Cohousing-L Mailing List: Emergency decisions???

[Kristen Simmons (simmonskristen]

Stony Brook Cohousing (forming in Boston) is trying to complete its LLC
operating agreement, which will eventually become the basis of our condo.
docs. We make our decisions by consensus, and our lawyer recommends that we
have an emergency decision making process, which we agree makes sense. Of
course, the big questions are what makes a decision an emergency and who can
make emergency decisions!

I did a quick search in the archives, and I could locate one thread from
1995. The emergency decisions described were about negative publicity and
construction issues. In each case, a good faith effort was made to contact
all group members via phone, before a decision was acted on.

Has your group made any emergency decisions, during formation or after
move-in? What were they? What was your group's resolution process? Did it
work well?

Personally, I see this as a trust issue, so it would be great to hear about
that too.

Thanks in advance,
Kristen Simmons