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

[vicky wason (vlwason]

Hi,

I live at Wasatch Commons in Salt Lake City, Utah in the USA.

We expect 2 hours for each adult (18years) who lives in the community.

So for our family,  we have two 20-somthings living with us. So, our household 
records 8 hours of community work each month. Often mom does the majority of 
the hours 😀. During the summer dad mows the lawns and that covers a lot of the 
hours. We have suggested work to do, but you define what you consider work.

People can choose to pay $20/hour instead of doing the work. Or if they forget 
to post their hours they are charged.

We don't bank hours.

We had an elder who couldn't figure out the system of recording, and we just 
let that go. We could see her sweeping the path, and she had contributed for 
years before we had the system.

We expect people to talk openly if they need a month off and tell the one who 
does the data collection and record keeping. We give lots of e-mail reminders 
to report hours.

We just had a meeting where it was proposed to raise the number of hours and 
raise the $20 to something higher.

BTW, this elder's 2-bedroom house will be going on the market soon. They needed 
to move to assisted living. See our classified at 
www.cohousing.org<http://www.cohousing.org>
And as an example that we allow people to choose what kind of work, when this 
elder needed more and more assistance, people who were giving that help, 
counted that as their "work."

Best,

Vicky Wason
long time resident of Wasatch Commons.
www.wasatchcommons.com<http://www.wasatchcommons.com>
https://www.facebook.com/wasatchcommonscohousing
https://www.instagram.com/wasatchcommonscohousing/


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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2023 11:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [C-L]_ bylaws: active/inactive status

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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