How I see it might work, after hearing Jan talk about how things are done elsewhere:
For common meals, visitors (or the person they are visiting) could pay a set fee (e.g. $5 p.p.) to attend as extras, with sufficient notice.
If someone (e.g. adult children and flatmates) want to come regularly to eat at common meals they would go on the roster like anyone else.
For cleaning and maintenance duties, likewise anyone who uses a facility regularly would be expected to contribute to that.
What I'm not so sure about is whether these responsibilities should attach individually to everyone, or if a household has an overall work quota based on the number of people in the household but it's up to them to decide how the work is shared out within the household? Probably the latter. Which would mean theoretically someone could use all the facilities without making any contribution as long as someone else in the household picks up their contribution.
Probably children can be expected to contribute formally from about 16 years old. Maybe different responsibilities are stepped at different ages? There is still a lot of work ahead for teams to decide how this all works anyway.
Thanks, Alex
On 19/11/20 12:19 pm, Roz Wilson wrote:
Are we saying so long as one person from a unit signs the cohousing agreement and commits to helping out with working bees, kitchen duty, teams etc any other short or long term occupier of any unit, be they spouses, children of any age, boarders, Airbnb etc, can participate in any cohousing activities and use all the common facilities on the same footing as the person who signed the agreement without having to make any contribution as listed in the cohousing agreement.
This is not necessarily what we believe, we may be being devil’s advocates. Would be good to get people to think about this before it comes up at a meeting. regds roz and michael
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