Minutes, ACM Sunday February 25, 2024

Topics:  Sunday ACM time, pay-or-play brainstorm

Decision: Most prefer not to change Sunday ACM time.

Present: Emily (fac), Cheryl, Gheybin, Jorge, Michael A, Lynda, Kay (notes), Laura, Ben, Robin, Kerry, Hannah, Linda, Heather, Stephen, Natalia, Alex, Coleman, Joe 4:00

Check-in, where were you born?  Exercise. embracing conflict

Committee Reports

Parents. Have a lead on a playground structure that's in good shape.  Offered by someone who is buying a house with a playset who doesn't want it.

Common House. Will inventory pantry Saturday 3rd 1-4 pm 

Fund Raising.  Have almost $400 now.  Hannah & Stephen have been selling things the people have donated. Meeting every Monday 6:00. Fund-raising event, will be having Movie March Madness night, starting Friday March 1, with snacks for sale/donations. Read their minutes. Email recipes that people have enjoyed at potlucks to Lynda & Hannah. "Deeds for Donations", something you'd normally pay for that someone in the community could do.

Landscape. Need help trimming the elm trees on the Bells' land that are shading the Farmette. 

Maintenance. First stucco painting effort will be the common house.  Need help cleaning windows, replacing weather-stripping, & fixing some rusty cranks

Farmette.  Working on a grant application that supports local food gardening.

Welcoming. Getting inquiries & visits. No units for sale.

Friday March 8, Osher program, tour of Marriott Library, preservation lab, $10 for lunch

Hub (project management). Had 1st meeting. Kerry, Emily, Cheryl, Tysic.

Sunday ACM Time, Pre-Proposal Discussion

There has been a suggestion to move the ACM time to 2:00 p.m. 

• More time to fix something for potluck.
• Would allow ACM to run over a few minutes when we have an involved discussion.

Time change would cuts into Sunday early afternoon activities. 

Make potluck 7:00 to 8:00? 

Once a month have a simpler potluck.

Straw poll, mostly prefer keep the same time.

Pay or Play Brainstorm

Tasks

Bring community stuff into pay or play. Incentivize social stuff. Allow meeting attendance to count for part of the hours.

Have a list of jobs sent out monthly.  Have a way to sign up for and check off completion.

Require some hours in specific categories, meetings, maintenance, landscaping; vs. building on people's strengths & interests.

Doing tasks for neighbors is being a good neighbor but not necessarily community work. OTOH a good candidate for a donation.

Administrative tasks with running meetings should certainly count -- Facilitation, note-taking.

Reporting 

Simplify reporting of repetitive tasks, multiple submissions.

Time Period

Quarterly requirement instead of monthly.  Banking hours for future months (report past work in month hours are due). 

Seasonal work might lend itself to quarterly requirement. 

Seasonal changes in hourly requirement.

Having a monthly requirement encourages people to think about community at least once a month. One goal is to encourage people to be committed.

Room-mate tax. Set a maximum number of adults per household, exempt people who aren't living here to be in cohousing (room-mates, adult children), require lower hours for adults beyond first two. Modeling commitment. OTOH in a rental situation maybe no one in the household is committed. 

A quarterly requirement gives more scope for procrastinators to get in trouble.

Need regular consistent participation month by month. OTOH as long as most do some work every month, can allow flexibility.

Require a minimum for each month but a higher requirement for the quarterly.  Billing would have to be quarterly.

Let people opt in to either monthly or quarterly reporting.

Give people a monthly status report even if requirement is quarterly.

Emailed 3/5/2024.