ACM minutes July 13, 2022

Topics: community irrigation, playground, greenhouse, waste management
All-Community Meeting, WCCA, Wednesday, July 13, 2022
7:00-9:00 p.m.  Hybrid in-person and on-line

Present: Lila, Linda, Beth, Kay (notes), Maxine, Lauren (fac), Laraine, Mary, Lynda, Mike, Vicky, Joe, Coleen, 8:00 Jorge

Watering in the Community

Report from Mike and Kay.  Met last Saturday.  Turned the c.h. control boxes on to check the sprinkler (spray) stations.  Some minor issues but the sprinklers are working.  Next step, checking the drip stations on the west and all the stations on the east.

There are drip system parts and tubing in the garage that belong to the community.  If you know how to do drip repairs, you are welcome to use them to do repairs in common areas. Please don’t use them for individual yards or the north field.  Individual yards are technically common area, but residents are expected to pay for the landscaping and water themselves.

Meeting this Sunday 9:00 a.m., meet in the coatroom if you are interested in helping with/learning about repairing drip systems.

Getting to Know You:  Tell something that happened in the last ten or twenty (or more) years that you’d like to share.

Committee Reports

The playground is done!

Solar Panels.  The transformer that isn’t big enough to handle the input from more solar panels is apparently serves just our property.  If we have to pay for it, it will be ~$20K. If RMP decides they should have installed a bigger one in the first place, they may pay for it.  The company that makes the batteries that RMP was offering a subsidy for has gone out of business, and at this time there isn’t a replacement.

Donation for Greenhouse.  A few days before Naomi died she wrote a check for $500 for the community to use for a greenhouse. A prefab greenhouse will cost far more than $500.  Naomi isn’t here to ask how she feels about the money being used for something else.

Use it if there is a shortfall for the solar panels?  A greenhouse can cost anywhere from $50 to $50K.  If we are willing to do some of the work ourselves we could build a simple one.  Storage is at a premium in the c.h.  A greenhouse would free up the messy craftsroom from seed starting.  Next step?  Ask the Landscaping committee?  Form an ad hoc?  Wherever the greenhouse goes, it is a change of land use, which we always require a proposal for.

Committee Reports

Welcoming.  Sunday orientation 4:00 to 5:30.  All four homes are sold or under contract.  There were others interested but needed a different size unit or were outbid, etc.

Process.  Facilitators, Agenda Setters, & Procedures.  Meeting 7:00 p.m. Sunday.  

Waste Management.  Beth talked to Momentum about recycling.  Accepts all plastics.  Instead of multiple carts they can do a small two- or three-yard dumpster.  Higher quality plastics get recycled, lower-quality go to a concrete company used for fuel. Also offer food waste recycling.  We could do a tour of their glass-recycling facility.  Beth got the costs and will talk to Management.

Announcements

Cohousing camping the weekend of Friday July 22 and Saturday 23, Sunday July 24 optional in Kamas.  Details are in Vicky’s email.  Encourage people who won’t be camping to drive up for the day.

Cohousing conference August 26-28 in Wisconsin.  Registration scholarships available particularly for BIPOC, students, and young professionals.  Registration is $450 since we have a partnership.

Next regularly scheduled ACM is Sunday July 24 – probably will be cancelled.

One of the benches at the common house broke.  Jorge and Kay will see about fixing it. (Update: broken in at least six places.)

The giveaways at the common house will be taken to thrift Friday.

#15 will close the 26th.  Maxine will be out by August 12. The buyer is Kerry Tarazza.

The baby skunks are out of the den and wandering around.  Keep dogs on a short leash.

Kay found a squirrel that was sick, which died soon after.  Haven’t seen any others for a couple of weeks, so there may be an illness going through.  Poison is another possibility.  If you find one, don’t handle it.  Dig a hole, pick up the squirrel using a shovel, and bury it.

Emailed 7/19/22.