Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Workshop Maintenance and Bike Parking

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

The general law of entropy says that, absent an investment of energy and 
resources, all things degrade into disorder, disappointing messiness, overt 
risk, and eventual complete disutility.  What we’ve found at Cornerstone is, if 
you don’t manage your workshop, it turns into a junk dump.  So “management" 
includes things like …
Periodic weeding out of abandoned projects and dubious “donations";
Keeping up on stocks of the most popular screws, nails, sandpapers, saw blades, 
etc;
Searching and retrieving the borrowed 42” bolt cutter which somebody left in 
the shed by mistake; and
Generally cleaning up, and putting things back where they belong.
We don’t have it totally under control yet, but we’re moving into a program of 
Stewards, where a single known individual (not a committee) is responsible for 
the space.

Thanks,
RPD

> On Oct 10, 2017, at 2:57 PM, Kathy Tymoczko <kathy.tymoczko [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "maintain the workshop".  Nearly all
> of the tools and other items (nuts, bolts, screws, WD-40, paint, etc.) were
> donated by members of the community or purchased by someone or by a Team
> for a project.  The Facilities Team is nominally responsible for
> "maintaining" (and possibly) organizing the workshop, but in actuality,
> it's really one person who's on Facilities who does that.  We have a
> sign-out sheet for use when people want to borrow things (electric drills,
> ladders, whatever) from the workshop.  The workshop has no budget.
> 
> The Bike Team is responsible for the organization and upkeep of the bike
> storage room.  They have a small annual budget.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
> sharonvillines.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I just saw a picture of Daybreak’s workshop and bike storage. But there is
>> no way to contact a person in the community — only the webmaster about
>> problems with the site.
>> 
>> I would like to know how Daybreak and other communities maintain their
>> workshop.
>> 
>> Sharon
>> ----
>> Sharon Villines
>> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
>> http://www.takomavillage.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Kathy Tymoczko
> Daybreak Cohousing <http://www.daybreakcohousing.org>
> Portland, Oregon
> 765-307-1083
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