Cohousing-L Mailing List: an executive board for a coho community?

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

I've been wondering if my community should have a formal executive 
board or committee or the like. We don't, and occasionally I think it 
would be good if we had some formal body that we've given the 
authority to make a decision PRONTO, but I can't think of a good 
example right now.

We do have an Urgent Issues Team that is authorized to deal with 
stuff from outside, like the local government or a lawyer wanting to 
contact us, or with a physical emergency on site, but they don't make 
policy kinds of decisions. Policy issues go to the plenary (or to 
committees under their respective domains).

If your community has an Executive Something, can you describe its 
composition, its purpose, and how it functions? Ie, what's it for?

Thanks!
   Muriel at Shadowlake Village, Blacksburg, VA