Cohousing-L Mailing List: Workshop on Facilities Maintenance, Workshare and Architectural Review

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Hello all!

We have 16 people signed up for this one day workshop on Facilities
Maintenance, Workshare and Architectural Review!  Like Wow!

If you would like to join this workshop let me know -- we still have space.

Here is the info you will need:

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What the Three Little Piggies and the Seven Dwarfs Taught Us:  Effective
Practices in Facilities Maintenance, Workshare and Architectural Review

Sponsored by Mid Atlantic Cohousing (MAC)

One day FUN workshop!

DOOR PRIZES! Share Solutions! Get Answers! Meet Cohousers! Swap Stories!
BONUS PRIZES!

Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004 -- 8:30am-5:00pm
Takoma Village Cohousing ­ Washington, DC

No charge MAC Member Communities
$25.00 per person non-member communities or individuals
Workshop limited to 30 participants
Brown Bag Lunch ­ coffee, tea provided

Who should plan to attend? All people who have facilities maintenance or
management, workshare or architectural review responsibilities.  Any person
in the process of building a cohousing community who wants a ³heads up² on
what it takes to maintain the bricks n¹ mortar of community. Come to
learn?come to share?come for the door prizes!

Full details at:

http://www.cohomac.org

This is a learn-from-each-other practical workshop. The purpose is to
surface practices that work well in cohousing and those that work less well.
In this way we can learn from each other the practices that reflect and
support cohousing.

The workshop will consist of a series of round-table discussions, panels, or
individual presentations looking at how cohousing communities in our region
are handling the management of the physical plant of their communities along
with the sometimes knotty issues of workshare (how work gets done in your
community) and Architectural Review (how changes to the built environment
are decided.)

In true cohousing style, we ask each community that attends the workshop to
provide one or more people to speak to the various issues surrounding the
topics.  These participants, a.k.a. ³Contributors,² should be knowledgeable
enough about practices in his/her home community to add to a discussion.  We
will ask each Contributor to fill out an ³Effective Practices² form in
advance.  MAC will compile the documents and use them to establish a
database for use by member communities.  If the community has supporting
forms or documents we ask that the Contributor share those as well.  Just
like pooling our resources enabled us to build our respective communities,
pooling our experiences can help us live in them!  BONUS FUN STUFF!!!!
Anyone filling out an Effective Practices form and sending it in by Tuesday,
November 2nd will receive a $5.00 gift certificate to Home Depot or
Lowe¹s!!!  

Download Effective Practices Template Form & the Effective Practices
Example:

http://www.cohousing.org/regions/midatlantic/events.html

Three main topics (and suggested sub-topics)  to be discussed:

Facilities Maintenance:
Emergency repairs
Hiring members
Working w/ a Management Company
Contracting w/ Service Providers (plumbers, electricians, repair people)
Tracking Systems
Budgeting for Facilities Management
Budgeting for Reserves
Insurance
Other

Architectural Review
            Guidelines
            Issues
            Other

Workshare
Getting the Work Done
Time Dollars
Work Days
Other

To Register: MAC members send email to:    zabaldo [at] earthlink.net  Include
your name, name of community, phone numbers and mailing address. Indicate
which topic(s) you like to present.   You will be sent more details upon
registering.

Non members send email with contact information above.  Include topic(s) you
would like to address. Send check made out to: MAC, 6827 4th St. NW, #312,
Washington. DC 20012-1945. Your registration will be confirmed once the
check is received.

For more information contact Ann Zabaldo 202 291 7892 zabaldo [at] earthlink.net

Looking forward to seeing you at this workshop!

Ann Zabaldo

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