Cohousing-L Mailing List: How does your community use its membership meetings?

[Marina King (marinakingcarpenter]

Hello to All:
Skagit Commons is a community in its first five years. We use sociocracy as
our system of governance. We have a monthly all-community meeting, called
our General Meeting. In our earliest years, we used the General Meeting for
all community decision making. In a community of 30 units, that makes for
long meetings and difficulty coming to decisions. In following sociocracy,
we now have pushed many of our decisions out to circles with specific areas
of responsibility. That leaves us thinking about what the stated aims
(purpose) and domains (areas of control) should be for our General Circle.
We still have some decisions that need to be made at the General Meeting.
We want to include some elements of fun and we want some elements of
relationship building. I am curious how other communities use their
meetings of the whole? And if you have a stated purpose or aim for these
meetings?
Thank you
Marina King
Process Circle Lead
Skagit Commons