Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common spaces and decision making (Katie Henry)

[Monty Berman (mberman116]

7/14
Katie,
 Pretty discouraging to have a bunch of "hoops" to hurdle.
How about saying what decision-making process you suggest.
Monty Berman
EcoVillage at Ithaca, founding member

All we need to do to lead a fruitful and satisfying life is to be in our 
here-and-now. (That's right, it's All  we need to do)                           
      MSBerman

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> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:16:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Common spaces and decision making
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> On 6 Jul 2012, at 2:22 PM, oz wrote: > I'm pretty clear that our current 
> process discriminates against people who > are less willing/able to write out 
> their ideas and make requests. Its easy > to sit in judgment about these 
> non-proposers, saying things like "they are > just not willing to do the 
> work." 
> Its much harder to help them meet their > needs if that support is needed and 
> welcome.
> 
> A different perspective -- In my former community, I implemented a capital 
> improvement project that required a lot of work making sure the project 
> met the needs of the community, identifying contractors and products, and 
> coordinating and supervising the work. There was no question that the project 
> would get approved -- everybody wanted it, and the money was already 
> allocated -- but I deeply resented that, in addition to doing weeks of 
> legwork on the project, I also had to jump through the proposal hoops -- 
> paperwork, three presentations at membership meetings, etc. It seemed 
> (and still seems) to me that communities should have a person or team 
> specifically to assist with the proposal process. There were other 
> projects that I wanted to undertake but decided not to specifically 
> because I felt it was unfair that I should have to do everything all by 
> myself.
> 
> Katie Henry
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