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@node Top, What's Included, (dir), (dir)
@top East Wind Legislation, Policy, and Bylaws

@menu
* What's Included::             What's Included in this Document?
* Bylaws::                      The Bylaws of East Wind Community
* Membership::                  Membership
* Social::                      Social
* Medical::                     Medical
* Resource::                    Resource
* Government::                  Government
* Business::                    Business
* Children::                    Children
* Kitchen::                     Kitchen
* Garden::                      Garden
* Federation::                  Federation
* Political Activity::          Political Activity
* Pets::                        Pets
* Personal Shipping::           Personal Shipping
* Ranch::                       Ranch
* Index::                       Index by date

* Subject Index::               Subject Index

 --- The Detailed Node Listing ---

Membership

* Membership Voting::           Membership Voting
* Inviting Visitors::           Inviting Visitors
* Associates::                  Associates
* Messes and Fair Share::       Messes and Fair Share
* Economic Agreements::         Economic Agreements
* Leaves::                      Leaves
* Limits::                      Limits

Leaves

* Leaves General::              Things Pertaining to All Leaves
* Personal Affairs Leave::      Personal Affairs Leave
* Provisional Member Leave::    Provisional Member Leave
* Social Emergency Leave::      Social Emergency Leave
* Educational Leave::           Educational Leave

Social

* Social General::              Social General
* Personal Property::           Personal Property
* Alvin::                       Alvin
* Sexual Harrassment::          Sexual Harrassment
* Hunting::                     Hunting
* Autos::                       Autos
* Video Discs and Films::       Video Discs and Films
* Housing::                     Housing
* Child Support::               Child Support
* TV::                          TV
* Guests::                      Guests

Autos

* Garage::                      Garage
* Auto Usage::                  Auto Usage
* Member Vehicles::             Member Vehicles
* Pick-ups::                    Pick-ups
* Mileage::                     Mileage

Medical

* Medical Hours::               Medical Hours
* Medical Transportation::      Medical Transportation
* Medical Care for Provisional Members::  Medical Care for Provisional Members
* Smoking::                     Smoking
* Pest Control::                Pest Control
* PEACH::                       PEACH
* Clothing::                    Clothing

Resource

* Sharing Community Property::  What members can do with community property
* Annual Planning::             Annual Planning
* Money::                       Money
* Land::                        Land
* HTA::                         HTA
* Labor::                       Labor
* Social Security Numbers::     Social Security Numbers
* Contractors::                 Contractors

Money

* Assets::                      Assets
* Spending Control::            What happens if a budget is too far in the hole
* DFs::                         DFs
* Money Miscellaneous::         Money Miscellaneous
* Dairy Fund::                  Dairy Fund
* Building Fund::               Building Fund

Land

* Land Use Policy::             Land Use Policy
* Mobile Residences Sites::     Mobile Residences Sites

Labor

* Fair Share::                  Fair Share
* Work Required::               Work Required
* Labor Exchange::              Labor Exchange
* Person Days::                 Person Days
* Recording Done Time::         Recording Done Time
* Quota::                       Quota
* PSCs::                        PSCs
* Vacation::                    Vacation
* Labor Misc::                  Labor Misc
* Meeting Hours::               Meeting Hours
* Back Hours::                  Back Hours

Government

* Organization::                Organization
* Recruitment Material::        Recruitment Material
* WIMP Elections and Managerial Review::  WIMP Elections and Managerial Review
* Rotation::                    Rotation
* Democracy::                   Democracy
* Community Meeting Agenda::    Community Meeting Agenda
* Meetings::                    Meetings

Organization

* Organizational Chart::        Organizational Chart
* Board::                       Board
* Management Team::             Management Team
* Social Manager::              Social Manager
* Membership Manager::          Membership Manager
* Resource Manager::            Resource Manager
* Area Committees::             Area Committees
* Branches::                    Branches
* Elections::                   Elections
* What goes where::             What Goes Where

Business

* Long Range Plan::             Long Range Plan
* Garlic::                      Garlic
* Nutbutter::                   Nutbutter
* Hammocks::                    Hammocks
* New Business Formation::      New Business Formation
* Odd jobs and Outside Work::   Odd jobs and Outside Work
* Office::                      Office

Nutbutter

* Nutbutter Sales Trips::       Nutbutter Sales Trips
* Nutbutter Organization::      Nutbutter Organization
* Nutbutter Sales::             Seconds, Giving away butter, etc.
* Nutbutter Business Strategy::  Nutbutter Business Strategy

Hammocks

* Joint Hammocks Agreement::    Joint Hammocks Agreement
* Production Quota::            Production Quota
* Hammock Shop Music::          Hammock Shop Music
* Member Hammock Purchase::     Member Hammock Purchase

Office

* Phones and Mail::             Phones and Mail
* Office Theft::                Preventing thefts of cash from the office

Children

* Lilliput::                    Lilliput
* Children Medical::            Children Medical
* Children Permanent Workers::  Children Permanent Workers
* Meta program definitions::    Meta program definitions
* Pregnancy::                   Pregnancy
* Primaries and Parents::       Primaries and Parents
* Child Membership::            Child Membership
* Child Votes::                 Child Votes
* Child Labor::                 Child Labor
* Children and Membership::     Children and Membership
* Child Board::                 Child Board
* Older Children::              Older Children
* Substance Use::               Substance Use
* Trips::                       Trips
@end menu

@node What's Included, Bylaws, Top, Top
@ifinfo
@unnumbered What's Included in this Document?
@end ifinfo

@suindex Legislation
@suindex Policy
This document is intended to include those ongoing legislation (enacted
by community meeting) and policies (enacted by other bodies or managers)
which are currently in force.  One-time decisions no matter who makes
them are not included, nor is anything which has been superceded by
later legislation or policy.  While this document attempts to include
everything, it may be missing some things.  For example, some
legislation has been lost due to careless record keeping, and some
policy exists only in branch files; noone has made any systematic effort
to get copies of all of it.  Along with the text of the legislation or
policy, I include in square brackets the name of the item, body passing
it, and date of passage (e.g.  Revision of Democracy Government,
Community Meeting, 19 Apr 86).  In most cases I have not included
statements of intent, reasons for rules, etc.

Anything not part of the actual item is in square brackets.

@iftex
Please let me know (e.g. by writing in the margin and folding down the
corner of the page) about any problems. -Jim Kingdon
@end iftex
@ifinfo
If you find any problems, please inform whoever is currently maintaining
this document.
@end ifinfo

@node Bylaws, Membership, What's Included, Top
@unnumbered The Bylaws of East Wind Community

@center [These Bylaws were ratified in 1978.
@center Ammendments, with their dates, are listed at the end.]


@center ARTICLE I.  Definition and Purposes

Paragraph 1.  DEFINITION.

East Wind is a community owned and operated by the members, who share
all income and expenses, rear their children communally, and are
communally responsible for all the needs of the community's members,
including food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education, and other
needs and amenities considered desirable, insofar as the community is
able to provide them.

Paragraph 2.  PURPOSES.

@itemize @asis
@item
A.  We are creating a society which offers its members no less than they
need, which asks from its members no more than they can give, and which
promotes the greatest good for all the people.

@suindex Discrimination
@suindex Non-discrimination
@suindex Exploitation
@suindex Inequality
@suindex Equality
@suindex Race, discrimination
@suindex Sex, discrimination
@suindex Age, and discrimination
@suindex Creed, discrimination
@suindex Religion, discrimination
@suindex Sexual preference, discrimination
@suindex Sexual orientation, discrimination
@item
B.  We are creating a society where positions of responsibility are not
positions of exploitation and in which we do not promote inequality
through discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, age, or sex.
[Ammended in 1982 to append the phrase "or sexual preference".]

@suindex Non-violence
@suindex Violence
@suindex Competition
@suindex Respect
@suindex Possessiveness
@item
C.  We are creating a society which is non-violent and non-
competitive, where people mutually respect and tolerate individual
differences of belief, opinions, and taste, and where personal
possessiveness is not supported.

@suindex Ecology
@suindex Environmentalism
@suindex Natual resources
@item
D.  We are building a society that responsibly maintains all natural
resources for itself, future generations, and for all people
through an ecologically sound lifestyle.

@suindex Self-reliance
@item
E.  We are striving to be self-reliant, especially in cooperation with
similar groups.

@suindex Exploitation
@item
F.  To the greatest extent possible, the trade in which we engage will
promote and contribute to the growth and maintenance of a
non-exploitative world economy.

@item
G.  We are perpetuating our community in such a way that it will be
available to succeeding generations.

@item
H.  We are growing and will maintain a membership of at least 750
members, as rapidly as is consistent with our survival.

@item
I.  We are creating a society benefitting its members but also serving
as an example of social organization applicable to the rest of the
world.

@suindex Communities movement
@item
J.  We are publicizing this lifestyle in order to serve as an example
of social organization applicable to the rest of the world, and we
promote the formation and growth of similar communities.
@end itemize

Paragraph 3.

The definition and purposes listed in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article
shall be implemented by:

@itemize @asis
@item
@suindex Experimentation
A.  The use of experimentation to discover and encourage the
desirable behaviors for the group's members and its government.

@item
@suindex Equality
B.  A system of internal economics that, so far as is feasible,
makes material benefits of the community available to all
members equally or according to need.

@suindex Liberty
@suindex Freedom
@item
C.  A general practice respecting the liberty of each individual
member to as great an extent as is consistent with the well
being of the community and the laws of the government in whose
jurisdiction it resides.

@suindex Competition
@suindex Cooperation
@item
D.  An emphasis on promoting cooperation rather than competition
among the members.

@item
E.  A dedication to a non-violent, non-exploitative way of life for
all human beings, and specifically an insistence on
non-involvement of members in actions contrary to this policy.
@end itemize

Paragraph 4.

In no event shall the resources or facilities of this community be used
to further in any manner any project, activity, or purpose of any group
or individual that is inconsistent with the purposes of this community
as set forth in the Articles of Incorporation and these Bylaws.

@center ARTICLE II.  Membership 

Paragraph 1.  CLASSES OF MEMBERS.

There are three classes of members in the community; full members,
provisional members and child members.

@itemize @asis
@item
@suindex Full members
A.  Full member defined.  A full member is a person who has been
accepted as such according to the conditions of Article Two,
Paragraph 2A.

@itemize @asis
@item
1)  Rights and Duties of Full Members

Each full member is entitled to an equal vote on issues of
override, impeachment, and Bylaws amendments.  (See relevant
subsections).  They are required to do a fair share of the
Community's work and to observe the regulations as set forth
in Article III.
@end itemize

@item
@suindex Provisional members, defined
B.  Provisional member defined.  A provisional member is a person who
has been accepted by the Community on a trial basis for a period
not shorter than three months nor longer than two years.

@itemize @asis
1)  Rights and Duties of provisional members.

Provisional members are entitled to the same rights and
responsible for the same duties as full members, with the
following exceptions:

@itemize @asis
@item
a)  Provisional members do not have guaranteed tenure in the
community and may be asked to leave at any time for any
reason, according to procedures approved by the
community's decision-making body.

@item
b)  Provisional members may vote when the current governmental
system permits them to vote.  They, may not vote on issues
of override, impeachment, and Bylaws amendments.  (Refer
to relevant subsections).
@end itemize
@end itemize

@item
@suindex Child members
C.  Child member defined.  A child member is any member either
accepted into the community or born within it who has, according
to the governing process of the community, not reached a maturity
when co should be expected to carry a full work load.  Child
members may be given fractional voting rights or full votes in
specific areas by action of the central decision making body.  A
vote of a majority of the full members can override any committee,
manager or other body which may be empowered to determine when a
child member may become a full member.  Child members who become
adults according to our regulations may be accepted as full
members in the same way as people who join as adults, with the
exception that they will not be required to go through a period of
provisional membership.
@end itemize

Paragraph 2.  METHODS OF ADMISSION AND EXPULSION.

@itemize @asis
@item
@suindex Membership selection
A.  Admission

The community's government shall devise and revise, at its discretion,
appropriate procedures for the admission of persons to the status of
provisional member, child member, and full member.

@item
@suindex Expulsion
B.  Term of Membership.

Full membership shall be for the life of the member, unless terminated
by one of the following:

@itemize @asis
@item
1)  The voluntary resignation of a member from the
community.

@item
2)  The expulsion of the member by the central decision
making body.

@item
3) The departure of the member from the community for a period of 14
days or longer, without having earned sufficient vacation credits (or
the equivalent) to cover the absence, or without having secured a leave
of absence.  Such a departure will be interpreted as voluntary
resignation.
@end itemize

@item
C.  Expulsion.

Full members may be expelled only for specific reasons, as
follows:

@itemize @asis
@item
1) Failure to do a fair share of the required work in accordance with
Article III, Paragraph 1.

@item
@suindex Violence
2) Physical violence against another person, defined as an act of
physical aggression judged by the community to have been deliberate,
hostile, painful and/or dangerous, and provided that the community holds
the view that such action is likely to be repeated.

@item
@suindex Theft, expulsion for
3)  Theft of communal or private property.

[Theft Policy, Board, 29 Apr 92]

Article II, Paragraph 2-C-(3) of the by-laws shall be construed to
include any theft by a member or associate of property from anyone,
member or non-member.

[Bylaws]

@item
4) Knowingly making false declaration of the extent or disposition of
property when entering the community or subsequently, or violating the
community's property code (Article III, Paragraph 2-4 of these Bylaws)
with regard to the disposition of said property, or the disposition of
any income co receives while a member.
     
@item
5) Deliberate attempts to destroy or disband the community by an means,
legal, extra-legal, financial, or any other manner, provided that this
shall not be broadly interpreted to refer to the holding or proclaiming
of disapproved opinions.  This is intended to refer specifically to
making trouble between the community and civil authorities, involving us
in a lawsuit, or in unauthorized financial obligations, and similar acts
or attempts at same.
@end itemize

The above causes for expulsion may, but need not, be used by the central
government according to its discretion, in individual cases.  That is,
this body may expel members for the above reasons and these reasons
only, but need not expel members even for these reasons if they do not
think it wise or necessary, and according to the best interests of the
community at that time as they see it.  They also have the option of
putting an offending member back on provisional status or to institute
specific mandatory behavioral programs in order to change a member's
behavior.  (These options exist only when a member has behaved in such
as way that the alternative is expulsion.)

@item
D.  Readmission.

Former members of the community who left voluntarily may re-enter as
provisional members under the same conditions as persons who are
entering for the first time.  Any person who has been expelled and
wishes to reenter must get special permission from the central decision
making body.
@end itemize

@center ARTICLE III.  Economic Life

Paragraph 1.  WORK.

@suindex Work
@suindex Fair share, defined
Every able-bodied member shall do a fair share of the community's work,
as defined by the community.  However, the community also guarantees the
full support and equal privileges of every kind to members who are
unable to work because of illness or disability.  The community shall
define this in individual cases and shall find appropriate kinds of work
for these members.  The amount of work to be required of children and
adolescents shall be determined by the community.

Paragraph 2.  USE AND DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME.

@itemize @asis
@item
@suindex Individual property
@suindex Property code
A.  The community may engage in any economic activity which it believes
to be ethical, practical and legal.

@item
B.  All income from all business engaged in by the community shall be
the property of the community and shall be expended or distributed
according to its laws, customs and discretion.  It shall not be the
property of any individual.

@item
C.  All community expenses, business and otherwise, shall be obligations
of the community, and no individual member shall bear private
obligations for them.

@item
D.  All funds received by members of the community during their
membership, whether or not earned by current labor, shall be community
income.  This includes, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the dividends from stocks and bonds, interest on savings,
alimony, rents, unemployment compensation, welfare payments, social
security payments, etc., except:

@itemize @asis
@item
1) Inheritances.  Monies inherited by a member shall be treated like
other cash earned previous to membership.

@item
2) Proceeds from the sale of goods owned before becoming a member, or
royalties from works produced before becoming a member.

@item
3) Tax returns for taxable periods previous to the period of membership.

@item
4) That portion of any rental income needed to maintain the rental
property until such time as it is turned over to the community's
management.

@item
5) Gifts from relatives and friends, provided that the community
reserves the right to restrict the receiving and spending of gifts by
individual members if said gifts are deemed excessive or the receipt of
them abusive of community principles or the intent of this Article III.

@item
6) Small amounts of money which the community may elect to permit
members to earn while away from the community premises and on vacation
or leave of absence.  Monies accumulated in this manner may only be
spent while away from the community premises and on vacation or leave of
absence.
@end itemize

@item
E.  Property which increases in value but which is not a liquid asset:
The community is entitled to any increase in the value of any property
held by any member during the period of membership, including stocks and
bonds, real estate, etc.  The amount of increased value should be paid
to the community at the time the property is sold.  If at the time of
the sale of such assets, the value shall have decreased below what it
was at the time the member entered the community, the burden of the
decrease shall not be borne by the community unless by specific contract
to the contrary.  However, such decreases in value may be compensated
for out of the increases in value if any, of other properties, owned by
the same member.  The community is entitled only to the net increase, if
any.
@end itemize

Paragraph 3.  PROPERTY OWNED BY MEMBERS BEFORE BECOMING A MEMBER
OF THE COMMUNITY.

@itemize @asis
@item
A.  Property accumulated by members previous to becoming a member of the
community (as distinguished from current interests or dividends thereon)
does not have to be surrendered to the community as an outright
donation, (with the exception of vehicles and personal articles covered
on the next page).

@item
B.  Members possessing such assets must, however, make them available to
the community as loans without interest for the duration of said
member's membership.  Such loans shall be made available on or before a
date one year after the admission of said member to provisional
membership, or at the admission of the member in full membership,
whichever is later.

This provision is intended to include assets such as cash, checking and
savings accounts, stocks and bonds, and real estate, decisions about the
sale of which, for loan purposes, pass to the community on the above
schedule.
@end itemize

Paragraph 4.  VEHICLES.

@suindex Vehicles
Members who own vehicles must either store them, or else offer them for
group use under communal decision making during the period of their
membership.  If they leave, they can take their vehicles with them but
have no claim as to the condition of the vehicles at that time.  If the
vehicle has in the meantime been destroyed by accident, the community is
not liable or under any obligation to repay the owner.  The owner has no
priority on the use of the vehicle while co remains a member.  The
community will maintain or not maintain all such vehicles at its
discretion and specifically for its use.

Paragraph 5.  PERSONAL ARTICLES.

@suindex Personal property
Clothing, jewelry (of sentimental or nominal value), radios, musical
instruments, records, and the like may be kept as personal property by
individual members if they owned them before becoming a member, or
received them subsequently as gifts from a friend or relative, or bought
them with money approved by the community for that purpose, provided
that such items are small enough to be kept in the member's personal
room.  Members may not spend money owned before becoming a member on
personal articles.  If members elect to share such property with the
group and indicate this intention by placing such items in public rooms
or other community shared property (such as outdoors or in vehicles),
then the item will be treated like community property.  The members may
withdraw their personal items from public use at will and may take them
with them if they wish upon departure.  The community will not be
responsible for the condition of any such property, whether shared or
not.  The community reserves the right to declare any object
objectionable or objectionable as private property, and to require, in
unusual situations, that the property be disposed of or shared.

Items which have not specifically been mentioned in this Paragraph 5 and
about which there is doubt as to its private or public use should be
specifically mentioned by the owner or other concerned person to the
central governing body or persons appointed by them, and a special
decision made with regard to such an item.

@center ARTICLE IV.  Government 

Paragraph 1.  OPTIONS.

@suindex Government, bylaws requirements
East Wind may, within the confines of these Bylaws, govern itself by any
reasonable means which its members desire, and may, under any of such
systems, either elect or appoint officers, committees, or decision
makers, as it sees fit.  Also, it may change its form of government at
any time and as many times as it wishes, provided only the following.

@itemize @asis
@item
@suindex Override, bylaws
@suindex Overrule, bylaws
@suindex Impeachment, bylaws
@suindex Removal from office, bylaws
A.  That at all times and under any and all forms of government, a two-
thirds majority of the full members, as defined by these Bylaws, may
make, modify, or reverse any decision made by any decision maker(s) or
process, and that the decision of this two-thirds majority is binding
upon the community (unless and except such a decision be in violation of
these Bylaws or Articles of Incorporation).  Likewise, a two-thirds
majority of full members may remove from office any officer or decision
maker for any reason.

@item
B.  That any change from one form of government to another form shall be
arrived at by normal process of the form of government that precedes it,
or else by a vote of the aforesaid two-thirds majority of full members.

@item
C.  In the event of a proposed change from one basic form of government
to another (such as from democracy to a planner system, or from a
planner system to consensus), such new form of government must be
proposed and the proposal publicly posted for the information of the
members a full 30 days before the change can be implemented.  However,
in the case of a two-thirds majority overrule, this restriction does not
apply.

@item
D.  After five years of any one form of government, a vote of confidence
shall be called.  If the existing form of government does not receive a
majority vote of confidence of the full members, that form of government
shall be replaced as soon as a new form can be devised and receives a
majority vote of the full members.

@suindex Meetings, openness
@suindex Meetings, posting notice of
@item
E.  All meetings at which any decision is going to be made, except those
portions of meetings when decisions about specific individuals are being
made, shall be open to any member who chooses to attend.  Central
decision making body meetings will be posted with an agenda, at least 36
hours in advance, except for emergency meetings.
@end itemize

Paragraph 2.  COMMUNITY RECORDS.

@itemize @asis
@item
@suindex Community records
A.  The following community records will be available for study by any
community member:

@itemize @asis
@item
1)  Legal documents.

@item
2)  Financial accounting records.

@item
3)  Labor accounting records.

@item
4) Records of government and managerial decisions (except secret ballot
forms).

@item
5)  Other items determined by the central decision making
body.

@item
6) Other items not listed above (1 through 5) including managerial
records, except materials referring to specific individuals at the
manager's discretion.  Such materials will, however, be open to the
individual.
@end itemize

@item
B.  Specific pieces of information can be withheld from anyone except
full members for designated periods of time by a decision of the central
decision making body.
@end itemize

Paragraph 3.
     
@suindex Ex post facto
The community will not apply any law or policy prior to the date of the
enactment, without consent of the members whom it would affect.

@center ARTICLE V.  Dissolution

@suindex Dissolution of the community
The community may be dissolved by a two-thirds majority of the full
members.  In the event of the dissolution of the community, any assets
remaining after the payment of the community's debts shall not be given
to any member, past or present, of the community, but shall go in their
entirety to another organization similar to East Wind and containing in
their Bylaws an article of dissolution similar to this, the choice of
said organization being left to the discretion of a majority vote of the
members remaining at the time of the said dissolution.

@center ARTICLE VI.  Definitions

Paragraph 1.

Throughout these Bylaws, when the word community is used in the sense
that implies that the community makes decisions, such references shall
be interpreted to mean that the central decision making body of the
community shall make the decisions referred to, under the provisions of
ARTICLE IV hereof.

Paragraph 2.

The word "co" is used in this document to mean "he, she, him or her" and
"co's" to mean "his" or "hers."

Paragraph 3.

Whenever in these Bylaws the word "member" or "members" is used without
qualifying adjective "full," "provisional," or "child," the word shall
be interpreted to mean all members in all classes.

@center ARTICLE VII.  Amendments

This document may be amended by a two-thirds majority of the full
membership of the community.

@center (Amendments to the Bylaws)

@center AMENDMENT I (1982)

Article I, Paragraph 2B, is revised to read:

We are creating a society where positions of responsibility are not
positions of exploitation and in which we do not promote inequality
through discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, age, sex, or
sexual preference.


@center AMENDMENT II (1990) 

@suindex Reinvestment
@center REINVESTMENT

@center (Effective date:  January 1, 1991)

Paragraph 1.

Each year the community will allocate money amounting to no less than
the amount of depreciation of the community's property, plant, and
equipment during the preceding year.  This annual allocation is to go in
to a fund which may be drawn on at any time but only for the following
types of expenditures:

@itemize
@item
A.  Major maintenance or replacement of the community's buildings,
equipment, or utilities.

@item
B.  New construction or acquisition of community buildings, equipment,
or utilities.

@item
C.  Land improvements.

@item
D.  Principal debt repayment on loans to the extent the loan money was
used for any of the above purposes.  If this is done the original loan
money will not count in meeting the requirements of this Paragraph 1.
@end itemize

Paragraph 2.

Generally accepted accounting principles will be followed in determining
the annual amount of depreciation.

Paragraph 3.

This annual allocation may be waived during any year in which
substantial cuts are made in the per capita spending for consumption,
and, that these cuts are made in response to a large drop in income.
The allocation may also be waived in any year in which a large, unusual
and unavoidable expense occurs.

Paragraph 4.

Any money in the fund which will not be needed in the near term for the
purposes stated in Paragraph 1 may be used by the community for short
term cash needs (10 months or less).

@node Membership, Social, Bylaws, Top
@unnumbered Membership

@menu
* Membership Voting::           Membership Voting
* Inviting Visitors::           Inviting Visitors
* Associates::                  Associates
* Messes and Fair Share::       Messes and Fair Share
* Economic Agreements::         Economic Agreements
* Leaves::                      Leaves
* Limits::                      Limits
@end menu

@node Membership Voting, Inviting Visitors,  , Membership
@unnumberedsec Membership Voting

@suindex Provisional members, selection process
@suindex Membership selection
[Provisional Membership Extension, Community Meeting, 1 Jun 91]

East Wind's Membership Acceptance Process  July 1991

This document replaces and supercedes all previous legislation
related to membership acceptance. It was compiled in response to
a community meeting decision, June 1, 1991, for the Board to
rewrite the membership legislation so it will appear in one
cogent document.
@comment [Passages surrounded by @var{}]
@ifinfo
[Passages in all upper case @var{like this}]
signify current
policy which may change from time to time. The other passages
come from community legislation and the Board's interpretation of
how the legislation would be rewritten to account for the
elimination of EXTEND votes for provisional members, also passed
by community meeting, June 1, 1991. As that legislation states
"voting mechanisms which were formally able to extend provisional
members are no longer valid", the Board eliminated the options to
extend that existed in the appeals process legislation, passed
Jan. 9, 1988. I wish to express my appreciation and thanks to Jim
who wanted this to happen and prepared the research necessary for
it to take place. 
@end ifinfo
@iftex
[Passages in italics @var{like this}]
signify current
policy which may change from time to time. The other passages
come from community legislation and the Board's interpretation of
how the legislation would be rewritten to account for the
elimination of EXTEND votes for provisional members, also passed
by community meeting, June 1, 1991. As that legislation states
"voting mechanisms which were formally able to extend provisional
members are no longer valid", the Board eliminated the options to
extend that existed in the appeals process legislation, passed
Jan. 9, 1988. I wish to express my appreciation and thanks to Jim
who wanted this to happen and prepared the research necessary for
it to take place. 
@end iftex

Source documents for this compiliation are:
@itemize @asis
@item
Second Alternate Provisional Member Voting System, Aug. 17, 1985
@item
Proposed Change to the Membership Voting System, April 4, 1987
@item
Voting Procedures for Accepting Full Members, Jan. 9, 1988 and
ammended Mar. 30, 1988
@item
Reasons for NO and EXTEND Votes, Nov. 4, 1989
@item
Bounce Vote, Aug. 4, 1990
@item
Provisional Membership Extension, June 1, 1991
@item
Change in Voting Procedure, Aug. 20, 1981
@end itemize

There is other legislation and policy related to membership which
was not included in this compiliation because it did not directly
relate to membership acceptance, but dealt with screening
visitors, member rights and benefits, leaves of absence, and fair
share sanctions. 

I. The Visitor Period

@var{Visitors must visit at least three weeks to be considered
eligible for membership.} During the visitor period, full members
may cast NO votes on the visitor if they don't want the visitor
to become a member. Only full members are eligible to cast votes
in the entire membership acceptance process. If at least 25% of
the full members cast NO votes on the visitor, the visitor is not
eligible for membership and must leave the community. 

If a visitor wishes to become a member, @var{the Membership
Manager posts an announcement} at the conclusion of the visitor
period that co's membership vote is in process. @var{This period
lasts five days.} During this time full members may cast NO
votes. The visitor is accepted as a provisional member if there
are less than 25% NO votes. During the visitor and provisional
member periods, NO votes take precedence over other types of
votes.

@suindex Bounce votes
@suindex Visitors, bounce votes
Bounce Votes: The first time a person visits, it is possible for
that person to be "bounced" within the first three days of the
visit. A bounce vote is a NO vote cast by a full member against a
visitor in an emergency situation during the first three days of
co's visitor period. A bounce vote must be declared as such, and
the situation warranting the bounce vote must be specified. Three
bounce votes are necessary to bounce a visitor.

Extend Votes: Full members may vote to extend the visitor period
of a visitor they are uncertain about. As with NO votes, it takes
at least 25% EXTEND votes or 25% combination of NOs and EXTENDS
for the visitor to be extended for one month after which another
vote will be held. Only one extension is allowed.

@var{The determination of 25% is based on the number of full
members currently on the work system (not on leaves of absence).}

@var{Votes must be cast for each individual case. Standing votes are
not allowed.}

@var{The above two policies also apply in the case of provisional
members.}

II. The Provisional Member Period

The provisional member period lasts one year from the date of
acceptance.  The above applies to all persons accepted as
provisional members after June 1, 1991.

Three Month Feedback on Provisional Members: Three months into
the provisional member period, a note will be posted soliciting
feedback on co. @var{This is done in the form of a posted
announcement and straw vote ballots which full members are given
a week to complete. After the completion of the straw vote the
Membership Manager tallies the results and the accompanying
comments and relates them to the provisional member in
confidence.} If the results of this feedback process indicate to
the Membership Manager that the provisional member and the
community would benefit from a public discussion concerning the
provisional member's membership, then the Membership Manager will
advise the provisional member accordingly. The provisional member
would be given the option of having the meeting or not. The
provisional member could also request such a meeting. If the
provisional member approves of the meeting, the Membership
Manager will arrange and conduct one public meeting in which the
provisional member will have the option to attend or not. The
meeting will be creditable as community meetings are creditable
(one half credit).

If full members don't want a provisional member to be accepted
into full membership, they may cast NO votes on the provisional
member at any time during co's provisional member period. If a
provisional member receives at least 25% NO votes, during the
provisional member period, the provisional member either leaves
the community or is reinstated to provisional membership through
the appeals process to be explained later. @var{NO votes cast on
the provisional member during co's visitor period count toward
the 25% required to reject the provisional member. }

@var{NO votes cast on provisional members are given to the
Membership Manager or a deputy,} however, they will not be
accepted unless they are accompanied by both reasons for the NO
votes and recommendations for improvement. The person collecting
the votes will not relay this information to the provisional
member if the anonymity of the person who cast the vote cannot be
preserved.

Extend votes have been abolished for provisional members and no
longer apply anywhere within the full membership acceptance
process. Hence, a person who receives 25% NO votes and fails to
receive a 50% YES vote on the full member ballot is rejected with
no possibility of being extended on an appeal.

III. Acceptance into Full Membership

At the conclusion of the provisional member period, the full
membership vote is held. Secret ballots are distributed to the
full members; the voting period is one week. The ballots will
specify choices for YES, NO, or ABSTAIN and will include a
section for positive or negative feedback that will be passed on
to the full member candidate verbally.

If the provisional member receives at least 50% YES votes on the
ballots, and less than 25% NO votes on the ballots, co is
accepted into full membership. If the provisional member receives
at least 25% NO votes and less than 50% YES votes, co is not
accepted for full membership and must leave the community. There
is no possibility of appeal. If the provisional member receives
at least 50% YES votes AND at least 25% NO votes, then the
decision automatically comes to community meeting. The number of
YES votes will not be publicized but will be told to the person
who was voted on.

IV. The Appeals Process

In the case of a provisional member who receives at least 25% NO
votes during the provisional member period before the full member
ballot, a successful appeal would reinstate provisional
membership. In the event that provisional membership is
reinstated, it would take 50% of the full members to reject the
provisional member during the next three months following
reinstatement. However, if the provisional member once again
receives 25% NO votes within this three month period, the Social
Manager can bring the matter to community meeting for a decision
whether to continue reinstatement.

In the case of a provisional member who receives at least 25% NO
votes and 50% YES votes on the full member ballot, a successful
appeal would overide those votes and co would be accepted as a
full member.

Eligibility for Appeals By Petition: A person who wishes co's
provisional membership to be reinstated is eligible for appeal if
33% of the full members on the premises (not elsewhere) wish to
review the reasons for the NO votes and sign a petition stating
that they would like the decision to come to community meeting.
This petition must be approved by the provisional member. The
petitioning period is limited to the seven days following the
posting of the initial vote results. The petition calling for a
vote review is worded "I am concerned enough about _______'s vote
that I want to attend a community meeting to review the vote." As
with all decision meetings, notification must be posted 72 hours
before the meeting time.

Appeals Meeting Process: The community meeting will be
facilitated so it is a safe environment for all members to
express their concerns. The facilitator and all members will
support every member's safety so full expression of concerns are
made. Personal attacks and discounting or ridiculing other's
concerns do not promote a safe environment for full and open
discussion and thus they are not acceptable at these or any other
public discussion meetings. There is discussion on the reasons
for the votes. Are the reasons based on good selection criteria?
Do such criteria apply in this case? After the discussion ballots
are passed out. 

Balloting on Appeals Votes: These will be secret ballots. Only
those full members attending the meeting (present for most of the
procedural motions) are given a ballot. Ballots will emphasize
that to change the vote, people are choosing to override those
people who cast NO votes. The ballots will have three options:
YES, NO, and ABSTAIN. Proxies apply only when given specifically
for a particular person's vote review meeting. The voting period
lasts 24 hours from the end of the meeting after which the votes
are tallied and the results announced.

Tallies on Appeals Votes: Abstains do not count in the vote total
used to determine what is a majority. If a majority votes to
accept, then the person is accepted as a full member, or in the
case of a provisional member voted out before the full member
ballot, reinstated as a provisional member. If a majority does
not vote to accept the person is rejected for membership and must
leave the community. 

@node Inviting Visitors, Associates, Membership Voting, Membership
@unnumberedsec Inviting Visitors

[Returning member policy, date unknown]

@suindex Visitors
If a former member who may be controversial wants to return, the
visitor manager will put up a poll looking for feedback. 
Responses to the poll will be discussed by Population Committee. 
If enough say they would vote "no" on returning member, to make
2/3 of the number needed to reject a visitor, Population
Committee will automatically deny a visit.  If less than 2/3,
Population Committee will use its discretion with consideration
of adamancy of negative or positive feedback, previous history of
returning member, etc.

[Population Committee Policy on Drop-ins, 18 Oct 84]

@suindex Drop-ins
As a general rule, we prefer people to write or call well in
advance so we can schedule visitors at both their and our
convenience.  Drop-in visitors may be accepted as visitors or
asked to leave at the discretion of the visitor manager.  Or, if
the visitor manager is not on the farm, a designated population
committee member will have that discretion.

@node Associates, Messes and Fair Share, Inviting Visitors, Membership
@unnumberedsec Associates

@suindex Associates
[Conditions of Associate Status at East Wind, Community Meeting,
16 Jul 88]

1) Visitors are given the opportunity to become Provisional
Members or Associates of East Wind.  The process of acceptance
for both categories is the same.

2) Associates may become Provisional Members during their
residence at East Wind under the same procedures as visitors
applying for Provisional Membership except that Associates do not
need to repeat the visitor period again.  They are voted on a
second time and their vote notice is posted for the same number
of days as those posted for Visitors applying for Provisional
Membership.  Associates do not have the option of applying for
Provisional Membership while not resident at East Wind.

3) Full Members and Provisional Members who wish to change their
status to Associate may do so upon informing Population Committee
of their wish.

4) Associates are required to be in residence at least sixty days
in a given year.  The minimum residency period is 30 days. 
Population Committee is empowered to make exceptions.

5) Associates must given advance notification to Population
Committee of their intentions to return for a residency period
and for how long they wish their residency period to be.  Failure
to do so by dropping in results in loss of Associate status.

6) Population Committee approves the residency periods of
Associates on a space available basis.  Priority in space
assignments is always given to Full Members and Provisional
Members and to Visitors in the case of visitor spaces.  Hence,
Associates are not guaranteed specific sleeping spaces and may
not be able to return to the community as they wish.  Population
Committee will work with the Trusterty Manager in accommodating
Associates as much as is feasible.

[Room Assignments to Associates, the Board, Jan 92]

@suindex Housing, and associates
The Membership Manager shall coordinate with the Room Assigner
to insure that there are enough spaces for members.

When an associate has been assigned a room, co shall be permitted
to use that room until co takes Associate Leave.

When rooms become scarce, members will be assigned rooms before
associates are.  At such times any associates requesting to return
should be given clear understanding of what sort of housing they
are likely to find available.

Under this policy, associates in standard space will be counted in
determining the membership ceiling.

[Conditions of Associate Status]

@suindex Property code and associates
7) Associates are subject to East Wind's Labor Agreements but not
to East Wind money and property rules, with the following
exceptions:

@suindex Leaves and associates
a.  Associates are eligible for Social Emergency Leaves, but none
of the other Leaves apply to them.  No community funds will be
made available to Associates on Social Emergency Leave. 
Associates shall be considered on @dfn{Associate Leave} when not
resident at East Wind.

@suindex Work and associates
b.  Associates are required to have a non-negative labor balance
when they leave the Community for a non-residency period. 
Failure to do so results in loss of Associate status.

@suindex Labor exchange and associates
c.  Labor Exchange does not apply to Associates.

@suindex DFs and associates
@suindex Discretionary Funds and associates
d.  Associates receive discretionary funds equivalent to that of
Provisional and Full Members.  Associates who leave East Wind
owing money to the Community automatically lose their Associate
status.

@suindex Vehicles and associates
e.  Associates are not to use personally owned vehicles or money
earned outside of community while in residence at East Wind.

@suindex Medical care for associates
8)  The Community will make available medical care for work-
related injuries and first aid and transport for non-work-related
medical emergencies.

@suindex Votes for associates
9)  Associates are not eligible for managerial positions or
Community officers' positions and do not have a vote.

10)  Associates who drop in or who leave the Community for a non-
residency period with a negative labor balance have the option of
applying for re-entry into the Visitor Program (acceptance is not
guaranteed) or being guested by a member.  Failing these, the
individual must leave the Community.

11)  Individuals who leave the community owing money to East Wind
must settle their debts before reapplying for Associate status.

@node Messes and Fair Share, Economic Agreements, Associates, Membership
@unnumberedsec Messes and Fair Share

[Messes and Fair Share, Community Meeting, 15 Jun 91]

@suindex Messes
@suindex Fair Share
Anyone who does not take responsibility for cleaning up their own
mess in a public space or the mess in a public space of a child
in their care shall be liable to a charge of violation of fair
share.

@node Economic Agreements, Leaves, Messes and Fair Share, Membership
@unnumberedsec Economic Agreements

@suindex Economic Agreements
[The economic agreements have never been enacted as legislation or
policy.  In cases where I can find the relevant legislation or
policy I have included it in this document instead of the relevant
section of the economic agreements.  Where I cannot find any such
legislation or policy, I have included the relevant section of the
economic agreements, because these may reflect legislation or
policy that has been lost, and even if not many of these things are
long-standing, well-entrenched traditions.

The topics covered by the economic agreements can be found in the
following sections:

LABOR: @xref{Labor}.

Everyone is expected to work their fair share: @xref{Work
Required}.  This includes working quota, which is less for older
people (@pxref{Quota}).

Members can have guests stay here: @xref{Guests}.

Members of one Federation community can do their work at another
Federation community: @xref{Labor Exchange}.

Members get time for vacations and holidays: @xref{Vacation}.

If you are sick you don't have to work: @xref{Medical Hours}.

Labor requirements don't apply when you are on leave:
@xref{Leaves}.

