Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: decisions,eternal questions

[Kristin Becker (kbecker]

As a person not in cohousing but and seen many and been involved in a few
master planning types of projects, ranking can become very tricky.  It is
easy for everyone to agree that items x, y, and z need to get completed or
at least that it would be a nice improvement.  As soon as you try to rank
them, conflict begins and people get upset and things take much longer to
get accomplished.  So rather than apply a ranking to projects, we go on the
philosophy that the items people are most excited about will get completed
first simply because there are people wanting to work on it.

For example.  Say the community decides that a new grass field is the most
important thing, but it would be nice to have new matching dishes and a play
structure for the kids.  If Joe wants to work on building the play structure
because he loves to work with wood and can use the shop you have onsite and
gathers people to help him, rather than saying, no you can't build the play
structure until the grass is finished, let Joe build the play structure
ahead of the grass so at least you have that completed.  This philosophy can
be applied to many things within communities, and certainly not just
cohousing communities.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LouHarr [at] aol.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:55 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ decisions,eternal questions


>
> I'm from Two Acre Wood in Sebastopol,Ca
>
> I'd love to have some of your group wisdom. Every year our budget has some
> discretionary money that we use for capital improvements. It's not a lot,
a few
> thousand dollars.
>
> We have a "wish list "of desireable things and some value criteria to
refer
> to. We also check for ready leadership and energy for a project.
>
> I'd like to know how (what steps, process) other communities use to decide
> which ones to fund. The money availible may change, so we need a group of
OK's
> or a ranking
>
> I will be happy to learn from you.    Louise  Harris.
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