Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Emergency decisions???

[Kristen Simmons (simmonskristen]

Sharon,
Thanks for your response! Who in your community is empowered to make the
emergency decisions? Is it an individual, team, or board?

It seems reasonable that during contruction there would be a small
construction committee who make the faucet type decisions (and the other,
bigger ones that come up during construction).

For the other facilty emergencies, is there a single committee or individual
who could make the judgement? Or was it who ever happened to be around when
the inspector visited?


Thanks,
Kristen



On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Kristen Simmons <simmonskristen [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>