Personal Service Credits transfer hours from one person to another:
@xref{PSCs}.

There are rules regarding adjusting labor balances @xref{Back
Hours}.

MONEY: @xref{Money}.

Members and associates get an allowance @xref{DFs}.

Each member gets a personal shipping allowance @xref{Personal
Shipping}.

Money earned off the farm goes into OWV @xref{Money Miscellaneous}.

There are rules regarding use of vehicles.  @xref{Bylaws}, and
@xref{Autos}.

Exceptions are made for members who are about to leave.  @xref{Work
Required} and @xref{Money Miscellaneous}.

Various types of leaves of absence are possible.  @xref{Leaves}.

]

@node Leaves, Limits, Economic Agreements, Membership
@unnumberedsec Leaves

@suindex Leaves
@menu
* Leaves General::              Things Pertaining to All Leaves
* Personal Affairs Leave::      Personal Affairs Leave
* Provisional Member Leave::    Provisional Member Leave
* Social Emergency Leave::      Social Emergency Leave
* Educational Leave::           Educational Leave
@end menu

@node Leaves General, Personal Affairs Leave,  , Leaves
@ifinfo
@unnumberedsubsec Things Pertaining to All Leaves
@end ifinfo

[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

Members are not responsible for East Wind labor requirements
while on a leave from community.

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

There are four types of leaves members may take.  Except when
specified otherwise members on leaves are inactive members having
no obligations to East Wind and likewise East Wind has no
obligations to inactive members.  All rights and benefits are
suspended while an inactive member (except as noted below).  Upon
returning to East Wind the person on leave resumes active
membership having the same rights and obligations accorded all
active members.]

[Economic Agreement Change, Community Meeting, 22 Aug 87]

Allow the last day of a leave to be taken on the farm.

@node Personal Affairs Leave, Provisional Member Leave, Leaves General, Leaves
@unnumberedsubsec Personal Affairs Leave

@suindex Personal affairs leave
@suindex PA leave
[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

Personal Affairs Leave "PA leave"

One forfeits managerships and all elected positions, and co's private
room if gone longer than two months.  The Membership Manager must be
notified of one's departure date and expected return date.  Time spent
on leave does not count towards seniority of membership.]

[Personal Affairs Leave Policy, Population Committee, 8 May 85]

A member is eligible for the first PA leave as soon as co becomes
a full member.  Co may take up to one year as a PA leave at five
year intervals.  These leaves are not cumulative, i.e. if you
wait ten years it does not entitle you to two years leave.

Full members who have already taken PA leaves are eligible for
their second one five years from the date they returned to East
Wind from their first.

@node Provisional Member Leave, Social Emergency Leave, Personal Affairs Leave, Leaves
@unnumberedsubsec Provisional Member Leave

@suindex Provisional member leave
@suindex PM leave
[Re-definition of provisional member leaves (policy), Membership
Committee, 8 Jun 83]

-P.M. leave may only be taken off the farm.

-P.M. leave may not be taken once a person is a full member,
unless started while a provisional member.

-Members are permitted only one P.M. leave per lifetime of
membership.

-If leave is taken within 1 month of becoming a member, leave can
last up to one year with approval of Population Committee,
otherwise leave is two weeks.

@node Social Emergency Leave, Educational Leave, Provisional Member Leave, Leaves
@unnumberedsubsec Social Emergency Leave

@suindex Social emergency leave
[Policy Guidelines for Social Emergency Leaves and Use of Social
Emergency Funds, Social Manager, 1 Apr 91]

These guidelines provide for the granting of leaves of absence
and funds requests so members may give emergency assistance to
people with whom they have a close relationship. At the same
time, the guidelines attempt to narrow the range of such requests
so that they are fair and reasonable from the community's point
of view. Social Emergency Leaves and funds requests will be
approved provided the following conditions exist:

1. The emergency must deal with persons of the member's immediate
family; parents, children, siblings, spouses, long-time partners.
Persons with whom the member had intimate or interdependent ties
of long duration as if they were family may also qualify. These
persons must not be current residents of East Wind-- that is
physically present.

2. The emergency must be of a nature where the member's
attendence is necessary because there is no one else to provide
support, or if the emergency's outcome would result in major
consequence for the life of the member, or if the member's
attendence would be greatly appreciated.

3. The emergency must be an occasion of great distress or life
transition for the individual(s) mentioned in paragraph 1.
Furthermore, the emergency would be an occasion in which there
would not be adequate advance time to plan a course of action.
Examples could include death and dying, severe illness or injury,
dislocation, severe legal troubles, situations in which the
person(s) might bring great harm to themselves or come to great
harm, etc. No list of examples could be complete.

4. Emergencies in which the member is the subject do not qualify
for leaves or funds requests under this policy. If a member's
illness requires treatment elsewhere, Medical Committee deals
with that. The Social Manager may be resource person for crisis
intervention, counseling, information, and advice but time away
or funds requests for personal emergencies should be referred to
another appropriate community agency.

5. While there will not be a standard limit on funds allotments,
there is only so much money available. Members requesting social
emergency funds should understand that the funds are supplements
and are not meant to cover the entire cost of attending to an
emergency. Arrangements for loans, against member's D.F.s are
possible in situations where additional funds are needed.

6. Social Emergency funds allotments are used to offset expenses
incurred by the member in attending to the emergency travel,
phone calls, food, etc. and should not be used to directly
benefit other persons.

7. If the duration of the Social Emergency Leave is expected to
be short, say, not more than a week, then the member may continue
to enjoy all rights and benefits normally accorded members not on
leaves of absence. If, however, the Social Emergency Leaves
exceeds a week, then the rights and benefits of membership are
suspended as in other leaves of absence. Social Emergency Leaves
will not exceed one year. This is Board policy.

8. The Social Manager will determine if the above conditions are
met, have an understanding of the details and arrangements, and
deal with the requests in a sensitive and compassionate manner.

@node Educational Leave,  , Social Emergency Leave, Leaves
@unnumberedsubsec Educational Leave

@suindex Educational Leave
[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

Membership Manager is authorized to approve [educational] leave.]

[On Educational Leaves (policy), 10 May 84]

Population committee has come up with a set of minimum criteria
for educational leaves, the granting of which will be
administered by Population Committee.

Beyond the basic makeup of the leave, which is outlined below,
each leave, to some extent, will be tailored to the individual's
and Community's needs at the time the leave is requested.

Criteria.
1) A member requesting an Ed. leave must have been a member for
at least 3 years and not have a deficit labor balance.
2) The field of study must be such that it will benefit the
community when co returns from leave.
3) Leaves shall be granted for degree or certificate-type
programs at specific institutions.  Course work (non-degree) can
be approved if the Branch to which the courses would relate
o.k.'s the need for such courses.

The basic makeup of an Educational leave is real similar to a
Personal affairs leave:  Full membership rights, no voting
rights, loss of co's room, etc.  Except that weekly disc. funds
(but not yearly) can be recieved if co is on farm visiting for at
least four consecutive weeks.

Also, until East Wind strikes it rich, community will not pay
education, medical, or living expenses while a member is on
Educational leave.

[Educational Leave, date unknown]

Educational Leave will be decided/granted by the Membership
Committee on a case-by-case basis.

1- Minimum requirements
-minimum amount of time as a full member--three years
-Member must be in good labor standing (above 0) for at least 6
months prior to request for educational leave
-the education must directly benefit community

2- Process
-post a paper on the back board telling Community about the
educational plans.  This will be in the form of a proposal to the
membership committee.
-two weeks after the proposal has been posted, the membership
committee will meet with the person, consider the proposal,
consider feedback received, and give a decision to Community.

3- Rights Retained By Member While On Educational Leave
-remains a full member with no loss of seniority
-their room is lost
-when co returns to the farm on vacation, co will be the first
person on the next matrix for a room
-retains member vote and community meeting vote when on the farm. 
(no proxys while away at school)
-if co will be on the farm at least four consecutive weeks, they
will get their weekly allotment of Discretionary Funds
-time spent on educational leave will not count toward receipt of
yearly Discretionary funds.  When co comes off of educational
leave, the time count will resume for yearly D.F. monies.

4- Vehicle
-If co has a vehicle on loan to Community, co may take the
vehicle on Educational leave.  When co returns to the farm, the
vehicle reverts to previous loan status (includes vacations from
school)

5- Income While On Educational Leave
-Any income earned or unearned by the person on leave can be
spent at co's discretion as needed for educational and living
expenses.

6- Break/Study Time
-a person on educational leave and on the farm has up to 10 hours
a week for study time within quota.  This labor cannot be
accumulated.
-while on the farm, taking an official vacation from school, the
first three days the person will be off the system.

Only 5% of full members can be on Educational Leave at a time.

No medical expenses will be paid for while on Educational Leave.

@node Limits,  , Leaves, Membership
@unnumberedsec Limits

@suindex Housing limits
@suindex Membership limits
@suindex Gender balance
@suindex Waiting list
@suindex Standard private spaces
@suindex Double rooms
[Housing and Membership Limit Guidelines, Community Meeting, 14
Mar 86]

Until the gender balance reaches 50/50, prospective women members
will be given the following special considerations:

1) When a waiting list exists, women on the list will have the
first option of joining when new housing space becomes available.

2) Women will be given the option of staying as members in spaces
other than standard private spaces or doubles, men will not.  And
the membership limit will not apply to these cases.  These women
will also have first option when new standard private space or
doubles becomes available.

Membership limit and housing:

1) The membership limit will be equal to the number of private standard
spaces available plus 3 doubles.  Except in special cases, this
eliminates the use of holes and closets for provisional and full
members.

2) The membership ceiling would be adjusted by the Community Board to
reflect the number of standard private spaces that are added or
subtracted - due to new construction, remodeling or conversion to
non-housing uses.

The Board would also determine what space would be included as standard
private space.  With the ability to make temporary increases in the
ceiling for non-standard spaces that members are interested in living in
- i.e. the Pagoda.

3) The Population Committee would have responsibility and authroity
to:

a) Maintain the waiting list.

b) Make additional policies regarding the administration of the
ceiling and waiting list.

c) Decide which 3 rooms would be used as doubles.

@suindex Guests, and housing
@suindex Labor exchange, and housing
4) Guests and LEX's are not guaranteed a standard private space.  The
host members are responsible for finding/providing housing for them.
Only if arrangements are made ahead of time with TBA [Temporary bed
assigner] can a space be promised - and only if it is not needed for
other members or visitors.

5) Temporary members [temporary members no longer exist, but this
might be interpreted to apply to associates, see also board policy
@xref{Associates}] will be limited based on space.  Standard
private space will be reserved for provisional and full members. 
Temporary members will be expected to live in substandard space if
the other spaces are needed for either provisional or full members
- or visitors.

@node Social, Medical, Membership, Top
@unnumbered Social

@menu
* Social General::              Social General
* Personal Property::           Personal Property
* Alvin::                       Alvin
* Sexual Harrassment::          Sexual Harrassment
* Hunting::                     Hunting
* Autos::                       Autos
* Video Discs and Films::       Video Discs and Films
* Housing::                     Housing
* Child Support::               Child Support
* TV::                          TV
* Guests::                      Guests
@end menu

@node Social General, Personal Property,  , Social
@unnumberedsec Social General

@suindex Caring
[A Caring Society, Community Meeting, 8 May 88]

To be a caring society,
we will develop and maintain an approach to life in which:

@suindex Respect
1.  @emph{We treat each other with respect.}  Instead of
classifying anyone on the basis of some "ism" (racism, sexism,
ageism, classism, etc.) we look for the individual worth in each
human being we interact with.

@suindex Sensitivity
2.  @emph{We're sensitive to each other's feelings.}  We pay
attention to where our fellow communitarians are at, take their
needs into account, and give them supportive attention when
they're down.  We make a special effort to get to know new people
and make them feel at home.

@suindex Physical affection
@suindex Appreciation
3.  @emph{We give each other a good supply of "warm fuzzies".} 
We express appreciation and give plenty of positive feedback.  We
desexualize affection in our minds so we can freely hug, hold
hands, and otherwise physically express warmth and caring.

@suindex Conflicts
4.  @emph{We handle conflicts with respect and regard for each
other.}  When in conflict with someone, we try to work it thru
with that person (with the help of a mediator, if necessary)
instead of letting it fester.  We avoid both public yelling at
our "adversary" and private downers on co.  We give negative
feedback gently and with respect; we receive it openly and with
honest consideration.

@suindex Thoughtfulness
5.  @emph{We're thoughtful of each other.}  We try to avoid doing
things that would make extra work for someone, and instead to do
our best to lighten the work load of others.  We each take
responsibility for our own possessions, and clean up our own
messes.

@suindex Work
@suindex Responsibility
6.  @emph{We each take full responsibility for our share of the
work load.}  We're careful not to cop out on a responsibility and
leave our fellow communitarians to suffer because it isn't done. 
We're willing to help without reward, because we know that
helping each other makes it easier for all of us.

7.  @emph{We're careful to conserve our common resources.}  We're
alert for ways we can save energy; we take good care of tools, we
drive as if we had to pay for our own repairs.  We guide our
actions by the knowledge that wasting causes us all more work.

8.  @emph{We take pride in our Community and in what we do for
it.}  We strive for quality in our work and in our lives.  We
keep our agreements clear and strong.  Instead of complaining
about Community's shortcomings we put our energy into actualizing
it's best potentials.

We realize that the only way we can have a caring society such as
this is for each of us, individually, to do our best to live up
to these ideals.  We know that none of us is perfect, but we
believe a society of mutual caring is worth striving for in spite
of our failings, and that we can forgive and help each other.

@node Personal Property, Alvin, Social General, Social
@unnumberedsec Personal Property

@suindex Personal property
[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

@suindex TV in private rooms
@suindex Television in private rooms
Personal Property

Generally any property that can be kept in one's room with the
exception of a television is acceptable.  Other property can in
some instances be loaned to the community for use or stored in
the community.]

[Personal Property, Community Meeting, 4 Jun 88]

The following must be met in order to keep personal property in
one's room:

- Buildings, Utilities and Grounds must give written
authorization for its use if the item will use utilities.

- It must not emit disagreeable noise, vibrations, nor smells.

@node Alvin, Sexual Harrassment, Personal Property, Social
@unnumberedsec Alvin

@suindex Alvin
@suindex Violence
@suindex Conflict
[Charges against Alvin, Community Meeting, 7 Mar 92]

[The original version of this proposal, by Alvin, included the
following introduction:

In that grabbing someone by the neck is not viewed by me to be an
acceptable behavior in our community, I am asking for support from
community and from some particular individuals in order to deal
with the causes of my stress and constructive ways to relieve it. 
Given that some or all of these initiatives are carried out with
sincerity strengthens my confidence that no similar situation will
occur in the future and that significant progress could indeed be
made toward resolving a longstanding conflict among several members
of our community.

The following are things I would like to see happen.]

1.  Alvin will counsel at Ozark Care and Counseling leading to
conflict mediation between Alvin and Carlos.

2.  Alvin will have a clearness meeting at East Wind.  He will meet
with people he feels he can trust and solicit advice and feedback
on exploring various options on what to do with his life and how to
function better here.

3.  The Board will develop a cautionary statement about what we
expect in our interactions with each other with emphasis on
respect, caring, cooperation, responsibility, honesty and fairness.

4.  We as a community resolve to work on helping individuals get by
the fear and intimidation of speaking up in public about charged
issues.  In this regard, when speaking with another concerning a
charged issue, if so required, Alvin will not advance physically
toward that person any closer than 3 feet from that person.  Alvin
may also invoke this requirement.

5.  Alvin will voluntarily leave East Wind if, as determined by
East Wind community, he commits another physically violent act
against an East Wind resident.

[The original version of this proposal, by Alvin, included the
following conclusion:

Carlos has already agreed that he and I see counselors and then
attempt conflict resolution with their help.  I would like to say
that I would feel supported if Linda, Peggy, Ch'hsh'na, and Leslie
would also seek counseling, clearness meetings or some means of
lessening their anger/frustration/stress.  The less stressed we are
as individuals the clearer and freer of charge our communication is
likely to be.  (Linda is friendly to this idea of counseling.)]

@node Sexual Harrassment, Hunting, Alvin, Social
@unnumberedsec Sexual Harrassment

@suindex Sexual harrassment
@suindex Harrassment, sexual
In a society characterized by fairness and mutual respect, sexual
harrassment has no place.  We agree to educate ourselves about
sexual harrassment, increase our awareness of when it happens,
and be vigilant in seeing that it not continue.

DEFINITION

Sexual harrassment is defined as any act of a sexual nature
directed at another person which that person finds offensive,
providing that the person who commits such an act has been
informed that the act is considered to be offensive.  In line
with this, the following three conditions must be present before
a charge of sexual harrassment can be made:

1.  Acts or expressions must be considered offensive by those
subjected to them, and a complaint must be made to communicate
this, either directly or indirectly, to the offender.

2.  The person acting in the offensive manner must be informed
that either the specific act or the type of act was considered
offensive by those subjected to it.  A public notice is not
sufficient to meet this requirement.

3.  The act must be determined by the Social Manager to be sexual
in nature.

The Social Manager is charged with verifying these conditions and
facilitating communication between those involved.

Some examples of acts which are likely to offend:

1.  When a person tries to use some perceived power over another
to get them involved in sexual activity, e.g. when a member
implies that a visitor should be involvedd sexually with co or
others in order to get accepted for membership.

2.  Obscene advances, including words, jokes, gestures, actions,
or unwanted touching.  What is considered obscene will vary from
person to person.

3.  Staring at or following someone uninvited.  This is not only
irritating, but can be demeaning or even very threatening.

4.  Repeated sexual advances, when the other person has made it
clear through words or behavior that they are not interested in
your company.

5.  Ridicule of another person's sexual orientation.

RESPONSES TO SEXUAL HARRASSMENT

A person who has been the victim of sexual harrassment may in
some cases feel able to talk directly with the offender about it. 
The Social Manager, if called upon, is prepared to question the
accused individual about what happened, and to determine whether
that person understands the community's policy on sexual
harrassment.  Based on the results of that conversation, the
Social Manager may recommend one or more of the following:

1.  No further action; assurance from the individual that co
intends to abide by the community policy may suffice.

2.  Facilitated discussion involving both parties.

3.  Voluntary behavior contract, in which the individual agrees
to abide by the community policy, and accepts specific
consequences if co breaks the contract, such as leaving the
community for a period of time or permanently.

4.  Community-wide concerns meeting.

5.  Resolution by Community Meeting asking offender to leave.

In a more general, preventative approach, the community should
arrange for forums and workshops on sexual harrassment and
related matters.  Support groups (men, women, or mixed) can be
helpful in raising our consciousness about these issues, and in
restoring a sense of safety for persons who have suffered
demeaning or frightening experiences.  It is the responsibility
of all of us to work for a non-sexist, non-violent, caring
society.

@node Hunting, Autos, Sexual Harrassment, Social
@unnumberedsec Hunting

@suindex Hunting
@suindex Guns
[Hunting, Community Meeting, 7 Nov 81.  This is the date of the
most recent amendment; there is no record of the date of original
enactment]

1.  NUMBER OF GUNS

The Maximum number of guns to be kept on the property is six (2
short guns, 2 deer rifles, and 2 small-caliber rifles).

2.  LOCKING UP

a.  The guns shall have trigger locks placed on each by the
hunting manager.

b.  Keys to the trigger locks and all ammunition shall be kept in
a double-locked box by the hunting manager.

c.  One key to this lock-box shall be kept by the hunting
manager; the other shall be kept by a community-appointed person.

3.  STORAGE

a.  Guns will be kept either by the hunting manager or by a
person appointed by the hunting manager who will assume
responsibility for the care and maintenance of the gun(s).

If a person storing a gun leaves the farm, another member will
store it in co's room so that visitors and guests do not stay in
rooms where guns are being stored.

b.  All guns stored on East Wind properties will be locked when
not in use--either for hunting or cleaning.

c.  All stored guns should be inobtrusive, or out of sight to
casual visitors to the rooms in which guns are stored.

d.  When hunting is finished and hunters returned, the guns
should be cleaned and locked again the same day.

4.  OWNERSHIP

a.  Guns stored and/or used at East Wind should be considered to
be on loan to the community by the owner of the gun for the
duration of each owner's and/or gun's stay at East Wind.

b.  All guns stored and/or used at East Wind will be subject to
this legislation.

5.  ON-PROPERTY HUNTING

The hunting of animals which are pests or dangerous is permitted
on East Wind properties or leased land when approved by the
appropriate manager (for example, the chicken manager OK's the
shooting of a coon that is killing a lot of chickens).  A note
must be posted on the one-day board prior to the activity.  The
community can review these actions afterwards at a regular
community meeting.

6.  OFF-PROPERTY HUNTING

a.  Any member may hunt off the property with guns not stored on
the property.

People who wish to use community guns will inform the key-people
by at least dinner time the night before they intend to use the
gun.  The key-people will get together with the gun, unlock it,
provide ammunition for it, and see that the gun is ready for
travel.

b.  The guns should not be loaded on the farm for off-property
hunting.

c.  Licenses are required for all off-farm hunting (and fishing).

7.  SAFETY

a.  Each September there will be a one to two hour, non-
creditable safety class including safety check scheduled by Labor
for all hunters and gun-users (noted in the Tickler File).  The
class will be organised by the hunting manager and conducted by
the most qualified hunter/gun-user.

b.  The hunting manager will give a safety check to each
hunter/gun-user who doesn't attend the class.

c.  Any person wishing to hunt with community guns must obtain
permission from the community at a community meeting.

8.  The hunting manager has decision-making power in emergency
situations involving gun use/control.

9.  Visitors cannot use community guns.  Visitors who bring guns
onto the property with them must lock them in their cars or leave
[them] with the hunting manager.

10.  We are allocating $8 / gun from general funds to buy trigger
locks.  This replaces any previous allocations of money for gun
storage and locking.

[Hunting Managership Policy, Social Committee, 4 Dec 83]

Social Committee has re-evaluated the hunting managership and has
decided on the following re-division of responsibility.  The
title of "hunting manager" will be eliminated and replaced by

1)  Gun meta:  appointed by soc comm, the gun meta is responsible
for taking care of any guns on the farm.  Co will secure with
locks all guns and store ammo separately, also under lock.  Co
will issue guns only to authorized members, who have the o.k. of
the ag board and have passed hunting safety requirements, and
have correct permits when necessary.

2)  Ag board is responsible for o.k.ing the use of guns for
a) varmit control
b)  procuring food to be eaten at East Wind.
Ag board does not have authority to o.k. recreational hunting.

2 [sic])  Social committee will appoint the gun meta.  They will
also decide on any case where recreational hunting is involved. 
This social committee does not support recreational hunting.

@node Autos, Video Discs and Films, Hunting, Social
@unnumberedsec Autos

@suindex Vehicles
@suindex Cars
@suindex Trucks
@suindex Automobiles
@menu
* Garage::                      Garage
* Auto Usage::                  Auto Usage
* Member Vehicles::             Member Vehicles
* Pick-ups::                    Pick-ups
* Mileage::                     Mileage
@end menu

@node Garage, Auto Usage,  , Autos
@unnumberedsubsec Garage

@suindex Gas tank
@suindex Tool box in auto maintenance
[Lock on Gas Tank, Community Meeting, 23 Jul 83]

Approve Lock on Gas tank.  Key would be kept on a hook in public.

@suindex Lock on garage tool box
[Locked Tool Box, Community Meeting, 13 Jul 85]

That there will be a locked tool box in Auto Maintenance which
will contain a complete set of tools for auto repair work.

@node Auto Usage, Member Vehicles, Garage, Autos
@unnumberedsubsec Auto Usage

@suindex Driving
[Auto Usage Policy, Social Committee, 8 Sep 85]

@suindex Drinking and driving
(1) No driving @emph{on} or @emph{off} the farm is @emph{drunk}
or @emph{high}.  Don't push it.  If you've been drinking or
drugging recently - DON'T DRIVE.

@suindex Driver's license
@suindex Missouri driver's license
(2) Vehicles can only be used by @emph{legal drivers}.  This
means a valid Missouri license - unless you've only been a member
for less than 60 days.

(3) @emph{Only members} can drive community vehicles, both
@emph{on} and @emph{off} the farm.

(4) @emph{No open alcohol} or @emph{illegal drugs} are to be in
community vehicles while off the farm.

(5) @emph{Violations} will result in @emph{suspension} of the use
of community vehicles for @emph{3-12 months}.

(6) Any fines that occur as a result of violating these rules
will be paid by the individual.

@node Member Vehicles, Pick-ups, Auto Usage, Autos
@unnumberedsubsec Member Vehicles

[Member Vehicles, Community Meeting, 6 May 79]

When a member becomes a full member of East Wind, co has 30 days
(extendable by the auto usage manager) to either store co's auto
off premises, to give it to the community, or to loan it to the
community.  If the member chooses to give OR loan the vehicle to
the community, the title will be in a name determined by East
Wind (the Auto Usage Manager).

If it is a gift, that is the end of it.

If it is a loan, the current market value (determined by the Auto
Usage Manager) of the vehicle will be estimated and put on
record.  If the member leaves East Wind, co may choose to take
the auto, if it is still here, or to take the money which it was
valued at.  In the mean time, the community controls the vehicle. 
This allows East Wind to sell or modify the auto to best serve
our vehicle needs, or to replace it with a more suitable vehicle. 
And the previous owner, if co leaves, does not have to take a
loss.

[Privately owned vehicles at East Wind (mainly policy), Auto
Usage Manager, 30 Jul 80]

This sheet spells out most current policy regarding privately
owned vehicles (cars, trucks and motorcycles) and lists the
options available to vehicle-owning members.  Basic community
policy is that, while members are permitted to retain legal
ownership of vehciles, they are not allowed privileged, personal
use of them for the duration of their membership, even during
vacations.  (Note, however, that during leaves of absence, such
as provisional member leave and leave due to death or illness in
the family, persons are technically not members, and thus are not
bound by these restrictions.)

Full Members

Vehicle-owners have four options availabel to them 30 days after
they become full members.  (1) A member may turn over co's
vehicle to the community as a gift.  (2) Co may loan the vehicle
to the community to be used as paort of its fleet.  This option
requires the consent of the auto usage manager.  The community
may not deliberately alter the vehicle in a destructive way, but
otherwise it completely controls how the vehicle is used.  If the
owner gives up membership and leaves community, co is ordinarily
welcome to any improvements made on the vehicle but forfeits all
claim to compensation due to depreciation, including total
wreckage.  (All vehicles borrowed by East Wind are insured
against liability.)  (3) The member may remove the vehicle from
the community's life and sigh altogether, for example by storing
it at the home of a relative.  (4) The member may sell the
vehicle, in which case the proceeds would be regarded as if they
had accumulated prior to membership.  It would help the community
if the member loaned these proceeds, but that is not necessary
until the time specified by community bylaws (after one year of
membership, or upon full membership, whichever comes later).

Provisional and temporary members

Provisional and temporary members have the same options regarding
their vehicles as full members, with the following additions: 
(1) Provisional and temporary members may choose to store their
vehicles on community property, with the clear understanding that
they may make no use of them whatsoever.  (2) During times when
the community is suffering from an unusual shortage of vehicles,
provisional or temporary members who want to help ease the strain
but whoa re not willing to put their vehicles on full loan may,
in agreement with the auto usage manager, enter into a "limited
time" or "restricted use" loan agreement, shaped in part by the
owner but administered entirely by the auto usage manager.

@suindex Visitors and vehicles
Visitor

Visitors are not allowed to drive community vehicles, and they
are urged, in the spirit of equality, not to use their own
vehicles for personal reasons while visiting.  If the community
needs a vehcile in a pinch, the visitor may volunteer co's
vehicle for this purpose.

@node Pick-ups, Mileage, Member Vehicles, Autos
@unnumberedsubsec Pick-ups

@suindex Pick-ups
@suindex Visitor pick-ups
@suindex Member pick-ups
@suindex Member drop-offs
[Auto Usage Visitor/Member Transportation, Howard as Membership Manager,
4 Nov 89]

1.  Visitors: Visitors may be picked up without personal charge up to
forty miles away.  Permission to charge labor and mileage to Membership
General (806010) should be secured from the Membership Manager.

2.  Members:  Members may be picked up within forty miles away also
without personal charge.  Mileage charges for member pick-ups should be
to Garage General (861011).  No labor credit except for Personal Service
Credits can be claimed for member pick-ups.

In the case of both members and visitors, pick-ups at a greater distance
than forty miles are to be charged to the person receiving the service.

[Member pick-up, Board, 31 Mar 92]

We agreed that the long-standing policy to pay for "member pick-
ups" (within 40 miles) does not include "member drop-offs."

@node Mileage,  , Pick-ups, Autos
@unnumberedsubsec Mileage

@suindex Mileage
@suindex Vehicle usage charges
[Mileage off-farm, Board, 7 Apr 92]

Community vehicles can be used without charge on land owned or
leased by East Wind.  As soon as the vehicle leaves that land--
passes the mail box--mileage charges start.

@node Video Discs and Films, Housing, Autos, Social
@unnumberedsec Video Discs and Films

@suindex Video discs
@suindex Films
[Video Discs and Films Authority, Community Meeting, 20 Aug 83]

(1) The use and maintainance of the video disc player, video
discs, the film projector, and feature films will be the
responsibility of and subject to the authority of the Recreation
Manager.  Monies allocated for feature films may be applied to
discs and equipment maintenance.  Recreation Manager may delegate
all of this to some person.

(2) The selection of films and discs to be viewed will be based
on the preferences of the membership, subject to budgetary
limitations, as implemented by the Recreation Manager.

(3) Our current obligations to the Missouri Librarys Film
Cooperative will be honored, unless renegotiated.

@node Housing, Child Support, Video Discs and Films, Social
@unnumberedsec Housing

@suindex Sunnyside
@suindex Housing
@suindex Small living groups
[Sunnyside Small Living Group, Community Meeting, 22 Mar 86]

The following people:  Kathy, Sara, Alvin, Marla, Casey, Diana,
Eric, and BJ are proposing to Community that they be allowed to
form a Small Living Group in Sunnyside with control over the
whole building, except the double.  Control is defined as
authority to:  decide who moves in to Sunnyside other than the
core group listed above, decide who becomes a member of the core
group in the future, and make all decisions on modifications to
the building (excluding tearing down walls).  We are assuming
that the Sunnyside closet [now (1991) the area behind the bar
where the frige is] would be use as other than a sleeping space.

The number of member sleeping spaces in Sunnyside would be
eleven.

@suindex Trading rooms
[About Trading Rooms (policy), Trusterty Manager, date unknown]

1.  It is always acceptable to switch rooms with another person
who has a room.  You should inform TBA first just for form sake. 
Otherwise, you and the person doing TBA may come into some flack
over the whole thing.

2.  It is NOT acceptable to trade rooms with someone who is
leaving.  That circumvents the system created to allow people
equal access to good rooms.  In this way someone is getting an
improvement in their standard of living by trading with someone
who is changin their standard of living by leaving.  The trade is
not a fair and equal trade between two members.  If the remaining
member had waited two weeks (or whatever) co would have had only
a percentage chance to better their sleeping space.  This borders
on the attitude "I'm out for me and I'll step on whoever I need
to get there."  I don't believe that's what folks really mean. 
However, it's easy to read that into the trade.

3.  It is never acceptable to move into an empty room and claim
it as yours.

@suindex Locks on bedroom doors
[Locks Permitted on Members' Bedroom Doors, Community Meeting, 21
Jan 89]

Members are permitted to install locks on their bedroom doors.

The Board will determine what types of locks are appropriate, and
will pay for the expense of their installation out of its own
budget.

@node Child Support, TV, Housing, Social
@unnumberedsec Child Support

@suindex Child Support
[Child Support Guidelines, Social Committee, 20 Aug 86]

On-farm parent must be a member for at least 3 months before
Social Committee will recommend that we pay child support.

Payment must have been pre-agreed with off-farm parent - there
must be a legal or semi-legal obligation.  This obligation should
be mentioned during one's membership orientation.

We'll pay a maximum of $50 per month.

East Wind won't pay during PA leaves, PM leaves, or family
emergency leaves longer than one month.

After 3 months membership, the on-farm parent can talk to Social
Committee about starting payments.

[Proposal for Child Support Payments, Community Meeting, 19 May
90]

The Community will share in the expense of David's child support
payments for his two children.

David will pay 20% of his DF and the Social general budget will
pay the remainder, currently about $65/month for a total payment
of about $85/month.  The cost to the community for the remainder
of 1990 will be about $520.  The Social general budget will be
increased by a like amount.

The community will continue to help make these payments for so
long as 1) David has the obligation, 2) David is an active member
of East Wind, and 3) He puts 20% of his DF towards these
payments.

If the amount of the payments increases the Board may authorize
an increase in what the community will pay.

@node TV, Guests, Child Support, Social
@unnumberedsec TV

@suindex TV
@suindex Television
@suindex Reserving the TV room
@suindex Smoking in the TV room
[Reserving the TV Room, Howard as Social Manager, 1 Jun 91]

Notification of a reservation should specify starting and ending
time, date, reason for reservation, and the person's name. The TV
room can be reserved at least 24 hours in advance. The
reservation is not valid if made in less than 24 hours. The
reservation will not be valid if made during a time when fans of
a scheduled TV show customarily gather to watch it. Reservations
can exclude smoking. A majority of viewers may not overule a
reservation. At times when the TV room is not reserved, however,
a majority of viewers decides what to watch. In the event (the
rare event) that two parties wish to reserve the TV room for the
same time, or if problems arise from these norms, the Social
Manager will be available to work things out.

@node Guests,  , TV, Social
@unnumberedsec Guests

@suindex Guests
[Omnibus Guest Policy, Social Manager, 20 Dec 90]

I.  Types of Guests

A.  Tourists and Customers:  Their stays are very short.  They
drop in to buy stuff or look at the place.  They are dealt with
by the community products desk workers or volunteers.  Examples: 
Cloud Nine folks.

B.  Business and Government People:  They have an ongoing
relationship with East Wind Inc. or are interested in some facet
of the community's operations or public relations.  Their stays
are generally short.  They are hosted by the appropriate manager
or the Board.  Examples:  Accountant, truckers, contract workers,
politicans.

Note:  With respect to the above groups, if there is reason to
believe that a guest will be offended by certain practices or
interactions, the host should avoid showing the guest place where
these are likely to happen or give advance warning that someone
is touring through.  Examples of advance warning include calls to
Rockbottom before taking a guest to the southern end of the
community or arranging for the posting of notes on the Day Board. 
Hosts are expected to be good judges of their guests and exercise
discretion.

C.  Networkers:  People from other intentional communities or
allied organizations.  Their stays vary in length.  They are
hosted by the Social Manager, FEC delegates, or the Board.

D.  Friends of East Wind:  Local people who socialize with us and
who we know and trust.  Their stays are short, but frequent. 
They can drop in and don't need a host.  Examples:  Peg and
Brannon.

E.  Friends, Relatives, Former Residents of East Wind:  The vast
majority of guests.  Their stays tend to be longer.  They are
hosted by residents of East Wind.

Note:  With respect to groups C and E, the host will post a note
on the Day Board prior to the guests's arrival.  People who drop
in may be guested provided that the host knew the person
previously, the person is not deemed controversial, and the host
makes prompt public announcement that co is the host (post a note
on the Day Board).

II.  Host's Responsibilities

A.  The host makes arrangements for housing and length of stay in
advance of the guest's arrival.  Such arrangements will include
communicating with the person overseeing room assignments about
available space and should be clear to the guest.  Hosts will
post notes on the Day Board if there are changes in plans, and
the guest wishes to stay longer than anticipated.  The
community's needs always take priority over the guest's needs in
housing arrangements.

B.  Hosts will be aware of this policy and shall be sensitive to
the concerns of other members and the community at-large in
regard to the deportment of their guests.  Guests are the
responsibility of the hosts.  Hosts shall orientate their guests. 
Hosts shall be open to hearing about problems and be willing to
deal with them.

III.  Guest Labor and Lengths of Stay

Guests may stay up to three weeks.  They are not required to do
any work but are encouraged to help out.  If a guest wishes to
stay longer the host posts a note on the Day Board toward the end
of the three weeks.  The note must include how much longer the
guest wishes to stay.  If the guest is not controversial, the
guest may stay longer.  If guests expect to stay much longer than
three weeks, they go on our labor system in the same manner as
visitors.  If exception is made the Social Manager shall
communicate the reasons to the membership.  Guests who are former
residents go on our labor system after a week's stay.  Guests are
encouraged to be aware of community agreements and expectations.

IV.  Controversial Guests

A.  If there are problems with guests during their stay, the
Social Manager will try to work these out with the guest, the
host, and the community.  Guests may be voted out (in the same
manner as visitors and associates) after being here one week.  If
problems are so severe and the host is not cooperative, the
Social Manager or a Board member shall tell the guest to leave
with the Board's approval.

B.  There will be a general practice of not guesting individuals
who have controversial histories with respect to:

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  Being prone to physical violence.
@item
2.  Drug and alcohol abuse.
@item
3.  Activities which could endanger the community's relations
with the general public or its business operations.
@item
4.  Emotional instability.
@item
5.  Inciting social conflict through deliberate harassment of
those who reside here, habitual imposition of their attention
needs on others, interfering with work activities, and not
heeding warnings to desist.
@item
6.  Theft or destruction of property.
@end itemize

C.  Prospective hosts shall evaluate prospective guests with
regard to the above.  Guests can be controversial if members are
split on whether or not to welcome them.  In such cases the guest
may come provided that the stay be not longer than a week and the
guest come not more than twice a year.

D.  The Board is permitted to overrule a decision to invite a
controversial guest and may insist on limiting the invitation to
a week's stay.

E.  Relationship with the Membership Area:  Controversial guest
shall not be guested if their intent is to explore membershipo or
enter the visitor program.  People who are mere acquaintances
shall not be guested.  Instead such people should be encouraged
to correspond with the visitor program.  Persons who are voted
out or otherwise required to leave the community may be guested
once they have been away from the community for at least a year. 
Advance notice of guests that may be controversial shall be at
least two weeks of anticipated arrival.

F.  If public notice of one's desire to guest someone results in
concerns and disagreement, the prospective guest may not come
until there is resolution--either a decision by the host or the
Board to limit the stay to a week or some other agreement between
the host and the concerned parties.  If they arrive before there
is such a decision or agreement, they will be asked to leave by a
Board Member or the Social Manager.

@node Medical, Resource, Social, Top
@unnumbered Medical

@suindex Medical
@menu
* Medical Hours::               Medical Hours
* Medical Transportation::      Medical Transportation
* Medical Care for Provisional Members::  Medical Care for Provisional Members
* Smoking::                     Smoking
* Pest Control::                Pest Control
* PEACH::                       PEACH
* Clothing::                    Clothing
@end menu

@node Medical Hours, Medical Transportation,  , Medical
@unnumberedsec Medical Hours

@suindex Counseling, hours for
@suindex Hours for counseling
@suindex Labor credits for counseling
[Hours for Counseling, Community Meeting, 25 Jul 92]

Medical Committee may approve hours for counseling to aid individuals in
the recovery of their mental and emotional health.

This legislation will be brought back to community meeting one year from
date of passage and expires unless re-approved.

[Policy for claiming hours on the Medical done-time-sheet,
Medical Committee, 13 Jan 86, section on exercises removed per Eliminate
Labor Budgets, 22 Jul 89]

This changes the name of this sheet to "Medical," which seems a
more appropriate word than "sick".  (The "medical committee"
done-time-sheet is different.  Ordinarily, only committee members
plus Ivy claim hours on it.)

