Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 223, Issue 9

[Avi Freund (avif48]

At Bristol Village Cohousing minutes are treated as a draft document until 
approved at the next meeting of that particular group.  Also, we use the Gather 
website (Gather.coop) for storing all of our information including minutes of 
all the groups.

Avi@Bristol Village Cohousing

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>   1. approval of plenary minutes (Muriel Kranowski)
>   2. Re: Problem with www.cohousing.org (Fred H Olson)
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> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 21:30:17 -0400
> From: Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu>
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> Subject: [C-L]_ approval of plenary minutes
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> I have a question about your practices regarding the minutes of your
> plenary (full-group) business meetings.
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> In the 22 years that I've been part of my cohousing group, we've never done
> "can we approve the minutes of the last meeting" at the next meeting. The
> minutes-taker sends out the minutes,  and may (rarely) send out an updated
> version of it after being contacted by someone who had a problem with the
> minutes, and that's that.
> 
> Now someone is saying this is not good practice and we should treat the
> minutes as a draft that is subject to revision and approval at the next
> plenary meeting. This is indeed standard practice on Boards of Directors
> I've been involved with, but it's always been a pro forma motion in the
> context of an organization that is much more Robert's-Rules-ish than we
> are.
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> How do you handle this aspect of your governance? Do you approve (after
> possibly revising) the previous minutes at the next meeting before
> considering them final? If so, does that usually go pretty quickly or can
> it bog down the meeting or lead to disagreements about what to include? I
> can imagine some members wanting to wordsmith or add their preferred
> content if given the opportunity.
> 
> Thanks -- I will appreciate your input!
>    Muriel @ Shadowlake Village
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> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 22:55:43 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
> To: Cohousing-L mailing list <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Problem with www.cohousing.org
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> https://www.cohousing.org/ is back up after about three days
> after a flurry of communications between several people.
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> Fred
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> On Sat, 6 Aug 2022, Fred H Olson wrote:
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>> We are aware there is a problem with www.cohousing.org (SSL
>> certificate) and are working to resolve it...  Hopefully it will be
>> fixed soon but no predictions.
>> 
>> Fred as cohousing.org dowain "owner" (but it is complicated because
>> we share the domain between Coho-us and Cohousing-L )
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> Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
>     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
> My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org
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