The Co-Op Meeting #2 minutes
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02.11.07
Values Discussion
In attendance: Nico, Jill, Cassandra, Hodg, micah, Rickey, Lloyd, Dylan
Compiled list of our “Top Values”:
Purposefulness
Community Growth
Learning
Resources
Innovation
Cooperation/Teamwork
Flexibility
Consideration
Patience
Respect
Environmental Awareness
Creativity
Equity/Fairness
Cooperation
Justice
Anti-Totalitarian Living
Being For (ethics)
Compassion
Creativity
Diversity
Efficiency
Integrity
Persistence
Self Management
Supportive Environment
Awesomeness
Excellence
Transparency
Love
We divided up our “purpose” statements from last week into four categories: Housing, Natural Environment, Community External and Community Internal. We then picked adjectives from the “purpose” statements and placed them in the category or categories we felt they belonged. We then did the same with our values mentioned above.
4 Categories:
- Housing:
Affordable, Permanent, Supportive, Communal, Healthy, Safe, Flexibility, efficiency, cooperative problem solving, unity - Environmental (Natural):
Zero Impact, Responsible use of resources, efficiency, excellence, awareness, consideration, innovation, creativity, justice - Community- External
Resource/Environmental Awareness/Education, sustainment of others, enacting social change, participation in community at large, community growth, engagement in the world, perpetuating positive living, consideration, integrity, transparency, cooperation, justice, anti-totalitarian living, persistence, love, purpose - Community- Internal
Sustain me, pursuing individual creative endeavors, participation in community at home, encouraging personal growth/development, communal living, cooperation, teamwork, self management, flexibility/ innovation, anti-totalitarian living, “being for”, purpose, equity, fairness, consideration, patience, integrity, excellence, diversity
We then broke into 3 groups and each group took one category and formed a statement from the list of adjectives and values. We then reviewed each groups work and made changes we could all agree upon. Then we collectively formulated a vision statement out of the 3 statements written and wrote the last statement for category 4, Community Internal, working it into the vision statement as well. Here is the first draft of this Vision Statement.
It was decided during the formulation of the Vision Statement that:
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Community Internal was to be divided into the opening sentence and the last bullet point, in an effort to address what we are trying to accomplish as well as how we want to organize/maintain our internal community.
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During our value discussion, the idea of Privilege was not brought up, and it was determined that we feel it should be addressed in our statement.
What’s next?
Areas to concentrate effort:
Determining what funding is available
Begin the space hunt
Formulating a written business plan
Create a Wiki to assist in creation and archival of co-op.
Determine the type of social outreach we want to accomplish
What is each individual going to work on?
Jill: contacting existing co-ops in Chicago, meeting with Little Village, researching city funding
Hodg: Looking for housing, locating resources for space hunt
Nico: business logistics, with non profit, initiating the workers co-op, archival, community dialog, networking and contacts
Rickey: scouting space, looking at neighborhoods and identifying neighborhoods to look at.
Cassandra: open to helping, flexible and willing
Lloyd: Wiki, community building and beginning dialog with possible communities, really busy though
micah: space hunt and research, scout trips
Dylan: business plan and logistics, incorporating options
Next meeting: Mon 2/19
Bring specific neighborhood options to debate and discuss.
Was It mentioned that some west side options were already found? (Jill and Nico)
As wiki is created, we are all to update the findings of our research during the week.