This policy is meant to be a statement of status quo, except that
it defines maximum claimable hours in terms of a 7-day work week
rather than a 6-day work week.  This change is because Thaddeus
(work manager) and medical committee see it as more appropriate.

It seems that people claim medical hours for 3 sorts of reasons:

1.  ordinary sickness, when you need to rest (typically due to
infection) (doesn't include hangovers, tiredness, or other bad
feelings due to the person's lifestyle, or emotional problems).

3.  Miscellaneous stuff like doctors appointments and helping
others in certain ways - for example, driving sick people to the
hospital or giving massages (in consultation with the medical
committee).

4.  Emotional Problems

Policy:

@suindex Sick time
1.  Ordinary sickness.  On any day during which any sick time is
claim, a maximum of 7 hours may be claimed, including both sick
hours and normal work hours.  During weeks which include a
holiday or a birthday, a maximum of 6 total hours may be claimed. 
These numbers are about one day's worth of weekly quota, based on
a 7-day week.

The reasons behind this traditional policy of restricting total
claimed hours to one day's worth of quota are that people
shouldn't earn overquota on days when they are sick, and to
encourage sick people to rest.

3.  Miscellaneous stuff.  Not bound by the one-day's-quota
maximum either.

4.  Emotional problems.  Must be OK'd by EHT.

[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

No more sick time may be claimed in a week than the current quota. 
Health problems or medical appointments (including travel time)
may be claimed as sick time.  Care of the sick may also be
claimed.  A Medical Committee member can advise on unclear cases.]

@node Medical Transportation, Medical Care for Provisional Members, Medical Hours, Medical
@unnumberedsec Medical Transportation

[Medical Transportation Policy, Medical Committee, Apr 91]

Medical transportation budget money is available to pay for:

1.  Emergency transportation when, in the judgement of the most
qualified person on the scene, transport by a community vehicle
would be likely to result in a significant worsening of the
patient's condition.

2.  Use of community vehicles to and from approved treatment
within forty (40) miles of East Wind.  Members are encouraged to
schedule appointments on town trip days or so that one trip can
serve several members whenever possible.

Medical transportation money will not be approved for:

1.  Trips to visit members in the hospital.

2.  Trips for treatment appointments on the same day that a town
trip goes to the community in which the treatment is to take
place.

@node Medical Care for Provisional Members, Smoking, Medical Transportation, Medical
@unnumberedsec Medical Care for Provisional Members

@suindex Provisional members and medical care
[Provisional Membership Extension, Community Meeting, 1 Jun 91]

Full medical benefits will be given [to provisional members]
after six months of membership.

[Board Policy on the Consequences of Demotion to Provisional
Membership, Board, 29 Oct 91]

Our current legislation states that provisional members will not be
eligible for full medical benefits until six months into the
provisional membership period.  There are circumstances in which
Medical Committee will pay for PMs' medical expenses, but PMs are
not entitled to full medical benefits.  In accordance with these
precedents, full members who are demoted to provisional membership
may continue cources of treatment that have begun while they were
full members.  Payment for such treatment shall be in the form of
a loan provided by Medical Committee, with repayment negotiated
with the same.  This shall be in effect until full medical benefits
resume in six months.

[Policy on Medical Care for Provisional Members, Medical
Committee, Mar 91]

Provisional members [who have been members less than 6 months]
are normally not eligible for community-funded medical care,
except when the need results from a work-related accident.

Exceptions to this rule may be made on a case by case basis.  The
following guidelines will be applied in evaluating such cases:

1.  Whether the condition is progressive -- whether it will cost
more to care for later.

2.  Whether the condition is causing the member severe
discomfort.

3.  Whether the provisional member indicates a sincere desire to
stay for a significant time, and whether approval of full
membership seems likely.

In most cases payment for medical or dental care for provisional
members will be advanced as a loan rather than as a grant.  An
A/R will be set up for the member and a contract will be
negotiated with that person for regular payments from co's DF.

@node Smoking, Pest Control, Medical Care for Provisional Members, Medical
@unnumberedsec Smoking

@suindex Smoking
[No Smoking in Enterprise, Community Meeting, 7 Oct 89]

Execpt for the chair loft, no more smoking in Enterprise, 24
hours a day.  The word "Enterprise" is meant to include the Auto
Shop as well as the area up to Galileo's loading dock door.

[Reservations for the TV trailer can exclude smoking, @xref{TV}]

[Smoking in foopin, Amanda as Foopin Manager, 16 Jun 92]

I [foopin manager] name foopin, inclusive of the ballroom, a no
cigarette zone.

@node Pest Control, PEACH, Smoking, Medical
@unnumberedsec Pest Control

@suindex Bug zappers
@suindex Pest control
[No Bug Zapper Outside, Community Meeting, 23 Jun 90]

We can no longer use bug zappers outdoors.

@suindex Pesticides
@suindex Roaches
@suindex Spraying for pests
[Restrictions on Pesticides, Community Meeting, 10 Feb 90]

Control of roaches and other insect pests in various areas of East Wind
Community (particularly the kitchen, Children's Building, Enterprise, &
Nuthouse) will be done by means of more strictly enforced and improved
sanitation norms & guidelines and the use of boric acid (U.S.P.).

If a member wishes to propose the option of spraying pesticides in lieu
of the above procedures, and these pesticides are registered by the EPA
(Environmental Protection Agency), co must post a concerns note as soon
as feasible, giving the name of the pesticide proposed to be used.  Co
must then obtain the contents of that pesticide, along with pertinent
health impact information, from:

@display
National Pesticide Telecommunications Network
Texas Tech University Health Science Center
School of Medicine
Lubbock, Texas 79430           1-800-858-7378
@end display

Because of the pending organic certification of our nutbutter operation,
the proposed pesticide and all its ingredients must be on the approved
list of the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA), our certifying
organization.  The OCIA guidelines will be available from the Nutbutter
General Manager.

After obtaining the above information, the member should present the
request to spray, along with the information on the pesticide, to the
Board of Planners for their consideration and decision.  If a member
then disagrees with the decision reached by the Board, co may appeal the
decision to Community Meeting within fourteen (14) days.

Spraying can then take place only after the following
requirements
are met:

@itemize @asis
@item
1. The spray date must be posted two weeks in advance immediately
following a favorable Board decision or successful appeal to Community
Meeting.

@item
2. In all areas where food is handled, all food, dishes, and utensils
must be removed, and all food preparation surfaces must be removed or
tightly covered.
@end itemize

[Spraying for Roaches, Community Meeting, 13 Jul 91]

This legislation exempts Rockbottom and the canteen area in the
hammock shop from the pesticide legislation passed in February,
1990.  Other areas in the community are still subject to the
latter.  The kitchen and hammocks general managers have
discretion to arrange for spraying for roaches twice a year.

@node PEACH, Clothing, Pest Control, Medical
@unnumberedsec PEACH

@suindex PEACH
[PEACH Proposal, 22 Apr 88]

Intent:  The intent of this proposal is to 1) ratify the program
agreement which will begin our participation in PEACH, and 2) to
spell out some aspects of our involvement in the program that we
alone decide.

Proposal:

1)  That we approve the PEACH Participation Agreement and Binding
Memorandum and agree to abide by the provisions set forth in
these documents.

2)  That we establish the following guidelines for East Wind's
involvement in the program:

@itemize @asis
@item
a)  The Board will be responsible for appointing the MELBA who
will be responsible for looking after East Wind's affairs and
represent the community on the PEACH board.

@item
b)  The MELBA and the Medical Committee will work together in
situations where claims are appropriate so as to insure the
program requirements are met.  In particular, the MELBA will need
access to documents necessary to substantiate claims.  Also, as
it is required that the community attempt to find alternate
sources of funding before making a claim to PEACH, the MELBA and
Medical Committee will need to work together to satisfy this
requirement.

@item
c)  The Community has the right to determine who it covers under
the program within limits set by the agreement.  Initially we
will cover only full members and full child members with the
exceptions noted below.  This in no way implies what benefits
East Wind will or will not provide for its members.

@item
d)  Members on PA leave will generally not be covered, however
the MELBA may continue coverage in cases where it is very
probable that the member will return to resume active membership
within a period of six months.  The MELBA may also extend
coverage to a member moving to another Federation community for a
limited time or start coverage for a member moving to East Wind
from another Federation community prior to that member becoming a
full member.  This will allow for continuous coverage during the
transition period.

@item
e)  Money and labor will be budgetted by the Resource Committee. 
A maximum of 100 hours per year.  The money must be budgetted. 
Exceptions to this may be made by the Community.
@end itemize

[Buying back PEACH Coverage after Leaves, the Board, 16 Aug 91]

There will be a general practice of not buying back PEACH
coverage lost to members while they are away on leaves of
absence.

@node Clothing,  , PEACH, Medical
@unnumberedsec Clothing

@suindex Clothing
[Shirtless in Hammocks Shop, Community Meeting, 14 Jul 90]

Men and women can go shirtless in the hammocks shop at any time. 
Any other legislation that may exist about clothing in the
hammocks shop is repealed.

@node Resource, Government, Medical, Top
@unnumbered Resource

@menu
* Sharing Community Property::  What members can do with community property
* Annual Planning::             Annual Planning
* Money::                       Money
* Land::                        Land
* HTA::                         HTA
* Labor::                       Labor
* Social Security Numbers::     Social Security Numbers
* Contractors::                 Contractors
@end menu

@node Sharing Community Property, Annual Planning,  , Resource
@unnumberedsec Sharing Community Property

[Sharing Community Property, Community Meeting, 24 Oct 92]

We define @dfn{sharing community property} to mean that community property
must stay in a public space so we all can share it.

The practical details:

1)  The equipment used by branch workers should not be taken from that
branch's work space except as defined by branch policy.

2) The furnishings of public spaces should not be taken to personal
spaces.

3)  Things that were meant to be borrowed, such as dishes, tools and
library books should be returned as soon as you're through using them.
Keeping them longer deprives the rest of us of their use.

4)  The clothes and bedding in Commie Clothes may be kept as long as you
use them often.  They should not leave East Wind unless you've been here
for so many years that you have no clothes of your own any more.

5)  Anything you find in trusterty storage can be used in your room
permanently, but it should not leave the community.

@node Annual Planning, Money, Sharing Community Property, Resource
@unnumberedsec Annual Planning

@suindex Annual plan
[WIMP, Community Meeting, 27 Apr 83]

1) Annual plan process:

[The specific outline, based on planners consulting with social
and resource committees, is more or less obsolete]

@itemize @asis
@item
e) This is a general outline and can be modified by the Planners
@end itemize

2) The community meeting will determine, amongst other things: 
maximum number of permanent workers in each branch.

4) Plans will be based on current population with contngency
plans for growth or shrinkage.

@node Money, Land, Annual Planning, Resource
@unnumberedsec Money

@menu
* Assets::                      Assets
* Spending Control::            What happens if a budget is too far in the hole
* DFs::                         DFs
* Money Miscellaneous::         Money Miscellaneous
* Dairy Fund::                  Dairy Fund
* Building Fund::               Building Fund
@end menu

@node Assets, Spending Control,  , Money
@unnumberedsubsec Assets

@suindex Assets, selling
@suindex Selling assets
[Selling Assets and Applying Money Where It's Needed, Community
Meeting, 10 Dec 83]

1.  Definition of an Area:

For purposes of this legislation, the Treasurer and Accounting &
Purchasing Branch together will be considered an Area.  The
Social Committee, together with any committees or activities
which report to it which are not otherwise designated as Areas,
will also be considered an Area.

2.  Resource Committee Authorization:

The sale of any assets; other than products, materials and
supplies under the control the Business Area; requires the
approval of the Resource Committee.

3.  Standing Authorizations:

The Resource Committee may issue (or retract), in writing, a
standing authorization for the sale of a particular type of asset
by an Area.  The Resource Committee may include, in a standing
authroization, terms or conditions under which that authorization
may be used.  (For example:  the Resource Committee may issue a
standing authorization for the Ag Area to sell cattle; and may
establish criteria, such as herd size, that must be met when that
standing authorization is used).

4.  Selling Equipment:

Equipment that has been placed under the control of an Area may
be sold by that Area.  The Area may then utilize any monies
generated by the sale, up to the following limits:

100% of the original cash cost of the item, as determined by the
Resource Committee.

PLUS

100% of any *cash* costs of upgrading, as determined by the
Resource Committee,

PLUS

a percentage of the remainder determined by the Resource
Committee.

5.  Selling Surpluses (supplies and crops in non-business Areas):

Surpluses under the control of an Area may be sold by that area. 
All revenues from the sale of surpluses may be utilized by the
Area, up to the following limits:

100% of the *non-labor* costs of the surplus, as determined by
the Resource Committee,

PLUS

a percentage of the remainder determined by the Resource
Committee.

6.  Recovering Costs on Equipment used on Odd Jobs:

Equipment that has been placed under the control of an Area may,
at the discretion of the Area, be used for odd jobs.  When this
occurs, the Area will receive a portion of the revenues as
compensation for the appropriate portion of *non-labor*
maintenance, repair and depreciation costs on the equipment.  The
rate of compensation will be set by the Resource Committee.  When
possible, rates of compensation will be set at the time that
equipment is purchased.

7.  Suplus monies:

The status of any monies which an Area is not permitted to retain
will be determined by the Resource Committee.  The Resource
Committee may direct any portion of these funds to Areas which
cannot take advantage of this legislation.

8.  Notification:

The Resource Committee will notify the Social Committee when any
decision is made under this legislation.

@node Spending Control, DFs, Assets, Money
@unnumberedsubsec Spending Control

@suindex Spending control
@suindex Cashier
[Personal Spending Control Policy, Resource Manager, 23 Jan 91]

Any member or associate will be placed on spending control if records
show that the individual's DF account is more than one half (1/2)
[________] the monthly allowance in the the hole.  (Currently: ______)

During the period on spending control the individual will be allowed to
spend up to one half of the normal monthly DF allocation, (_________),
unless said individual is more than one and one half (1 1/2) times the
monthly DF in the hole, (_________), in which case only a quarter of the
normal monthly DF allocation, (__________), will be available for use.

The determination to place the individual on spending control may be
retroactive, but not more than thirty days.  Spending control may go
into effect at any time during the month.

Cashiers may not knowingly allow anyone to overspend without prior
Resource Manager, Board or Community Meeting approval.

@center Mechanics

A spending control record will be kept in the accounting office for each
person on spending control.  A form should be used that shows the name,
month, and spending limit, and has space for spending activity to be
recorded.

As funds are disbursed or otherwise are charged to the individual's
account, accounting workers will note the activity on the form.
Cashiers will record cash disbursements, while the town trip reporter
will record town trip expenditures.

No funds will be disbursed that would cause the spending limit to be
exceeded.  The member or associate on spending control bears the
responsibility for not exceeding this limit by incurring charges through
auto usage, telephone usage, or other transfers.

@center Purchase Requisitions

Cashiers and Town Trippers should be aware of who is on spending
control.  The DF accountant is responsible for posting a list of who is
on spending control near the beginning of each period.  Members on
spending control should put an estimated cost on the Req.  If it will
result in exceeding the limit, the Town Tripper or cashier should
disallow the req and return it to the member or associate as soon as
practical stating the reason for disallowal.  A req may also be returned
if the Town Tripper feels that the stated estimate is too low and if the
purchases were made the limit would be exceeded.  Town trippers should
not knowingly give cash to the member on spending control when it would
result in the limit being exceeded.

@center Town Trip Reports

Anyone who checks out a town trip is responsible for turning in a town
trip report.  If someone has two outstanding town trips, they will not
be issued more town trip funds until one outstanding town trip is
accounted for.

[Spending Control Policy for Domestic Budgets, Resource Manager,
2 Sep 91]

Domestic budgets will be subject to spending control under the
following conditions:

1) When the budget has overspent by 10% of the yearly allocation

2) When the budget has overspent by more than $1000

These conditions will be determined from the official Solomon
final monthly accounting reports, which will generally be running
a month behind actual.  Budgets which contain more than one
subaccount may have portions of their budgets placed on spending
control, while the rest of the subaccounts remain open.

When a budget has exceeded either of the conditions necessary to
invoke spending control, the following measures will be made:

1) Monitoring of expenditures from the budget will begin
immediately.  This will involved tracking all expenditures in a
separate journal in the accounting office.  Location of this
journal will be made known to those managers affected.

2) Consultation between Resource Manager and budgetary managers
affected by the controls will take place to determine a
reasonable level of spending for the future months.  This revised
monthly allotment will be used in the tracking to determine when
spending must stop during the month.

3) It is possible to freeze non-essential budgets, so that
expenditures can not be made from that particular budget without
Resource Manager approval.  When ever the revised monthly
allotment is exceeded, Resource Manager approval is necessary for
further expenditures.

4) Budgets with subaccounts affected by spending control measures
where the total budget is not overspent have the option of
bypassing control measure by shifting subaccount budgetary
allotments.

Seems like this is a start towards budgetary controls, evaluation
period of a couple of months before deciding whether to get
stricter or not.

@node DFs, Money Miscellaneous, Spending Control, Money
@unnumberedsubsec DFs

@suindex DFs
@suindex Discretionary Funds
@suindex Cashier
[Personal Expenses, Community Meeting, 9 Mar 85]

Spending Controls:

Discretionary Funds (DF's) are budgets, and like other budgets are
subject to the spending control policies established by the Resource
Committee.  This includes the provision that one needs special
authorization to charge things to one's DF if the balance is at or below
zero.  [@pxref{Spending Control}].  As an aid to members in controlling
their DF balances, special arrangements can be made with the Accounting
and Purchasing Branch to establish special purpose DF accounts.

Regular Allocation to DF's:

ALL adult [and child] members [and associates] will receive a lump
sum DF allocation each month.  [Economic agreements, not
legislation or policy, Apr 90.  This is credited to each member's
individual DF account at the end of the month for which the
allowance applies.]

[Raise DF's, Community Meeting, 6 Jan 90]

1) Raise discretionary funds for adult members and associates to
$75 per month. 

2) Child members' and associates' DF will be as follows:

Birth to 5 years:  20% of adult DF
6 to 10 years: 40% of adult DF
11 to 15 years: 60% of adult DF
16 years and up: 80% of adult DF
Children's DF can't, however, be lower than $20 per month.

@suindex Profit Sharing
[Restore Profit Sharing, Community Meeting, 10 Mar 90]

a) Revive the profit sharing system, but eliminate the
$200-per-member-per-year cap.

[Here is the profit sharing system that will go into effect in
1991.  (It's the system laid out in the Personal Expenses legislation of
July 28, 1984, but without the $200 cap.)

The total profits for a given year (January 1 through December 31) will
be based on the review of the community's books for that year by a
Certified Public Accountant, which normally happens in February of the
following year.

All those who are members for all or part of a given year are eligible
to receive profit sharing allocations from that year IF they are members
on March 1st of the following year.  The size of the allocation will be
proportional to the time that the person was a member during the year.

The shared profits, distributed into members' D.F.s, will be as follows:

@example
             0% of the first $30,000 of profits
      plus: 10% of the second $30,000 of profits
      plus: 20% of any profits over $60,000
@end example
]

[Profit Sharing Calculation Process Policy, Resource Manager, 19
Dec 91]

@suindex Associates, and profit sharing
Clarification #1:  Associates are not members.

All legislation applying to members and associate status is very
clear in not referring to those who adopt associate status as
"associate members", which is taken as an indication that they are
not part of the membership.  We also do not claim associates on our
tax rolls, not do they have several of the basic rights of
membership (medical care, guaranteed rooms, voting privileges,
etc.).

Clarification #2:  How "Profit" is determined.

Profit is simply community income minus domestic expenditures. 
Although this is pretty self-evident, it needs to be clear that
"income" is income @emph{after} taxes, and that "taxes" refers to
the calculated tax liability of the membership, rather than the
accounting tax set-aside or the actual taxes paid.  The reason for
the latter distinction is that members who depart during the year
do not always claim their portion of the tax money, so that we
often pay less taxes than our calculated tax liability would
indicate.

The second item about profit which must be clear is that "domestic
expenditures" @emph{does not} include what accounting refers to as
"Community Expense Projects", as these are profit use items and
therefore an application of total profit rather than an expense
which lessens profit.

Clarification #3:  What determines an individual's number of member
days?

Member days are based on the total number of days of active
membership.  Active membership is when one is not on leave. 
@emph{All} leaves of absence are subtracted from the total member
days, with the exception that 7 days of active membership accompany
each Social Emergency Leave.

Clarification #4:  What if a person who dropped membership in a
previous year returned in time to become a member again by March
1st; would they be eligible to profit share?

There is no historical precent for this either way.  My take on the
situation, which is supported by the Board, is that when a person
drops membership they lose all rights and privileges of membership,
and they @emph{would not} be eligible for profit sharing upon their
return.  This general notion is supported by the language
surrounding membership legislation.

It should be noted that members who have changed to associate
status will be likewise considered ineligible for profit sharing
for the time they were members, even if they return to membership.

@suindex Children, and profit sharing
Clarification #5:  What about the kids?

As the legislation states, profit sharing extends to @emph{all}
members.  Child members are members just as much as provisional
members and full members.  On this basis, children will receive
profit sharing also.  There is no indication that the amount
allocated to the children is to be factored in any way (such as the
children's DFs are), which I take as evidence that we either didn't
think the legislation through at the time, or we meant for the
children to receive the same amount of profit sharing allocation as
the rest of us.  Kids receive full allocation.

Clarification #6:  What does being a member on March 1st mean?

This clause indicates that one must be an Active member (i.e. not
on leave) on March 1st to be eligible for profit sharing.

[Restore Profit Sharing]

c) The creation of a service program that has the effect of
reviving those programs that were eliminated due to the
recent D.F. increase (profit sharing excepted) shall be
funded via an equivalent decrease in D.F.s.

[Here are programs that will have to be funded by a decrease in
D.F.s:

@suindex Leaving fund
The leaving fund, in which departing members got $150 to $750,
depending upon their length of membership.  This program was
passed Jan 30, 1988, and went into effect six months later.

@suindex SPOTS
SPOTS, a hammocks production incentive program, budgeted each year by
the hammocks business, in which weavers who didn't claim hours could
earmark $10 toward community-oriented projects.  This program was passed
in 1984.

@suindex Community clothes allowance
Community clothes allowance, $40 per member per year.

@suindex Child visitation allowance
Child visitation allowance, $200 per year for each adult member who has
children who don't live at East Wind, to visit the children or to bring
the children here.  ]

@node Money Miscellaneous, Dairy Fund, DFs, Money
@unnumberedsubsec Money Miscellaneous

@suindex Restaurant meals
@suindex Town trippers, and meals
[New Policy on Restaurant Meals, Resource Committee, 25 Feb 86]

Restaurant Meals will fold in to the accounting and Purchasing
budget.  Only Town-Trippers can charge meals to this budget. 
Anyone else going to town on a Town-Trip or other Community
business would charge their meals to the budget of the area they
are doing business for.

[Town Trip Meal Guidelines, Ch'hsh'na as Resource Manager, 8 Oct 92]

These are things that should be obvious, but that is sometimes what I do best
(stating the obvious), so here goes....

Yes, town trips can warrant a meal.  A breakdown of the allotment is included
in this.  The town trip meal is as much a part of the accounting for the town
trip as anything else that uses cash on hand, and as such it is expected that
receipts will be turned in for the meal.  The meal allotment is not intended
for personal consumption beyond meals and snacks.

Funds allotted for food consumption on town trips are as follows:

@example
TRIP DURATION            ALLOTMENT

3 - 6 Hours                $1.00
6 - 9 Hours                $4.00
9 - 12 Hours               $7.50
12 or more Hours          $10.00
@end example

These allotments are available for Town Trippers (A&P), and for persons in
town on community business.  They do not apply for personal trips.

@suindex Member debts
[Member Debt Policy, Social, Resource, and Population Committee,
5 Apr 84]

[In 1991 Community Meeting made exceptions (Pay Tom's Loan, 15
Jun 91, and Pay Barry's Loan, 1 Jun 91) to this.  The board later
decided to help pay Shakti's student loan.  This policy, however,
has never been officially repealed or modified.]

Recently Social and Resource committees have been discussing the
issue of East Wind's relationship to the debts of incoming
members.  There is no legislation or specific policy to deal with
this situation, though the issue has come up several times in the
past.  Typically what has happened is that a new member comes to
community with a (student) debt (usually).  After several months
co begins to get demands for repayment.  (Usually) without any
money to co's name, co asks East Wind to loan the money. 
Typically, the principal portion of the debt is a loan to the
member to be paid off if co leaves, OR - if co stays then after 2
years the community begins to absorb the cost of the principal. 
The interest cost is fully absorbed by the community.

There is frequently controversy around doing this.  More often
than not when East Wind loans money to a member we don't get
repayed.  This feels pretty bad after a while, so it seems like
time to do something about it.  There are strong feelings that
people need to be responsible for their debts incurred prior to
becoming members of East Wind.  We would prefer to allocate our
resource to the community's needs and the ongoing, dya-to-day,
and future needs of the membership.

We are now assuming the position of not taking on the
responsibility of payment of previously incurred debts of
members.  Part of our membership process will include a question
about this and an explanation of the policy.  At this tme Social,
Resource, and Population committees endorse this policy.

@suindex Transfers
[Transfers to Individuals, Resource Manager, 24 Oct 91]

Account transfers from community budgets to individual DF's or
AR's must indicate what the funds are for to be accepted.

@suindex Loaning money
@suindex Resource Manager, loaning money
[Loans made by treasurer, Resource Committee, 31 Jul 84]

[Resource Committee no longer exists and Treasurer has been replaced
by Resource Manager, per Administrative Reorganization, 12 Nov 88]

Resource Committee will be notified of all loans made by the
Treasurer within one week.

Loans above $500 require PRIOR notification of the Resource
Committee.

In all cases the Treasurer is encouraged to notify the Resource
Committee and Community in advance of making loans.

@suindex Working Capital
@suindex Minimum working capital
[Raise Working Capital, Community Meeting, 4 May 91]

Raise minimum working capital to $241,000.

@suindex Borrowing
@suindex Fund management
[Short Term Borrowing and Fund Management, Resource Manager, 27
Aug 91]

The intent of this policy is to define criteria for management of
savings funds and cash flow.  The following points represent the
intentions of the Resource Manager, which will be followed to the
best of his ability.

I) Legislated Additions to Funds will be transferred from
checking to savings after the Pier One check of the year
following the legislated addition.  This is to allow use of these
funds during short term loan season.

Interest for these funds will not be added at the time of deposit
to savings on the basis that interest was being earned while the
funds were in checking, and that having the funds available
reduced our overall borrowing load during short term loan season.

II) General Fund Management will involve keeping the savings
account in one or two CDs at a higher rate of interest than the
savings account for at least 6 months of the year.

III) Short Term Loan Season is defined as the period generally
between January and June during which our cash flow is reduced
due to stockpiling of hammocks for the spring shipment.  During
this period of time we traditionally borrow from the Bank of
Gainesville.

IV) Borrowing from Savings:  The Resource Manager will cash in
the CD at the beginning of loan season (as close to it as
possible), thereby making the funds available.  Up to 2/3rds of
the savings account will be available for borrowing at the
discretion of the Resource Manager.

Borrowing from our savings account will be the first choice of
short term borrowing.  Upon payback, interest will be charged
against our loan of these funds at a flat rate of 8% per annum. 
Payback will be within one week of receiving the Pier One check.

V) Borrowing from PEACH: A loan will be taken out in January of
each year, for the maximum amount possible from the PEACH fund
(this year on the order of $8000).  Interest on this loan is
determined at a rate of 1% below what is currently available from
the Bank of Gainesville, and directly benefits the fund itself. 
This loan will be kept for the entire short term loan season.

VI) Borrowing from Gainesville: The line of credit we have with
Gainesville will be maintained.  This source of funds will be
used during non-loan season cash crunches, and when loan
requirements surpass funds available from other sources.

[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

Also @xref{Bylaws}.

The community may decline to borrow assets [from members who are
required to make such assets available] when it is not in its
best interest to do so.

@suindex Gifts
Money that may be spent by members for personal benefits:  (1) Any
money that is received from the community (DFs, profit sharing,
etc.), (2) Gift money, however the community reserves the right to
restrict the use of gift money if deemed excessive.

@suindex OWV
@suindex Outside work vacation
Outside work vacation money (OWV)

This is money earned by members off the farm.  There are no
restrictions on how this money may be spent while off the farm,
however, property bought with OWV money should not be brought
back to East Wind for personal use.  OWV money may be deposited
in a member's personal OWV account.  OWV money may be spent while
the member is at East Wind only for travel payments and gifts for
people living elsewhere.

Exceptions

Full members preparing to leave the community may be exempt from
money and property rules for the final two weeks before they
leave.]

[OWV policy, Jaren, 24 Jun 87 (I have no record of the community
legislation he refers to)]

Community legislated policy for O.W.V.:

O.W.V. (outside work vacation) = off-the-farm-income.

These monies are held in individual accounts and can be drawn from
to be spent @emph{only} off-the-farm on VACATION.

VACATION is loosely defined as off-the-farm overnite, minimum.

@node Dairy Fund, Building Fund, Money Miscellaneous, Money
@unnumberedsubsec Dairy Fund

@suindex Dairy fund
[Diary Fund, 11 Dec 84]

Set aside end of year dairy accumulation and proceeds from cow
sale and $2800/year -- earmarked into building fund -- until we
have the money to build a parlor [?] and someone with a
committment of at least one year to manage the program.

@node Building Fund,  , Dairy Fund, Money
@unnumberedsubsec Building Fund

@suindex Building fund
@suindex Donations
[Establish a permanent Building Fund, Community Meeting, 25 Jul
84]

Establish a permanent building fund into which would go:

1)  All donations from non-members (unless they want to make a
general donation).

2)  All member donations and outside income earned while a
member, that normally is to be turned over to the community.

These funds would be handled through a special account at the
bank or other institution, in order to keep them separate from
general community funds.

These funds could only be used for new, major building
construction and utility systems, as determined by the community. 
The projects would be at least $10,000 in cost.  Partial funding
of projects can be done from the fund as long as the total size
of the project is over $10,000.

Contributions to this fund cannot be earmarked as to what
building project to be used for, unless the community decides to
do so.

[Interest from Funds, Community Meeting, 31 Aug 91]

The interest generated by the nutbutter capital improvement fund
and the building fund (including funds designated for specific
projects like a dairy barn or a children's building) shall be
allocated to the general building fund, or to specific funds as
per Resource Manager discretion.

@node Land, HTA, Money, Resource
@unnumberedsec Land

@suindex Land

@menu
* Land Use Policy::             Land Use Policy
* Mobile Residences Sites::     Mobile Residences Sites
@end menu

@node Land Use Policy, Mobile Residences Sites,  , Land
@unnumberedsubsec Land Use Policy

[Land Use Policy, Board, 19 Feb 92]

INTENT:   Intent is to establish clear lines of communication for changes in
land use.  


BASIS:    Based on existing policy of Resource Committee, 1984


POLICY:   Any change in land use, including the building, alteration or
demolition of structures, must be approved by the Resource Manager,
the Board, or the Community before being implemented.

There is not currently a committee or group devoted to analyzing
land use with alteration in mind, so that recommendations for
change may come from anyone.

This policy does not affect the ability of areas such as
Agriculture to change the use of land that has been allocated to
that area, provided that the change is not permanent.


PROCESS: Individual recommending change approaches Resource Manager with
idea.  If project falls within existing budget, RM may approve such
changes.

If project requires additional budget allocation, RM and/or
individual recommending change must bring item before the Board. 
Board may approve project if funding is available in Board 
Projects budget.

If allocation of funds from existing budgets not possible, project
must go through Community proposal approval procedure, as per
profits use list projects.

In all cases, Community must be informed of project prior to
inception through a front board concerns note and a  back board
project summary.  Notes must be posted for at least 2 weeks for
feedback.  Feedback may indicate need for concerns or community
meeting.

@node Mobile Residences Sites,  , Land Use Policy, Land
@unnumberedsubsec Mobile Residences Sites

@suindex Busses
@suindex Mobile residences
[Mobile Residences Sites, Community Meeting, 23 May 88]

1.  After 5 weeks of residence, a visitor's or member's bus must
be parked out of sight of public buildings.

Comments:
@itemize @bullet
@item
"5 weeks", to give enough time for a visitor to find out if co
has been accepted, but no longer than 5 weeks, because sometimes
visitors' stays are extended and the bus could stay in view too
long a time.
@item
"public buildings" means permanent, multiuser, heated buildings. 
For example Reim, but not necessarily a member's shelter or the
barn.
@end itemize

2.  Before settling on a site, someone must post a note telling
the community of the proposed location.

Comments:  This is to allow for people to bring up objections to
some proposed site.

Mobile Residences not be parked within sight of the current main
path between Fanshen to Enterprise.

General comments

Assumptions:
@itemize @bullet
@item
The Resource Committee, with authority over land use planning,
has authority over bus sites too.

@item
The visitor manager would ordinarily inform the bus owner of
legislation and make sure the note gets posted.  Anyway, the
membership orientation should cover it.

@item
Busses, like "shelters", are so-called temporary buildings -
that is, the community can decide to move them when it wishes. 
So, bus owners shouldn't get too attached to a particular site.
@end itemize

This proposal doesn't spell out ALL the places that buses
shouldn't stay - for example, on grazing land, or off East Wind
property.

@node HTA, Labor, Land, Resource
@unnumberedsec HTA

@suindex HTA
@suindex Hard to assign
@suindex Kitchen cleans (HTA)
[Proposed Changes in HTA Credit System, Community Meeting 28 Dec
85]

1) 1 HTA credit per shift.  Full labor credit for time used to do
the job.
2)  -1 HTA credit per blown off shift (Work Manager make the
decision on request of Work Coordinator or Kitchen Manager).
["The Work Coordinator position is eliminated and the tasks assumed
by the Work Manager" -- Administrative Reorganization, 12 Nov 88]
4)  If a person is more than 10 HTA credits (shifts) below
average co may be obligated to do up to 3 HTA shifts per week.
5)  If a person can not do HTA for more than 6 weeks (because of
a PA/PM leave, emergency leave, medical reasons, etc., but not
including vacation time), co's HTA balance will be adjusted to
reflect a raise of average HTA balance [historically this has
included pregnancy, and people have had their balances adjusted
to bring them up to the community average, according to Ch'hsh'na
(Resource Manger)'s backboard paper on the subject from March,
91]

[HTA, Community Meeting, 21 Jan 84]

Being responsible for one's HTA is part of doing one's fair
share.  Everyone, unless medically exempt, is expected to be
responsible for HTA, either personally or by giving another
person PSC's to cover the HTA shift, or by job swapping by the
person doing the labor signing their name after the name of the
person they're doing the labor for.  However, the individual
remains responsible for doing the HTA if no other arrangement can
be made.  Using the PSC or job swap options requires notification
to the work committee [Work Manager, per Leadership and the
Administrative Structure, 14 Sep 85].

@suindex Morning dishes
[Morning HTA, Community Meeting, 5 Oct 91]

A daily (except for Sunday) HTA shift [shall] be added to the
current HTA roster with the following guidelines:  Shift starts
no later than 10:30am and goes for at least one hour.  Duties
include washing dishes, picking up and putting away breakfast
stuff, and general cleaning as is needed (e.g., wiping off
counters and tables, etc.).

@node Labor, Social Security Numbers, HTA, Resource
@unnumberedsec Labor

@menu
* Fair Share::                  Fair Share
* Work Required::               Work Required
* Labor Exchange::              Labor Exchange
* Person Days::                 Person Days
* Recording Done Time::         Recording Done Time
* Quota::                       Quota
* PSCs::                        PSCs
* Vacation::                    Vacation
* Labor Misc::                  Labor Misc
* Meeting Hours::               Meeting Hours
* Back Hours::                  Back Hours
@end menu

@node Fair Share, Work Required,  , Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Fair Share

@suindex Fair Share
[According to the bylaws (@pxref{Bylaws}), members must work fair share.
Fair Share has been defined to mean:

Making sure your HTA shift is done, @xref{HTA}.

Doing a certain number of hours each week, @xref{Work Required}.

Cleaning up your messes, @xref{Messes and Fair Share}.

Doing hammocks production work if necessary, @xref{Production
Quota}.]

@node Work Required, Labor Exchange, Fair Share, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Work Required

@suindex Work
[Transition Legislation, Community Meeting, 21 Mar 87]

[Full members who are leaving East Wind or going on leave] shall be
exempted from working quota for their last week at East Wind to provide
time for packing and making preparations for leaving.

[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

All members are required to do a fair share of Community work. 
In practice this means that members must follow a number of rules
to fulfill this requirement.

-Each member is responsible for finding work and insuring that it
is creditable.  Managers determine whether the work is creditable
or not.

-Each member is responsible for recording co's own hours worked
on the appropriate "done time sheet".  No labor credit will be
given where it is not recorded.  @xref{Recording Done Time}.]

@suindex Labor hole
@suindex Demotion to provisional member, for labor hole
[Three weeks in the hole, Community Meeting, 15 Jul 79]

I.  Any full member reaching the level of 3 weeks in the hole will be
returned to provisional status and will lose co's vote accordingly
(i.e., co would have whatever vote or partial vote was accorded to
provisional members [For details @xref{Democracy}]).  Provisional members
will not be eligible for full membership while 3 weeks or more in the
hole.

There will be one month between the time of going 3 weeks in the hole
and implementation of the consequences.

[Warning if in hole, Community Meeting, 20 Jan 80]

One month's warning has to be given before implementation.

[Minimum Labor Balance, Population Committee, 8 Jan 87]

We interpret curent legislation to mean that there is only one warning
period of up to 30 days per year for a member to raise cos labor balance
above [On going in the hole with your labor balance, Board, 21 Feb 89]
three weeks in the hole.

One week will be defined as whatever quota currently is in hours. 
Members with reduced quota will have the same limit in hours that
other members have.

[Economic Agreements

Additional Guidelines:

Members are responsible for:

a) Being aware of their labor balance.  Labor reports are revised
and posted on the work board in Rock Bottom each week.

b) Abiding by the rules of the branch in which they work.

c) Taking the initiative in finding satisfactory work.

e) Being cooperative with others and helping to make our work
environment better.

@suindex Visitors, and labor balance
VISITORS

Visitors who have a labor balance that is more than ten hours in the
hole may find that the Membership Manager will recommend extending the
visitor period.]

@node Labor Exchange, Person Days, Work Required, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Labor Exchange

@suindex Labor exchange
[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

Members may work at any Federation community and fulfill the
labor obligation to East Wind.  Doing the full labor obligation
of the other community will result in full credit at East Wind. 
Permission must be obtained from both communities.  Travel time
is not creditable at East Wind.]

@node Person Days, Recording Done Time, Labor Exchange, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Person Days

@suindex Person days
[Person Days, Community Meeting, 4 Feb 84]

[Per this legislation all references to "person days" in this
compilation have been converted to hours.]

1) A person day is 8 hours.

2) Community public records will be in hours.

3) Person days can be used in community records and
presentations, only if it is also in hours.  Other uses of person
days is at the option of those involved.

@node Recording Done Time, Quota, Person Days, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Recording Done Time

@suindex Labor week
[Change Labor week and community meeting day, Community Meeting
(?), 26 Mar 81]

Change labor week to Monday-Sunday.

@suindex Done time
@suindex Hours, writing them down
@suindex Labor credits, claiming them
[WIMP, Community Meeting, 27 Apr 83]

1) The amount of time worked will be recorded (done time).

2) Done time will be recorded by branch, area, committee or some
other category.

3) Sheets will be located at work branches or some other
convenient locations.

4) Sheets will be collected weekly.

5) Recording on sheets will be done by the individual or someone
else as determined by the branch.

6) Sheets can be designed for the internal needs of the branch as
long as the information turned in conforms to what the [Resource
Manager] wants.

