Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common meals - mandatory participation?

[Fred-List manager (fholson]

David L. Mandel <dlmandel [at] pacbell.net>
is the author of the message below.  It was posted by
Fred, the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
after deleting unneeded quoting and saving the attachment at
http://www.justcomm.org/temp/usage-bill-july-2014.pdf
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Yes, we use an online app called Buildium. There's a small monthly
cost, but it seems to work well for us. Each member household has two
accounts, one for regular HOA fees and one for usage-based items --
mainly meals, but also laundry and leftovers. Non-member residents
have a usage account if they participate in meals. I'm attaching my
most recent usage statement received (by email attachment) for July.
The $18 charge means I ate six times ($3 standard per meal) and $4.55
is for laundry (13 x 35 cents per load in a washing machine or dryer).
The balance of $108.88 in parentheses means I am that much in the
black. If I had cooked in July, the positive balance would also have
been increased by the amount of my reported food purchases.

David

On Sunday, August 24, 2014 12:06 PM, S Fassnacht <fassnach [at] ssc.wisc.edu> 
wrote:

David, do you have a special software program for doing you meal
accounts?  Also, the system you have in place for cooking common
meals sounds like it might be doable, even for our community.

Thanks,
Stephanie
Village Cohousing
Madison, Wisconsin