Cohousing-L Mailing List: Making budgets more fun

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

The budget fair idea was posted by somebody else. At Sharingwood we actually
don't need to do this anymore as we have pretty much everything we want
already as far as acquistions and such goes since teams would just buy
whatever would be needed from their budgets. Instead we have a chunk of
money which any team, or person can apply for funds out of to do things. So
if I wanted to buy three carts, I could make a proposal and the community
would agree at a meeting. We haven't used up this fund for the past few
years so it just keeps rolling into the next years project fund.  Proposals
like these are interesting because sometimes they just sail along and other
times they get chewed on and changed a bit.  Also, sometimes at the end of
the year teams have unspent money which pool for group things, for example
the social team and commonhouse teams pooled their end of year money and we
bought a P.A. system for supporting loud dances and live music.  At
Sharingwood we seem to have few issues around spending money, which is an
evolution from where we were 5 years ago. I don't know why this has changed
although I suspect having teams really own budgets and purchasing might have
solved some issues.


Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave and Diane [mailto:daveanddee [at] verizon.net] 
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 10:50 AM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_ Re: Budgeted Social Expenses

It would be great if we could get Rob Sandelin to re-post his old message
about how Sharingwood does its annual budgets. Rob, you still out there?
--Diane(:^]
MARKETING FACILITATOR
JP COHOUSING  617-522-2209
P.O. BOX 420 BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
HTTP://WWW.JPCOHOUSING.ORG
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= = = On Sunday, November 20, 2005, at 06:16 AM, Norm Gauss wrote:

> We are preparing our budget for 2006 and have proposed that social 
> expenses be about 8% of our total operating expenses (not including 
> reserves).  How does this compare with other cohousing communities?
>
> I would like to get a perspective on how much elective spending over 
> and above property management is typical for cohousing communities?
>
> Norm Gauss


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