7) Records, other than daily recording, will be kept in [hours]. 
Branch records can be in parts of an hour (i.e. 2.5).  When
records are turned in to the [Resource Manager], the smallest
unit will be one hour.  Extra parts of hours in branch records
can be carried over to the next week, or dealt with some other
way. [This is not current practice, as of May 90]

8) Sheets for miscellaneous activities (i.e. committees, sick,
etc.) will be set up and located by the [Resource Manager].

@node Quota, PSCs, Recording Done Time, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Quota

@suindex Quota
@suindex Age, and quota
[Conditions for Lower Quota, Community Meeting, 14 Apr 90]

Quota will depend on the combined number of adult members and
associates, a number which is available from the Membership Book.
Whenever a week ends with that number being 45 people or more,
quota will be 40 hours the next week.  Otherwise, quota will be 44
hours.

We will no longer automatically review quota every three months.

[Older persons quota, Community Meeting, 16 Dec 89]

Members over the age of 49 shall have their labor quota reduced by
one hour for each year their age exceeds 49.  Further reductions
can be negotiated with the Board.

@node PSCs, Vacation, Quota, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec PSCs

@suindex PSCs
@suindex Personal service credits
[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

Personal Service Credits (PSCs)

PSCs are labor hour credits transferred from one member's labor
balance to that of another member or visitor.  They are to be
given at the rate of one PSC per hour worked.  PSCs may not be
given in the following situations:

1) If the Labor accountant receives the request for the
transaction from anyone other than the giver.

2) When the giver has, or would have after the transaction, a
negative labor balance.

3) When the transaction would drastically affect the labor flow.

4) When the transaction would be against the interests of the
Community, as determined by any member of the management team,
Board, or the Community meeting.]

[PSC Limit Proposal, Community Meeting, 5 Mar 88]

To limit PSC credit to actual time worked with these conditions:

A person receiving PSC's may round up to the next whole hour if
co's actual work time ended with a fraction of an hour.  The above
rounding up may be done (figured) only on the figure
that is the week's total of PSC's done.  [At the time this was
written labor records did not include fractions of hours.]

@node Vacation, Labor Misc, PSCs, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Vacation

@suindex Vacation
@suindex Holidays
@suindex Guaranteed vacation
[WIMP, Community Meeting, 27 Apr 83, as amended by Guaranteed
Vacation Revision, Community Meeting, 22 Jul 89]

Additional vacation time can be earned by working more than
quota.

GUARANTEED VACATION

Each member will get 3 weeks of vacation, plus seven (7)
community holidays, and the member's birthday.  3 weeks is
defined as the average weekly quota for the previous 12 months
multiplied by three.  Vacation time will be credited in hours.

[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

Holidays are: New Year's Day, Spring Equinox, Land Day (May 1),
Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, Thanksgiving Day, and Winter
Solstice.]

The vacation is received in one year intervals from the time one
becomes a provisional member.

A member's vacation time will be credited to the column [on labor
sheets] labelled "vacation".  The vacation column is only
included for the member's convenience in budgetting for coself;
hours may be transferred to and from "vacation" at the member's
request.  The "labor balance" column [including both vacation
time credit and other labor credits] will be the one that counts.

@node Labor Misc, Meeting Hours, Vacation, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Labor Misc

@suindex Labor budgets
@suindex Budgets, labor
@suindex Personal development activities
@suindex Exercise, hours for
@suindex Artistic hobbies, hours for
@suindex Hobbies, hours for
@suindex Production quota, and labor budgets
@suindex Hammocks production quota, and labor budgets
[Eliminate Labor Budgets, Community Meeting, 22 Jul 89, "counseling" in
number 1 below removed per Hours for Counseling, 25 Jul 92]

We'll eliminate all branch labor budgets.  The annual plan will
only be concerned with money budgets.

The following conditions are to insure that this new freedom
won't be abused:

1.  Labor credit be given only for community work, not for personal
development activities, such as exercising or artistic hobbies.

3.  Each branch may issue guidelines about which activities are
creditable.

4.  This proposal is in effect only as long as there is some kind
of hammocks production quota.  If we drop hammocks productions
quota, we have to reinstitute labor budgets.

5.  The Board may use whatever means it deems necessary to insure
that the needs of the Community will be met.

@node Meeting Hours, Back Hours, Labor Misc, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Meeting Hours

@suindex Meetings, credit for
[Credit for Meetings, Community Meeting, 12 Jan 91]

Staff meetings of areas included in the labor accounting system
shall be considered time worked and fully creditable.  Meetings
of the Board and of WIMP committees shall also be fully creditable.
Community meeting time shall be half credit.

["WIMP committees" means Area Committees, @xref{Area Committees},
which were established by WIMP.]

@node Back Hours,  , Meeting Hours, Labor
@unnumberedsubsec Back Hours

@suindex Back hours
@suindex Adjustments in labor balances
@suindex Labor balances, adjustments in
[Economic Agreements, not legislation or policy, Apr 90

ADJUSTMENTS IN LABOR BALANCES

The Work Manager will generally not make retroactive adjustments
in labor balances.  If hours are not recorded during the week
when the work is done then they may be recorded in the following
week.  Special permission is required prior to claiming hours for
time worked more than three weeks in the past.  If a manager or
Work Manager disallows credit the affected member must be notified
with the reason given for the action.]

[Back Hours, Community Meeting, 3 Sep 88]

People cannot approve their own back hours (defined as work done
more than 3 weeks previously).  They must go up through the
bureaucracy for that approval until they find someone other than
themselves, even if that means community meeting.

@node Social Security Numbers, Contractors, Labor, Resource
@unnumberedsec Social Security Numbers

@suindex Social security numbers
[Requiring social security numbers from all members, Community
Meeting, 1 Feb 86]

All provisional and full members are required to provide their
social security number to the community for purposes of filing
the community's income tax and unemployment reports.

Any exception to this must not endanger the community or someone
other than the individual, and will be decided by a community
meeting.

@node Contractors,  , Social Security Numbers, Resource
@unnumberedsec Contractors

@suindex Contractors
@suindex Payment, for contractors
[Minimum Payment Standard for Independent Contractors (policy),
Board, 15 Aug 89]

The minimum payment for anyone that we contract with to work for
East Wind businesses at East Wind is to be no lower than our
average $/hour for that business, for which the work is done,
during the three most recent periods (months) for which financial
reports are available.

When the contractor is billing East Wind based on the number of
hours worked then this standard can be easily followed.  However,
when the contractor is billing based on other considerations then
the best estimation should be made as to the number of hours
worked and this used to determine the minimum payment.  In cases
where a pre-determined amount has been agreed upon and this
amount turns out to be lower than the standard, based upon an
estimate of the hours worked, then an additional amount should be
paid to the contractor to make up the difference.  This need not
be followed when there is a clear case that the contractor has
knowing extended co's work time to take advantage of this policy. 
An approximation of hours worked in such cases will satisfy the
intent.

The policy applies only to work done for our businesses at East
Wind and is not meant to imply what an upper limit for payments
to independent contractors should be.

Note: All managers are responsible for insuring that East Wind is
legally contracting with independent contractors and not hiring
employed labor.

@node Government, Business, Resource, Top
@unnumbered Government

@suindex Government
@menu
* Organization::                Organization
* Recruitment Material::        Recruitment Material
* WIMP Elections and Managerial Review::  WIMP Elections and Managerial Review
* Rotation::                    Rotation
* Democracy::                   Democracy
* Community Meeting Agenda::    Community Meeting Agenda
* Meetings::                    Meetings
@end menu

@node Organization, Recruitment Material,  , Government
@unnumberedsec Organization

@menu
* Organizational Chart::        Organizational Chart
* Board::                       Board
* Management Team::             Management Team
* Social Manager::              Social Manager
* Membership Manager::          Membership Manager
* Resource Manager::            Resource Manager
* Area Committees::             Area Committees
* Branches::                    Branches
* Elections::                   Elections
* What goes where::             What Goes Where
@end menu

@node Organizational Chart, Board,  , Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Organizational Chart

@suindex Organizational chart
[Administrative Reorganization, Community Meeting, 12 Nov 88]

@example
Proposed Structure:

Community Membership
       |
Board of Planners
       |
Management Team (Membership Manger, Social Manger, Resource
Manager)
       |
       +----(Membership staff) Recruitment Manager,
       |     Visitor Manager, "Membership" Manager
       +----(Resource staff) Work Manager, Accounting Manager
       |
       +----(Social staff) 
       |
       +----SOCIAL AREAS
       |
       +----RESOURCE AREAS
@end example

["Social staff" above includes Cultural Committee, Recreation Manager,
Holidays Manager, Federation Delegates, Pets Manager, Network Manager,
Hunting Manager, according to Social Manager Job Description.
@xref{Social Manager}).]

[WIMP, 27 Apr 83, as amended by Services under Social Committee,
25 Jun 83.  This fills in the "social areas" and "resource areas"
above.]

@suindex Branches, list of
Functional Areas: Social Sphere

@itemize @asis
@item
Child Committee

@itemize @asis
@item
Child Branch
@end itemize

@item
Services Committee

@itemize @asis
@item
House Branch

@item
Kitchen Branch

@item
Medical Committee
@end itemize
@end itemize

Functional Areas: Resource Sphere

@itemize @asis
@item
Agriculture Committee

@itemize @asis
@item
Agriculture Branch

@item
Ranch Branch
@end itemize

@item
Business Committee

@itemize @asis
@item
Nut and Seed Products Branch

@item
Casual Furniture [hammocks] Branch

@item
Sandals Branch

@item
Shipping Branch
@end itemize

@item
Plant and Equipment Committee

@itemize @asis
@item
[Building, Utilities, and Grounds (BUG)] Branch

@item
Garage Branch
@end itemize
@end itemize

@node Board, Management Team, Organizational Chart, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Board

@suindex Board of planners
[Administrative Reorganization, Community Meeting, 12 Nov 88]

BOARD OF PLANNERS

General Intent:

The Board would function as the overall policy and planning group
for the community.  It would oversee all operations of the
community, while leaving actual day to day management to the
management team.

The expected time requirement for Board members would be 2 hours
per week.  This is to help maximize our ability to have the folks
we prefer on the Board, by not requiring a major time
committment.

Makeup:

5 positions.

A chairperson is elected from amongst these 5 by the 5 board
members, to coordinate the activities of the board.

@suindex Elections, board
Selection:

[Per Votes in Elections, 11 Jul 92, "full members" is replaced with
"people with votes" (in 3a) and "people" (in 5)]

1) Elected annually.

2) One year terms, no limit on the number of consecutive terms.

3) Nominees are determined by:

@itemize @asis
@item
a) Running a week long ballot process where every member is listed on
the ballot - and people with votes are asked to select up to 10 members
they would like to see on the Board

@item
b) The top 10 members in the ballot, along with anyone additionally
nominated by the current Board, or the petition process previously
established [@xref{WIMP Elections and Managerial Review}] - are the
nominees for the final voting process.  Generally speaking the objective
would be to nominate the people that are most prefered by the
membership.
@end itemize

4) A week or so after the nominees are determined, there is a
discussion of the nominees at a community meeting.

5) This is followed by a second week long ballot vote to determine the
community's final preferences.  Each person votes for up to five of the
nominees.

6) Positions go to the top five vote recipients, that are willing to
serve on the board.  [Votes in Elections, Community Meeting, 11 Jul 92]
To be elected to the Board a candidate must receive a number of votes
equal to a majority of the possible votes which may be cast.
[Administrative Reorganization]

7) Nominees may decline to be on the final ballot or to serve on
the board.  Otherwise it will be assumed that folks are willing
to be on the board if the community asks them.

8) If all five positions are not filled for some reason, a second
vote may be held that would include the previous nominees that
did not receive a majority, and any others mentioned by the Board
or by petition.

@suindex Recall, of board members
Recall:

1) Any member of the board shall be removed from office on the
presentation to the Board of a petition signed by a majority of
full members demanding co's removal.

2) Board members may also be removed by a secret ballot vote at a
community meeting.  If a recall petition of a board member is on
the agenda stack, the board will bring it to a community meeting
within 30 days.

Responsible for:

1) Developing community policy, within guidelines set by the
community.

2) Selecting and evaluating the performance of the management
team.

3) Selecting a chairperson and nominating members to the
community to fill vacancies on the board.

4) Nominating folks for committee and managerial positions that
will be elected by the community.

5) Establishing and monitoring financial standards for the
community.

6) Reviewing any long term loans prior to consideration by the
community.

7) Recommending, after recommendations from the management team,
an operating budget for the current year and projections for
succeeding years.

8) Reviewing complete financial statements at least quarterly and
operating reports at more frequent intervals.

9) Developing for community approval, significant and realistic
plans for future development and growth, and reviewing and
modifying them at regular intervals.

10) Reviewing and making recommendations on any proposed changes
in the Bylaws.

11) Authorizing appropriate people to sign contracts, leases, or
other obligations on behalf of the community.

Also to see that:

12) Adequate accounting reports are kept in accord with generally
accepted accounting principles.

13) Accurate community records are maintained; including copies
of Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Board minutes, Community
Meeting decisions, and all required reports.

14) Posting all board decisions.

15) All legally required reports are accurately maintained and
filed when due.

16) Appropriate interal financial controls are in force and
periodic audits made as needed.

17) Adequate channels are provided for members suggestions,
commendations, and complaints, and that response is reasonably
prompt and courteous.

18) Effective programs for member information are designed and
then implemented consistently.

19) Communication between management, Board, committees and
members is reasonably freeflowing and open in all directions.

20) All activities are carried out within the law, the articles
of Incorporation, Bylaws and decisions by the membership.

Authority to:

1) The Board of Planners shall direct the affairs of the
community, and exercise all of the powers of the community,
except those as are reserved to the membership either by the
bylaws or decisions by the membership.  The Board shall adopt
such policies, rules, regulations, and actions - as are not
inconsistent with law, the Bylaws, or decisions made by the
membership - as the Board may deem advisable.

2) Make emergency decisions when the issue can not wait and
quorum is not present at a community meeting.

3) Delegate any matter to a manager or committee.

4) Change the job descriptions of the Management Team and its
members.

5) Select members of the management team (with confirmation by
the community).

6) Dismiss any manager it has appointed, including those that
were confirmed by the community.

7) Decide on appeals.

8) Hold community elections.

9) Propose the agenda for Community meetings.

CHAIRPERSON [of] Board of Planners

Selection:  A member of the Board is elected by a majority vote
of the planners.

Responsible for:  

1) Chairing board meetings

2) Overseeing preparation for meetings of the membership.

3) Calling special meetings of the board.

4) Performing other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of
Planners.

Authority to:

1) As determined by the Board of Planners.

@node Management Team, Social Manager, Board, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Management Team

@suindex Management team
[Administrative Reorganization, Community Meeting, 12 Nov 88]

MANGEMENT TEAM

General Intent:

To carry out day to day management of the community within
policies and other guidelines set by the community and the Board
of Planners.

Note:  These are tentative job descriptions and can be changed by
the Board of Planners.

Makeup:  Membership Manager, Social Manager, Resource Manager

Selection:  The Board proposes people to the community for
confirmation.

These people can be selected by the Board from amongst its own
members, or from the general membership.

Responsible for:

1) Day to Day operation of the community.

2) Implementation of community and board plans.

3) Developing plans and recommendations for the board on how to
best achieve the community's goals.

4) Posting Mangement Team decisions.

5) Public relations.

6) Other things as designated by the Board.

Authority to:

1) Decide on appeals.

2) Decide what committees/managers deal with certain issues.

3) Decide on management issues not covered by any of the
individual management team members authority.

4) Use money and labor within community guidelines.

5) Delegate tasks and authority to other managers/committees,
including the membership, social, and resource managers.

COORDINATOR [of] Management Team

Selection:

Designated by the Board, from amongst the 3 members of the
management team.

Responsible for:

1) Chairing Management Team meetings, and coordinating the
activities of the Management Team.

2) Working with the Board Chairperson to schedule community
meetings, and preparing the proposed agenda.

3) Other things as designated by the Board.

Authority to:

1) Use money and labor within community guidelines.

@node Social Manager, Membership Manager, Management Team, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Social Manager

@suindex Social manager
[Administrative Reorganization, Community Meeting, 12 Nov 88]

[This job description can be changed by the Board, @xref{Board}]

SOCIAL MANAGER

Responsible for:

1) Finding ways to address social concerns of the community.

2) Developing plans and making recommendations to the board and
community on how to address specific and general social concerns.

3) Being a source of help for folks with conflicts.

4) Administering social programs; weeds and knots; skills
training program (communication, conflict resolution, group
dynamics), child visitation...

5) Other things as designated by the Board.

Authority to:

@suindex Cultural committee, selection of
@suindex Recreation manager, selection of
@suindex Holidays manager, selection of
@suindex Federation delegates, selection of
@suindex Network manager, selection of
@suindex Pets manager, selection of
@suindex Hunting manager, selection of
1) Appoint; Cultural committee, Recreation Manager, Holidays
Manager, Federation delegates, Network Manager, Pets Manager,
Hunting Manager.

2) Use additional staff people for these activities.

3) Appoint sub committees and managers in the Social areas, with
the Board's and Community's approval.

4) Dismiss any manager co has appointed, including those that
were approved by the board and the community.

5) Use money and labor within community guidelines.

@node Membership Manager, Resource Manager, Social Manager, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Membership Manager

@suindex Membership manager
[Administrative Reorganization, Community Meeting, 12 Nov 88]

[This job description can be changed by the Board, @xref{Board}]

Responsible for:

1) Recruitment.

2) Visitors program (contact, orientations, etc.).

3) Membership policy implementation (votes, records, leaves, etc.).

6) Other things as designated by the Board.

Authority to:

1) Grant leaves as outlined in community legislation.

@suindex Property code, exceptions to
2) Grant releases from labor and property rules, where warrented
and within the original intent of the rule.

@suindex Recruitment manager, selection of
@suindex Visitor manager, selection of
3) Use additional staff people for these activities (recruitment
manager, visitor manager).

4) Appoint sub committees and managers in the Membership areas,
with the Board's and Community's approval (Recruitment manager,
Visitor manager).

5) Dismiss any manager co has appointed, including those that
were approved by the board and the community.

6) Use money and labor within community guidelines.

@node Resource Manager, Area Committees, Membership Manager, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Resource Manager

@suindex Resource manager
@suindex Treasurer
[Administrative Reorganization, Community Meeting, 12 Nov 88]

[This job description can be changed by the Board, @xref{Board}]

Responsible for:

Labor:

1) Keeping labor use within budget.

2) Interpreting labor policies set by the community.

3) Resolving individual and branch labor problems.

4) Meeting folks needs for satisfying work.

5) Implementation of the community's work plan.

6) Overall operation of the work system.

7) Making recommendations on all legislation affecting the work
system.

Financial:

1) Overall financial planning.

2) Cash management.

3) Insurance.

4) Negotiating loans.

5) Keping spending within budgets

6) Being the "Treasurer" for legal purposes.

General:

1) Other resource concerns as are needed: land use, space use...

2) Coordinating resource usage in the community.

3) Other things as designated by the Board.

Authority to:

Labor:

@suindex Work manager, selection of
1) Appoint the Work Manager, with approval of the Board and the
community.

3) Make policies as long as they are within the scope of
legislation passed by the community.

5) Determine guidelines and criteria for the HTA system
[Presumably within the legislation on the subject.  @xref{HTA}]

Money:

1) Appoint the Accounting Manager, with the approval of the Board
and the Community.

2) Sign for loans as the treasurer, with one other officer.

3) Contract for insurance.

4) Implement financial control systems.

5) Restrict spending on any budget when necessary.

General:

1) Reallocate resources within the intent of the community's
resource plans, and within Board guidelines.

2) Use additional staff people for these activities.

3) Appoint sub committees and managers in the Resource areas,
with the Board's and community's approval.

4) Dismiss any manager co has appointed, including those that
were approved by the board and the community.

5) Use money and labor within community guidelines.

@node Area Committees, Branches, Resource Manager, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Area Committees

@suindex Area Committees
[WIMP, 27 Apr 83, as amended by Services under Social Committee,
25 Jun 83]

Makeup:

@suindex Child committee
@suindex Child board
Child Committee:  2 Representatives of the Child Branch, General
Communitarian.

@suindex Medical committee
Medical Committee: 3 General Communitarians.

@suindex Agriculture committee
Agriculture Committee:  2 Representatives of the Agriculture
Branch, General Communitarian [Ranch Branch, 3 Nov 84, says the
ranch branch elects a representative to the agriculture
committee.  I think this has been interpreted to mean the
Agriculture Branch now gets one representative].

@suindex Business committee
Business Committee: General Manager - Casual Furniture
[hammocks], General Manager - Nut and seed Products [nutbutters],
Treasurer, 2 General Communitarians, [The Sandals General Manager
also is on this committee but I don't know how that decision was
made]

@suindex Plant and equipment committee
Plant and Equipment Committee: Representative of the [Buildings,
Utilities, and Grounds] branch, Representative of the Garage
branch, General Communitarian.

@suindex Services committee
Services Committee: Representative of House Branch,
Representative of Kitchen Branch, General Communitarian,
Representative of Medical Committee.

General intent:

These committees will handle resources for the branch(s) within
their area.  They will be expected to balance the interests of
the community with those of the branch.  Because of the
flexibility in allocating resources, these committees will be
able to focus resources more effectively.

Responsible for:

1) Overall planning, coordination and management of the
activities within the area.

2) Insuring communication within and between branches.

3) Posting policies prior to a final decision.

Authority to:

1) Allocate and reallocate resources (money and labor) within the
area including establishing reserves for projects, buffers and
overruns.  And in doing so, to the best of its ability, fulfiling
the intent of community legislation.

2) Decide on appeals.

3) Set resource parameters within which branches will operate.

@node Branches, Elections, Area Committees, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Branches

@suindex Branches
[WIMP, 27 Apr 83]

[People days converted to hours per Person Days, 4 Feb 84]

General intent:

These groupings of activities will allow more local control;
promote identification with one's work area - through the
permanent work and branch setup; encourage pride in one's branch
and one's work; and increase efficiency.

Requirements for being a branch:

1) Minimum of 3 permanent workers.

2) Minimum of 2400 hours per year.

3) If these standards are not met by a branch, it will be folded
into other branches in the area - no new branch will be
established without this level of funding and committment.

4) A specific decision will be made by the community to create or
dissolve a branch.

Responsible for:

1) Insuring that all activities that are a part of the branch get
taken care of.

2) Making sure that done time gets recorded and handed in to the
work manager.

3) Morale of the workers.

4) Productivity of the branch.

5) Working conditions in the branch.

6) Staying within money budgets set by the area committee.

7) Delegating enough authority to the branch manager so that co
can be effective: i.e. spending money and labor, etc.

Authority to:

1) Decide branch issues (i.e. resource use or policies) by a
majority vote of the permanent workers.

2) Delegate authority to the Branch manager, or anyone else.

@suindex Permanent workers, selection of
[Administrative Reorganization, Community Meeting, 12 Nov 88]

Permanent worker assignments and removals are done solely by the
branch, with the regular options for appeal.

[WIMP]

@suindex Branch manager, selection of
4) Elect the Branch Manager and other positions within the
branch. [See "exceptions" below]

5) Make recommendations on the annual plan to the Area Committee.

6) Overrule the Branch Manager (if co has been elected by the
branch) with a 2/3rds vote.

7) Elect the branch representatives(s), in those cases in which a
branch provides branch representatives to an area committee. [See
"exceptions" below]

8) These are authorities that the Branch Manager has that the
branch can assume if they vote to do so:

@itemize @asis
@item
a) Spending money, within the parameters set by the area
committee.

@item
b) Using labor within the parameters set by the area committee.

@item
c) Set up internal responsibilities (managersships, metas) within
the branch.

@item
d) Set criteria for permanent workers.

@item
e) Delegate spending authority for money and labor.
@end itemize

Exceptions:

@suindex Hammocks general manager, selection of
@suindex Nutbutter general manager, selection of
@suindex Nutbutter marketing manager, selection of
@suindex Marketing manager of nutbutters, selection of
@suindex Sandals general manager, selection of
1) The community elects the Branch Managers (General Managers)
and Marketing Managers for Nut and Seed Products, Casual
Furniture [hammocks], and Sandals Branches.

2) There will be no Branch Manager for the Child Branch or
Agriculture Branch unless the Branches vote to have one.  If
there is no Branch Manager, a spokesperson will be designated for
the branch.

3) The Agriculture and Child Committees will fill the role of the
Branch Manager until the branches decide otherwise.

4) Nut and Seed Products, Casual Furniture, Sandals and Shipping
branches do not elect representatives to the Business Committee.

@suindex Branch manager
BRANCH MANAGER

General intent:

Branch Managers will be responsible for overall coordination of
the branch.  The competence of this person will have a key impact
on the performance of the branch.

Responsible for:

1) Overall coordination of branch activities.

2) Anything delegated by the branch.

3) Morale of the branch.

4) Being the spokesperson for the branch to the community and
area committee.

5) Helping implement branch plans and decisions.

6) Trouble shooting branch problems.

7) Staying within money budgets set by the area committee.

8) Work scheduling.

Auhority to:

1) Set the agenda for branch meetings.

2) Exercise any authority delegated by the branch to the branch
manager.

3) These are assumed to be the authority of the Branch Manager
(where they are elected) - unless the branch decides otherwise:

@itemize @asis
@item
a) Spending money within parameters set by the area committee.

@item
b) Using labor within the parameters set by the area committee. 
This includes requesting floating and visitor labor, as well as
okaying all work to be [given credit].

@item
c) Set up internal responsibilities (managerships, metas) within
the branch.

@item
d) Set criteria for permanent workers.

@item
e) Delegate spending authority for money and labor.
@end itemize

@suindex Permanent workers
PERMANENT WORKERS

General intent:

Permanent workers have a vote in branch decisions and job
security, in exchange for making a significant committment of
time and willingness to share the responsibility for branch
activities.  This will result in more consistency, reduced
burnout of managers, better management training and increased
efficiency.

Responsible for:

1) Sharing responsibility with the other permanent workers for
the performance of the branch.

2) Working out schedule changes with one's branch(s): i.e.
vacations.

3) Helping fulfill the responsibilities of the branch.

4) Fulfilling the criteria of the branch for permanent workers.

5) Implementing branch and branch manager decisions.

6) Being cooperative.

Authority to:

1) Cast one vote in branch decisions.

2) Exercise other authorities delegated to them by the branch or
branch manager.

@suindex Floating labor
@suindex Floaters (non-permanent-workers)
FLOATING LABOR

General intent:

To allow variety in work, for work done outside permanent work
assignments (i.e. committees, primary time, calf meta, etc.), and
for fluctuating work needs, i.e. haybucking, etc.

Details:

1) Work done by members someplace other than the branch(s) where
they are permanent workers.

2) Floating work can be a consistent assignment (i.e. primary).

@suindex Visitor labor
@suindex Labor, visitor
VISITOR LABOR

1) Visitor labor is all work done by visitors.

3) Done time by visitors will be noted separately in the records.

4) Visitor management will deal with individual/branch labor
problems involving visitors.

@node Elections, What goes where, Branches, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec Elections

@suindex Elections
[WIMP, Community Meeting, 27 Apr 83]

[Board elections are discussed in detail elsewhere. 
@xref{Board}]

[Also @xref{WIMP Elections and Managerial Review}.]

1) Elected by the community:

@itemize @asis
@item
Child Committee: 1 General Communitarian.

@item
Medical Committee: 3 General Communitarians.

@item
Agriculture Committee: 1 General Communitarian.

@item
Business Committee: 2 General Communitarians.

@item
Plant and Equipment Committee: 1 General Communitarian.

@item
Services Committee: 1 General Communitarian.

@item
Nut and Seed Products: General Manager, Marketing Manager.

@item
Casual Furniture [hammocks]: General Manager, Marketing Manager.

@item
Sandals: General Manager.
@end itemize

2) Election process by the community will be:

@itemize @asis
@item
a) Planners nominate 1 or more people for each position.

@item
b) Petition option for additional nominations (10% of full
members required).

@item
c) Public discussion at the community meeting prior to the vote.

@item
d) Week long secret ballot, using the single vote transferable
system.

@suindex Votes, in community elections
@item
[Votes in Elections, Community Meeting, 11 Jul 92] In community
elections, people shall be entitled to the same vote they have at
community meeting.
@end itemize

[WIMP]

3) If folks feel the need to, they can appeal an appointment or
branch election to the next appropriate group.

@suindex Delegation
@suindex Deputies
4) All folks elected or appointed, may designate a deputy when
they need to (except the planners).

@node What goes where,  , Elections, Organization
@unnumberedsubsec What Goes Where

[The "What goes where" section of WIMP (not included here), which had
lists of "old committee/manager" matched up with "new
committee/manager", is the only record of what activities each branch
covers.]

@suindex Ranch branch
[Ranch Branch, Community Meeting, 3 Nov 84]

Create a branch composed of various managerships.  The activities
composing the ranch branch would be:  dairy, beef, fencing.  As a
branch the ranch would elect a/ branch manager and a
representative to the agriculture committee.

@node Recruitment Material, WIMP Elections and Managerial Review, Organization, Government
@unnumberedsec Recruitment Material

@suindex Recruitment material
[Recruitment Manager, Community Meeting, 13 Jul 80]

[This is now done by the membership manager, or whoever co
delegates it to, see Administrative Reorganization, 12 Nov 88]

1.  Any printed matter be posted for 1 week in advance of going
to the printer.

2.  If there is an appeal of the material (during the week of
posting or before) then the appeal must be dealt with before the
material can be printed.

3.  The week of posting is specificaly designed for a
feedback/criticism process to alter the material.

@node WIMP Elections and Managerial Review, Rotation, Recruitment Material, Government
@unnumberedsec WIMP Elections and Managerial Review

@suindex Positions, term of
@suindex Elected positions, term of
@suindex Appointed positions
@suindex Term of positions
[WIMP Elections and Managerial Review, 24 Sep 83, as amended by
May Elections, Community Meeting, 13 Sep 86]

1.  General:  Managerial and committee elected and appointed
positions will be of no longer than one year.  The people may be
re-elected or re-appointed as often as desired, but the term
expires each year and they must be re-elected or re-appointed.

2.  All managerial and committee terms of office will end on [May
31].  Interim elections can be held to fill vacancies at any
time, but the terms will end along with all others on [May 31].

4.  The Elections for community elected positions called for in
the WIMP legislation [@pxref{Elections}] will occur annually in
[May].  A planner appointed committee or the planners will
request people interested in change or continuation of status quo
to give input in preparation for the slate of nominees.  The
newly elected people will take office on [June 1] when the
previous year's terms end.

5.  The election of branch managers, except for managers elected
by the community will take place in [May] of every year and the
managers will take office on [June 1] of each year.  [May
Elections, 13 Sep 86 "recommends" that branches change their
elections from October to May, which would seem to imply that the
branches can have elections whenever they want to].

@suindex Social manager, making appointments
6.  Social [manager] or a social [manager] appointed group is
responsible for collecting input from people about those
positions under [co's] appointment.  [Co] will request people
interested in change or continuation of status quo to give input
in preparation for the new appointments.  The newly appointed
people will take office on [June 1] when the previous year's
terms end.

@node Rotation, Democracy, WIMP Elections and Managerial Review, Government
@unnumberedsec Rotation

@suindex Rotation
[Rotation of Managership and committees, 24 Sep 83]

1.  In nominations and appointments the goal will be terms that
total a maximum of 4 years out of 6.

2.  Planners and social committee will inform people of this when
they are nominated or appointed.

3.  Exceptions can be made when considered desireable by the
planners or social committee.

@node Democracy, Community Meeting Agenda, Rotation, Government
@unnumberedsec Democracy

@suindex Votes, at community meeting
@suindex Provisonal members, vote at community meeting
@suindex Community meeting
[Revision of Democracy Government, Community Meeting, 19 Apr 86]

1)  All full members attending a community meeting have one full
vote.

[Provisional Member Suffrage, Community Meeting, 7 Jan 89]

All adult provisional members are allowed 1/2 vote at Community
meetings after having met both of the following two requirements: 

1)  having attended 7 Community Meetings 

2)  having been a resident at East Wind for 3 months (Visitor
period included).

[Board Policy on the Consequences of Demotion to Provisional
Membership, Board, 29 Oct 91]

Full members demoted to provisional member status also loose their
voting rights.  Their fractional vote is regained two months into their
provisional member period, provided they have attended seven community
meetings.

[Also @xref{Child Votes}]

[Revision of Democracy Government]

@suindex Emergency decisions, by board
@suindex Board, emergency decisions
3)  Emergency decisions may be made by the Board at a community
meeting only when quorum does not exist.  This does not apply to
decisions made by the Board outside of Community meetings.

@suindex Proxies
4)  Proxies will be available to members who are off premises
with the following conditions:

@itemize @asis
@item
a)  a written proxy note saying who the member's proxy holder is
must be written each time co goes off premises.

@item
b)  the proxy vote will always be the same as the proxy holder's
vote.

@item
c)  proxies are not included when counting quorum or on
procedural motions.
@end itemize

5)  Proxies will be available to members who are on the premises
with the following conditions:

@itemize @asis
@item
a) when a member is sick to the extent that meals must be taken
in co's room.

@suindex Scheduled work, and proxies
@item
b)  when a member is unable to attend a meeting because of being
on scheduled work that must be done at the time of the meeting. 
In such cases standing proxies will not be accepted.  A new proxy
will have to be written for each meeting.
@end itemize

[Board Policies on Proxies, Board, 7 Apr 92]

Proxies and the Definition of Scheduled Work

Current legislation (4/19/86) states that proxies will be available
to members who are on the premises when a member is unable to
attend a meeting because of scheduled work that must be done at the
time of the meeting.  This policy provides a definition of
scheduled work.  The following list is not presumed to be complete. 
Managers who wish to see the list expanded should consult with the
Board.  Proxies will not be accepted for work not on the list. 
Should our community meeting time change [from Saturday, 3pm] the
Board will update this policy

@itemize @bullet
@item
Cooking shifts
@item
Laundry shifts
@item
Childcare shifts
@item
Milking shifts
@item
Fram animal related chores normally done in the afternoon before
the dark hours
@end itemize

Proxies and Partial Meeting Attendence

Persons who must leave a community meeting in order to do scheduled
work may give a proxy to someone else attending the meeting.  The
proxy note should specify what kind of scheduled work needs to be
done and should be given to the recorder shortly after being
written.

[Revision of Democracy Government]

@suindex Quorum, at community meeting
6) Quorum will be 30% of the full membership.

7)  Roll call votes will be used on all main motions unless the
group votes during the meeting to do otherwise.  Secret Ballots
must be used when one person calls for a secret ballot and
another seconds.  Roll call votes must also be used when called
for and seconded.

@node Community Meeting Agenda, Meetings, Democracy, Government
@unnumberedsec Community Meeting Agenda

@suindex Community meeting agenda
@suindex Signatures for proposals
[Co-sponsors required of proposals, Community Meetings, 14 Jan
89]

Proposed legislation (except emergency proposals, as determined
by the Board) shall be in writing, be signed by at least 5
members who generally favor the proposal, and shall be posted in
a place accessible to the membership for at least 14 days before
being discussed at community meeting.

The Board may, however, if it wishes, waive the requirement that
proposed legislation be posted for at least 14 days.

[Five Signatures for Agenda Items, Community Meeting, 27 Oct 90]

All community meeting agenda items (except emergency items)
require five signatures.

@node Meetings,  , Community Meeting Agenda, Government
@unnumberedsec Meetings

@suindex Meetings, posting notice of
[Post Meetings, Community Meeting, 27 Mar 82]

Have Labor post weekly the meetings of official boards,
committees, crews, and on-going groups giving the day of week and
time of meetings.  Meeting places should be posted by a
participant of the meeting at least 24 hours in advance.  Changes
in time and place of such meetings should also be posted as soon
as the change occurs.

@suindex Community meeting time
[Change Labor week and community meeting day, Community Meeting
(?), 26 Mar 81]

Change Community Meeting to late Saturday afternoon.

@node Business, Children, Government, Top
@unnumbered Business

@suindex Business
@menu
* Long Range Plan::             Long Range Plan
* Garlic::                      Garlic
* Nutbutter::                   Nutbutter
* Hammocks::                    Hammocks
* New Business Formation::      New Business Formation
* Odd jobs and Outside Work::   Odd jobs and Outside Work
* Office::                      Office
@end menu

@node Long Range Plan, Garlic,  , Business
@unnumberedsec Long Range Plan

@suindex Long range plan, for businesses
[Long Range Business Plan, Community Meeting, 5 Sep 92]

After an extensive review of the long range business plan developed a
year and a half ago and discussions about the planning process in
general, the business committee has made the following conclusions:

@itemize @bullet
@item
A great deal of progress has been made on several of the steps outlined
in the previous plan, including continued hammocks business, several
additional businesses, and the formation, administration, and refinement
of a new business development fund.

@item
Sandals and Nutbutters have not reached their goals.  In fact, sales of
Sandals have eroded to the point where the Sandals business may not
attain $5/hour for 1992.

@item
General reasons for success include an active new industries meta,
enthusiasm and hard work for establishing new businesses, excellent
relations and support from Twin Oaks, a population increase at East
Wind, strong support from the community, and strong support within the
business committee.

@item
General reasons for not yet attaining success include lack of personnel
with the appropriate skills, motivation, and commitment (especially in
sales), lack of East Wind system support for sandals, and insufficient
support for sales (insufficient warehouse space in Nutbutters, lack of
sales and marketing personnel, etc.).

@item
Although independence from Pier 1 is a fine goal, it should not be the
only goal or even necessarily the main goal of a long-range business
plan.
@end itemize

@suindex Goals for businesses
To improve upon the 1991 long range plan, the goals will be expanded as
well as the steps required to accomplish these goals.  The new goals
are:

@suindex Pier 1
@itemize @bullet
@item
Continue to strive for the previous goal of putting ourselves in a
better position to raise prices to Pier 1.  Before firmly raising prices
to Pier 1, the regular yearly income from the businesses, @emph{not
including income from Pier 1}, should be enough to cover support costs.

@item
Promote a diverse set of businesses at East Wind in order to:

@itemize @asis
@item
1)  Increase our financial security (buffer us from variable business
performances, occasional business failures, etc.)

@suindex Work, variety of
@item
2)  Provide more possibilities for interesting, enjoyable work.
@end itemize

@suindex Ecology, and businesses
@suindex Environmentalism, and businesses
@item
Consider ecological factors while making business decisions.
@end itemize

In order to achieve the above-listed goals, the business committee will
attempt to implement the following steps:

@itemize @bullet
@item
Continue to produce at least 8000 hammocks per year until existing
businesses increase in volume or new businesses prove themselves, while
working with Twin Oaks to increase non-Pier 1 sales.

@item
Resume sandals sales and production levels to at least 5000/year.
Achieve this by putting more labor into production and increasing our
sales efforts.

@item
Affirm our commitment to staying in the nutbutter business for the
foreseeable future:

@itemize @asis
@item
1) increase nutbutter sales to 1,000,000 lbs/year as rapidly as possible

@item
2) continue to adequately budget for sales advertising and travel
expenses and provide the support our sales staff needs to increase
sales.

@item
3) build a new cold storage warehouse with a capacity of at least 100
pallet spaces, costing around $50,000.  Also, designate some of East
Wind's land for future business expansion.

@item
4) Rewrite the nutbutter capital improvement fund legislation so that it
more realistically meets the needs of the business.
@end itemize

@item
Continue supporting the $5000/year new business budget, the new
industries meta, and the new businesses which have recently begun.

