Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: how cohos can handle babysitting money so all members can attend business meetings

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

You might want to talk with your insurance company. My guess is that they won’t 
like #1 … at Nevada City Cohousing we collect donations from all (especially 
non-parents) to pay our teens to watch the kids during meetings… in formal 
approach that most support financially.

Katie
--
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions
Nevada City, CA 95959
T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755
www.cohousing-solutions.com



From: cohousing-l <cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] 
cohousing.org> on behalf of Jim Bronson <jimbronsonashland [at] gmail.com>
Reply-To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Date: Monday, November 27, 2023 at 12:23 PM
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: [C-L]_ how cohos can handle babysitting money so all members can 
attend business meetings

Howdy Coho Partners,

At River Song we are trying to work out a way to handle childcare expenses
that is fair to all and supports our being a community that welcomes and
supports families.  We have articulated several potential approaches so far:
1) River Song becomes an employer and we put childcare money as a line item
in our operating expenses budget each year (avoids parents feeling
unsupported, but adds expense in the form of taxes, workers comp coverage,
accounting fees, liability and annual paperwork)
2) Ask members to voluntarily contribute to a community 'Good Neighbor'
fund that supports childcare (and, potentially, other occasional needs for
money from and for individual members) so parents can attend business
meetings.
3) Some other informal donations-cash arrangement that gets childcare money
into the hands of the parents.

What do you think?  What can work longterm.
*Jim Bronson*
*www.riversongcohousing.org 
<http://www.riversongcohousing.org><http://www.riversongcohousing.org%3e>*
Eugene, Oregon on the shores of the Willamette River

*I was born at 303 ppm CO2.*
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