Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community funds for alcohol for parties?

[Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah (welcome]

At RoseWind Cohousing (Port Townsend WA) we do just like Sharingwood:  
alcohol is not provided by the community per se. Either BYO or  
donations (on the rare occasion of a big summer party with a keg). Not  
only does this keep those who disapprove of alcohol from having to  
share the cost, but it might be of some legal use, if the alcohol  
furnished contributed to an accident. Not sure about that.

We also have a policy that (of course) alcohol is only for those of  
age, but also we never leave alcohol in the common house between  
meals, lest anyone, like teens, help themselves inappropriately. So if  
there is beer or wine left at the end of an event or a meal, it always  
gets sent away with someone.

Lynn Nadeau