@suindex Recruitment, for skills needed by businesses
@suindex Training, for business workers
@item
Develop personnel recruitment and training budgets, totaling $5000/year,
in order to:

@itemize @asis
@item
1) locate and attempt to recruit people for East Wind who have skills
needed by our businesses, to be coordinated with the membership manager.

@item
2) pay for training our own members who want to commit themselves to
working in the businesses but do not have the necessary skills and/or
confidence. 
@end itemize
@end itemize

Specific details for the complicated components of this plan (nutbutter
warehouse, land area designations, reworked capital improvement fund,
and the personnel budgets) are purposely not included in this plan.
These components will not go into effect until detailed proposals are
developed, processed and approved.  The purpose of including them in the
plan is because they are significant departures from current practice,
requiring a great deal of time to develop, even as a proposal.  They
should only be pursued in depth if the community supports these
directions within the context of a long-range plan.

@node Garlic, Nutbutter, Long Range Plan, Business
@unnumberedsec Garlic

@suindex Garlic
@suindex Organic garlic
[Organic Garlic Business, Community Meeting, 18 May 91]

Summary
 
I propose to start an Organic Garlic business, at a cost of
$1800 and 500
hours during 1991.  The Garlic business will continue only if
the first year
of operation demonstrates that the business can regularly earn
better than
$5/hour in the future.


CONTENTS

@format
Overall plan
Purpose of starting the Garlic business
History
1991:  The trial year
Decide whether to continue and on what basis
1992-1993:  Building stock
1994:  Regular operation
Cost/benefit analysis
The costs
The benefits
Production
Training
Tasks
Location
Equipment
Organization
Relation to Ag branch
Personnel
Administration
Sales
Finance
Projections
@end format


1. Overall plan
 

@itemize @asis
@item
1.1. Purpose of starting the Garlic business

@itemize @asis
@item
1.1.1. Provide income for East Wind, reducing our
dependence
on Pier 1.

@item
1.1.2. Increase our product line diversity - safer from a
business perspective, and provides new kind of production
work, which some people may find more enjoyable or take
more pride in than existing production work.

@item
1.1.3. Increase the attractiveness of East Wind to
agriculturally oriented individuals

@item
1.1.4. Help further close the gap between industry and
agriculture

@item
1.1.5. If possible, create an environment where people can
work outdoors together without noisy machinery and still
earn a reasonable return on labor.  We will, however,
mechanize if necessary to earn a reasonable return on labor.
@end itemize
 

@item
1.2. History
 
In 1981, Woody found a few Garlic plants growing wild.  Over the
next 7 years, Woody nurtured this Garlic, selecting the "best"
of
the Garlic each year for replanting.  Woody hoped to start an
Organic Garlic business someday, but left East Wind in 1988 for
school before there was enough Garlic stock.  By this time,
Woody's Garlic was well adapted to our climate and soil, and
produced unusually large heads.  From 1988 to 1991, we've been
eating the Garlic, saving enough stock each year to produce next
year's Garlic.
 
In late 1990, East Wind formulated a business strategy to reduce
dependence on Pier 1 for income, so that we would be in a better
position to raise prices to Pier 1 or withstand the impact of
Pier
1 dropping us.  One part of this strategy was to start new small
businesses.  Many new business ideas were discussed, but Organic
Garlic generated more interest than other ideas.
 

@item
1.3. 1991:  The trial year

@itemize @asis
@item
1.3.1. Harvest in second week of June, which is when
Woody's
semester is over and he can come help and share advice.

@item
1.3.2. Rent all of EW's garlic stock until the harvest of
1992.

@item
1.3.3. September Planting:  Try several test plots

@itemize @asis
@item
1.3.3.1. standard row planting vs. raised beds

@itemize @asis
@item
1.3.3.1.1. raised beds drain better

@item
1.3.3.1.2. standard rows easier to mechanize?
@end itemize

@item
1.3.3.2. dry vs. wet land

@item
1.3.3.3. upper garden vs. 6-acre field.
@end itemize

@item
1.3.4. Invest in training and consulting

@itemize @asis
@item
1.3.4.1. hire Woody to help us with harvest and
planting

@item
1.3.4.2. field trip to Sandhill

@item
1.3.4.3. work with OOGA

@item
1.3.4.4. learn more about equipment for use with Garlic
@end itemize

@item
1.3.5. Analyze yields and usage of labor, land, and
capital
(yield is pounds harvested per pounds planted)
@end itemize

@item
1.4. Decide whether to continue and on what basis

@itemize @asis
@item
1.4.1. Return an amount of Garlic to the Ag branch
equivalent
to the amount previously borrowed.

@item
1.4.2. Evaluate the business in terms of

@itemize @asis
@item
1.4.2.1. finance - capable of earning better than
 $5/hour?

@item
1.4.2.2. personnel - people willing to do the work?

@item
1.4.2.3. how people feel about it
@end itemize

@item
1.4.3. If decision is to discontinue the venture:

@itemize @asis
@item
1.4.3.1. Sell off the excess Garlic (stock)
@end itemize

@item
1.4.4. If decision is to continue the venture, decide:

@itemize @asis
@item
1.4.4.1. whether mechanization is necessary

@item
1.4.4.2. the volume of Garlic we want to eventually
produce

@item
1.4.4.3. any other goals which need to be changed
@end itemize
@end itemize

@item
1.5. 1992-1993:  Building stock

@itemize @asis
@item
1.5.1. test market several hundred pounds of Garlic in
1992,
more in 1993.

@item
1.5.2. replant the rest of the Garlic (stock) each year

@item
1.5.3. Also plant cover crops to prepare for future years
@end itemize

@item
1.6. 1994:  Regular operation

@itemize @asis
1.6.1. Will retain enough Garlic each year to produce the same amount
the following year - the rest will be sold.
@end itemize
@end itemize

2. Cost/benefit analysis
 

@itemize @asis
@item
2.1. The costs

@itemize @asis
@item
2.1.1. If after one year of operation, the venture is
discontinued, we will have spent around $2000 and 300
member hours.  See "projections" for greater detail on labor
and monetary risks.

@item
2.1.2. Start up time is long - will not be in regular
operation
until 1994.  Requires at least one person to carry through
for several years.

@item
2.1.3. We will be without the use of Organic Garlic in the
kitchen for one year.

@item
2.1.4. We will be using some of the land which has been
carefully prepared for use with cover crops by the Ag
branch

@item
2.1.5. We may need to invest in Agricultural equipment
(several years from now) in order to make this work.
@end itemize 

@item
2.2. The benefits

@itemize @asis
@item
2.2.1. Low monetary and labor risk

@item
2.2.2. High $/hour might be possible

@item
2.2.3. Simplicity of production, sales, and administration

@item
2.2.4. We have the land

@item
2.2.5. We have garlic well adapted for this environment

@item
2.2.6. We have a number of people to contact as
consultants

@item
2.2.7. The Ozark Organic Grower's Association (OOGA) is
infrastructure already in place for Organic agriculture.  We
can both benefit from it and support it.

@item
2.2.8. Make EW more attractive for people who enjoy
agriculture

@item
2.2.9. Increase business diversity (see purpose, above)

@item
2.2.10. By replacing a portion of hammocks, we reduce
dependence on Pier 1 for income, if venture succeeds

@item
2.2.11. May bolster Ag program indirectly several years
from
now when new equipment is bought, agriculturally oriented
people attracted to EW, etc.

@item
2.2.12. A business closer to ideas expressed in our bylaws
than some of our other businesses

@item
2.2.13. A business to be proud of (organic, natural, etc.)
@end itemize
@end itemize

3. Production

@itemize @asis
@item
3.1. Training

@itemize @asis
@item
3.1.1. Consultants

@itemize @asis
@item
3.1.1.1. Otto & Michael

@item
3.1.1.2. Woody - available by phone and for paid visits

@item
3.1.1.3. Sandhill - field trip

@item
3.1.1.4. George Ocean - OOGA member who produces Org.
Garlic

@item
3.1.1.5. OOGA
@end itemize
@end itemize 

@item
3.2. Tasks

@itemize @asis
@item
3.2.1. Planting (September)

@item
3.2.2. Harvesting (June)

@item
3.2.3. Mulching (Garlic can cut through half foot of mulch
thrown on top) - prevents heaving in winter

@item
3.2.4. Weeding - minimal due to heavy mulching

@item
3.2.5. Storage - need to dry garlic some before storing

@item
3.2.6. Planting cover crops

@itemize @asis
@item
3.2.6.1. no cover crop to be planted during the trial
year

@item
3.2.6.2. in alternate years, legumes (beans?) might
compliment garlic well

@item
3.2.6.3. if same plot to be used over again, than a fast growing summer
cover crop is needed.
@end itemize

@item
3.2.7. Turning cover crops

@item
3.2.8. Packaging (not until at least 1992)

@itemize @asis
@item
3.2.8.1. for gourmet applications, could braid
@end itemize

@item
3.2.9. In Woody's experience with our Garlic:

@itemize @asis
@item
3.2.9.1. 8" between plants yields biggest heads

@item
3.2.9.2. can mulch very heavily, eliminating weeding
@end itemize 
@end itemize

@item
3.3. Location

@itemize @asis
@item
3.3.1. To be determined in coordination with Ag Branch
@end itemize 

@item
3.4. Equipment

@itemize @asis
@item
3.4.1. Initially rent any needed equipment (based on time or mileage)
from Ag branch or elsewhere.

@item
3.4.2. Inexpensive tools (such as shovels) will be
borrowed
from Ag branch during the trial year, purchased if the
business continues.
@end itemize
@end itemize


4. Organization
 

@itemize @asis
@item
4.1. Relation to Ag branch

@itemize @asis
@item
4.1.1. Ag branch is a separate entity from the Garlic
business

@item
4.1.2. If Ag equipment is used, it's rented.

@item
4.1.3. If Ag-prepared land is used, than land is prepared
in
return by Garlic business

@item
4.1.4. Garden's garlic originally rented for a year

@item
4.1.5. In general, garlic business will not "leech" off of Ag branch,
nor will Ag branch "leech" off of Garlic business.  Use of any
substantive resource (prepared land, garlic stock, heavy machinery,
etc.) will be appropriately compensated.
@end itemize 

@item
4.2. Personnel

@itemize @asis
@item
4.2.1. General Manager:  Joe

@itemize @asis
@item
4.2.1.1. responsible for sales, finance and
administration
@end itemize

@item
4.2.2. Production Manager: ?

@itemize @asis
@item
4.2.2.1. responsible for all facets of Garlic
production,
including storage and packaging
@end itemize

@item
4.2.3. Dedicated production crew:  Jim, Swamiji
@end itemize 

@item
4.3. Administration

@itemize @asis
@item
4.3.1. Administration is the GM's responsibility

@item
4.3.2. Need organic certification, which should be
routine.
Will ask for OOGA to certify the garden plot, the 6-acre
field, golden valley, and the 14-acre field.

@item
4.3.3. Needs little ongoing administration

@item
4.3.4. need to set up accounting
@end itemize 

@item
4.4. Sales

@itemize @asis
@item
4.4.1. possible distribution channels

@itemize @asis
@item
4.4.1.1. nutbutters

@item
4.4.1.2. OOGA

@item
4.4.1.3. Sandhill
@end itemize

@item
4.4.2. current market for organic garlic:  $2.50/lb.
@end itemize


@item
4.5. Finance
 

@itemize @asis
@item
4.5.1. Money

@itemize @asis
@item
4.5.1.1. Use business seed money for this and ongoing
expenses during 1991 (and maybe part of 1992) then
regular budget if continued.

@item
4.5.1.2. Rent Garlic from garden

@item
4.5.1.3. rent or borrow all equipment for first 2 years
@end itemize 

@item
4.5.2. Breakdown of $1800 budget request:

@itemize @asis
@item
4.5.2.1. Consulting: $500 (funding Woody's trips to EW)

@item
4.5.2.2. Sandhill Field Trip: $200

@item
4.5.2.3. Manufacturing costs

@itemize @asis
@item
4.5.2.3.1. renting Garlic stock for 1 year: $200
@end itemize

@item
4.5.2.4. Administrative costs:

@itemize @asis
@item
4.5.2.4.1. phone: $50

@item
4.5.2.4.2. OOGA fees: $100
@end itemize

@item
4.5.2.5. Unforeseen:  $750
@end itemize

@item
4.5.3. Need to carefully monitor performance

@itemize @asis
@item
4.5.3.1. yield

@item
4.5.3.2. labor usage (including visitor labor)

@item
4.5.3.3. estimating poundage per plant and per acre

@item
4.5.3.4. acreage used

@item
4.5.3.5. production costs

@item
4.5.3.6. administrative costs

@item
4.5.3.7. income if sold at market rate

@item
4.5.3.8. $/hour if operations were regular
@end itemize 

@item
4.5.4. Projections

@itemize @asis
@item
4.5.4.1. Much of these projections based on guesswork -
estimates by Otto and Woody, and standard garlic
statistics (which may not apply to our Ozark-adapted
Garlic)

@item
4.5.4.2. Projections on following page:
@end itemize
@end itemize
@end itemize 



5. Projections

 



@node Nutbutter, Hammocks, Garlic, Business
@unnumberedsec Nutbutter

@suindex Nutbutter
@menu
* Nutbutter Sales Trips::       Nutbutter Sales Trips
* Nutbutter Organization::      Nutbutter Organization
* Nutbutter Sales::             Seconds, Giving away butter, etc.
* Nutbutter Business Strategy::  Nutbutter Business Strategy
@end menu

@suindex Sales trips for nutbutter
@suindex Trips, sales, for nutbutter
@node Nutbutter Sales Trips, Nutbutter Organization,  , Nutbutter
@unnumberedsubsec Nutbutter Sales Trips

[Nutbutter Sales Trip Policies, Nutbutter staff, Mar 92]

Introduction

Keeping close contact with distributors and end customers is a vital
part of any business.  Unfortunately, due to lack of understanding and
no guidelines, some business trips are criticized for taking unfair
advantage of East Wind's resources, both labor and money.

The goal of this policy is to provide a set of guidelines which is
comfortable and reasonable from both the standpoint of people working
in nutbutters and uninvolved community observers.  Most companies have
travel policies in order to control costs and to provide clear
expectations to their sales people.

This policy is geared for trips to locations over 100 miles away.

This policy is not set in stone - in unusual or extraordinary
situations, the general manager of nutbutters may allow for exceptions
to this policy.  If the general manager declares unusual or
extraordinary situations excessively, it is up to a higher community
body (business committee, board, community meeting, etc.) to
investigate and take corrective measures.

Crediting Labor

What labor is creditable?

All actual hours spent traveling and working on business trips (by one
person) are fully credited at one hour of labor credit per hour of
work or travel.

7 hours/day are creditable for unavoidable dead time (time between
shows, meetings, tours, etc.) if this time is not spent visiting
friends or relatives on vacation.  The total number of hours claimed
during one day may never exceed 7 hours if part of the hours claimed
are for dead time.

How many people can claim labor hours for a given trip?

Generally, only one person may claim hours for traveling to and
working at a show or convention. However, there are several exceptions
to this rule:

If one person is generating sales contacts and gathering market
information, while the other is working the booth, both may claim
hours.  Sales contact and marketing work is usually done by either the
sales and marketing manager or general manager.

If one person is being trained to do shows alone, or is being trained
to become a manager (of sales or nutbutters), both may claim hours.

The Ozark show, being so conveniently close (and therefore inexpensive
in hours and costs), is open for anyone working in nutbutters to
attend and claim full hours for traveling and work.  We encourage all
nutbutter workers (including afternoon workers) to attend the Ozark
show to see what our customers and food shows are like and participate
in some of the workshops.

Reimbursing expenses

Who gets their expenses reimbursed by nutbutters?

Anyone whose labor is creditable (as defined in the "Crediting Labor"
section) will have their travel and business related expenses
reimbursed by Nutbutters, as defined below.

Anyone whose labor is not creditable (as defined in the "Crediting
Labor" section) will not have expenses reimbursed by Nutbutters.  Any
additional expenses incurred as the result of nonessential individuals
coming along will have to be paid for by said individuals.  For
example, Dick drives to the Common Health show in Superior, WI.  Jane
wants him to drop her off in Chicago on the way.  Nutbutters pays for
the mileage Dick would have driven if he had driven directly to
Superior, while Jane pays for the extra miles necessary to swing by
Chicago.

What kinds of expenses will Nutbutters pay for?

Travel expenses

Nutbutters will pay for travel expenses on business trips, with the
understanding that travelers will arrange travel according to the
following criteria:

Labor - Travel time will be cost valued at the shadow wage when
considering the costs of various travel arrangements.

Practicality - On trips with many stops in one region, use a car (rented
or community).  If someone's labor is vitally needed at East Wind, fly
them.  Otherwise, attempt to minimize costs.

Ideology - When practical, and when costs are comparable, travel as
ecologically as possible (public transportation preferred, bus and
train preferred to air, etc.).

Nonbusiness travel

It is okay to combine pleasure excursions with business trips, so long as
any additional expenses incurred as the result of these excursions are
paid for by the individual, not nutbutters.

Lodging

Nutbutters will pay for lodging costs of business portions of trips
and unavoidable dead time, but not pleasure excursions.

Nutbutters encourages people to stay in the homes of friends of
relatives when possible to cut costs.

Meals & Entertainment

Business meals and entertainment - all business related meals,
entertainment, or other expenses will be reimbursed by Nutbutters.

Nonbusiness entertainment - Nutbutters will not reimburse such expenses.

Nonbusiness meals - For personal meals, Nutbutters will pay as much as
(but not more than) $15/day for meals or food.  Subtract $5 from this
daily allowance for each business-related meal already paid for during
the same day.

Expense Accounting

Receipts are required in order to be reimbursed by nutbutters.

Some minor items, such as tips, do not have receipts.  Record such the
date, place, and amount of each such purchase on a separate piece of
paper, to be turned in with receipts.

Receipts must be turned in promptly upon return from a business trip.
A person is not allowed to go on any further business trips until all
accounting is complete for the previous trip.

@node Nutbutter Organization, Nutbutter Sales, Nutbutter Sales Trips, Nutbutter
@unnumberedsubsec Nutbutter Organization

[Nut and Seed Products Organization, 24 Jul 82]

I.  The Nut & Seed Products division of Community Products will
be composed of a General Manager and a Managerial Crew.

@itemize @asis
@item
A.  General Manager

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  Responsibilities
The General Manager is responsible for:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  The overall operations and performance of the Nut & Seed
Products division.

@item
b.  Maintaining the Gross level of production and sales that the
Community desires.

@item
c.  Operating as efficiently as possible with labor and capital
while achieving the gross volume and net profit desired by the
Community.

@item
d.  Maintaining as high as possible the net profits on sales.

@item
e.  Planning the short and long term development of the industry.

@item
f.  Providing projections and statistical information to the
Business Committee and Community as needed.

@item
g.  Communicating with and reporting to the Business Committee
and Community.

@item
h.  Training Management in the area.

@item
i.  Coordinating management in the area.

@item
j.  Evaluating management and making recommendations to the
Managerial Crew on appointments and dismissals.

@item
k.  Making recommendations to the Business Committee and Planners
on the replacement of the General Manager.

@item
l.  Training a new General Manager.

@item
m.  The use of the Managerial Budget.

@item
n.  Research and development in N&SP.

@item
o.  Pricing, discounts and term policies.

@item
p.  Evaluation of past performance of the industry as a whole.

@item
q.  Handling disputes and conflicts among N&SP Managers.

@item
t.  Being the ultimate backup for all Managerial areas for N&SP.
@end itemize

@item
2.  Authority
@itemize @asis
@item
a.  The General Manager has overall authority in N&SP with the
exception of issues relating to:

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  Shipping

@item
2.  Health and Safety

@item
3.  Small equipment purchases

@item
4.  Amenity issues.
@end itemize

@item
b.  The General Manager's decisions can be suspended until they
are reviewed by an appropriate body (Managerial Crew, Business
Committee, Planners, or Community):

@itemize @asis
@item
2.  By an appeal of a simple majority of the Managerial Crew of
N&SP

@item
3.  When a proposal for a 2/3rds override is placed on the agenda
of the Managerial Crew

@item
4.  The Treasurer on issues relating to nut and seed purchases.
@end itemize

c.  The General Manager can be overruled by:

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  A 2/3rds vote of the Managerial Crew.

@item
2.  The Business Committee.

@item
3.  The Planners as an emergency decision and during Community
meetings without quorum.

@item
4.  The Community in meetings with quorum.
@end itemize
@end itemize

@item
3.  Communications

The General Manager should stay in close communication with:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  All members of the Managerial Crew.

@item
b.  Workers in the area.

@item
c.  The Business Committee.

@item
d.  The Planners.

@item
e.  The Financial Manager.
@end itemize

@item
[For selection procedure, @xref{Branches}]
@end itemize

@item
B.  Managerial Crew

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  Crew Membership

The Crew will be composed of the following Managers:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  General Manager

@item
b.  Shipping Manager

@item
c.  Morale Manager

@item
d.  Marketing Manager

@item
e.  Financial Manager

@item
f.  Any other managership created and elected by the Managerial
Crew and the workers.
@end itemize

@item
2.  Crew responsibilities

The Managerial Crew is responsible for:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Creation and dissolution of Managerships within N&SP, with
the exceptions listed in Ib5.

@item
b.  Along with area workers, election and dismissal of Managers
within N&SP, with the exceptions listed in section Ib5.

@item
c.  Internal communications.

@item
d.  Giving advice and making recommendations to the General
Manager, the Business Committee and the Community.

@item
e.  All Health and safety issues.

@item
f.  All Amenity issues.

@item
g.  Small equipment purchases.
@end itemize

@item
3.  Crew Authority

The Managerial Crew has authority:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  To create and dissolve Managersships within N&SP.

@item
b.  To elect and dismiss its members, together with area workers.

@item
c.  Concerning all health and safety issues.

@item
d.  Concerning all amenities issues.

@item
e.  Concerning all small equipment purchases.

@item
f.  To appeal to the Business Committee, as a body, a General
Manager's decision by a vote of a simple majority.

@item
g.  To overrule a General Manager's decision with a 2/3rds
majority vote.
@end itemize

@item
4.   Meetings

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  The full Crew will meet approximately once a month as needed.

@item
b.  Individual Managers of the Crew will meet in groups
periodically as needed.  For instance, the Production Manager,
General Manager and General Maintenance Manager may meet once a
week.  The Inventory Control Manager, Shipping Manager and
Production Manager may meet twice a month.

@item
c.  Individual Managers within N&SP may of course hold regular
meetings with workers in their areas.  For instance, the
Production Manager is likely to hold weekly meetings with
Production area workers to consider production related issues. 
The Customer Service Manager will likely do the same.

@item
d.  When voting, each individual will have one vote regardless of
the number of managerships co holds.

@item
e.  One third of the total possible votes constitues quorum.

@item
f.  Except in issues of override, decisions are made by a simple
majority.
@end itemize

@item
5.  Selection Process

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Each member of the crew, with the exceptions listed below,
will be elected by a majority vote of the Crew plus the workers
within the area to be voted on.  (Criteria for voting eligibility
will be developped later.)

@item
b.  Terms.  Each Crew position will have a 2 year, renewable
term.

@item
c.  Dismissal.  Each of the members of the Crew can be dismissed
by a majority vote of the Crew.  (With the exception listed
below.)

@item
d.  The selection and dismissal process as well as the terms of
office, responsibilites and authorities of the following Crew
members will be determined by the Community:

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  Shipping Manager.
@end itemize

@item
e.  The Morale Manager will be elected by a majority vote of all
non-managerial workers in N&SP.

@item
f.  The Marketing manager will be appointed, dismissed and
reviewed by the planners and operate within the framework of this
proposal.
@end itemize
@end itemize
@end itemize

Other Managers within N&SP

Responsible and has authority for:

1)  coordinating all work within co's area.

2)  training

3)  quality control of work within co's area (except where
quality control is specifically put under another manager's
responsibility)

4)  scheduling of work within co's area

5)  seeing that needed materials are on hand (not purchasing)

6)  maintaining equipment within co's area (except where specific
equipment is to be maintained by another manager)

7) efficiency of work within co's area

9) other responsibilities as worked out with the General Manager
or the Managerial Crew

@node Nutbutter Sales, Nutbutter Business Strategy, Nutbutter Organization, Nutbutter
@unnumberedsubsec Nutbutter Sales

[Selling nutbutter for less than full price or free, Community
Meeting, 21 Aug 82]

NSP has authority to set prices on seconds and determine how much
and what to give away.  Manager/crew decides who gets what we
give away or sell for less than 50%.

[Members Sales (policy), Oct 83]

[When this was written Nutbutter was considered a division of
Community Products.  References below to C.P. desk now apply to
the nutbutter desk.]

Members can have jars of seconds butter (up to a case at a time
when it's available.  Don't get @emph{too} carried away!)

Members can buy tubs of butter at cost (firsts or seconds but if
you use 2nds, it saves community money).  Go through C.P.

Kitchen can have 1sts butter, but whoever picks it up needs to
write it on a clipboard which will be in cold storage next to the
door.

Kitchen @emph{buys} cashews, peanuts, almonds and sesame at cost. 
Record it on the clipboard in cold storage.  CP will charge
kitchen's account.

If you take jars off the grey shelves in cold storage for any
reason, record what you take and which account will pay.

Relatives, friends and visitors pay wholesale prices for
everything.  (This is only because "wholesale" prices are half
way between retail prices and cost ...)

[Seconds Sales (policy), Oct 83]

If outsiders want seconds butters:

They sell for 80% of the cost of firsts.  Seconds prices are
posted in cold storage and in shipping.  There is no difference
for seconds between "retail" and "wholesale" prices.

Charge sales tax.

Mixed butters [This is obsolete; these are now sold as "Mystery
butter"]

The butters are first quality, but two kinds are mixed.  The
price for them is the average seconds price of the two butters.

Example:  

2nds A sells for $15 / 15# tub

2nds B sells for $10 / 15# tub

BA mixed (regardless of the proportions) sells for $12.50 / 15#
tub.

Charge sales tax.

@node Nutbutter Business Strategy,  , Nutbutter Sales, Nutbutter
@unnumberedsubsec Nutbutter Business Strategy

[East Wind Nut Butters Revised Business Strategy, Community
Meeting, 18 Jun 88]

Continue the Nut Butter Business for the foreseeable future, with
the following strategy and guidelines, and with 6 months
evaluations by BC [business committee].

Strategy:

1)  Focus on profitability by improving operations rather than
major sales growth [Also @xref{Long Range Plan}]
e.g. well maintained equipment, reduced complexities, labor
saving equipment and procedures, attention to margins and cost
control.

2)  Develop a self-sustaining cash flow:  that covers support
costs and capital investments.

3)  Lower the breakeven point by reducing fixed costs, e.g.
advertising, brokerage fees, promotional discounts.

4)  Improve the working conditions, broaden the range of folks
interested/willing/able to do the work, and accumulate
experience.

@itemize @asis
@item
a)  Reduce physical stress:  weight lifted, time pressure... e.g.
conveyors, schedule planning.

@item
b)  Reduce machinery breakdown using an outside mechanic.

@item
c)  Noise reduction.
@end itemize

5)  Regular capital investments to improve profitability, allow
sales and income expansion without added labor, and improve
recruitment and retention through better working conditions.

Money would be set aside in an investment fund for the Nut Butter
business at the beginning of each year.

The total put into the investment fund would be 30% of all Nut
Butter profits (net income) from the previous year, with a
minimum put in of $10,000, based on year end statements.

[Amendment as Concerns the Nutbutter Investment Fund, Community
Meeting (?), 18 Mar 89]

Truly make this a baseline assumption by budgeting for it every
year in the Nutbutter Annual Plan [as opposed to the profit use
list].  Each plan would show the following stipulations:

1.  Any investment proposal must have a 12 month payback period,
when figured comparing the cash flow (net income plus
depreciation) to the cost of the investment.

2.  Investments with a less favorable payback period would need
the authorization of community meeting.

3.  If part or all of the $10,000 were not to be spent in the
budgeted year, then the unspent portion would be put into a
holding account.  Expenditures from the holding account would
have to meet the same criteria.

4.  Any expenditure of these funds, whether from the budget or
the holding account, would need the okay of the Business
Committee.

[Revised Business Strategy]

6)  Improved monitoring of both money and labor information. 
e.g. financial and labor reports within 1 week of months end,
with details on margins by product, details on overhead expenses,
and labor by activity.

7)  Wider distribution of knowledge and less vulnerability when
we lose the General Manager

@itemize @asis
@item
a)  Management team approach:  Regular meetings of key management
people to discuss overall problems and share information.  This
group can cover the management of the business on a temporary
basis when we lose key management people including the General
Manager.

@item
b)  Maintaining a backup person for purchasing nuts and setting
pricing:  Have a 2nd person involved regularly, plus improve the
documentation of activities for easier transfer to another
person.
@end itemize

8)  7 Key measures:

@itemize @asis
@item
a)  Dollar/hour:  e.g. increase by lower $ costs, higher margin
items, lower labor costs per pound.

@item
b)  Gross Margin % and GM/pound:  e.g. increase by higher margin
items, expand product line with current accounts, use current
equipment more.

@item
c)  Breakeven point:  e.g. reduce by lower fixed costs, increase
margin

@item
d)  Pounds Produced/hour:  e.g. increase by using capital
investments to keep hours constant while raising the pounds
produced and sold.

@item
@format
e)  Income (net/total):  Per Pound:
    As a % of sales:
    Total amount generated:
@end format

@item
f)  % of cash generated by the business, that is available to the
community:  Returned earnings/operating earning before interest

@item
g)  Accumulated experience level:  e.g. increase by rebuilding a
committeed branch team, adding a management team group, improving
working conditions.
@end itemize

[Anticipated Results, Impact on Criteria Areas, Budget
projections, History, Graphs, Liquidations calculations, and
Shadow cost format omitted as not being of ongoing interest]

@node Hammocks, New Business Formation, Nutbutter, Business
@unnumberedsec Hammocks

@suindex Hammocks
@menu
* Joint Hammocks Agreement::    Joint Hammocks Agreement
* Production Quota::            Production Quota
* Hammock Shop Music::          Hammock Shop Music
* Member Hammock Purchase::     Member Hammock Purchase
@end menu

@node Joint Hammocks Agreement, Production Quota,  , Hammocks
@unnumberedsubsec Joint Hammocks Agreement

@suindex Joint hammocks agreement
@suindex Twin Oaks, hammocks agreement with
[Ratify Joint Hammocks Agreement, Community Meeting, 3 Feb 90]

@center TWIN OAKS/EAST WIND JOINT HAMMOCKS AGREEMENT

@comment I'm putting off fixing the formatting on the assumption that an
@comment extensively re-written version will soon be approved.  This assumption
@comment might be considered questionable (they've been working on it
@comment for over a year now) -Jim Kingdon, 4 Nov 92
CONSIDERATION:

   This agreement is entered into this [14th] day of [February],
[1990], by
and between Twin Oaks Community, Inc., a Virginia corporation
(herein referred
to as "Twin Oaks") and East Wind Community, Inc., a Missouri
corporation
(hereinafter referred to as "East Wind").  Plurally, said
contracting parties
shall be referred to as "the Communities".

   Whereas, East Wind and Twin Oaks are sister communities
founded to offer
alternative lifestyles to their respective members;

   Whereas, East Wind and Twin Oaks are in the business of
producing and
selling hammocks;

   Whereas, hammock production and sales is the major source of
income for the
Communities and the Communities foresee that same shall continue
well into the
future;

   Whereas, the Communities have conducted said hammock business
jointly,
under the name of Twin Oaks Hammocks, since November of 1974,
from 1974 to
1977 in accordance with the Fellow Community Agreement of
November 24, 1974,
and from November 24th, 1977 to the present in accordance with
earlier
versions of this Twin Oaks/East Wind Joint Hammocks Agreement;

   Whereas, it is the intention of the Communities to continue
and develop
their hammock business so as best to serve the needs of each
Community,

   And Whereas, it is also the intention of the Communities to
continue to
coordinate and strengthen their hammock business through
cooperative sales and
marketing efforts, and joint distribution of hammock orders (this
is currently
implemented through management centered at Twin Oaks; see
paragraph 7 below):


AGREEMENT:

   Therefore, it is hereby agreed by the parties hereto, namely,
East Wind and
Twin Oaks, that:

   1. The Fellow Community Agreement of November 28, 1974 between
the same
      parties is null and void, and all previous versions of this
Joint
      Hammocks Agreement are null and void.

   2. The Communities will conduct all of their present and
future hammock
      business in accordance with this Agreement.

   3. This Agreement is binding until superseded by another
Agreement or
      terminated in accordance with paragraph 22 below.

   4. This Agreement covers all hammocks made by either
Community, including
      backpackers, yucatans, three-points, and hammock-related
products such
      as stands and hammock kits, but specifically excludes
semi-related items
      such as chairs, rope-making, pillows, sandals.

   5. There is no individual Community allocation of hammock
accounts. All
      hammock accounts are handled jointly by the Communities.  
However,
      monies received from the sale of products covered by this
Agreement
      shall accrue only to the Community that produced said
product.

   6. Hammock accounts from previous individual or collective
sales efforts
      are consolidated and said accounts are considered as if
they were
      obtained after this Agreement was initially consummated in
1977. It is,
      however, mutually understood that each Community shall, for
the most
      part, continue to invoice and service the same accounts
that each
      invoiced and serviced prior to this Agreement.

   7. Management and Decision Making.

      (a) Overall management.  Overall management of the business
will be at
      Twin Oaks, and Twin Oaks will appoint, with the consent of
East Wind, a
      person or group of people who will be the General Manager
of the Joint
      Business ("the GMJB").  This person/group will function as
the Chief
      Executive Officer of the business, and although Twin Oaks
member/s, will
      be equally responsible to both of the Communities and to
the welfare and
      livelihood of both of the Communities.  The GMJB is the
final decision
      maker for the joint business; however, appeals of cos
decisions can be
      made by a member of either Community to the central
decision-making body
      of the Community to which co belongs. Should East Wind wish
to overrule
      the decision of the GMJB and be unable to convince co to
change cos
      decision, East Wind can (a) invoke the guidelines for
conflict
      resolution in subparagraph 7(j)(i) below; (b) bring the
matter to the
      central decision-making body at Twin Oaks; (c) renegotiate
the Joint
      Hammocks Agreement (including renegotiating to return to
the pre-1983
      joint management Joint Hammocks Agreement), in accordance
with the
      provisions of subparagraph (c) below; (d) terminate the
Joint Hammocks
      Agreement (see paragraph 22 below).  Should the central
decision-making
      body of Twin Oaks wish to overrule the GMJB, it is able to
do so, in
      accordance with Twin Oaks rules regarding central
decision-making body
      (planner) authority to overrule managers. (Changes in the
Joint Hammocks
      Agreement are not made by the GMJB; see subparagraph (c)
below.)

      (b) Joint Hammocks Talks.  Major preliminary planning for
the following
      year will occur at the Joint Hammocks Talks ("the Talks"),
which will
      normally occur in July (and, should a second set of talks
prove
      necessary or desirable, in November). (See also paragraph
18 below.)
      Each Community will be represented by a member or members,
including the
      General Manager of the Joint Business from Twin Oaks and
the Hammocks
      General Manager from East Wind. This  group will discuss
all long-range
      issues, will review the GMJB's plans and proposals for the
following
      year, and will discuss the following year's promo budgets,
pricing and
      discounts, optimum total sales, and other general issues.
Insofar as
      such topics are not discussed at the Talks or adequate
information or
      planning materials are not yet available, this information
will be made
      available by the GMJB later in the year.  This group will
also discuss
      the sales distribution division between the Communities for
the
      following year and any changes in this Agreement.

      (c) Changes in the Joint Hammocks Agreement.  Changes in
the Joint
      Hammocks Agreement are subject to approval by the central
      decision-making bodies of both Communities, and cannot be
made by the
      GMJB; they are normally agreed to at the Joint Hammocks
Talks.  If there
      are any changes in the Agreement, an updated Agreement will
be prepared
      shortly after the Talks for signature by the General
Managers, and
      approval by each Community's central decision-making body. 
Appeal of
      central decision-making body decisions regarding the joint
hammocks
      agreement may be made by any full member of  either
Community, in
      accordance with the governance procedures of each
Community.  A
      successful appeal will have the effect of voiding the
previous decision
      and causing said Communities to re-open negotiations on the
issue in
      question.  Should either Community wish to make changes in
the Joint
      Hammocks Agreement to which the other Community does not
consent, the
      final resort of the Community wishing to make changes is
the termination
      provisions of paragraph 22 below.

      (d) Record Keeping.  Twin Oaks will be the repository for
the joint
      business records, and will produce monthly, quarterly, and
annual
      reports. Both East Wind and Twin Oaks management will be
responsible for
      prompt delivery of monthly sales information, etc. to Twin
Oaks. Both
      Communities will normally keep the following records in a
sufficiently
      consistent manner as to easily allow combining figures:

           (i)   Money spent out of budget on promotion
           (ii)  Discounts given
           (iii) Sales--by account, by item, by $
           (iv)  Inventory and production
           (v)   Credit status of accounts
           (vi)  New accounts

      (e) Ongoing Order Filling.  Each Community will be
responsible for
      filling orders of accounts that normally are served from
same Community
      (division of accounts is usually based on geographical
location, unless
      sales distribution or which models are made in which
location dictate
      otherwise). In cases where a hammock order cannot be filled
from the
      Community that normally serves the account placing the
order because
      said Community neither produces nor warehouses the hammocks
needed to
      fill the order, or is unable to produce the inventory
required to fill
      the order, all or part of said order shall be shipped from
the other
      Community.

      (f) Sales and Marketing.  Sales and marketing are handled
at Twin
      Oaks, except for day-to-day sales and service to ongoing
customers, and
      occasional mailing out of brochures, etc., and other
services, as
      requested by the GMJB.

      (g) Delinquent Accounts.  If both Communities are owed a
considerable
      amount of money by a single account, management of the
joint business
      can take over the collection procedures.  Small debts or
accounts owing
      to only one Community will be handled by the individual
Community.

      (h) Service and Quality Standards.  Both Communities have
the
      obligation of calling the other Community on lags in
service or quality
      standards if there are customer complaints.  Both
Communities are
      expected in both areas to uphold the high level of quality
that we
      advertise in our literature.

      (i) Communication and Consultation.  The management of both
Communities
      will be expected to maintain a high level of communication
about ongoing
      and new developments, both in the form of records exchange
and reports,
      and by telephone.  No major decisions on large accounts,
discounts, etc.
      will happen without communication with the other Community.

      (j) Disagreements, conflicts.

           (i) With respect to issues of how business ought to be
run:  While
           Twin Oaks will be doing the largest portion of overall
management
           of the business, should East Wind be unsatisfied with
Twin Oaks'
           management's willingness to listen to and incorporate
East Wind's
           suggestions on the running of the business, either
Community can
           request a meeting jointly facilitated by appropriate
           representatives as determined by each Community.

           (ii) With respect to either Community not getting
needs in sales or
           profit met: Should efforts under this agreement and
examination of
           the plan (to see if the situation is likely to
improve) not meet
           the needs of either Community, then either Community
can invoke the
           procedures for change outlined in subparagraphs (a),
(b), and (c)
           above.

   8. Planning.

      (a) Major preliminary planning for the following year will
occur at the
      Talks.  Before the Talks convene, Twin Oaks will normally
compile a
      review of that year's plan (e.g., in July 1983 a review of
the first six
      months of 1983) including sales, how they relate to
predictions, promo
      efforts, and effectiveness).  The current business
situation will be
      discussed as well as needs and ideas for the remainder of
the year and
      the following year.

