Cohousing-L Mailing List: re: standing committees

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

Lynn from RoseWind- I had written
>Our standing committees (now that we are 24 households) are Steering,
>Grounds, Common House, Architectural Review (only now and then when
>needed), Finance, Facilitation, Development (only some leftover odds and
>ends on their agenda still), Outreach (marketing and assisting new
>members), and Kidstuff. At the moment we have task forces working on
>Document Revisions, common house patio development, and Goals document.

>Diane Simpson followed:
>I am also very interested in this. It appears that you have a committee 
>to plan kid events but no committee to deal with general membership 
>events. .. How do you organize events for 
>the entire membership? Do you ever have workshops or go on retreats?

Workshop and retreat-type stuff is planned by the Facilitation team. 
Social events are simply sourced by anyone who wants to do so: someone 
will say "Let's have a (Thanksgiving dinner/drum circle/etc). I'm willing 
to do x and we'd need someone to do Y..."

Our kid team hasn't planned any kid events. I was just referring to 
handling arrangements when we have a babysitter for a meeting. Actually, 
people with kids are so busy with kids, it hasn't been a committee that 
has done a whole lot. But we did just manage the acquisition of a tiny 
stucco playhouse that someone in town wanted removed. Jacks, trailer, and 
a dozen fellows strategizing with planks and pipes and all. Got the whole 
thing up, driven over here and rolled bit by bit off the trailer onto the 
waiting foundation. Oh, but the door goes on the downhill side! And they 
somehow rotated this stone thing 180 degrees, a few degrees at a time. 
That's another sort of RoseWind "event". Lunch followed.  

Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing
Port Townsend Washington (Victorian seaport, music, art, nature)
http://www.rosewind.org
http://www.ptguide.com
http://www.ptforpeace.info (very active peace movement here- see our 
photo)

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