Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Open meetings

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Shari Hirst <sharihirst13 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>    We have a Covenants Committee that evaluates changes/additions that owners 
> want to do to their units.  This committee is charged with maintaining the 
> value of our community, by making sure that changes/additions are properly 
> worked.
> 
> If you have such a team in your community, are their meetings and 
> deliberations conducted in open meetings or in private?

Our Bylaws specify that all meetings are open. 

We have not formed such a committee, and many of us wish we would. We do have 
people who will take this on individually. One woman went to the board with a 
proposal that she speak to everyone who has things stored outside their units 
and ask them to clean it up. Some people use the corridor outside their units 
like a back porch. But we can all see it. We have a couple of people who have 
piles of stuff. She was diligent and improved things a lot. 

For the first time we have a renter who is not socialized--parking in other 
people's spaces, piles of boxes and furniture outside his rental unit. We just 
get one thing resolved and he does something else. But this is literally the 
first time we have had such a problem.

Once we had a community clean-up when people helped each other clean out files 
and books and stuff outside. Took things to the dump and the city 
paper-shredder.

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