Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: how cohos can handle babysitting money so all members can attend business meetings

[Sara Gottlieb (sara.gottlieb]

PS There's a threshold for having to pay taxes, health insurance, Social
Security, etc. that periodic babysitters fall way way below, unless you are
talking about hiring a full-time nanny?

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:30 AM Sara Gottlieb <sara.gottlieb [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> We include the cost of babysitting at business meetings (and other planned
> events) in our Community Life budget each year, so everyone contributes to
> it.   It's a small expense relative to others and it enables the parents of
> small children to actively participate in all aspects of community.
>
> Sara Gottlieb
> Lake Claire CoHousing
> Atlanta, GA
>
>
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:22:56 -0800
>> From: Jim Bronson <jimbronsonashland [at] gmail.com>
>> To: "To: Coho-L-postings" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
>> Subject: [C-L]_ how cohos can handle babysitting money so all members
>>         can attend business meetings
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>> Howdy Coho Partners,
>>
>> At River Song we are trying to work out a way to handle childcare expenses
>> that is fair to all and supports our being a community that welcomes and
>> supports families.  We have articulated several potential approaches so
>> far:
>> 1) River Song becomes an employer and we put childcare money as a line
>> item
>> in our operating expenses budget each year (avoids parents feeling
>> unsupported, but adds expense in the form of taxes, workers comp coverage,
>> accounting fees, liability and annual paperwork)
>> 2) Ask members to voluntarily contribute to a community 'Good Neighbor'
>> fund that supports childcare (and, potentially, other occasional needs for
>> money from and for individual members) so parents can attend business
>> meetings.
>> 3) Some other informal donations-cash arrangement that gets childcare
>> money
>> into the hands of the parents.
>>
>> What do you think?  What can work longterm.
>> *Jim Bronson*
>> *www.riversongcohousing.org <http://www.riversongcohousing.org>*
>> Eugene, Oregon on the shores of the Willamette River
>>
>> *I was born at 303 ppm CO2.*
>>
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