      (b)  Following the Talks, Twin Oaks will develop a rough
plan for the
      following year, including sales projections; proposed sales
distribution
      based on those projections as well as desired sales levels;
production
      need projections based on the proposed sales distribution
and inventory
      levels; promo plans and goals; other major business plans
and goals.
      Twin Oaks, consulting by phone with East Wind, will modify
this plan as
      the season progresses and more information becomes
available about large
      accounts and success of promo activities.  (For a detailed
outline of an
      approach to promo strategy review and development, see
subparagraph (c)
      below.)

      (c) A suggested approach to promo strategy review and
development:
           (i) Review
               a. What strategy was, what assumptions were behind
each
                  activity
               b. What were our activities:
                  (1) Success
                  (2) Cost analysis
                  (3) Other

          (ii) Determine for following year:
               a. Available resources
               b. Areas of need in sales and promo, as relate to:
                  (1)  Total volume of sales
                  (2)  Desired profitability
                  (3)  Type of sales
                     (A) Size of account/discount level
                     (B) Product
                  (4)  Geographical location
                  (5)  New product distribution

         (iii) Brainstorm promo techniques--develop research
questions

          (iv) Formulate strategy (allowing flexibility for both
groups to
               make decisions not specified in strategy)

   9. Sales Distribution

      (a)  Definitions:

           (i) EW desired sales level--East Wind's  request  for
number of
               hammock sales for the following year
        
          (ii) EW planned sales level--the range of sales planned
(by the
               joint business) for East Wind based on EW's
desired sales
               level, projected sales, and the sales distribution
formula
               defined below

         (iii) TO desired production/sales level--Twin Oak's
request for
               number of hammock sales that it will both produce
itself and
               sell (as opposed to hammocks that will be made at
Workshop V
               and sold by Twin Oaks)

          (iv) Workshop V initial allocation--the 2,000 hammocks
that are
               assigned to Workshop V off the top before other
sales are
               divided

      (b) The sales distribution plan is called "Assigned Sales
Distribution".
      No later than July, East Wind will make a first effort at a
desired
      sales level for the following year, and Twin Oaks will make
a first
      effort at a desired production level for the following
year.  The number
      East Wind sets for the following year must be no fewer than
5,000 and no
      more than 10,800.  18 months notice can allow the number to
drop below
      5,000, if this level is acceptable to joint business
management; if this
      level is unacceptable to management's understanding of the
needs of the
      business, the Joint Hammocks Agreement must be renegotiated
or
      terminated.  East Wind will make its decisions regarding
desired sales
      level no later than in accordance with the following
schedule: in July a
      range of +/- 1,000 hammocks; in November at the latest +/-
500 hammocks,
      unless the GMJB needs more information or needs the
information sooner;
      by January 1 a final desired sales level (unless the GMJB
can allow East
      Wind more time and East Wind feels it needs more time).

      (c) Anticipated annual sales will be distributed in
accordance with the
      following formula:  (1) the first 2,000 anticipated annual
sales are
      allocated to Workshop V (see paragraph 17(c) Other
Entities); (2) the
      following anticipated annual sales are divided in a 40/60
ratio between
      Twin Oaks and East Wind until East Wind reaches its desired
sales level;
      (3) sales above that go to Twin Oaks/Workshop V if Twin
Oaks wants them;
      if Twin Oaks does not want them Twin Oaks then offers them
to East Wind;
      if neither Twin Oaks nor East Wind are willing to take them
(i.e.,
      Workshop V also cannot produce them for Twin Oaks), it is a
matter for
      negotiating, begging, pleading, etc., and potentially
engaging another
      other entity, but ultimately at this point it is Twin Oak's
      responsibility to figure out what to do (Twin Oaks'
management can call
      in an Other Entity (see paragraph 15 below) or can handle
the overorders
      as it sees fit).  Implementation of this division of the
year's sales
      will be effected by the GMJB as the year goes on based on
actual sales
      and updated sales projections.  The GMJB will be
responsible to give East
      Wind within +/- 250 sales of its desired sales level should
sales
      warrant it in accordance with the above formula.

      (d) Sales projections and marketing decisions will be made
with an
      intention of giving each Community as close to what it
wants as is
      possible.  After sales projections are made, East Wind has
indicated its
      desired sales level, Twin Oaks has indicated its desired
production
      level, that information and the Workshop V allocation will
be studied
      together to give East Wind and Twin Oaks both projected
sales ranges for
      their planning.  The actual division of sales will be in
accordance with
      the formula stated in subparagraph (c) above.

      (e) If a Community wishes to reach its desired or planned
sales level
      for the year, it must accept its fair share as the orders
come in.  If
      after a Community makes its maximum effort using all
reasonable methods
      it cannot do this, then its planned sales level for the
year can be
      dropped by the number it could not fill.  An example to
clarify fair
      share might be as follows:  If the Communities are
splitting sales
      40%(EW)/60%(TO), then East Wind is obligated to take its
40% of the Pier
      1 spring purchase order if it makes good sense for it to do
so, i.e.,
      40% of non-Pier 1 sales for the year are approximately in
East Wind's
      territory.  It is the expectation that this rule can be
rigidly applied.
      It will also be understood, however, that the GMJB is to
monitor the
      needs of both Communities and to appropriately allow for
flex in the
      system if the situation warrants it.  Example: Twin Oaks
has high
      inventory and good financial position.  East Wind has low
inventory, low
      membership, and troubled financial position.  If it could
be worked out
      that sales could be shifted so that East Wind could take
more second
      half sales, the GMJB should attempt to do so.

      (f) Should sales warrant it and East Wind desire more sales
than its
      maximum 10,800, the GMJB can allocate sales above that to
East Wind, but
      this allocation is temporary, and is not to be interpreted
as a
      permanent change in East Wind's maximum.  Such a permanent
change in
      East Wind's maximum can only be made through the procedure
for changing
      the Joint Hammocks Agreement (see subparagraph 7(c) above).

      (g) Should East Wind wish to increase its hammock sales by
more than
      2,000 units relative to the previous year, or should East
Wind wish to
      change its maximum and should same be negotiated through
the procedures
      for changing the Joint Hammocks Agreement stated in
subparagraph 7(c)
      above, and if those sales are available through reducing
Workshop V's
      production or reducing or eliminating any other Other
Entity's
      production, those sales will be allocated to East Wind
without any
      change in Expense Distribution.  Should obtaining these
extra sales for
      East Wind require extra sales and marketing, East Wind will
need to bear
      additional costs (promo costs, extra discount costs) and
may either do a
      larger portion of the real managerial labor (at Twin Oaks'
discretion)
      or compensate Twin Oaks for doing it (Joint Hammocks Talks
not being
      included in "real" managerial labor). (See also
subparagraph 10(g)
      below.)

  10. Expense Distribution.

      a) The assumptions behind this system of expense
distribution are that
      East Wind needs to be assured of a steady, but moderate
volume of sales
      every year for the foreseeable future and that Twin Oaks,
being more
      dependent on the casual furniture industry for most of its
income,
      wishes on a year-to-year basis to have a more flexible
volume, depending
      on profitability, but also is likely to wish to see the
business to
      continue to grow slowly.

      (b) The following expenses are borne by each Community
individually, and
      are not subject to expense distribution: production
materials and
      supplies, production tools and equipment, shipping, office
overhead
      (other than telephone calls) for operations (e.g., invoice
forms,
      typewriters, pens and pencils, postage on invoices and
statements).  Any
      expenses related to retail sales by either Community are
specifically
      excluded from expense distribution and are borne by each
Community
      individually.

      (c) The following expenses are considered joint
distributable expenses
      and are subject to expense distribution according to the
formula (see
      subparagraph 10(f) below): all promotional expenses,
including sales
      trips, mailings, printing, promo material development,
phone calls;
      shipping of purchase orders and papers between the
Communities;
      consultants and resource materials; research and
development in hammocks
      and in new products if the new product is necessary to the
business
      and/or will be made by both Communities; wholesale minus
15% discount
      cost of products used for promo, samples, and research and
development;
      all hammocks-related phone calls including calls to
wholesale customers,
      to suppliers, and to the other Community, except for
retail-related
      calls; ongoing Dun & Bradstreet subscription fees for
collection service
      and for credit information service; bad debt and collection
fees per
      subparagraph (d) below.

      (d) Bad debts and bad debt collection fees will be
considered a joint
      distributable expense if in line with our credit and
collection
      agreements and if it is considered that undue risks have
not been taken
      in collection procedures by the collecting Community.  If a
customer has
      been a good customer for at least two years and the amount
of the bad
      debt is in line with what had been common for that customer
(as
      determined by the other Community), then the debt can be
claimed as a
      joint distributable expense despite the fact that joint
credit
      procedures were not followed in establishing the account.

      (e) The following expenses are split 50-50 between the
Communities:
      costs of Joint Hammocks Talks.  (This category is intended
to include
      any expenses specifically related to running a joint
business, but the
      accounting involved in separating out any other such
expenses from the
      distributed expenses would be horrendous.)

      (f) Distribution of the expenses will be as follows:

           (i) The expense distribution year is July 1 to June
30, for
           proration in accordance with the sales distribution of
the calendar
           year which begins in the second half of the expense
distribution
           year. (For example, the percentages for proration of
expenses
           incurred July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1989 will be the
percentages of
           1989 sales distribution.)

           (ii) At the Joint Hammock Talks or at such other time
as adequate
           information is available, an estimate of each
Community's dollar
           obligation will be determined (for example by dividing
the total
           projected budget by total projected hammock sales
predicted for
           that year).  That per unit figure will then be
multiplied by each
           Community's projected sales.  Should one Community be
paying out
           most of the actual expenses, the other Community will
normally send
           equal monthly payments less any legitimate joint
distributable
           expenses that they have incurred to the Community that
is incurring
           the bulk of the joint distributable costs.

           (iii) At the end of the year, management will
calculate the actual
           percentage distribution of sales and prepare an
accounting of joint
           distributable expenses, and an appropriate exchange of
monies will
           take place between the Communities.

      (g) An exception to the expense distribution formula of
subparagraph (f)
      above, is that should East Wind wish to increase its
hammock sales by
      more than 2,000 units relative to the previous year, or
should East Wind
      wish to change its maximum and should same be negotiated
through the
      procedures for changing the Joint Hammocks Agreement stated
in
      subparagraph 7(c) above, should obtaining those extra sales
for East
      Wind require extra sales and marketing, East Wind will need
to bear
      additional costs (promo costs, extra discount costs). (See
also
      subparagraph 9(g) above.)

  11. Discount Distribution.  Management is responsible not only
for
      distributing sales volume and maintaining overall
discounts, but for
      seeing to it that the overall discount is equitably
distributed between
      the two Communities.  This will usually not naturally be
the case; and
      the imbalance will be corrected by a money transfer at the
end of the
      year (normally in association with the Expense Distribution
      transfer--see subparagraph 10(c) above), so that both
Communities have
      the same overall discount.  (E.g., Twin Oaks has gross
hammock sales of
      $500,000, and discounts of $75,000, or an average of 15%;
East Wind has
      gross hammock sales of $300,000, and discounts of $60,000,
or an average
      of 20%. Total sales are $800,000, with total discounts of
$135,000, or
      an average discount of 16.875%.  Twin Oaks pays East Wind
$9375 in a
      discount transfer, so that each Community has a discount of
16.875%.)
      Either Community can, if it wishes, ask for an interim
accounting and
      exchange of monies during the year.

  12. Credit and Collection.  Credit and collection procedures
will be
      specified in Appendix A, eventually.

  13. Labor in Overhead.  The distribution of promo labor may be
covered each
      year in the proposed promo budget.  Presumably Twin Oaks
will do a
      considerably larger portion, although there still might be
projects for
      East Wind to cover.

  14. Promo Budgets.  A tentative promo budget will be set by the
beginning of
      the year, based upon the volume of sales agreed upon as
desirable at the
      Talks or later, taking into consideration the success of
the promo
      activities of the previous year, and in accordance with the
presumed
      needs of the year ahead (see Planning, paragraph 8 above,
and Management
      and Decision Making, subparagraph 7(b) above).  The promo
budget will
      ideally contain specific projects with specific budgets,
but may,
      according to the needs and abilities of the times, be
structured much
      more loosely.  Adequate recording and reporting is
required.  Twin Oaks
      will manage the budget and overall promo. 
Over-expenditures on projects
      must be cleared by the GMJB, or else these expenditures
must come out of
      the Communities' own budgets, and are not distributable
expenses.  Such
      overexpenditures as extra personnel support costs (e.g.,
food or extra
      transportation) will not be covered by the joint business. 
Additional
      promo projects not affordable within the joint promo budget
and/or not
      approved by the GMJB will be covered by the individual
Communities (or
      not done).  (See Expense Distribution, paragraph 10 above,
for
      accounting of promo expenses.)  Should marketing needs
reach an
      emergency level, management can raise the per unit promo
costs up to
      15%/year without negotiation.

  15. It shall be the aim of each Community to enter into and
conduct business
      with cooperatively and communally operated associates
whenever feasible
      and not economically detrimental, minimizing support of
middlepersons
      such as advertising agencies and distributors.

  16. Liability Insurance.  Each Community shall carry a minimum
of $500,000
      product liability insurance for all products covered in
this Agreement.
      In the case of a product liability suit, the Community that
manufactured
      the particular product involved will assume sole liability.

  17. Other Entities.

      (a) In the event that either Community decides to create
another entity
      or enter into an agreement with another entity, for the
purpose of
      producing products covered under this agreement, the other
community
      will be given notification of any such plan and allowed 30
days to
      respond with any concerns, prior to any production taking
place by the
      other entity.  The intent is to insure that both
Communities have at
      least an opportunity to express concerns about each other's
business
      practices as relates to other entities producing products
covered under
      this agreement.  (The existing relationship with Workshop V
is exempted
      from this paragraph.)  (See paragraph 15 above with respect
to the
      intent of this subparagraph.)

      (b) Financial benefits and costs accrue to the Community
that manages
      the Other Entity.

      (c) Dollars and unit sales will be added to that
Community's share for
      the purposes of sales, expense,and discount distribution,
with the
      exception of the first 2,000 units of sales to Workshop V,
per
      subparagraph (d) below.

      (d) It will be made explicit to Other Entities that there
is no
      guarantee to them that sales will continue.  Both
Communities' desired
      sales levels must be met before sales are shifted to the
Other Entity.
      The only exception to this will be that as of January 1,
1989, the first
      2,000 sales will go to Workshop V, before normal sales
distribution
      between East Wind and Twin Oaks (these 2,000 hammocks will
be treated as
      Twin Oaks sales from the point of view of income, expenses,
and expense
      distribution, but will be treated as separate from either
Community's
      sales for the purpose of sales distribution).  In this way,
the joint
      business takes some responsibility for maintaining Workshop
V at a
      minimum production level during low sales years.  Keeping
Workshop V is
      desirable primarily because of the ability it gives us to
market
      aggressively in order to reduce the impact of the possible
loss of Pier
      1.  (Note: Workshop V also allows both Communities
flexibility in
      production planning, which is quite valuable.)  It may be
mutually
      decided at any time to drop Workshop V if the costs are
judged to
      override the benefits.

      (e) Given the level of overall responsibility to get orders
covered that
      is given to Twin Oaks in this agreement (see subparagraph
9(c) above),
      it would normally be Twin Oaks that would be initiating or
establishing
      a relationship with an Other Entity.  However, it is
conceivable that
      circumstances could occur in which East Wind would wish to
engage an
      Other Entity in order to meet its production obligations.

  18. Joint Hammocks Talks will normally happen once or twice a
year (normally
      in July and possibly November).  One set of talks will
normally occur at
      each Community.  When possible the visiting Community will
make travel
      arrangements which enable other members of the visiting
Community to
      share the transport to the host Community for
visiting/labor exchange,
      and the joint business will bear the reasonable cost of
such transport.
      (See Management and Decision Making, paragraph 7(b) above;
Expense
      Distribution, paragraph 10(e) above.)  It is considered
important that
      management from each Community, including when possible
production
      management, visit the other Community at least once a year. 
Such visits
      will normally be combined with Joint Hammocks Talks, but
the second trip
      should normally be made even if a second set of Joint
Hammocks Talks are
      not necessary, and will be chargeable as a joint expense as
if said trip
      was a Joint Hammocks Talk trip.

  19. Catastrophe Clause.  The agreements on Assigned Sales
Distribution do
      not remain in effect in the event of a catastrophe to the
business
      (e.g., Pier 1 drops Twin Oaks Hammocks or one Community's
hammock shop
      burns down). If it is appropriate, we will use as an
interim
      distribution program the 40%(EW)/60%(TO) ratios for
distributing sales.
      Efforts will be made to renegotiate an agreement as soon as
possible.

  20. If any provision of this Agreement shall be declared
invalid, the
      remainder shall, nevertheless, remain in full force and
effect.

  21. Failure to act on the breach of any provision of this
Agreement shall
      not be considered waiver of any of the provisions, rights,
or conditions
      contained herein.

  22. Termination.

      (a) This Agreement may be terminated by either party in the
event of
      breach of any term included herein.  Moreover, this
Agreement can be
      terminated for any other good cause.  This Agreement may be
terminated
      in one year from written notice of such termination being
given to the
      other Community.  Should such a notice be given,
professional
      arbitration shall be entered into between the two
Communities within 30
      days from such a notice.  Said notice shall not be binding
or confirmed
      until the completion of said arbitration.

      (b) After receipt of said termination notice and prior to
the effective
      termination date, a final distribution of accounts and
orders shall be
      concluded by averaging the percentage distributions over
the previous
      five years and distributing accounts by the previous (one)
year's
      volume.  Also, during this period, a final settlement of
promotional
      costs and discount equalizing shall be made.  Moreover,
during this
      period, all other jointly held or controlled assets, both
tangible and
      intangible, shall be divided equitably between the
Communities.  The
      Twin Oaks Hammocks name and logo, which were brought to the
business by
      Twin Oaks, shall remain the property of Twin Oaks; however,
for a period
      of three years East Wind shall be able to market hammocks
labeled
      "formerly sold as 'Twin Oaks Hammocks'" and shall be able
to continue to
      use the Twin Oaks logo.  Twin Oaks and East Wind shall also
enter into a
      temporary non-competition agreement which shall provide
that neither
      Community will compete with the other for a period of three
years.  The
      details of these agreements will be agreed upon in
professional
      arbitration, and if the details cannot be decided by
agreement between
      the Communities, binding arbitration shall be entered.  How
to effect
      the transition in relation to Pier 1 shall also be
determined in
      arbitration.  It is further agreed that, in the event of
termination,
      both Communities shall, in good faith, pursue alternative
means to
      coordinate separate marketing efforts so as to minimize
competition in
      the sale of products covered herein.

      (c) The intent of subparagraphs (a) and (b) above is to
provide for
      termination of this Agreement under circumstances in which
both
      Communities intend to continue to operate a hammock
businesses, but wish
      to operate them independent of the other Community or under
a different
      agreement from this Agreement.  Should this Agreement be
terminated
      because one Community wishes to cease operating a hammock
business, the
      provisions of subparagraphs (a) and (b) above do not apply. 
Should one
      Community wish to cease operating a hammock business, 18
months notice
      will be required to the other Community (see also paragraph
9(b) above),
      in order to give the other Community time to expand its
production
      capacity to take on the full sales volume of the business. 
In this
      case, photographs, promotional materials, and other jointly
held
      marketing and management assets will belong to the
Community continuing
      in the hammock business.  The oak leaf logo and the 'Twin
Oaks Hammocks'
      name belong to Twin Oaks Community, but would be available
to East Wind,
      if East Wind were the Community continuing in the hammock
business, for
      a period of three years (or for longer by mutual consent).

  23. The relationship between said Communities is that of
independent
      contractors.  No partnership, joint venture, or
relationship of
      principal and agent is intended.  This Agreement does not
bind either
      Community to any commitment other than those herein
specified.

  24. No sale, transfer, or assignment of this Agreement shall be
made without
      the prior written consent of the other party.

  25. Any addition to or deletion from this Agreement, or the
inclusion of any
      additional parties to this Agreement, shall be valid only
upon written
      consent of the central decisionmaking bodies of both
Communities.



        Ratification by Hammocks Management of each Community
        
        _____________________, for Twin Oaks Community, Inc.      
 [Velma Kahn]
        
        Date_________________                                    
[Feb 14, 1990]
        
        _____________________, for East Wind Community, Inc.      
[John Rippey]
        
        Date_________________                                  
[April 13, 1990]
        
        
        
        Ratification by Central Decision-Making Body of each
Community
        
        [Kat Kinkade]________, for Twin Oaks Community, Inc.      
[Kat Kinkade]
        
        Date_________________                                     
     [4/4/90]
        
        [Donald Rust]________, for East Wind Community, Inc.      
[Donald Rust]
        
        Date_________________                                     
    [4/13/90]

@node Production Quota, Hammock Shop Music, Joint Hammocks Agreement, Hammocks
@unnumberedsubsec Production Quota

@suindex Production quota
[Hammocks Production Quota, Community Meeting, 24 Jun 89]

This program permits the community to assign hammocks production
hours to members and associates.

The hammocks manager will set a production goal (a number of
hammocks to be produced during the week) at the beginning of each
week.

A production quota for individuals (a number of hours to be
worked in hammocks production during the week) will be assignment
whenever the community's hammocks balance [i.e. the cumulative
number of hammocks that we have made above the goal] is less than
zero.

@suindex Stretchers, and production quota
[PQ in stretchers, Community Meeting, 17 Mar 90]

Production quota hours can be claimed in stretchers.

@suindex Sandals, and production quota
[Include Sandals in Production Quota, Community Meeting, 12 Jan
91]

Hammocks Production quota credit may be earned by doing
production work in Sandals branch, up to a limit of 12 hours per
week for the branch.  The branch will determine the distribution
of the hours.

[Hammocks Production Quota]

The hammocks manager will make sure the following gets posted:
- each week's community hammocks balance
- each week's production quota, if any
- a record of people's production quota balances.

[8 Hours Production Quota, Community Meeting, 24 Mar 90]

The hammocks general manager has the authority to assign up to 8
hours production quota (per adult member or associate per week,
during weeks we're falling short of production goals).

@suindex Banking production quota
People can't build up an accumulation in their production quota
balance.  [Banking Production Quota Hours, Community Meeting, 24
Mar 90]  The Board can allow "banking" (that is, building up a
positive balance) of production quota hours -- for example, so
that a person can devote themselves to seasonal work such as
garden [or in advance of a vacation].

[Hammocks Production Quota]

@suindex Demotion to provisional member, for production quota
If a full member's production quota balance drops lower than -20,
the Board can decide to reduce the member to provisional member
status.  The Board's decision can be appealed to Community
meeting.  [Current (March 91) Board policy is that the reduction
is automatic after 4 weeks below -20.]

A person can make up a negative production quota balance even
during weeks during which there's no production quota.

Exemptions from production quota:
The Board can grant exemptions based on sickness, or based on the
necessity of doing essential work elsewhere in the community. 
People on leaves of absence are exempt.

@node Hammock Shop Music, Member Hammock Purchase, Production Quota, Hammocks
@unnumberedsubsec Hammock Shop Music

@suindex Music, in hammocks shop
@suindex Hammock shop music
[Hammocks Crew Music Policies, Hammocks Crew, 1989 (?)]

1.  Everyone working in the hammocks shop is entitled to a 45
minute turn of the music of their choice played over the stereo
speakers.

2.  Stereo turns are determined by the order in which people begin
working within the shop.  If you have already had a turn today and
someone else begins working in the shop who has not had a turn then
you must yield the use of the stereo to the newcomer.

3.  Anyone working in the hammocks or sandal shops may turn down
the volume of the stereo speakers, of either or both shops, to a
reasonable listening level whether it is their turn or not. 
Workers are entitled to choose to not listen to music when it is
their turn on the stereo.

4.  If there are repeated failures to work out personal problems
which concern the hammocks shop environment please feel free to
approach the hammocks crew.

5.  Making hammocks and sandals are the first priority of these
spaces.  The hammocks crew does not like making such policies
concerning personal behavior in the shop and recognizes that
determined individuals may exploit loop-holes in these policies to
personally benefit, therefore, we request that people abide by the
spirit of these policies as well as their literal interpretation. 
Hopefully we can all learn how to be more co-operative, peaceful,
and tolerant from our experiences working together.

@node Member Hammock Purchase,  , Hammock Shop Music, Hammocks
@unnumberedsubsec Member Hammock Purchase

[Self-Made Hammocks, Hammocks Management, 21 Nov 91]

When making a hammock for yourself (i.e., doing labor off-system for the
materials and then making your own hammock), please bag the hammock and
include an insert.  The desk people will record it as a normal transfer.

@node New Business Formation, Odd jobs and Outside Work, Hammocks, Business
@unnumberedsec New Business Formation

@suindex New businesses
[New Business Formation, Community Meeting, 2 May 92]

Business committee has the authority to use a total of 5000 hours and
$20,000 for investment, inventory, and expenses towards the formation of
new businesses in any given year, so long as cash outflow does not
exceed cash inflow by more than $5000 ($5000 will be budgeted as a
miscellaneous business expense for this purpose).  Business committee
also has the option to appoint a new industries meta whose role would be
similar to that of the new industries meta at Twin Oaks.  Following are
tasks which business committee is likely to delegate to the new
industries meta:

@itemize @bullet
@item
Approve small funds and hours for researching one particular business
(up to 50 hours and $100).

@item
Help sponsors of new business ideas develop plans, projections, and
proposals for Business Committee or community meeting.

@item
Help with finance, planning, and administration or any other necessary
managerial support during the startup period for new businesses.

@item
Provide regular reporting on new businesses to the Business Committee,
including hours, expenses, and inventory.
@end itemize

The limits for individual projects shall be:

Business committee may delegate the authority to approve individual
projects costing up to $100 and 50 hours, so as to facilitate
individuals gathering information, building prototypes, putting together
a proposal, etc. (this was previously a resource manager function).

The business committee may approve individual projects requiring up to
$8000 of expense, investment, and inventory and 2000 hours, so long as
cash outflow does not exceed cash inflow by more than $2000 for any
particular project.  This allows for small scale experimentation and
training, as well as launching very small businesses such as community
bookshelf or retail crafts.

Projects requiring more than $8000, 2000 hours, a first year loss of
more than $2000, or which the business committee feels need community
support (too risky, too controversial, etc.), must go before community
meeting in addition to this business committee process.

The business committee can exercise its discretion as to what degree of
planning and goal-setting is necessary, but will generally want sponsors
to do the following:

@itemize @bullet
@item
Give a purpose for the business
@item
List the personnel involved, including someone to manage the business
@item
Describe the costs and benefits (both financial and nonfinancial).
@item
Estimate income, hours used, and $/hour during regular operation.
@item
State return on equity with expenses and $5/hour wage subtracted from income.
@item
Estimate monetary and labor costs broken down by production, sales, and
administration.
@item
Estimate startup costs and time until regular operation begins.  Include
this in the framework of a plan which spans from the present until the
business is in regular operation.
@end itemize

The business committee is allowed to exercise flexibility and discretion
in deciding whether to allocate money and labor to a new business.  The
one criterion which must be met is:

@itemize @bullet
@item
A new business must earn better than $5/hour return on labor during
regular operation.  It does not have to earn $5/hour during the start up
period, which could be several years in duration.
@end itemize

Other criteria the business committee might use are:

@itemize @bullet
@item
Generally, low risk businesses may have low returns on equity, whereas
high risk businesses should have high returns on equity.

@item
It's better to have more than one person involved in the new business
and most of the people involved should be full members with a good
record of carrying through on projects.

@item
If the business has a number of indirect benefits to community, it will
be looked on more favorably.  Conversely, if there are many hidden
costs, these will be factors against starting the new business.
@end itemize

@node Odd jobs and Outside Work, Office, New Business Formation, Business
@unnumberedsec Odd jobs and Outside Work

@suindex Odd jobs
@suindex Outside work
[Guidelines and criteria for member requested long term Odd Jobs
and Outside Work (policy), Business Comittee, 18 Apr 86]

This is for long term Odd Jobs and Outside Work, that members
want to do, and the community is NOT asking for.

Criteria:

1)  $ per hour minimums:  Beginning level - average of last 2
years actual support costs (divided by) hours put into income
activities.  After 2 years - average of last 2 years actual on
farm business $ per hour.  The $ per hour of the activity is
figured after all related expenses and permanent deductions
(transportation, food, etc) and only on hour worked (not
commuting time).

2)  Labor - has to be available.

3)  Transportation - has to be available.

4)  Ethical nature - Any objections would be dealt with by the
Social Committee.

5)  Non-financial benefits will be considered only as a secondary
factor by the Business Committee.

6)  Members cannot have the ability to set their own wages.

Other Guidelines:

1)  If the activity does not meet the criteria - members can go
to the Social or Resource Committee for a recommendation, prior
to it going to a community meeting.

2)  An agreement would be written with each individual, developed
with the Business Committee and approved by the community,
invluding:  Who.  What activity.  How long is it okayed for.  $
per hour required.  Transportation guidelines.  Other conditions.

3)  Members get credit for the number of hours that are wokred,
or a number of hours equal to:  Net income made (divided by)
minimum $ per hour applicable, whichever is LESS.

4)  Each activity and person need separate okay by the COMMUNITY. 
The Business Committee will work out details and give a
recommendation.

5)  The amount of these activities is limited by the amount of
labor needed by other community activities.

6)  Level of commitment shown by the member is an important
factor.

7)  Community services and facilities:  If under the 2 year $ per
hour minimum - pay or negotiate usage.  If at or over the 2 year
$ per hour minimum - charged for service or facilities in the
same manner as other business activities.

@node Office,  , Odd jobs and Outside Work, Business
@unnumberedsec Office

@suindex Office
@menu
* Phones and Mail::             Phones and Mail
* Office Theft::                Preventing thefts of cash from the office
@end menu

@node Phones and Mail, Office Theft,  , Office
@unnumberedsubsec Phones and Mail

@suindex Holidays, covering phones
@suindex Telephones
[Business Holidays, Business Committee, 3 May 91]

On all business days, phones are covered from 8:30am to 5pm by
businesses, including East Wind holidays which are not federal
holidays.

@suindex Answering machine
[Answering Machine, Business Committee, 7 Jun 91]

[We didn't get around to buying the answering machine that this
policy was written for, and Tracy/Zea, who wanted the machine, left
the community.]

The machine is for answering calls when sales desk workers are
occupied with another business call, and will have a message
promising to call back soon.  Sales desk workers should still
answer the phone in person when not involved in a business call.

@suindex Mail
[Mail, CP desk management, 25 Nov 91]

The policy for the mail is:  only the afternoon CP desk worker
sorts it.

@node Office Theft,  , Phones and Mail, Office
@unnumberedsubsec Preventing thefts of cash from the office

@suindex Theft from office
@suindex Cashier
[Office theft prevention, Board, 16 Sep 92]

2.  Cash should be transfered from the drop box to the safe daily.

3.  During cashier shifts there should be no one in the accounting
office except the cashier and the accounting manager.

4.  If the safe is opened at a time other than a cashier shift, there
should be no one present other than the cashier and/or the accounting
manager.

5.  There should be no one in the office at any time except for
community related business.  This prohibition includes personal
telephone calls, letter writing, and general visiting.  It applies at
all times, day and night.

@suindex Games, computer, in accounting office
@suindex Computer games, in accounting office
6.  To reduce the temptation to visit the office for non-business
reasons, we direct that all games be removed from the computers there.

For purposes of #5 and 6, the office is defined as the entire CP office
and the accounting office north of the Dutch door.

[Games on accounting computer, Board, 3 Oct 92]

The Accounting computer [shall] be dedicated for games that cannot be
played on other computers each Sunday and Thursday from 7:00 PM to
midnight.

@node Children, Kitchen, Business, Top
@unnumbered Children

@suindex Children
@menu
* Lilliput::                    Lilliput
* Children Medical::            Children Medical
* Children Permanent Workers::  Children Permanent Workers
* Meta program definitions::    Meta program definitions
* Pregnancy::                   Pregnancy
* Primaries and Parents::       Primaries and Parents
* Child Membership::            Child Membership
* Child Votes::                 Child Votes
* Child Labor::                 Child Labor
* Children and Membership::     Children and Membership
* Child Board::                 Child Board
* Older Children::              Older Children
* Substance Use::               Substance Use
* Trips::                       Trips
@end menu

@node Lilliput, Children Medical,  , Children
@unnumberedsec Lilliput

@suindex Lilliput
[Return Lilliput to the Children's Branch, Community Meeting, 22
Apr 89]

Lilliput revert[s] to the control of the Children's Branch.

@node Children Medical, Children Permanent Workers, Lilliput, Children
@unnumberedsec Children Medical

@suindex Medical care for children
[Medical Care for the Children, Child Board, 21 Jan 87]

We would like to create a "Nurse" position to supervise medical
care.  The Nurse would follow up on health notes on the board,
i.e. "Raina says it hurts to pee", and decide if any action is
necessary.  If the Nurse doesn't have medical training, co will
decide when to consult with Ivy and follow her suggestions.  Co
will also arrange for a child to be taken to a doctor's when
necessary probably after talking with the child's primaries and
several metas.  After a decision is made on what needs to be done
(instructions from Ivy or doctor or Nurse's decision), the Nurse
will post clear instructions on the board for the metas.  Co will
also make the medicine charts to be checked off or put
appropriate check-boxes in the meta book.  The Nurse will be sure
that medicines/actions are really being taken and do whatever is
necessary to assure that.  After the course of action is
complete, the Nurse will be sure any necessary follow up checks
are done and that the child is indeed healthy again.  If the
Nurse is delegating responsibility, a note should be posted so
primaries and metas know who's in charge.

Any time we don't have someone willing to be the general Nurse,
one person (meta or primary) will have to accept responsibility
as Nurse for each child.  A meta or helper who notices a problem
should make sure that the child's nurse is aware of and dealing
with it.  The nurse for each child takes on the responsibilities
above for each illness "their" child has.

@node Children Permanent Workers, Meta program definitions, Children Medical, Children
@unnumberedsec Children Permanent Workers

@suindex Permanent workers, in meta program
[New Permanent Worker Evaluation and Acceptance, Child Board, Feb
87]

[Also @xref{Meta program definitions}.  This is slightly out of
date, but hasn't been officially superceded or repealed.]

This process will happen as soon as possible after a provisional
permanent worker has been working the program for three months.

At a meta meeting without the provisional permanent worker
present, the group will do a go-round on what each of us likes
and dislikes about the way co is with the children, how co is to
work with, what special skills co can share, etc.  We do not
intend this to be a petty gripe session, or to discuss anyone's
personality @emph{except} as it affects their acceptibility as a
meta/permanent worker.  The go round will be followed by open
discussion and a decision on whether to accept co as a permanent
worker.

Options on acceptance will be yes, no or extend.  The "extend" is
to be used only if we have doubts about whether co can use the
feedback given to work out as a good meta, @emph{or} if we don't
have any permanent worker slots open.  We shouldn't use it if we
are just short of metas - vote "no" and we can OK co doing
floater shifts if co's willing to do that.

The feedback and the decision will be given to the provisional
permanent worker by one person after the meeting.  The individual
has the option of responding or giving the group feedback at the
next meta meeting.

If a major question or concern comes up needing a response from
the provisional permanent worker before people want to accept or
not, the decision can be postponed a week until the individual is
asked about the issue.

@node Meta program definitions, Pregnancy, Children Permanent Workers, Children
@unnumberedsec Meta program definitions

[Meta program definitions, Meta meeting, 2 Apr 92]

Meta helper - a recruit not yet approved to do meta shifts alone.

Meta (or full meta) - willing, able and approved to do shifts
alone.

Permanent worker is a meta with a vote

  * 15 hours/week of shifts or 10 hours shifts and 10 hours other
work in branch

  * attends at least 50% meta meetings

Meta meeting decision process: to qualify for a vote, a meta must
have been at East Wind at least 3 months; co must do 15 hours of
shifts/week or do 10 hours shifts plus 10 hours other work in
branch, co must attend at least 50% of meta meetings.

Decision making process

1.  We will always attempt to arrive at consensus of all present at
meta meeting.

2.  If after first attempt consensus fails, we will discuss again
next week, working towards consensus of all metas with a vote

3.  If this fails we will discuss the issue at a third meeting with
a facilitator, again attempting to arrive at consensus.  If that
fails there will be a simple majority decision by all metas with a
vote.

Recruitment training

New recruits can approach any meta and any meta can approach new
recruits.

New recruits will be approved by meta meetings before becoming a
meta helper.

New recruits will go through training process and be a helper on
shifts.  After being helper for 3 months, co will be evaluated in
a meta meeting for approval to be meta.

@node Pregnancy, Primaries and Parents, Meta program definitions, Children
@unnumberedsec Pregnancy

@suindex Pregnancy
@suindex Parents doing meta shifts
[Pregnancy and Parents of Newborns, meta meeting, Mar 87]

Mothers are required to have done 200 hours in meta shifts before
giving birth, and fathers 100 hours before the birth.  (One way
to think of 200 hours is 4 1/2 months of 10 hours per week.) 
Child board will recommend that the mother complete these hours
before conceiving, as it might be a strain while pregnant, but
will nevertheless want the hours to be done.  The intent is to
familiarize the parents with the program - have them understand
and be comfortable with how the child will be raised - before the
child is born and while their mental and physical stress is still
low.

All primaries are required to undergo the meta training classes. 
They should do this at first opportunity.

Parents-to-be will be strongly encouraged to remain involved in
the program.

Pregnant women, nursing women, and fathers-to-be (that is,
fathers-to-be who are doing meta shifts) must attend weekly meta
meetings, but will not have a vote at that meeting unless they
are permanent workers.  (Permanent workers are required to do 16
hours per week in the program.  Nursing hours go toward that
requirement, but pregnancy hours do not.  So, it is conceivable
that a pregnant woman will not have a vote at that meeting.)  At
these meetings the new parents can get to understand the program
better, learn how to get their needs met within the program, and
get practice at working cooperatively with the people of the
program.

One of the new parents will be considered "on call" for a year
and a half after the birth of the child.  If the program finds
itself short of metas and it appears that the problem will not be
resolved quickly, the new parent may be called upon by the Child
Board to do up to 16 hours per week of meta shifts.  It will be
understood that if this happens, active recruitment for new metas
will continue in order to replace the new parent as soon as
possible.  It will also be understood that the measure will only
be taken in case of a crisi - that the program prefers not to
have people doing meta shifts who are only there because they
have to be there.  Child Board will generally show a preference
for fathers as the "on call parent", but will also be weighing
ability and desire as well.  The parent called will be the choice
of the Child Board as negotiated with the parents.

When the Child Board is considering an okay of a first pregnancy,
it is required to do pregnancy counseling before giving that
okay.  Pregnancy counseling could include the following:

* An explanation of how much labor and money will be allocated
for the pregnancy, birth, and nursing.

* The parent will be informed of all the above information, the
theory of the non-parent primary, permanent worker
responsibilities, and whategver else we can think of.

* Counseling can occur on conceiving, health, expectations,
parenthood, type of birth, and whatever else we come up with.  It
would be a good idea at this time to set up good counseling
situations so they can talk to other parents if it would be
helpful to them.

* This would be a good time to start negotiations as to who will
be the "on call parent".

@suindex Nursing hours
@suindex Labor credit for nursing
@suindex Hours for nursing
@suindex Labor credit for pregnancy
@suindex Hours for pregnancy
[Pregnancy Hours, Child Board, 24 Jan 92, re-worded by Jim]

During the first and third trimesters, a pregnant mother gets pregnancy
hours equal to 30% of quota (for example, if quota is 40, she gets 12
hours off).  When the baby is born, the mother gets nursing hours equal
to full quota the first month, full quota minus 4 hours a week the
second month, full quota minus 8 hours a week the third month, and so
on.  For example, if quota is 40, she gets 40 hours a week for the first
month, 36 for the second, 32 for the third, 28 for the fourth, 24 for
the fifth, 20 for the sixth, 16 for the seventh, 12 for the eighth, 8
for the ninth, 4 for the tenth, and no nursing hours after that.

