Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Typical" annual operating expenses

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Nov 20, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Robert wrote:

> Just for the record, Eno Commons provides child care for all community 
> meetings and workshops.  In fact, we are increasing the child care 
> portion of our budget to $1400/year in order to handle the influx of 
> newly-moved-in young ones.

We had a major discussion about this today and settled both on approx 
$2200 (I forget exactly-- there some kinds of provisions set on part of 
it) but we also agreed on the point that we need childcare for the 
older kids 6-12 (mostly 8-10) as well. Some of our key people for 
workdays need childcare in order to direct others in work.

We hire one sitter and they are supplemented by members depending on 
how many children there are but have only been only been having adults 
for the older kids. This has become a problem.

We have gone from 3 to 18 children fairly rapidly and need three adults 
and one paid provider. With the older kids we need one person so that 
is 4 plus a paid person for each membership meting and each workday.

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