Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Agenda Planning

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

We have two "co-enzymes" who make things happen, and one of those is setting
the agenda. I suppose that we have fewer urgent items than new groups, but
it works out. Items that have the most preparation and planning behind them
are most likely to get addressed, i.e., people have discussed it in smaller
meetings, canvassed the community for opinions, gotten prices, etc.

If there is disagreement about what should be on there, you could try
setting aside time at the end of each meeting to set the agenda for the
next, or you could make sure, as we do, that there is a time when the
meeting planners meet for people to show up and plead their cases.


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Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California

tamgoddess [at] home.com
http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing

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>From: Becky Schaller <bschaller [at] theriver.com>
>To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
>Subject: [C-L]_Agenda Planning
>Date: Sat, May 26, 2001, 6:24 PM
>

> I'm wondering how other communities decide what items get on the agenda for
> each meeting.  Here at Sonora Cohousing, people submit items and the
> approximate times needed to the facilitator. Hopefully, when it's all added
> up, there is more time than is requested. That has seldom been the case so
> often times items get delayed to the next meeting.  And perhaps to the next
> meeting.  I'm wondering how other communities decide what gets on the agenda
> and what gets put off.  I understand there is a group in Rob's community
> which does this along with supporting the groups meeting in other ways.  I
> rather like this idea and I'm wondering about other ways of deciding.  Would
> you be willing to say how your community makes these decisions.  Who decides
> what gets on the agenda?
>
> Becky Schaller
> Sonora Cohousing
> Tucson,Arizona
> Where the pool opened yesterday 
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