Team at Riversong Cohousing in Eugene and some questions
about babysitting have come up. We would love to know how other cohos might
be handling this topic. Right now we have budgeted funds to pay some of the
teens and 20-somethings in our community to babysit for our in-person
business meetings and a few other community-wide events. 1) One question
has to do with liability in case something happens while a member
babysitter is in charge? 2) what if we're paying enough that the sitter
actually earns $600? How would we handle that tax-wise? Is the sitter then
considered a vendor? 3) have any of you created a written policy/community
agreement around babysitting that you could share? You can email me
off-line: mkamine [at] gmail.com
As a PS, we would also love to know what communities are paying their
babysitters?
Thanks so much! Marjie