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

[David L. Mandel (dlmandel]

Meal signups are on paper, deposited in a central location after the meal. So 
once a month, the bookkeeper tallies them and creates the statement you saw for 
each household. It could probably be automated with some original programming, 
but it doesn't take him that long to do it manually.
David



On Monday, August 25, 2014 11:08 AM, Mariana Almeida <missmgrrl [at] yahoo.com> 
wrote:
 


David, 

Quite intriguing!

How does the charge (e.g. the tick mark) that says you ate six times get into 
the Buildium program? Does each member input it or does it require a central 
person to take it from paper to the software? 

We of course, struggle with all this, too! 
Thanks, 
Mariana
Berkeley Coho


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