Cohousing-L Mailing List: Project management for complex projects

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

 We are wondering how other coho communities do project management for
projects that are large-scale  expensive, and/or complex. We'll have to
re-asphalt our interior roads (not the pedways) in a couple of years, and
paving contractors are notoriously difficult to schedule, stay in touch
with, and track progress, at least around here, so that will be challenging
to manage. That's the biggest job that we can predict for now, but there
will be other big capital maintenance needs coming along as well, now that
our infrastructure is about 22 years old.

Do you have a long-term relationship with a project management professional
who handles both occasional big repairs and on-going maintenance? Or do you
hire a PM on a one-time basis for a given job? Or are you able to handle
everything with members volunteering and actually following through? I will
really appreciate knowing how you do this.

     Muriel at Shadowlake Village