Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re:sliding-scale assessments

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

>Hi Lynn
>It's always great to hear to hear about success especially tricky money
>matters.  I'm sure this method is transferable to other matters but what
>were you assessing please?  >Robyn Williams

This is RoseWind's "annual assessment" which is mainly the operating 
expenses for our joint properties and functions, plus various reserves. 
Examples of the latter are setting money aside for buying a tractor-mower 
thing in a few years, to replace present equipment; depreciation reserves 
on the common house @ 10% of its value; reserves against any future legal 
actions that we might get dragged into; 10% overall contingency line 
item. 

This is our only assessment for the year. Can be paid annually or in 
installments. 
Meals are a separate system, funded by those who eat.

I can't put my hand on the full budget, right this minute, but I have 
here figures that resulted when I took an "average" cost of $84 per 
month, to each of our 24 households, and translated it into a verbal "pie 
chart". 

Common House $23 (depreciation $10.50, operation $12.50 a month)
(operation being heat, electricity, phone, garbage/water/sewer/recycling, 
cleaning supplies)

Maintenance incl future equipment $17; Landscape $8 (still extending the 
irrigation lines)
Property taxes (odds and ends- we mainly just each pay on our own 
property, and they figure that includes the value of the "amenities") $8
Legal and insurance items $4.50
Contingencies $8
Insurance $4.50; Fees, accting, tax $4
Arbitration reserve $ 3.50
Committee sundry expenses (facilitation, childcare, outreach, 
photocopying) $5

If you want more detail, you can email me off list. To get the actual 
full-budget number for any of the above items, multiply by 12 months, 
then by 24 households, for the total amount we have alloted for each of 
those things. 
 
PS- no snow removal expenses here, where it's still shirtsleeve weather 
most days



Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing
Port Townsend Washington (Victorian seaport, music, art, nature)
http://www.rosewind.org
http://www.ptguide.com

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