Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Getting the work done

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
wrote:

> It was also much faster for them to just buy [the universal gym]. If 
> community funds had been used, there would have been a long process of 
> research and answering questions as each person figured out what it was and 
> whether this was a good purchase or not. 

I didn't mean they just went out and bought it. They had approval and agreement 
that it was fine to put in the Exercise Room and that it would become community 
property as soon as it was in place.

I would also add that capital improvements often take a long time because they 
people doing the research have other obligations so there are long periods in 
which they are distracted and not moving forward. When asking how much work is 
this, it isn't two years of work. It's more like 8 hours for 3 people over at 
least a year. Some of this downtime is because people don't know how to make 
decisions about what they have discovered. That has to sit for awhile and 
germinate again.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org