Cohousing-L Mailing List: Coho Constitution?

[Stephen Farley (sfarley]

I'm a member of Tucson Cohousing, and we are in the process of revitalizing
and regrouping in advance of a development plan and new marketing push.
As a part of this process, we have formed a Constitutional Committee to
come up with some type of document to present to the group as a whole
for ratification which will write down clearly all of our rules of conduct.
Included items would be things like: facilitation, consensus & decisionmaking,
committees, new member procedures, etc.

This "constitution" wouldn't be anything like CCRs or a development plan,
but rather would govern our regular operations, so that we can spend less
time going over procedural systems during regular meetings.

Have any other groups come up with such a "constitution"? If so, how have
you structured the document?

Thanks, Steve Farley
sfarley [at] igc.apc.org
Tucson Cohousing