Cohousing-L Mailing List: Work or Pay -- Your Choice

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

I've been inquiring into how EcoVillage of Loudoun County handles their work
or pay system. The following description is my own -- please step in an
correct my errors if there are any EcoVillage people out there. Some of this
information is from Grady and some from the tour last spring. This is how it
works:

1. Annually each committee (they have 8) determines how much work needs to
be done to accomplish their responsibilities in the coming year -- tasks and
approximate hours.

2. The whole group approves this list and commits to the hours needed (or
not).

3. The tasks and hours are posted, people sign up. Committees manage what
work needs to be done, when, in the way that works for them.

4. As jobs are done, people turn in work slips to the team leaders who
initial them and forward them to the finance committee.

5. The Finance Team adds up hours and sends bills to those for whom they
have no slips. The rate used is that for unskilled labor in that area,
$12.00 an hour.

Grady says most people do the work because there are tasks they like doing.
Members can also work more jobs and credit the hours to others.

People were slow getting the slips turned in -- hence the automatic billing.
That gets them in. Slips are simple -- name, job, hours, date, initials --
nothing formal.

Adults are required to do 4 hours a month and children 10-17 are required to
do 2. _But_ they have no commonhouse and are a lot development model so the
basements are not community responsibility.

If Takoma Village were to adopt this model, the hours we would need from
each adult member would be closer to 8 hours, not including meetings. Not
including meals, it would be closer to 6.

I would like very much to adopt this system but our members are so afraid of
quantifying anything, it will take a long time if ever.

Sharon
-- 
Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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