@node Primaries and Parents, Child Membership, Pregnancy, Children
@unnumberedsec Primaries and Parents

@suindex Meat, and children
[Children and meat, Community Meeting, about Jan 80]

Primaries determine whether a child is served a meatie or veggie
diet til an age determined by the child board, when the child
would choose for coself.  Meaties and veggie diets would be
determined by the metas.

@suindex Vaccination, and children
[Child decision making, Community Meeting, 8 Apr 80]

Primaries may have decision making power on the issue of
vaccination within the range set by the child board.

@suindex Parents doing meta shifts
[Parents Required to do Meta Shifts, Community Meeting, 17 Aug
91]

When meta shifts are not being covered, and, if no one else will
cover the shifts, then the parents of the children in the meta
program will cover the shifts.  Parents who do not have
experience in the meta program will do night meta shifts that do
not involve much interaction with the children.  A schedule of
rotation and distribution for shift coverage will be worked out
so the shifts are distributed equitably and in accordance with
the needs of the parents.

Parents may opt out of meta care, provided they withdraw their
child from the program during the shift coverage crisis and
provide individual care to the child.  However, primary time will
not be claimed beyond what the children's program normally grants
when the shifts are fully covered.

The Board is empowered to make exemptions in special cases after
consulting with the metas.

Parents will be assigned double meta shifts if they request it.

@node Child Membership, Child Votes, Primaries and Parents, Children
@unnumberedsec Child Membership

@suindex Full member, children becoming one
@suindex Adult member, children becoming one
[Becoming Adult Members, Community Meeting, 15 May 82]

Membership vote at age 17.

Children will come up for vote for adult membership if Child
Board recommends it when they are under age 17 rules for 1 1/2
years.  Child Board shall recommend child coming up for adult
membership when child is 18 1/2 years.  At anytime, any age,
anyone can request to Child Board that child come up for full
membership anytime.  Child Board will pass on to membership
committee (along with request for full membership) their
recommendation on child becoming full member.  Child Board and
membership committee will make their recommendations available
when vote note goes up.  Vote will then be handled in normal
manner.

@node Child Votes, Child Labor, Child Membership, Children
@unnumberedsec Child Votes

[Membership Vote for Teenagers, Community Meeting, 13 Jun 81]

That Leslie be given a full vote in membership issues (i.e. in
voting on visitors who are up for provisional membership and on
provisionals up for full membership) when she becomes a full
child member, and that her vote be counted as part of quorum
(that is, it is counted when calculating the number of votes
needed to reject).

@suindex Votes, for children
@suindex Community meeting votes for children
[Child Provisional Member Suffrage, Community Meeting, 3 Feb 90]

Child provisional members who have been in residence for three
months and have attended 7 community meetings can vote
at community meetings as follows:

  age 7 to 13: 1/4 vote
  age 14 and up: 1/2 vote

[Children's Suffrage, Community Meeting, 7 Jan 89]

All Full child members are allowed 1/2 vote at Community meeting
after the age of 7, and a full vote after the age of 14.

@node Child Labor, Children and Membership, Child Votes, Children
@unnumberedsec Child Labor

@suindex Quota, for children
@suindex Labor, by children
[Child Quota, Community Meeting, 15 May 82]

Child Board has the power to set quota for child members under
their jurisdiction (in school).

@node Children and Membership, Child Board, Child Labor, Children
@unnumberedsec Children and Membership

@suindex Guests who are children
[Child Guest Policy, Child Board, 4 Jun 78]

That all matters relating to children, including guests, be under
the jurisdiction of the children's board.

@suindex Visitors who are children
[Visitors under Legal Age, Planners, 16 May 81]

Visitors under legal age in Missouri under Child Board
jurisdiction.

@node Child Board, Older Children, Children and Membership, Children
@unnumberedsec Child Board

@suindex Child board guidelines
[Final Children's Board Guidelines, 16 May 77]

1.  The children's Board will be a managership that will make
decisions concerning children within the community, keeping in
mind the welfare of each child @emph{and} the community as a
whole in both long and short term.  The board will also promote
communication between the children's program and the rest of the
community.

2.  The first task of the child board after appointment will be
to form a statement of intent of our children's program.  This
statement should include a definition of communal child rearing,
what underlying values we want to instill in our children and by
what means we want to achieve our goals.  This statement will be
brought to the community for approval.  The second task will be
to propose a time to begin our children's program.  This proposal
will be brought to the community for approval.  [There does not
seem to be any record of what was done in response to this]

3.  Number on the board and decision-making process:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  There will be 3 members on the board.

[See WIMP, 27 Apr 83 for selection procedure]
@end itemize

4.  The children's board will make recommendations as well as
decisions.  It will recommend in such areas as:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Who can have children, i.e. recommend to the parents.

@item
b.  Growth of the program, i.e. to the community:  spacing,
numbers, accepting outside children, design of facilities
@end itemize

5.  The children's board decides on child reaering methods and
educational techniques.

6.  The children's board will choose the metas-childcare workers,
who will enact child board policy.

7.  All child board decisions will be made public.

8.  All meetings will be open, unless a private meeting is
requested by an individual.

9.  Examples of the areas which fall under jurisdiction of the
board:  work, travel, when a child isn't a part of the children's
program, diet, censoring of media, how the children will be
named, etc.

@node Older Children, Substance Use, Child Board, Children
@unnumberedsec Older Children

@suindex Older children's program
[Older Children's Program, Older Children's Team, Jul 91]

East Wind's Children's program is run by adults and children
through meetings.  We are a team.  The adults are organized into
three main bodies, Metas work with infants and young children,
OCT (Older Children's Team), and the child board which deals with
both older and younger children's issues.  (Community meeting
serves as the Supreme Court with children's issues as it does
with all community issues.)  The children have meetings too. 
They are encouraged to make decisions as a cohesive group.  The
weekly meetings are open to everyone.  We say that our children
are reared communally in the sense that we are all sharing in
each other's lives, learning from each other.

Parents and children choose primaries.  A primary is another
adult who shares in the life of the child.  Primaries help with
the child's education and share the responsibility of the parents
in seeing that the child's welfare needs are met.

Children who ahve outgrown the need of the total accompanyment
provided by the metas move out of the children's building and
into an older children's space.  The children live with adults
and other children in a zoned adult child residence.  When the
children reach puberty, they are referred to as young adults. 
They may move out into an adult residence.  To do this, they need
to have a close primary group and have demonstrated the maturity
and responsibility it takes to respect the needs of the adults
living nearby.

Education is provided by community.  We home-school, utilize
correspondance courses available from high schooos, and have some
young adults in public Junior High School.  OCT homeschools as
many children as possible.  Our approach is a child interest led
study of life with an emphasis on the learning process, rather
than the amount or content learned.  We do require basic reading,
writing, and math studies.  Parents, primaries, OCT branch
workers, and children participate in developing individualized
educational programs according to the needs of each child. 
Children also may include resource time in their educational
program.  Resource time is a time that one or more children and
an adult get together to learn a skill.  Being a community where
home and work-place are one is an incredible resource in itself. 
Older children and young adults can learn to garden, woodwork,
cook, operate computers, participate in the businesses or
anything else that may be happening while being an invaluable
resource to community.

Socially and behaviorally, the program works through norms, OCT
policies and rules.  Weekly community meetings, child board
meetings, OCT meetings and kid's meetings are the decision making
bodies.  Notes from meetings are posted in Rockbottom.  Parents
and primaries come to meetings to give input and help with this
process.  Concerns of the community are also discussed in these
meetings.  This is a vital part of a working program in
community.  Only if we know the needs of all involved can we find
a decision which suits each issue.  As children and adults change
our program changes.  We welcome new energy into the program and
look forward to our current program's growth.

Older Children's Branch Update

Homeschool Education

As we believe the children are our equals, we treat them the way
we treat each other.  Our older children's educational program is
a reflection of our own lives; the children have school work
requirements as well as the freedom to explore their interests. 
We, East Wind adult members operating three businesses, do
require of ourselves necessary hours away from personal projects
to keep the businesses running.  We encourage each other in
developing personal interests and knowledge and do the same with
our older children.

We need to know how to read, write, and do basic math in order to
function here.  As it is our responsibility to provide them the
skills we use, they are required to study reading, writing, and
math.  They have as much choice as is possible in method and are
encouraged to incorporate their own ideas into the class
situation.  In addition to these studies, projects happen.  Some
examples of projects are model cars, painting egyptian
hyroglyphics on the walls of the root cellar, sewing clothing and
curtains, building shelves, and nature studies.  Academic
progress and current projects are kept track of in folders and
notebooks for each child.

We recognize the value of work and homelife as education.  One
chore per week is required although they all do much more.  They
take care of our rabbit, supply the hammock shop with ice tea,
help with current adult projects, and do adult work.  They also
learn by watching adults work and asking questions.  We eat
dinner in Rockbottom where there is a library.  They see us using
resource materials daily to answer work questions and curiosity.

The remainder of their education is their choices and their
environment.  We are raising our children communally all day,
every day.  We learn from them and they learn from us.  They
impact our lives as much as we impact theirs.  We are grateful
for them and share what we can of ourselves with them.

[Study hall, Older Children's Team, 12 Sep 91]

If Obadiah does not bring assigned homework [to study hall] or
present proof that it is done, Allen [person monitoring the study
hall] will review Obadiah's textbooks with him.  Lacking co-
operation from Obadiah, Allen will design exercises and
worksheets for him to do.

[Older Children's program, Jul 91]

Boundaries

Recognizing that young adults and older children are growing
daily more responsible and self-sufficient, the following
boundaries are inteded to represent defined limits of safety
@emph{now} -- they are intended to be outgrown, and as the
individual youth needs, requests, and earns extended boundaries,
these will be enthusiastically revised outward.

Young adults may go to the creek alone, given primaries are
notified (note at Rockbottom or previously agreed upon method of
communication).  Older children require adult company.  Going
across the creek is OK when an adult knows where the youth is. 
The top of the ridge is the limit.  All young adults and older
children need to be in the Rockbottom-Enterprice locus by dark
unless explicit arrangements have been made.

[Andrew fishing, Older Children's Team, 29 Aug 91]

Andrew can go fishing alone.

[Older Children's program, Jul 91]

Our property lines are not crossed without adult companionship
unless previous arrangements have been made.

As with other areas of community life, older children and young
adults may increase their boundaries by successfully keeping the
agreements above; similarly, contraction of these boundaries will
naturally follow as consequence for unmet agreements in these
areas.

Older kids must have supervision inside work areas.  Managers of
any given area are authorized to deny, limit, or expand access to
individuals after successful orientation/training in that
department.  We encourage our young adults to learn the hard
skills available to absorb here; in the same way, individual
managers are enthusiastically invited to actively pursue the
potential labor available from a turned-on, motivated young
adult.

In keeping with community norms, responsible behavior is required
in order to maintain communal privileges.  Kitchen use is
permitted and encouraged, given that messes are cleaned up when
they are made and the cook's needs are respected.  The brown
cooler and pantry outside are currently off limits [to older
children] -- if an older child needs access, co should find an
adult to go with.  As older children more successfully
demonstrate their abilities to turn off lights and shut doors
when appropriate, this limitation may disappear.

The music room, ballroom in Reim, showerhouse, community clothes
trailer, and TV trailer are public space available to kids of all
ages.  However, stereo equipment and foopin equipment (like all
tools and equipment everywhere on the farm) may be operated only
after an individual is certain co has been trained on that item. 
Both the sewing room and medical room are space where no one
should be without a specific need -- older children must have
adult supervision in those areas, since OCT needs to know of any
relevant needs in those areas.

OCT intends to promote incrementally increased levels of
responsibility as our children grow into adulthood -- we
recognize that older children/young adults grow in the same way
we all do -- through experience and making mistakes.  It is our
intention to permit maximum space for error making, logical
consequences to clarify lessons, and minimal negative impact upon
community from those same mistakes.  A nurturing environment kept
that carefully, however, begs for community participation in
order to succeed.  In order to address all the areas of concern
each of you may have about a particular child or OCT policy or
issue, we need to know about them.  If it's hard for you to talk
to a kid directly as a peer, find an involved adult to tell what
needs to be said.  Please do participate in helping these kids
grow into the even more beautiful people you want them to become.

Social and Behavioral Norms

We had a lot of fun coming up with some guidelines to help adults
and kids get along smoothly.  They want to experiment with life
on their own terms.  The kids want to be treated as individuals. 
They expect to be talked to in a non-condescending manner and
want to share opinions and ideas of their own.  The key word is
respect.

When a child says "stop" that is your cue.  Laughing and playing
are fun but can get out of hand.  This word will be respected by
them also.

When one child reserves something, in order to be valid, they
need a witness and the object must not be in someone else's
posssession at the time.

The resources of the community are for the children as well as
the adults.  There have been times when adults and children have
had trouble working in the same space at the same time.  One
example of a successful negotiation is the kitchen.  Crystal and
Heidi wanted to cook.  Andrew wanted to do science experiments. 
We found time to do these things other than cooking shifts
without any problem.  Another suggestion is reserving space for
planned activities.

Leaving messes has been a big issue.  Adult mess cleans are
classified as part of fair share.  The current child norm agreed
upon states that if a mess is left in a public space, the child
responsible cleans the entire space affected.  Refusal to do this
invites a consequence of extra cleaning.

Consequences have become an accepted norm.  Usually at kids
meetings consequences for one person are voted on by the group. 
At the beginning of this process, each child gave the group ideas
appropriate for common.  These suggestions were referred to in
two cases.

Conflicts are bound to come up.  Some suggestions are:  maintain
control of your emotions, clearly explain why you are upset, what
they are doing that is not okay and why.  Try to use language
that emphasizes the behavior rather than the person.  Keep in
mind that for constructive interaction two way communication is
necessary.  To facilitate this it is important for the child to
understand that you are concerned about co's development and are
not just trashing co.  We have several good books in the OCT
mailbox in Rockbottom which are creditable work hours and great
resources.

[Older Children Norms, Older Children's Team (OCT), 8 Jun 91]

Our purpose is to help adults be clear on what's okay for the
kids to do and what's not okay.  OCT would like to encourage
members to confront children while a questionable act is
happening.  If you don't fell okay about dealing with the
situation yourself, you can go to OCT workers, parents,
primaries, the general communitarian of child board, or a child
board meeting.  We will address the common problems of the "*@@#&!
you!" attitude and the "I'm bigger than you" complex.  In this
paper we'll get into Physical boundaries, other boundaries,
messes, consequences, and suggest some things that may make life
easier for everybody.

[Older Children's Policies, Child Board, 5 Jul 91]

We are establishing the norm that if it is after midnight and
young adults or older children are around adults who are drunk or
whose behavior makes them uncomfortable, they need to have a
primary present or go ahead and leave.

[Obadiah and TV trailer, Donna, 26 Jun 91]

For safety reasons Obadiah is to leave the TV trailer when the
situation is unsafe to him physically.  This will be reevaluated
when more facts become available.

[Older Children's Policies, Older Children's Team, 25 Jul 91]

@suindex Sleeping in public spaces, by children
Sleeping in public spaces at night is not okay except in
hammocks.

It's socially acceptable that a child or young adult be asked to
leave when adults are having a private discussion in a public
space.  Older children and young adults are expected to respond
accordingly.

@suindex Violent toys
There is a meta agreement supporting the rights of members of a
non-violent community not to see violent toys.  The neon green
water gun and sling-shot won't be around anymore.

[Older Children's Policies, Older Chidlren's Team, 5 Jul 91]

@suindex Sex, and children
We recognize that our young adults and their visiting friends are
beginning to be interested in sex.  We recognize that they are
individuals and need to make their own informed decisions.  We
welcome community input.

Andrew and Leslie are beginning school next week.  Bedtime is
9:30 - 10:00 pm for both of us.

@node Substance Use, Trips, Older Children, Children
@unnumberedsec Substance Use

@suindex Alcohol, and children
[Children and Alcohol, Older Children's Team, 26 Sep 91]

No child under 15 may drink alcoholic beverages without express
permission of the applicable parent each time co desires to so
drink.  As a direct consequence of Obadiah's recent inappropriate
public behavior, he is expressly denied permission to drink
through December 31, 1991.  After that time, the above-mentioned
policy will apply to him.

[Obadiah's and Donna's Agreements around Obadiah's Substance
Usage, Obadiah and Donna, 14 Jun 91]

ALCOHOL

[Largely superceded by Children and Alcohol, 26 Sep 91]

1.  Obadiah's drinking of alcoholic beverages will be limited to
twice weekly, usually FRIDAY and SATURDAY nights, unless
substitutions are arranged in advance (for example, Monday and
Tuesday nights of this week in exchange for Fri and Sat last
weekend).

2.  Obadiah will limit his free-will consumption to two beers; if
he chooses to drink more than two beers, he will find an adult
(come to Donna, who can probably be found in bed, or find someone
reasonably sober at party in question) who is willing to assume
responsibility for his safety/behavior/consumption until he
reaches bed.

3.  Obadiah's unsupervised presence at adult parties is
understood to be a privilege subject to revocation or expansion. 
Community is not expected to "babysit" Obadiah or be forced to
deal with unacceptable social behavior occasioned by alcoholic
indulgence.

4.  A previous agreement concerning bedtime (As long as Obadiah
is up, dressed and operative by 9:00 am he has illustrated his
ability to successfully choose his bedtime appropriately.  Late
wakeup suggests Obadiah needs asistance in ensuring he gets
enough rest at night, and limits will be imposed accordingly, for
at least the following day/night.) will apply to "morning
afters".  Suspension of this agreement may be arranged in advance
only.

SMOKING

1.  Smoking of tobacco is totally prohibited in any situation
under any circumstance.  This subject is not open for re-
negotiation for 24 months.  Obadiah understands and accepts that
consequences for violation of this agreement will be draconian in
severity and longevity.

OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

1.  Obadiah is strongly discouraged from ingesting any other
controlled substances.  Adults so engaged are respectfully
requested to refrain from offering to include him.  Further
control (through explicit prohibition) may be imposed if routine
indulgence develops or if daily behavior is visibly affected.

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

1.  Obadiah realizes that community feedback is invaluable in
speeding growthful behavior.  Sharing of information that could
be called "snitching" will therefore be appreciated by both
parties to these agreements.  Obadiah says "Come tell me you're
gonna tell Mom, so I can get there first".

@node Trips,  , Substance Use, Children
@unnumberedsec Trips

@suindex Trips, with older children
[Process for Planning Excursions with the Older Children, Older
Children's Team, 5 Sep 91]

Spontaneity is a wonderful thing, and definately has a place in
the kids' lives, but when it comes to budgetary requests, unusual
amounts of done time or lengthy periods off the farm with the
kids, planning may help reduce stress and misunderstandings. 
This proposal outlines a process which may help alleviate this
situation and illustrate how more people can get involved with
the kids.

1) OCT welcomes community members having ideas about trips and
excursions they would like to do with the kids.  There are funds
available for this type of activity, which may be accessed by
following the outlined procedure.

2) Anyone with an idea for a field trip (museum visit or
overnight fishing on the lake or whatever) who wants to access
OCT funds to pay for the trip must come to OCT meeting the week
before the planned excursion.  The idea must be presented before
the group for airing of concerns and general communication which
will facilitate approval.

3) Assuming the group approves of the idea, the budgetary
limitations are checked, and funding allocated for the trip if
such can be afforded.  It is possible that the trip may have to
be delayed up to a month, if the budget is running low for that
month.

4) In support of the idea of communal child involvement, it would
be great if notes were posted detailing the planned trip with the
idea that other adults may be interested in accompanying the
kids.

5) In general, full day trips will have meals funded as per usual
restaurant meal allocations posted in the accounting office [@xref{Money
Miscellaneous}].  Junk food and other treats typically are funded
through individual DFs.

6) If a spontaneous idea should arise, post a note for OCT rather
than approaching the individuals in charge of the budget.

The monthly budget appears to have room for 2 full day excursions
as far as Springfield, less if the trip is farther.

@node Kitchen, Garden, Children, Top
@unnumbered Kitchen

@suindex Kitchen
@suindex Tuna
[No Tuna, Community Meeting, 19 Sep 89]

East Wind won't purchase tuna to eat anymore, because commercial fishing
techniques also trap and kill dolphins.  This goes for white (albacore)
tuna as well, even though some of it is available that is caught by
hook, and therefore doesn't endanger dolphins.

@suindex Rockbottom
@suindex Music, in rockbottom
[No Music in Rockbottom, Community Meeting, 25 Jul 92]

No out-loud recorded music in Rockbottom, except at parties.

@node Garden, Federation, Kitchen, Top
@unnumbered Garden

@suindex Garden
@suindex Vegetables, use of
@suindex Juicing
@suindex Baby vegetables
[Use of Garden Vegetables, Agriculture Branch Manager, 17 Jun 92]

There will be no juicing of garden vegetables unless it is
@emph{clearly} understood that there is a surplus.  It is not fair that
only a few benefit from our garden produce when the rest have to do
without or use unorganic produce.  I wish we had enough to meet
everyones needs but we don't.  Maybe some day we will but until that
time comes we have to make the @emph{wisest} use of what [we] have--this
also includes picking vegetables when they are at their most optimal
size in order to get the greatest yield.  Eating baby vegetables is nice
but it doesn't make the best use of our time and space.  Your
cooperation is requested.  Thank you.

@node Federation, Political Activity, Garden, Top
@unnumbered Federation

@suindex Federation
@suindex Labor tax, federation
[Raise Labor Tax to 10x average working members from 8x, Ratified
by Community Meeting, 28 Nov 86]

At the Federation assembly just completed we agreed to increase
the annual labor dues from 8.0 to 10.0 hours times the average
number of working members during the previous year.  According to
our constitution, this change must be ratified by two-thirds of
our member communities to take effect.

@suindex Tax, federation
@suindex Money tax, federation
[Ratify Federation Tax, Ratified by Community Meeting, 30 Jan 82]

Ratify Federation tax legislation changing tax base from 4% gross
income to 1% net income.

@suindex Constitution, of federation
[Ratify Federation Constitution, Community meeting (planners? 
vote was 2-0-1), 14 May 83]

Ratified the Federation of Egalitarian Communities Constitution 

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATION OF EGALITARIAN COMMUNITIES

We, the Federation, are a union of egalitarian communities which
have joined together in our common struggle to create a lifestyle
based on equality, cooperation, and harmony with the earth.  We
believe that this is a fundamentally different approach than that
offered by most cultures throughout the world, and one that holds
the promise of realizing the human potential lost through the
unequal distribution of wealth, power, and opportunity.  Our
communities affirm the right of all people to equal acess to
knowledge, resources, and decision-making.

It is the Federation's goal to reach the point where egalitarian
communities are a well-known and accepted lifestyle, and readily
available to all who seek it.  The Federation intends to do this
through forming, supporting, developing and promoting egalitarian
communities to the greatest extent possible.

Article I Name

The name of the organization will be the Federation of
Egalitarian Communities.

Article II Purpose

The purpose of the Federation is to facilitate intercommunity
cooperation and assistance, to support other cooperative
structures, and to educate ourselves and the general public about
the social and economic advantages of egalitarian communities. 
The Federation intends to achieve this purpose by:

1.  Promoting a better understanding of and recruitment into,
community through joint publication, advertising, conferences,
and other outreach efforts.

2.  Establishing a cooperative economic network for such things
as purchasing, financing, marketing, and the development of
community industries.

3.  Coordinating education research, cultural and other community
support systems, as may be feasible and desirable.

4.  Celebrating our collective spirit, both through special
events and in all that we do.

Article III Membership

A.  Acceptance

The assembly will establish an explicit procedure for considering
prospective communities which apply for membership.  A necessary
condition for membership will be that the prospective community,
in the judgement of the Assembly, meets the following basic
requirements:

[I believe these were amended in 1988]

@suindex Income sharing, federation principle
1) holds its land, labor and other resources in common;

[Laird says that in 1990 the word "income" was added after
"labor" but I have no record of this being ratified, at least not
by East Wind Community Meeting, and it doesn't ring a bell with
Don.  This needs to be cleared up.]

2) assumes responsibility for the needs of its members, receiving
the products of their labor and distributing these and all other
good equally, or according to need;

@suindex Violence, in federation
@suindex Non-violence, federation principle
3) practices nonviolence;

@suindex Democracy, federation principle
4) uses a form of decision making in which members have an equal
opportunity to participate, either through consensus, direct vote
or right of appeal or overrule;

@suindex Equality, federation principle
@suindex Discrimination, federation principle
@suindex Non-discrimination, federation principle
@suindex Race, discrimination, federation principle
@suindex Sex, discrimination, federation principle
@suindex Age, discrimination, federation principle
@suindex Creed, federation principle
@suindex Religion, federation principle
@suindex Ethnic origen, federation principle
@suindex Sexual preference, federation principle
@suindex Sexual orientation, federation principle
5) works to establish the equality of all people and does not
permit discrimination on the basis of race, class, creed, ethnic
origen, age, sex, or sexual orientation;

@suindex Ecology, federation principle
@suindex Environmentalism, federation principle
6) acts to conserve natural resources for present and future
generations while striving to continually improve ecological
awareness and practice;

@suindex Group process, federation principle
@suindex Process, federation principle
7) creates processes for group communication and participation
and provides an environment which supports people's development.

B.  Expulsion

The Assembly will establish an explicit expulsion procedure,
which will include an opportunity for the community in question
to answer the charges against it and an opportunity for the
community to change its objectionable behavior(s).  Possible
grounds for expulsion will include a purposeful or continued
violation of any of the basic Federation principles listed above,
and repeated failures to pay labor or money taxes to the
Federation, provided there exist sufficient opportunities to do
so.

Article IV. Decision-making

A.  The Assembly

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  Definitions and process

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Each community shall select its own Federation delegates and
shall be represented by up to two delegates, with one additional
delegate possible for every 100 supported members of the
community.

@item
b.  The delegates as a group is the Assembly.

@item
c.  Meetings of the Assembly may occur by assembled or non-
assembled means.

@item
d.  An assembly may be called by agreement of the Assembly or by
the agreement of 3/5 of the member communities.

@item
e.  Each member community must be notified of an assembly's dates
and location at least four weeks ahead of time, unless there is a
unanimous agreement to assemble on shorter notice.

@item
f.  In assembled meetings of the Assembly, a quorum is
constituted when 2/3 or more of the total votes is represented,
with a minimum of 1/2 the total votes represented in person.

@item
g.  In non-assembled meetings all votes must be represented for
decision-making to occur.
@end itemize

@item
2.  Decision-making

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Concensus

In the spirit of cooperation the Assembly should make a serious
effort to encourage a full discussion of all views and to reach
concensus where a decision is required.  Where concensus does not
appear likely the voting process outlines below shall be used.

@item
b.  Voting

@itemize @asis
@item
1) Every member community shall have a number of votes equal to
the average number of supported members at the community during
the twelve months previous, plus a number equal to the total
twelve month average supported membership of all the Federation
communities divided by the number of communities.  Symbolically
the following equation could be used to calculate votes:

Va = Ma + TM / N,

where

Va = the number of votes available to community "a";

Ma = the average number of supported members of community "a"
during the preceding twelve months;

TM = the average number of supported members of all Federation
communities during the preceding twelve months; and

N = the number of Federation communities

@item
2) Votes may be cast only by delegates or their proxies.

@item
3) Where a community is represented by two or more delegates that
community's votes will be divided evenly among its delegates.
@end itemize

@item
c.  Decisions made in assembled meetings

@itemize @asis
@item
1) Absenteee and proxy votes are allowed.

@item
2) A majority greater than 1/2 of the votes cast is necessary for
decisions to be made, except for proposed amendments to this
constitution, accepting communities into the Federation, and
expelling communities from the Federation, all of which require
at least 3/5 of the votes cast.
@end itemize

@item
d.  Decisions made by non-assembled means

@itemize @asis
@item
1) Absentee and proxy votes are allowed.

@item
2) Concensus is required for decisions to be made.
@end itemize
@end itemize

@item
3.  Duties of the Assembly

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Accepting communities into the Federation, and establishing a
procedure for doing so.

@item
b.  Expelling communities from the Federation, and establishing a
procedure for doing so.

@item
c.  Allocating Federation resources.

@item
d.  Accepting donations, investigating and approving loans, and
otherwise arranging financing for the activities of the
Federation.

@item
e.  Appointing and recalling officers and committees.

@item
f.  Appointing, recalling, and replacing the members of the
Executive Committee; defining the Executive Committees's
authority, and; amending the Executive Committee's decisions as
necessary.

@item
g.  Proposing levels and structures of money and labor taxation
of members communities.

@item
h.  Setting dates and sites for assemblies.

@item
i.  Proposing amendments to this constitution.

@item
j.  Recording and maintaining as a permanent public record
information about all its decisions and transactions

@itemize @asis
@item
1) A written summary of decisions and responsibilities will be
disseminated to the member communities within 72 hours of the
close of the assembly, or, in the case of non-assembled
decisions, within 72 hours of when the decision is made.

@item
2) A full set of assembly minutes, including all decisions and
votes and as much pertinent discussion as possible will be
disseminated to the member communities within eight weeks after
the assembly.
@end itemize
@end itemize
@end itemize

B. Executive Committee

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  Among its duties, the Executive Committee is expected to:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Oversee the implementation of Assembly decisions and the
progress of assigned projects, coordinating and trouble-shooting
as necessary.

@item
b.  Make between-assembly decisions for the Assembly where there
is need and authrority to do so.

@item
c.  Facilitate non-assembled decision-making.

@item
d.  Coordinate the dissemination of information relevant to the
Federation communities between assemblies.

@item
e.  Prepare tentative agendas for assemblies.

@item
f.  Record and maintain as a permanent public record information
about its decisions and transactions.  A report on Executive
Committee decisions will be made to the Assembly at the
subsequent assembly.
@end itemize

@item
2.  It is to be composed of at least three members.

@item
3.  Terms of office

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  For the three positions mandated by this constitution the
terms of office will be for two years, with one beginning March 1
of odd years, one beginning November 1 of odd years, and one
beginning July 1 of even years.

@item
b.  Terms for any additional members of the Executive Comittee
shall be determined by the Assembly.

@item
c.  No individual can serve more than two consecutive terms.
@end itemize
@end itemize

C.  Member Commities

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  By approval of 3/5 of the member communities, they ahve the
power to:

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  Call an assembly of the Assembly.

@item
b.  Ratify levels and structures of taxation as proposed by the
Assembly.

@item
c.  Ratify proposals by the Assembly for amendment to this
constitution.
@end itemize

@item
2.  Member communities have control over the selection of their
delegates, in accordance with section A.1.a. of this article.
@end itemize

Article V. Amendments

This constitution can be amended by a proposal requiring a 3/5
vote in an assembled meeting and a subsequent ratification by 3/5
of the member communities.

@node Political Activity, Pets, Federation, Top
@unnumbered Political Activity

@suindex Anti-nuclear movement
@suindex Political activity
@suindex Movement, anti-nuclear
@suindex Nukes
@suindex Weapons, nuclear
@suindex Power, nuclear
[East Wind support of Anti-Nuclear movement, Community Meeting,
21 Oct 79]

East Wind supports the Anti-Nuke (nuke fission generation of
electric power for the electric grid system and any nuclear
weapons) movement.  Any full member of East Wind has approval to
represent East Wind while attending anti-nuclear demonstrations,
rallies, or gatherings provided that both the behavior of the
East Wind member and the nature of the gathering itself are non-
violent.  The member may engage in civil disobedience (with prior
consent of the Community) in support of the anti-nuke movement. 
This does not imply financial support by East Wind.

@node Pets, Personal Shipping, Political Activity, Top
@unnumbered Pets

@suindex Pets
[Pets Manager is appointed by Social Manager, @xref{Social Manager}.]

[Pets Managership (policy?), Social Committee (?), 7 Dec 83]

This managership is now officially a part of House Branch.

@suindex Dogs
@suindex Cats
[Pets, Community Meeting, 2 Nov 88]

In order to reduce discouragement of new members who will not
join East Wind if they cannot bring their pets and to ensure
proper pet care the following pets policy proposal is made by
Peggy.

I.  Raise pets quota to 7 dogs and 12 cats except that potential
members may bring dogs or cats that they are strongly attached to
even if it causes the quota to be exceeded.

II.  All new dogs and cats must be approved by [Pets Proposal,
Community Meeting, 11 Feb 89] the Board.  [Pets, 88]

III.  All new dogs or cats must be neutered and have their
immunizations up to date before they are brought to East Wind. 
Stray dogs and cats must be neutered within 30 days if they are
to be allowed to stay.

IV.  The current East Wind pets namely Bob, Peaches, and Shanti
(dogs) and Sunset, Max, Patches and Tiger (cats) will be taken
care of by the Pet Meta.

V.  A primary be designated and be responsible for the care and
discipline of each new pet at the least making sure that:

@itemize @asis
@item
1.  The pet is fed and adequately housed;

@item
2.  The pet receives adequate grooming and medical care;

@item
3.  The pet is disciplined/trained to integrate into the
community i.e. it is generally agreed that it is not acceptable
for;

@itemize @asis
@item
a.  dogs to hunt in packs or bark excessively;

@item
b.  cats to be on food surfaces;

@item
c.  animals to be in our public indoor spaces during flea season
except Max and Sunset [See also Ban Pets from Hammocks Shop, 27 Oct
90];

@item
d.  animals to destroy property;

@item
e.  animals to bite or display aggressive behavior toward others.
@end itemize

@item
4.  the pet is immediately removed from the community if it bites
or consistently displays aggressive behavior towards others.
@end itemize

VI.  The Pets Manager will be a budget and resource person who,
additionally, willl act as a liaison between pet primaries and
the community and will facilitate resolution of any pets problem
that may arise.

@suindex Recruitment, and pets
VII.  Recruitment will send a copy of this policy to any
potential member who insists on bringing a pet.

@suindex Hammock shop, and pets
@suindex Offices, and pets
[Ban Pets from Hammocks Shop, Community Meeting, 27 Oct 90]

Ban cats and dogs from hammocks shop and offices, and areas
freely accessible from those locations.

@node Personal Shipping, Ranch, Pets, Top
@unnumbered Personal Shipping

@suindex Personal shipping allowance
@suindex Shipping, personal allowance
[Shipping Allowance Policy, Board, 21 Feb 89]

All members are allowed to ship up to 25 pounds per year at no
charge by the least expensive reasonable means available,
anywhere in the world.

When the least expensive means are not satisfactory to the member
co may ship by a more expensive way and pay the difference
between the two.

A record of shipping allowance activity should be kept in the
shipping office and with the mail records.  Shipping and mail
workers should be aware of this policy and make entries on to the
record sheets.  A record should also be kept of additional
charges that exceed a memeber's shipping allowance and reported
to accounting once a month.

The shipping manager (or worker) and the mail workers may make
exceptions to this policy when it seems prudent to do so.  For
example, if the shipping worker is pressed for time and has a
choice of either spending ten minutes figuring out how to deal
with a personal shipping request on the one hand or getting an
order out on time then co doesn't need to follow the letter of
this policy.  Generally speaking exceptions may be made when to
do otherwise would cost the commune extra expense in either money
or labor; or in instances that would cause the member wishing to
have something shipping undue hassles.

Shipping and mail workers should make information available to
members relating to how their parcels will be shipped.

@node Ranch, Index, Personal Shipping, Top
@unnumbered Ranch

@suindex Ranch
@suindex Rare livestock
@suindex Rare breeds
@suindex Minor breeds
[Buy Rare Livestock, Community Meeting, 2 Jun 90]

East Wind will establish a livestock program supporting rare or
minor breeds, by using funds received from the sale of the beef
herd.  The initial step would include the purchase of 2 or 3
Ayrshire cows.

@node Index, Subject Index, Ranch, Top
@unnumbered Index by Date

Returning Member Policy, date unknown, @xref{Inviting Visitors}

Educational Leave, date unknown, @xref{Leaves}

About Trading Rooms (policy), date unknown, @xref{Housing}

Children's Board Guidelines, 16 May 77, @xref{Child Board}

Bylaws, 1978, @xref{Bylaws}

Child Guests, 4 Jun 78, @xref{Children and Membership}

Democracy Government, 11 Jun 78, Superceded by Revision of
Democracy Government, 19 Apr 86

Proxies, 18 Jun 78, Superceded by Revision of Democracy
Government, 19 Apr 86

Meeting Environment, 12 Nov 78, Repealed by Meeting Seating
Arrangements, 5 Aug 79

Member Vehicles, 6 May 79, @xref{Member Vehicles}

Three Weeks in the Hole, 15 Jul 79, @xref{Fair Share}.

Meeting Seating Arrangements, 5 Aug 79, Abolishes, not creates,
legislation.

East Wind Support of Anti-Nuclear Movement, 21 Oct 79,
@xref{Political Activity}

Children and meat, about Jan 80, @xref{Primaries and Parents}

14 Year-old proposal, About 1980, One-time decision.

Warning if in hole, 20 Jan 80, @xref{Fair Share}.

Recruitment, 9 Mar 80, One-time decision.

Chair Producers, 17 Mar 80, Irrelevant now that we're out of the
chair business.

Fix Door between Enterprise and Galileo, 23 Mar 80, One-time
decision.

Roach Pruf, 23 Mar 80, One-time decision.

Finish Pumphouse, 23 Mar 80, One-time decision.

Make 75 more rockers, 30 Mar 80, One-time decision.

6 week Unit exemption for Dairy Manager, 30 Mar 80, One-time
decision.

$30 for TV Tubes, 30 Mar 80, One-time decision.

Grounds Plan, 30 Mar 80, One-time decision.

Anarres III, 6 Apr 80, One-time decision (never implemented).

Child decision making, 8 Apr 80, @xref{Primaries and Parents}

Public Space in Anarres II, 13 Apr 80, One-time decision.

Research Computer Industry, 13 Apr 80, One-time decision.

Survey Rod, 13 Apr 80, One-time decision.

Host Hike-a-nation, 20 Apr 80, One-time decision.

Cut Triangle Grass, 20 Apr 80, One-time decision.

$35 to look at peanut butter equipment, 20 Apr 80, One-time
decision.

Basketball Court, 20 Apr 80, One-time decision.

Land Day, 21 Apr 80, One-time decision.

Marsha Unit Exemption, 27 Apr 80, One-time decision.

Ms Magazine Ads, 11 May 80, One-time decision.

Call Visitors, 11 May 80, Expired.

Peanut Butter Equipment, 13 May 80, One-time decision.

Get into Peanut Butter, 21 May 80, One-time decision.

Money for Kibbutz Scholarship Program, 25 May 80, One-time
decision

Lawyer's fees re sewage, 25 May 80, One-time decision.

$25 for McGovern, 1 Jun 80, One-time decision.

$20 for paint, 8 Jun 80, One-time decision.

$45 for tractor umbrella, 8 Jun 80, One-time decision.

Walk-in Freezer, 8 Jun 80, One-time decision.

Endorse Anti-nuke referendum, 8 Jun 80, One-time decision.

Steph--Death in Family, 18 Jan 80, One-time decision.

Peanut Butter Mil, 1 Jun 80, One-time decision.

Give hammock to neighbors, 23 Jun 80, One-time decision.

$3000 for Hay Barn, 23 Jun 80, One-time decision.

Peanut Butter Equipment, 4 Jul 80, One-time decision.

Build Barn, 6 Jul 80, One-time decision.

$25 for UCS, 6 Jul 80, One-time decision.

