Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: bylaws: active/inactive status

[Bree Kalb (breekalb]

Pacifica Co Housing, Carrboro NC
It’s not in our bylaws but one of our first community decisions was
1) Every household is required to contribute 4 hours of community labor a
month.
2) If a household does more than 4 hours in a particular month, they can
either bank the excess hours or donate those hours to another household
3) If a household does less than 4 hours they have two months to catch up.
After that $12 dollars per hour unworked is added to their monthly dues.
(Later on we agreed that the dollar amount increases by $1 every two years)

Some households happily chose to pay rather than work; that money helps pay
for some tasks that no one can easily do.

It’s common for those of us who work a lot to donate our excess hours to
households where someone is ill or has other reasons they can’t contribute.

Bree Kalb



On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:35 AM lienjud--- via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> Seeking input from other communities as we are revising our bylaws:
> we have this clause in our bylaws and are wondering how other communities
> address non- participation due to illness, travel, aging etc. do you have
> something like this in your bylaws and how has it worked out? thanks.
> Judith Lienhard, Cascadia Commons, Portland Oregon
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