Cohousing-L Mailing List: FUTURE PERFECT: Advice for Forming Communities on Getting the Work Done

[Christine Johnson (manzjohnson]

Ann Zabaldo wrote:

> What advice would you give a FORMING community on what to do about  
> participation in workshare after move-in  w/ the usual caveats of  
> health, age, etc.?
>
> Would you advise setting up a pay or play system front the beginning?


Our community now eight years old, has a pretty loose job-share  
program.   As others remarked, serving as the bad cop is a job that  
has gone wanting from the inception.   We've not succeeded in keeping  
track of the work that has been done but the two people who manage the  
job-share know who's who and they do an exceptional job given what  
they've got to work with here.

FUTURE PERFECT:
The pay or play requirements would be spelled out in the CC&Rs.
The tracking system would be an affirmative requirement: credit for  
meeting job share hours would depend on members completing the  
reporting requirements.
If a member did not report work completed, hours would be billed,  
accruing along with the assessment balance.
As the requirements of the job-share are recorded (i.e., in the CC&Rs  
which run with the land/defining the conditions of ownership), the HOA  
or COA would have a good basis for collecting the balance due on sale  
(if and when the person in arrears sold).

In this FUTURE PERFECT the rationale for the pay or play requirements  
would be spelled out to prospective residents in beautiful neighborly  
collaborative language complete with pictures and diagrams on the back.

Why is this not likely to happen?  No developer will go for it.  It  
might work in a cooperative development in which there are no third  
party lenders.

Christine Johnson
Stone Curves Cohousing
Tucson, AZ




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