Recruitment Manager, 13 Jul 80, @xref{Recruitment Material}

Privately Owned Vehicles at East Wind, 30 Jul 80, @xref{Member
Vehicles}

Doze Peanut Butter Site, 4 Aug 80 (?), One-time decision.

NWA donation, 17 Aug 80, One-time decision.

Deer Control, 17 Aug 80, Superceded by Hunting, 7 Nov 81

Nut and Seed Purchasing, 22 Aug 80, Expired.

Hook's Legal, 24 Aug 80, One-time decision.

Special leave for Dee, 28 Sep 80, One-time decision.

Move Road, 28 Sep 80, One-time decision.

Septic Tank and drain field, 28 Sep 80, One-time decision.

Grant Sara her Vacation Money one month early, 1 Oct 80, One-time
decision.

Loans for Peanut Butter, 3 Oct 80, One-time decision.

Odd Job Budget, 5 Oct 80, One-time decision.

Finish Showerhouse, 5 Oct 80, One-time decision.

Additional Add List, 5 Oct 80, One-time decision.

Money Budget Cut, 12 Oct 80, One-time decision.

Waiting List, 13 Oct 80, One-time decision.

Money Budget cuts, 16 Oct 80, One-time decision.

Hunting, 1 Dec 80, Superceded by Hunting, 7 Nov 81

$360 to Enterprise Solar, 11 Jan 81, One-time decision.

Bill's Arm, 25 Jan 81, One-time decision.

Lee's Mototool, 25 Jan 81, One-time decision.

5 hrs/week for health, 25 Jan 81, One-time decision.

Stairs and Ladders, 25 Jan 81, One-time decision.

100 hours to Ag, 1 Feb 81, One-time decision.

Stairs and Ladders, 1 Feb 81, One-time decision.

Typewriter Repair, 9 Feb 81, One-time decision.

Pyrethrius on cattle, 9 Feb 81, One-time decision.

$50 for work party, 15 Feb 81, One-time decision.

Shoot blackbirds, 15 Feb 81, Superceded by Hunting, 7 Nov 81

Change Add List, 22 Feb 81, One-time decision.

Loan to Loreli, 22 Feb 81, One-time decision.

Loan Steph $80, 25 Feb 81, One-time decision.

Loan Loreli travel money, 8 Mar 81, One-time decision.

Hours to Accounting, 8 Mar 81, One-time decision.

New Music Room Speakers, 15 Mar 81, One-time decision.

$100 to Pot Shop School, 15 Mar 81, One-time decision.

Equinox, 15 Mar 81, One-time decision.

Change Labor week and community meeting day, 26 Mar 81,
@xref{Recording Done Time} and @xref{Meetings}.

Hours for Amp Research, 29 Mar 81, One-time decision.

Donate Products to Homesteaders Exchange, 29 Mar 81, One-time
decision.

Restructure Discretionary Funds, 5 Apr 81, Superceded by Personal
Expenses, 9 Mar 85

Visitors under Legal Age, 16 May 81, @xref{Children and
Membership}

Vacation money at 3 and 6 months as well as one year, 6 Jun 81,
Superceded by Personal Expenses, 9 Mar 85.

Computer, 6 Jun 81, One-time decision.

Safety training, 6 Jun 81, One-time decision.

Host MORE co-op meeting, 6 Jun 81, One-time decision.

Incorporate School, 6 Jun 81, One-time decision.

Membership Vote for Teenagers, 13 Jun 81, @xref{Child Votes}

Money for rejoining NOW, 13 Jun 81, One-time decision.

Canteen under Industry, 20 Jun 81, One-time decision.

Cheese Cooler, 20 Jun 81, One-time decision.

Host Mid-Ozark Reliance Effort (MORE), 20 Jun 81, One-time
decision.

Buy and Sell, 1 Aug 81, One-time decision.

Change in Voting Procedure (policy), 20 Aug 81, @xref{Membership
Voting}

Material Prices, 17 Oct 81, One-time decision.

Hunting, 7 Nov 81, @xref{Hunting}

Weatherize School, 21 Nov 81, One-time decision.

Buy Welder, 21 Nov 81, One-time decision.

Sunday Projects Over Quota (SPOQ), 21 Nov 81, One-time decision.

Host a number of meetings, 19 Dec 81, One-time decision.

Buy Collectors for Nuthouse, 19 Dec 81, One-time decision.

Approve SPOQ Project, 19 Dec 81, One-time decision.

Trusterty Money, 19 Dec 81, One-time decision.

Space-use for D&D, 19 Dec 81, Proposal tells planners to come up
with space-use proposal which we don't have a copy of.

SCHLEP, Late 81 (?), Expired.

Host Mother OACC Meeting, 30 Jan 82, One-time decision.

Rockbottom back steps, 30 Jan 82, One-time decision.

Industrial Manager can set up voluntary crews, 23 Jan 82,
industrial manager abolished prior to WIMP, 27 Apr 83

Mandatory Rotation, 23 Jan 82, superceded by Rotation of
managerships and committees, 24 Sep 83

Approve SPOQ Project, 30 Jan 82, One-time decision.

Ratify Federation Tax, 30 Jan 82, @xref{Federation}

Abolish Mandatory Units, 30 Jan 82, Abolishes, not creates,
legislation.

Fix Hobart Mixer, 6 Feb 82, One-time decision.

Use Bill Bob's Van, 6 Feb 82, One-time decision.

Approve SPOQ Projects, 6 Feb 82, One-time decision.

Hours for Anarres III estimate, 13 Feb 82, One-time decision.

Approve SPOQ Project, 13 Feb 82, One-time decision.

Lowered Quota for 51 and over, 13 Feb 82, Superceded by Lower

Quota for Older Members, 3 May 84

P and D options passed, 13 Feb 82, One-time decision.

Don't freeze office or recruitment, 13 Feb 82, One-time decision.

Family Emergency, 27 Feb 82.  Superceded by Social Emergency
Leave Policy, 1 Apr 91.

Material Handling, 6 Mar 82, One-time decision.

Kitchen Utensils, 6 Mar 82, One-time decision.

Approve SPOQ Projects, 13 Mar 82, One-time decision.

Accept Kate's Dawg, 13 Mar 82, One-time decision.

Money to N.O.W., 13 Mar 82, One-time decision.

Units for credit, 27 Mar 82, Units have been dropped (by hammocks
manager) due to disuse.

Post Meetings, 27 Mar 82, @xref{Meetings}

Unfreeze Rope Products Marketing Budget, 10 Apr 82, One-time
decision.

SCHLEP money for canoes, 8 May 82, One-time decision.

Approve SPOQ Projects, 8 May 82, One-time decision.

Unfreeze SPOQ, 8 May 82, Superceded by Terminate SPOQ, 12 Jun 82.

Money for trusterty, 15 May 82, One-time decision.

Repair Pumpkin, 15 May 82, One-time decision.

Votes for child members, 15 May 82, Superceded by Children's
Suffrage, 7 Jan 89.

Child Board sets quota for children, 15 May 82, @xref{Child
Labor}

Becoming Adult Member, 15 May 82, @xref{Child Membership}

Sabbatical, 22 May 82, Superceded by Personal Affairs Leave
Policy, 21 May 85.

Adjust money budgets, 22 May 82, One-time decision.

Insurance, 5 Jun 82, One-time decision.

SPOQ for disarmament, 5 Jun 82, One-time decision.

Pay for Dev's Abortion, 5 Jun 82, One-time decision.

Proxies for sick, 5 Jun 82, Superceded by Revision of Democracy

Government, 19 Apr 86

Terminate SPOQ, 12 Jun 82, Superceded by Sunday Projects off-the-
system (SPOTS), 8 Dec 84

Storage trailer, 12 Jun 82, One-time decision.

Early sabbatical for Ash, 10 Jul 82, One-time decision.

Buy fans, 10 Jul 82, One-time decision.

Ash and Connie's Student Loans, 10 Jul 82, One-time decision.

Buy jars by truckload, 17 Jul 82, One-time decision.

Nut and Seed Products Organization, 24 Jul 82, @xref{Nutbutter
Organization}

Money for transportation to Men's Festival, 24 Jul 82, One-time
decision.

Selling nutbutter for less than full price or free, 21 Aug 82,
@xref{Nutbutter Sales}

Rockbottom back steps, 21 Aug 82, One-time decision.

Allocate Sabatical money, 21 Aug 82, One-time decision.

Adjust Labor budget for accounting, 21 Aug 82, One-time decision.

Let Malon earn OWV while on farm, 4 Sep 82, One-time decision.

Fix Jaguar's engine on the farm, 4 Sep 82, One-time decision.

Adjust Labor Budgets, 11 Sep 82, One-time decision.

Allow Casey early sabbatical, 18 Sep 82, One-time decision.

Hours and money for Malon to speak to Co-op Bank, 18 Sep 82, One-
time decision.

Let Peter sign Tecumseh Fire Department Agreement, 18 Sep 82,
One-time decision.

Transition to Waiting List, 2 Oct 82, Superceded by Housing and
Membership Limit Guidelines, 16 Mar 86.

Lower Quota, 2 Oct 82, Superceded by Conditions for Lower Quota,
14 Apr 90.

Waiting List, 9 Oct 82, Superceded by Housing and Membership
Limit Guidelines, 16 Mar 86.

Visitors in April, 16 Oct 82 (?), One-time decision.

Jamie's loan, 16 Oct 82 (?), One-time decision.

Playground fund, 16 Oct 82 (?), One-time decision.

Housing Committee, 23 Oct 82, One-time decision.

Pay for Eve's Chiropracter visits, 23 Oct 82, One-time decision.

Election of Planners, 6 Nov 82, Superceded by Administrative
Reorganization, 12 Nov 88

Foopin is part of Ag, 6 Nov 82, Superceded by WIMP, 27 Apr 83

Work on Jessie's Shelter, 6 Nov 82, One-time decision.

Coat Hooks in Rockbottom, 13 Nov 82, One-time decision.

Give Connie early sabbatical time, 13 Nov 82, One-time decision.

New Washing machine, 13 Nov 82, One-time decision.

Pay Medical bills for Rawhide, 13 Nov 82, One-time decision.

$5 to Communities Magazine, 13 Nov 82, One-time decision.

Recruitment money, 27 Nov 82, One-time decision.

Waiving waiting list, 27 Nov 82, Superceded by Housing and
Membership Limit Guidelines, 19 Apr 86.

Add/cut list, 4 Dec 82, One-time decision.

New compressor for foopin cooler, 4 Dec 82, One-time decision.

Raise Membership Ceiling to 59, 25 Dec 82, Superceded by Housing
and Membership Limit Guidelines, 19 Apr 86.

Interim Plan (money and 47 quota), 25 Dec 82, One-time decision.
Playground site, 22 Jan 83, One-time decision.

Sanitations [some money and labor for a few small projects], 22
Jan 83, One-time decision.

Special leave for Lu Mei, 29 Jan 83, One-time decision.

Election of Planners, Feb 83, Superceded by Administrative
Reorganization, 12 Nov 88

Recruitment hours, 5 Feb 83, One-time decision.

Sanitation [some money and labor for a few small projects], 5 Feb
83, One-time decision.

Lower membership ceiling from 59 to 55, 19 Feb 83, One-time
decision.

Add list, 24 Feb 83, One-time decision.

Give Bill money to pick up Zohar in St. Louis, 5 Mar 83, One-time
decision.

Let Micky earn money in sandals, 12 Mar 83, One-time decision.

Accept new dog, 12 Mar 83, One-time decision.

Let trusterty manager and planners adjust membership ceiling up
to 59, 12 Mar 83, Superceded by Housing and Membership Limit
Guidelines, 19 Apr 86.

Set Membership Ceiling for April, 12 Mar 83, Expired.

Adjust budgets, 9 Apr 83, One-time decision.

Steve's summons, 9 Apr 83, One-time decision.

Add/Cut List, 16 Apr 83, One-time decision.

Host NDCF Meeting, 23 Apr 83, One-time decision.

Selling Assets and Applying Money where it's needed, 10 Dec 83,
@xref{Assets}

Annual Plan Correction, 7 May 83, One-time decision.

Add List Addition, 14 May 83, One-time decision.

Ratify Federation Constitution, 14 May 83, @xref{Federation}

Montessori Equipment and child bathing sink, 14 May 83, One-time
decision.

Move medical Committee from under Social committee to under
Services Committee, 3 Jun 83, Superceded by Services under Social
Committee, 25 Jun 83

Membership Committee be an elected position rather than appointed
by the social committee, 3 Jun 83, Superceded by Population
committee, 24 Sep 83.

Re-definition of provisional member leaves, 8 Jun 83,
@xref{Leaves}

Buy Meg's Car, 11 Jun 83, One-time decision.

Community allocated use of "bathroom" space in shipping area to
industry, 25 Jun 83, One-time decision.

Allocated 8 hrs off/member on Thanksgiving to take the form of
lowered quota for the week, 25 Jun 83, One-time decision.
Services under Social Committee, 25 Jun 83, @xref{Organizational
Chart}.

Loan money to Lu Mei, 2 Jul 83, One-time decision.
Cut down tree that's dying across from visitor hut, 3 Jun 83,
One-time decision.

Let Dick use part of Member Loan, 9 Jul 83, One-time decision.

Grant leave to Allen and Lu Mei, 9 Jul 83, One-time decision.
45 Quota, 9 Jul 83, Superceded by Conditions for Lower Quota, 14
Apr 90.

Allow Cole and Debbie to use Member Loan on Family Emergency
Leave, 23 Jul 83, One-time decision.

Lock on Gas Tank, 23 Jul 83, @xref{Garage}

Flea Spray, 23 Jul 83, Superceded by Restrictions on Pesticides,
10 Feb 90

6 month review, 27 Jul 83, One-time decision.

Refinance most of our loans with the Southern Cooperative
Development Fund, 2 Aug 83, One-time decision.

Reverse decision for 45 quota, 6 Aug 83, Superceded by Conditions
for Lower Quota, 14 Apr 90.

Free OWV for video cassette player, 6 Aug 83, One-time decision.

Accept Cole's two children, 6 Aug 83 (or 8 Aug 83?), One-time
decision.

Labor Review, 13 Aug 83, Expired.

Canteen Sink and Playground, 13 Aug 83, One-time decision.

Appeal decision not to subsidize coffee, 20 Aug 83, One-time
decision.

Business Expense Budgets 6 month review, 18 Aug 83, One-time
decision.

Video Discs and Films, 18 Aug 83, @xref{Video Discs and Films}

Approve Doug receiving a gift of a computer, 27 Aug 83, One-time
decision.

Restaurant Meals, 10 Sep 83, Superceded by New Policy on
Restaurant Meals, 25 Feb 86

Raise Hammocks hours and Implement Cut List, 10 Sep 83, One-time
decision.

Population committee, 24 Sep 83 [There is a typo in some records
listing this as 24 Sep 88], Superceded by Administrative
Reorganization, 12 Nov 88.

Passed WIMP elections, manager review and rotation of managers,
24 Sep 83 [There is a typo in some records listing this as 24 Sep
88], @xref{WIMP Elections and Managerial Review}.

1983 WIMP System Labor Budget Proposal, 24 Sep 83 [There is a
typo in some records listing this as 24 Sep 88], One-time
decision.

Approve Higher Quota, 17 Sep 83, Superceded by Conditions for
lower quota, 14 Apr 90.

Kitchen Improvement Project, 24 Sep 83, One-time decision.

Nutbutter Member Sales Policy, Oct 83, @xref{Nutbutter Sales}

Nutbutter Seconds Sales Policy, Oct 83, @xref{Nutbutter Sales}
Transition to WIMP, 4 Oct 83, Expired.

Put in Kid Sink, 15 Oct 83, One-time decision.

Trip to Little Rock to bid on land (govt), 22 Oct 83, One-time
decision.

Deal with Steve's Court/Jail Costs, 29 Oct 83, One-time decision.

Pandora's Box, 19 Nov 83, Superceded by Locked Tool Box, 13 Jul
85.

Hunting Managership (policy), 4 Dec 83, @xref{Hunting}

Minor Change to Joint Hammocks Agreement, 6 Dec 83, Superceded by

Ratify Joint Hammocks Agreement, 3 Feb 90.

Dairy Shelter, 6 Dec 83, One-time decision.

Pets Managership, 7 Dec 83, Superceded by Administrative
Reorganization, 12 Nov 88 (which put Pets Manager under Social
Manager).

Social Emergency Fund, 13 Dec 83.  Superceded by Social Emergency
Leave Policy, 1 Apr 91.

Quality of Life Committee, 17 Dec 83, Superceded by
Administrative Reorganization, 12 Nov 88.

Allow Lock on Pumphouse, 7 Jan 84, One-time decision.

Lower Quota to 49 hours/member/week, 7 Jan 84, Superceded by
Conditions for Lower Quota, 14 Apr 90.

Week for donating rope products to help Ivy replace stolen items,
21 Jan 84, One-time decision.

Everyone responsible for their HTA shift, 21 Jan 84, @xref{HTA}

Person Days, 4 Feb 84, @xref{Person Days}

Deadbolt Lock to be placed on door of truck stop, 4 Feb 84, One-
time decision.

Allow Business Incentive Programs, 4 Feb 84, One-time decision.

Lock on Far South East Shelter, 25 Feb 84, One-time decision.

Member Debt Policy, 5 Apr 84, @xref{Money}

Land Use Policy, 11 May 84, Superceded by Land Use Policy, Feb 91

On Education Leaves, 10 May 84, @xref{Leaves}

Lower Quota for Older Members, 19 May 84, Superceded by Older
Persons Quota, 16 Dec 89

Build Housing [Greyhaven] This Year, 19 May 84, One-time
decision.

'84 Pregnancies, 26 May 84, One-time decision.

Ama's Bus, 26 May 84, One-time decision.

Residence '84 [Greyhaven] Site and Access Road, 28 May 84, One-
time decision.

Rough Parameters of the New Residence [Greyhaven], 7 Jul 84, One-
time decision.

Montessouri Equipment, 14 Jul 84, One-time decision.

Malathion, 28 Jul 84, Superceded by Restrictions on Pesticides,
10 Feb 90

Building Fund, 28 Jul 84, @xref{Building Fund}

Loans made by Treasurer, 31 Jul 84, @xref{Money}

Domestic Budgets for the Rest of This Year, 1 Sep 84, One-time
decision.

Approve Changes to the Hammocks Agreement, 1 Sep 84, Superceded
by Ratify Joint Hammocks Agreement, 3 Feb 90.

Waive rules for new residence [Greyhaven] Floor plan decision, 1
Sep 84, Expired.

Features of Common Space in the new small residence building
[Greyhaven], 8 Sep 84, One-time decision.

Floorplan proposal for 1985 residence [Greyhaven], 8 Sep 84, One-
time decision.

Treasurer Trainee, 22 Sep 84, Expired.

Population Committee policy on Drop-ins, 18 Oct 84,
@xref{Inviting Visitors}

Ranch Branch, 3 Nov 84, @xref{Organizational Chart}

Sunday Projects off-the-system (SPOTS), 8 Dec 84, repealed by
Raise DF's, 6 Jan 90

Change Southern Cooperative Development Fund loan terms, 8 Dec
84, One-time decision.

Dairy Fund, 11 Dec 84 [erroneously labelled "12-11-85" on some
copies], @xref{Dairy Fund}.

Buy typewriter, 19 Jan 85, One-time decision.

Replace tractor, 2 Feb 85, One-time decision.

Personal Expenses, 9 Mar 85, @xref{DFs}, Partially superceded by
Raise DF's, 6 Jan 90

Cottage [Greyhaven] parameters, 2 Mar 85, One-time decision.

Branch Amenities Budgets, 5 Mar 85, Made irrelevant by Eliminate
Labor Budgets, 22 Jul 89

Small Projects, 12 Mar 85, As far as I know this budget no longer
exists.

Heating for Greyhaven and Rockbottom, 16 Mar 85, One-time
decision.

Accept $50 earmarked gift, 16 Mar 85, One-time decision.

Personal Affairs Leave Policy, 21 May 85, @xref{Leaves}

Build Residence [Greyhaven], 1 Jun 85, One-time decision.

Keep the dog, 8 Jun 85, One-time decision.

Ask Steve to stop violating economic agreements, 13 Jul 85, One-
time decision.

Locked Tool Box, 13 Jul 85, @xref{Garage}

Flea Poison in Annares, 17 Aug 85, Superceded by Restrictions on
Pesticides, 10 Feb 90

Second Alternate Provisional Member Voting System, 17 Aug 85,
@xref{Membership Voting}

Auto Usage Policy, 8 Sep 85, @xref{Auto Usage}

Leadership and the Administrative Structure, 14 Sep 85,

Superceded by Administrative Reorganization, 12 Nov 88.

Ratify Joint Hammocks Agreement, 21 Sep 85, Superceded by Ratify
Joint Hammocks Agreement, 3 Feb 90

Proposed Changes in HTA Credit System, 28 Dec 85, @xref{HTA}

Policy for claiming hours on the Medical done-time-sheet, 13 Jan
86, @xref{Medical Hours}

Requiring Social Security Numbers From all Members, 1 Feb 86,
@xref{Social Security Numbers}

Proposed Weeds and Knots Criteria, 4 Feb 86.  Weeds and Knots no
longer exists (not sure how this decision was made).

TAJ's social contract, 8 Feb 86, One-time decision.

Proposed Guest Policy, 15 Feb 86, Superceded by Omnibus Guest
Policy, 7 Jan 91

Lick Creek Valley Membership Fire Department, 22 Feb 86, One-time
decision.

Statement of intent to build Children's Building, 1 Mar 86, One-
time decision.

New Policy on Restaurant Meals, 25 Feb 86, @xref{Money}

A Caring Society, 8 Mar 86, @xref{Social General}

Design Children's Building for 20 children, 11 Mar 86, One-time
decision.

New Mill Proposal, 15 Mar 86, One-time decision.

Sunnyside Small Living Group, 22 Mar 86, @xref{Housing}

Revision of Democracy Government, 19 Apr 86, @xref{Democracy}

Preliminary PEACH agreement, 17 May 86, Superceded by PEACH
Proposal, 14 May 88

Housing and Membership Limit Guidelines, 19 Apr 86, @xref{Limits}

Bradley and Carlos's Social Security Numbers, 19 Mar 86, One-time
decision.

Guidelines and criteria for member requested long term Odd Jobs
and Outside Work, 4 Jul 86, @xref{Odd jobs and Outside Work}

Site of the new Children's Building, 26 Apr 86, One-time
decision.

Keep Sunset the cat, 26 Apr 86, One-time decision.

Economic Agreements, Jun 86 Superceded by Economic Agreements,
Apr 90

Floor plan, specifications, price tag, and energy plan for the
new Children's House, 14 Jun 86, One-time Decision.

Twin Oaks/East Wind Hammocks Agreement, 25 Jun 86.  Superceded by
Ratify Joint Hammocks Agreement, 3 Feb 90.

Increase Amount of loan from $203,000 to $220,000, 28 Jun 86,
One-time decision.

Children's Building Design, 2 Aug 86, One-time decision.

Spraying for Roaches, 16 Aug 86, Superceded by Restrictions on
Pesticides, 10 Feb 90.

Buy Storage Shed to put near Lilliput, 16 Aug 86, One-time
decision.

Spend $5000 on Hiring contractor for Lilliput, 16 Aug 86, One-
time decision.

Child Support Guidelines (policy), 20 Aug 86, @xref{Child Support}

Statement to Twin Oaks regarding contracting for Hammocks, 13 Sep
86, Superceded by Ratify Joint Hammocks Agreement, 3 Feb 90.

May Elections, 13 Sep 86, @xref{WIMP Elections and Managerial Review}

Give $100 to Gainsville Library, 4 Oct 86, One-time decision.

Allocate $35,000 to Children's Building, 1 Oct 86, One-time
decision.

Rockbottom chair proposal, 1 Nov 86, One-time decision.

Raise Labor Tax to 10x Average working members from 8x, 28 Nov
86, @xref{Federation}

Purchase Ford Rangers, 9 Dec 86, One-time decision.

Purchase used bus for space for musicians, 20 Dec 86, One-time
decision.

Child meta's definitions, Jan 87, Superceded by Meta program
definitions, 2 Apr 92.

Minimum Labor balance, 8 Jan 87, @xref{Fair Share}

Accept Maria the cat to community, 10 Jan 87, One-time decision.

Medical Care for the Children, 21 Jan 87, @xref{Children
Medical}.

New Permanent Worker Evaluation and Acceptance, Feb 87,
@xref{Children Permanent Workers}.

Waive money and property rules for Minet, 14 Feb 87, One-time
decision.

Cris' residence resolution, 25 Feb 87, One-time decision.

Pregnancy and Parents of Newborns, Mar 87, @xref{Pregnancy}.

Hire Facilitator, 10 Mar 87, One-time decision.

Transition Legislation, also known as Proposed Changes to the
Economic Agreements, 21 Mar 87, @xref{Work Required}.

Proposed Change to Membership Voting System, 4 Apr 87
@xref{Membership Voting}

Appeal of Hammocks branch decision to allow 10 units within quota
per member per week, 25 Apr 87, Units have been dropped (by
hammocks manager) due to disuse.

Details on hiring Facilitator, 9 May 87, One-time decision.

Credit Community Meeting Attendance, 14 May 87, Superceded by
Labor Credits for Community Meeting, 23 Jan 88

Appeal Jean's Membership Vote, 3 Jun 87, One-time decision.

Earned Leaving Fund, 27 Jun 87, superceded by Leaving Fund
Program, 30 Jan 88.

Bid $4000 at auction of Costello's House, 8 Jul 87, One-time
decision.

Use pesticide in outhouses, 30 Jul 87, Superceded by Restrictions
on Pesticides, 10 Feb 90.

Greyhaven to be removed from matrix, 1 Aug 87, One-time decision.

Summerhill will be called Lilliput, 8 Aug 87, One-time decision.

Economic Agreement Change, 22 Aug 87, @xref{Economic Agreements}.
Annares boiler project, 5 Dec 87, One-time decision.

Voting Procedures for Accepting Full Members, 9 Jan 88,
@xref{Membership Voting}

Labor credits for community meetings, 23 Jan 88, Superceded by
Credit for Meetings, 12 Jan 91.

Leaving Fund Program, 30 Jan 88, Suspended by Raise DF's, 6 Jan
90

Auto Usage Visitor/Member Transportation, 22 Feb 88, Superceded by Auto
Usage Visitor/Member Transportation, 4 Nov 89.

PSC Limit, 5 Mar 88, @xref{PSCs}

Skills Training Program, 19 Mar 88, No money currently budgetted
to carry this out (and partially repealed by Eliminate Labor
Budgets, 22 Jul 89).

PEACH Proposal, 14 May 88, @xref{PEACH}

Mobile Residences Sites, 28 May 88, @xref{Mobile Residences
Sites}

Personal Property (change to Economic Agreements), also known as
Change to Economic Agreements -- personal property, 4 Jun 88,
@xref{Personal Property}

East Wind Nut Butters Revised Business Strategy, 18 Jun 88 (also
known as "reorganization" or "restructuring" of nutbutter). 
@xref{Nutbutter Business Strategy}

Conditions of Associate Status at East Wind, 16 Jul 88
@xref{Associates}.

Permit Spraying Hammock Shop, 30 Jul 88, Superceded by
Restrictions on Pesticides, 10 Feb 90

Back Hours, 3 Sep 88, @xref{Back Hours}

Reduce Quota by 8 hours/member/week, 17 Sep 88, Superceded by
Conditions for Lower Quota, 14 Apr 90.

Quota for older Members Revision, 24 Sep 88, Superceded by Older
Persons Quota, 16 Dec 89

Quiet Hammock Shop, 8 Oct 88, Expired.

Buy Mobile home for Commie Clothes, 11 Oct 88, One-time decision.

Pets, Community Meeting, 2 Nov 88, @xref{Pets}

Children's Suffrage, 7 Jan 89, @xref{Child Votes}.

Provisional Member Suffrage, 7 Jan 89, @xref{Democracy}

Co-sponsors required of proposals, 14 Jan 89, @xref{Community
Meeting Agenda}

Convert Shuttle to Propane, 14 Jan 89, One-time decision.

Locks Permitted on Members' Bedroom Doors, 21 Jan 89,
@xref{Housing}

Pets, Community Meeting, 11 Feb 89, @xref{Pets}

1989 Annual Plan, 11 Feb 89, One-time decision.

On going in the hole with your labor balance, 21 Feb 89,
@xref{Work Required}

Shipping Allowance Policy, 21 Feb 89, @xref{Personal Shipping}

Amendment as Concerns the Nutbutter Investment Fund, 18 Mar 89,
@xref{Nutbutter Business Strategy}

1989 Profit Use List, 19 Mar 89, One-time decision.

Borrow from Building Fund, 21 Mar 89, One-time decision.

Propane Conversion, 8 Apr 89, One-time decision.

Proposal to Return Lilliput to the Children's Branch, 22 Apr 89,
@xref{Lilliput}.

Ask Bob to Leave East Wind, 27 May 89, One-time decision.

Enterprise Pest Control Legislation, 17 Jun 89, Superceded by

Restrictions on Pesticides, 10 Feb 90, and Ban Pets from Hammocks
Shop, 27 Oct 90

Hammocks Production Quota, 24 Jun 89, @xref{Production Quota}

Site plan approval for new auto shop, 29 Jun 89, One-time
decision.

Jar Trailer Legislation, 8 Jul 89, One-time decision.

Sharon's Student Loan, 8 Jul 89, One-time decision.

Sexual Harrassment, 15 Jul 89, @xref{Sexual Harrassment}

Eliminate Labor Budgets, 22 Jul 89, @xref{Labor}, Partially
superceded by Credit for Meetings, 12 Jan 91

Guaranteed Vacation Revision, 22 Jul 89, @xref{Vacation}

Minimum Payment Standard for Independent Contractors (policy), 15
Aug 89, @xref{Contractors}

New Policy on Visitor Work, 22 Aug 89, Still on the books I
guess, but not relevant as long as we don't assign labor.

Social Emergency Leave Policy, Board, 5 Sep 89.  Superceded by
Social Emergency Leave Policy, 1 Apr 91

No Tuna, 16 Sep 89, @xref{Kitchen}

44 Quota, 23 Sep 89, Superceded by Conditions for Lower Quota, 14
Apr 90.

No Smoking in Enterprise, 7 Oct 89, @xref{Smoking}

Hammocks sales in 89, 14 Oct 89, One-time decision.

Table Kitchen Spraying, 4 Nov 89, Superceded by Restrictions on
Pesticides, 10 Feb 90

Auto Usage Visitor/Member Transportation, 4 Nov 89, @xref{Pick-ups}.
Reasons for "no" or "extend" votes, 4 Nov 89, @xref{Membership
Voting}

Buy Backhoe, 11 Nov 89, One-time decision.

Ozark Reunion Party, 11 Nov 89, One-time decision.

Older Persons Quota, 16 Dec 89, @xref{Quota}.

Extension of Kitchen Spraying Deadline, 16 Dec 89, Superceded by
Restrictions on Pesticides, 10 Feb 90

Hammocks Crew Music Policies, 1989 (?), @xref{Hammock Shop Music}.

Raise DF's, 6 Jan 90, @xref{DFs}, Partially superceded by Restore
Profit Sharing, 10 Mar 90

Profit Use List, 27 Jan 90, One-time decision.

Ratify Joint Hammocks Agreement, 3 Feb 90, @xref{Joint Hammocks
Agreement}

Child Provisional Member Suffrage, also known as Vote for Child
Member PM's, 3 Feb 90, @xref{Child Votes}

Restrictions on Pesticides, 10 Feb 90, @xref{Pest Control}

Restore Profit Sharing, 10 Mar 90, @xref{DFs}

7500 Hammocks, 17 Mar 90, One-time decision.

Production Quota in Stretchers, 17 Mar 90, @xref{Production
Quota}

8 Hours Production Quota, 24 Mar 90, @xref{Production Quota}

Banking Production Quota Hours, 24 Mar 90, @xref{Production
Quota}

Loan to Fred's, 7 Apr 90, One-time decision.

Conditions for Lower Quota, 14 Apr 90, @xref{Quota}

Linda is Membership Manager, 21 Apr 90, One-time decision.

Only 7000 Hammock Sales in 1990, 21 Apr 90, One-time decision.

Ch'hsh'na is Resource Manager, 12 May 90, One-time decision.

Share David's Child Support Payments, also known as Proposal for
Child Support Payments, 19 May 90, @xref{Child Support}

Buy Rare Livestock, 2 Jun 90, @xref{Ranch}

Plan for Reim Remodeling, 2 Jun 90, One-time decision.

Auction Application, 9 Jun 90, One-time decision.

Revise 1990 Profit Use List, 16 Jun 90, One-time decision.

Recorded Music in Rockbottom, 16 Jun 90, Superceded by No Music in
Rockbottom, 25 Jul 92

No Bug Zapper Outside, 23 Jun 90, @xref{Pest Control}

Quit Buying Sugar, 30 Jun 90, Repealed by Repeal Sugar
Legislation, 13 Oct 90

Shirtless in Hammocks Shop, 14 Jul 90, @xref{Clothing}

Bounce Vote, 4 Aug 90, @xref{Membership Voting}

Carlos and Greg Production Quota, 11 Aug 90, One-time decision.

Hammocks in '90 and '91, 11 Aug 90, One-time decision.

Confirm Howard as Social Manager, 29 Sep 90.  One-time decision.

Repeal Sugar Legislation, 13 Oct 90, Abolishes, not creates,
legislation.

Gypsy's Return, 20 Oct 90, One-time decision.

Five Signatures for Agenda Items, 27 Oct 90, @xref{Community
Meeting Agenda}

Ban Pets from Hammocks Shop, 27 Oct 90, @xref{Pets}

Omnibus Guest Policy, 7 Jan 91, @xref{Guests}

Credit for Meetings, 12 Jan 91, @xref{Meeting Hours}

Include Sandals in Production Quota, 12 Jan 91, @xref{Production
Quota}

Women's Space, 19 Jan 91, One-time decision.

Personal Spending Control Policy, 23 Jan 91, @xref{Money}.

Business plans, 1991 and Beyond, 2 Feb 91.  1991 plans were one-
time decisions.  Long-range plan superceded by Long Range Business Plan,
5 Sep 92.

Buy New Van, 2 Feb 91, One-time decision.

Policy on Medical Care for Provisional Members, Mar 91,
@xref{Medical Care for Provisional Members}

Social Emergency Leave Policy, 1 Apr 91, @xref{Social Emergency Leave}.

Medical Transportation Policy, Apr 91, @xref{Medical
Transportation}

1991 Annual Plan, 20 Apr 91, One-time decision.

Business Holidays, 3 May 91, @xref{Office}

Raise Working Capital, 4 May 91, @xref{Money}

Organic Garlic Business, 18 May 91, @xref{Garlic}.

New Business Formation, 18 May 91, Superceded by New Business Formation,
2 May 92.

Provisional Membership Extension, 1 Jun 91, @xref{Membership
Voting} and @xref{Medical Care for Provisional Members}.

Pay Barry's Loans, 1 Jun 91, One-time decision.

Reserving the TV room, 1 Jun 91, @xref{TV}

Answering Machine, 7 Jun 91, @xref{Office}

Photocopier, 8 Jun 91, One-time decision.

Older Children's Norms, 8 Jun 91, @xref{Older Children}

Obadiah's and Donna's Agreements around Obadiah's Substance
Usage, 14 Jun 91, @xref{Older Children}

Pay Tom's Loan, 15 Jun 91, One-time decision.

Messes and Fair Share, 15 Jun 91, @xref{Messes and Fair Share}

Obadiah and TV trailer, 26 Jun 91, @xref{Older Children}

Older Children's Policies, 5 Jul 91, @xref{Older Children}

Older Children's Program, Jul 91, @xref{Older Children}

Spraying for Roaches, 13 Jul 91, @xref{Pest Control}
Stray Animals, 17 Jul 91, rescended 6 Aug 91.

New TV Trailer, 27 Jul 91, One-time decision.

Confirm Kathe as Membership Manager, 3 Aug 91, One-time decision.

Buying back PEACH Coverage after Leaves, 16 Aug 91, @xref{PEACH}.

Parents Required to do Meta Shifts, 17 Aug 91, @xref{Primaries
and Parents}.

Andrew Fishing, 29 Aug 91, @xref{Older Children}

Short Term Borrowing and Fund Management, 29 Aug 91, @xref{Money}
Interest from Funds, 31 Aug 91, @xref{Building Fund}

Spending Control Policy for Domestic Budgets, 2 Sep 91,
@xref{Spending Control}

Process for Planning Excursions with the Older Children, 5 Sep
91, @xref{Older Children}

Study Hall, 12 Sep 91, @xref{Older Children}

Children and Alcohol, 26 Sep 91, @xref{Substance Use}

A Semi-Automatic Labeller for Nutbutters, 28 Sep 91, One-time
decision.

Phone Systems, 5 Oct 91, One-time decision.

Morning HTA, 5 Oct 91, @xref{HTA}.

Meta Program Decision process, 10 Oct 91, superceded by Meta
program definitions, 2 Apr 92.

Transfers to Individuals, 24 Oct 91, @xref{Money}

Consequences of Demotion to Provisional Membership, 29 Oct 91,
@xref{Medical Care for Provisional Members} and @xref{Democracy}.

Self-Made Hammocks, 21 Nov 91, @xref{Member Hammock Purchase}.

Mail, 25 Nov 91, @xref{Office}.

Finish New Garage, 30 Nov 91, One-time decision.

Set aside money for new vehicle and building fund, 30 Nov 91,
One-time decision.

Profit Sharing Calculation Process Policy, 19 Dec 91, @xref{DFs}.

Room Assignments to Associates, Jan 92, @xref{Associates}.

Pregnancy Hours, 24 Jan 92, @xref{Pregnancy}.

Annual Plan Phase I, 8 Feb 92, One-time decision.

Charges against Alvin, 7 Mar 92, @xref{Alvin}.

Nutbutter Sales Trip Policies, Mar 92, @xref{Nutbutter Sales Trips}.

Resolution to build addition to Lilliput, 21 Mar 92, One-time decision.

Trailer Residence/Workshop, 28 Mar 91, One-time decision.

Member pickup, 31 Mar 92, @xref{Pick-ups}.

Meta program definitions, 2 Apr 92, @xref{Meta program
definitions}.

Board policies on proxies, 7 Apr 92, @xref{Democracy}.

Mileage off-farm, 7 Apr 92, @xref{Mileage}.

Annual Plan Phase II, 11 Apr 92, One-time decision.

Theft Policy, 29 Apr 92, @xref{Bylaws}.

Pottery Business, May 92, One-time decision.

New Business Formation, 2 May 92, @xref{New Business Formation}.

Purchase Community Bookshelf Business, 19 May 92, One-time decision.

Delay Lilliput Presentation to 6/27, 6 Jun 92, One-time decision.

Ambient ventilation in the hammocks shop, 6 Jun 92, One-time decision.

$500 for fixing up pickup, 13 Jun 92, One-time decision.

Smoking in foopin, 16 Jun 92, @xref{Smoking}.

Use of Garden Vegetables, 17 Jun 92, @xref{Garden}.

Close the road through the garden, 26 Jun 92, One-time decision.

Lilliput decision, 27 Jun 92, One-time decision.

Votes in elections, 11 Jul 92, @xref{Elections}.

Hours for counseling, 25 Jul 92, @xref{Medical Hours}.

Office theft prevention, 16 Sep 92, @xref{Office Theft}.

The Board Charges Obadiah With Theft, 17 Oct 92, One-time decision.

Sharing Community Property, 24 Oct 92, @xref{Sharing Community
Property}.

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@unnumbered Subject Index

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