Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: individual sponsorship

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

Hi, Don-

Just let me clarify that we also have a wish list that is prioritized. I
wish, for instance, that people who are going to reply to me would read my
posts. (That was humor, for those of you who think I haven't got a sense of
one.) My objections have not been to small gifts or to buying items from the
big item wish list, but to buying big items out of order or that aren't on
the list at all.

Having 100 Gs in the bank sure has a way of making decision-making easier,
doesn't it? It's smart of you to think ahead to when it runs out. I'm not
sure I can live up to being the icon of consensus purity, but here goes.

I see no reason why something couldn't be purchased from your list if it's
purchased in the order in which it was consented to by the community.
However, I don't see how this would be different from simply having that
person donate money to the general fund. It would then go toward the
purchase of the next item on the list which was...the gazebo, right?

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] comcast.net

> From: shardon5 [at] juno.com
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:25:31 GMT
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: [C-L]_individual sponsorship
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> What strikes me in the discussion so far is that Liz seems to be talking about
> a system where a purchase or project comes up for discussion and the community
> either consenses on it and pays for it, or it doesn't.  Alternately there is
> the system in Sonora, where Racheli, Becky, and I live, where we have
> developed an extensive "wish list" of consensed upon purchases without final
> approval to complete the purchase.  In our community this happened because we
> moved into our community with the happy circumstance that there was more than
> 100 big ones left over from the construction budget for us to spend.  Now that
> we have just completed the process of applying that money to the "wish list"
> we have part of that list remaining in limbo since the funds ran out before we
> reached the bottom.  There is some sentiment towards maintaining that list as
> future funds accumulate (there is a process in place for accumulating funds),
> but others feel that that isn't worth doing since it is likel
> y that new, more pressing desires will arise and/or desire for the previous
> items will change.  I would like to hear Liz's opinion to a scenario where the
> community decides that it wants a garden gazebo costing 10,000 dollars but can
> only agree to begin saving money at the rate of 5000 annually.  Some one or
> two folk who spend more time in the garden and want it sooner volunteer to pay
> for it now.  Ignoring the loan alternative, is this corrupting?  Don Arkin
> 
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