Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Handling emergency decisions

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor]

At N St, we did think about this issue.  We adopted a policy that an
emergency meeting could be called provided that the callers made every
reasonable effort to contact all community members beforehand.  For
example, it the meeting was to be the same day then it would be necessary
to call everyone at work.  It isn't necessary to actually get hold of 
all community members, but a bona fide effort must be made in every case.

I think also that it takes a certain number of people to be able to do
this - I forget off-hand.  We have never used this procedure.  The specific
situation that caused us to think about was something happening which
could lead to bad publicity, reporters start calling, what do we say?  We
wanted to be able to call a meeting rapidly to talk the issues over.

Stuart.
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