Cohousing-L Mailing List: Voting power

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Thea Hensel  Yulupa CoHousing  Thea_Hensel [at] vfc.com
is the author of the message below. 
It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> 
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The legal committee of Yulupa CoHousing is putting together CCR's and
By-Laws for our new group in Santa Rosa, CA. I mention that only because
sometimes I wish people would put a place and name together.  Can
established groups give us some feedback on how you determined  your voting
system? We will be using consensus and only have voting as a fallback but
need  to indicate what that structure is in our By-Laws.

Possible suggestions have been one house, one vote; each unit carry two
votes; every adult in a unit have a vote.  Another interesting suggestion
was to have a two tiered system.  Community life issues would have one vote
for each adult living in the community.  Any issues that have to do with
expenditures ( outside of annual budget or priority setting of
expenditures) would be voted upon by owners only.

I'd like to get some feed back if you can tell me what system you have, how
it works, how you arrived at that  procedure?

Thank you.


Thea Hensel
Yulupa CoHousing

PHO-707.545.5281
FAX-707.545.4068



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