Common House minutes: 2017-08-26

Minutes:

Common House Committee Meeting - Sat, 8/26/17

present: Nancy, Elph, Ted, Katie, Thomas

Work on maintenance list
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/11CcKsbkMLA9rzEPp14xoIDvwKIh2zsNyu5pdvJoKlio/edit
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Approved at to spend $250 to have Jamal from JD Janitorial

Katie will contact and arrange a date and notify the rest of us

Ted and Elph will meet Mon at 8pm to talk about maintaining the list online
and how to best do a calendar for recurring maintenance items


Review Bruno’s time out of the common house

In May the CH sent a message to Talk explaining our decision concerning
Bruno*

Bruno has asked to be allowed to use the CH again

There have been a couple of incidents where he has been caught sleeping in
the CH and using the laundry. However, he has done his recent kitchen
clean.

The committee is not convinced he has taken responsibility for his actions
however willing to extend another opportunity.

Proposal is that we invite Bruno to once again use the common house

Ground rules: no sleeping in the CH without putting a sign on the room door
or an email to talk, which is our expectation for everyone. No people from
outside Great Oak to be in the CH for any reason after 11pm, which is
particularly for him based on the issues we have struggled with.

Repercussion is to have CH-use privileges removed for 6 months.

Further repercussions will be that the CH will consider putting in video
cameras.

We want to be clear that if he breaks the rules there will be greater
repercussions this time and that he won’t be able to get away with it in
the future.

Approved.


Bicycle locked to front entranceway - it was gone at the time of the
meeting.


The CH door lock code will change the first weekend of Sep and there will
be a one week overlap with the old code. Announcements will be made at that
time.


We welcome new member Glenn to our committee in September.

The CH jobs for next work period, starting Sep 1st are:

Elph Morgan as CH Committee convener

Willie Northway as Kitchen Redesign Honcho

Dale Grover as Kitchen Redesign Assistant

Jennifer Janssen as Kitchen Redesign Assistant

Katie Wimsatt as Kitchen Redesign Assistant

Glenn Hendrix as Counted member (Common House)

Katie Wimsatt as Counted member (Common House)

Nancy Harter as Counted member (Common House)

Thomas Rode as Counted member (Common House)

Nancy Harter as CH clean-up coordinator

Nancy Harter as CH Flotsam Wrangler

Rachel Pooley as CH kitchen cleaner

George Harmon as CH dining room floor cleaner and waxer

Fatima Villagran as CH bathrooms cleaner

Elisha Talley as CH game and fitness room cleaner

Benjamin McBrayer as CH Hobart Delimer

Gail Graham as Community Office Manager

Ted Chesky as CH maintenance coordinator

Megan Sims as CH Sunday night lockup

Thomas Rode as CH Monday night lockup

Malcolm Sickels as CH Tuesday night lockup

Debbi Schaubman as CH Wednesday night lockup

Debbi Schaubman as CH Thursday night lockup

Malcolm Sickels as CH Friday night lockup

Amy Harris as CH Saturday night lockup

Eric McGlohon as Aquarium manager

Ted Chesky as Workshop Manager

Erik Kauppi as Hot Tub Maintenance

Signs indicating who is the cleaner for various rooms will be posted so as
to allow folks to know who is doing the work to take care of the spaces we
all use. We hope this can bring appreciation to the workers who otherwise
do fairly thankless tasks.

Next steps on Mandate
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hkz6MmKYOEipPgQPjvZFVwJEisxnOAQXcIEktIHnjAM/edit
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re: Vision <http://goo.gl/CQpTi0> and the section of the Skills and Thrills
where group represented the CH committee to integrate themes from the
Vision into our Mandate.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAYmjx8M7Ej7nPkJLIp1yDZRusgPgN_T2z20GeImY2M/edit?usp=sharing
>

Meeting Adjourned at 12:45
Next Meeting 2nd Tues at 7pm


Bruno Message to Talk from May 2017

*The Common House Committee has decided that as a consequence for breaking
common house rules* Bruno has lost his right to use the common house with
the exception of his jobs in the work system. Bruno may apply to the CH
cmtee to have his rights reinstated after Sep 1st 2017. To be clear, Bruno
is not allowed to be in the common house for any reason except for his
dinner cleans**.

Fatima and Bruno have both been part of the conversation in crafting these
consequences.

We look forward to reinstating Bruno’s rights to the common house in the
fall assuming he has fulfilled his work obligations and broken no rules.

We ask that all adult members of the community help us in supporting these
clear consequences for Bruno with compassion. Though we do not expect it to
happen, if you do see Bruno in the common house, other than his dinner
clean work shifts, please let Fatima and/or Elph know.

*Bruno, along with friends from both cohousing communities and others from
town, has been involved in late night activities including cooking and
leaving dirty dishes with partially eaten food, ice-cream, and candy (some
from the fridge for upcoming meals) throughout the common house, drinking
and leaving the liquor bottles in the rooms or in the trash, smoking, using
the hot tub and leaving the lid open afterwards, giving out the door code
to friends and having them use the common house as a hang out spot and
crashpad with or without him.

**Exceptions can be made by the CH cmtee for events where it would be
valuable to have Bruno there.
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