Cohousing-L Mailing List: meetings changing

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

Rob wrote:
<You can make your meetings fun, its all in your approach. Excellent
facilitation however takes a large commitment.>

I am sure that is possible - and we are not there yet.  However, at yesterdays
discussion of our Board meetings and the quorum, we got a lot of stuff aired
about what is bothering some people - and decided to cut back to meeting every
other month (we were doing 10 or 11 meetings/year), cut from 3 hours to 2 hours
plus 15 minutes for the launch, accolades, announcement part that some (alas,
in my view) would prefer to skip.  And a newsletter is in the wind.  We shall
see.  I feel pleased that we overcame our inertia and made some changes in the
right direction.  

Judy

Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
-- e-mail:      baxter [at] epi.umn.edu
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$260/month -  If you know  someone who might be interested, get in touch with
me
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        8 coop apartments       in the Mansion (a rehab Georgian building)
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