Order of examples:

- Specific to General, General to Specific
- Specific to General
- Seek to Address Concerns

>>> Example Specific to General, General to Specific

- I propose buying orange ice cream in a group of 7

5 people say yes

2 say no

Those who said yes, say works for fun, taste, ease

Those who said no, say does not work for fun, taste, ease

– heard no, go more general, Tom proposes buying ice cream

6 yes

1 no

Those who said yes, say works for fun, ease, community

Those who said no, say does not work for comfort, inclusion, have lactose intolerance

– heard “no” go more general, Sally proposes buying food ?

7 yes

0 no

Those who said yes, say works fun, ease, community, inclusion

– hear all “yes”, go more specific, Eric proposes buying coconut ice cream

7 yes

0 no

yes answers – fun, community, comfort - has no dairy

>>> Example of Specific to General

buy orange ice cream - Jay

buy ice cream - jack, jill

buy snack food - peter, sally

none of the above – albert

people's written or verbal responses:

albert – don't want to leave house, too tired, want ease

jay – orange is my favorite flavor, fun

sally – have lactose intolerance, want comfort

peter – want to support sally, want something she can eat

Summary - It is clear that 5 people agree with snack food. Disagreement starts happening as you get more specific

Maybe, Albert wants to do something different than everyone else or maybe a snack food that is easy to get and is dairy free and fun is what will work for everyone.

------------ another example

1 - buy neighbor george’s land

2 - buy a neighbor’s land, touching our property, signed names are jill, jack, sally, george, carl

3 - buy a land nearby, signed names are brian, parsel

4 - buy land, signed names are rachel, raven

5 – none, signed names are john, bill, sandra

written and or spoken:

​rachel – great way to protect our money, efficiency and effectiveness

parsel – great way to have options, choice and flexibility

bill – very expensive, we pay taxes every year, not efficiency use of money

sandra – creates more work to maintain and liabilities, have aging membership, want ease

jack – ease, land touches ours, no for that neighbor because it is a swamp, not useful, want something useful

george – price for neighbor George land is far to high, wants take care of ourselves, not get ripped off

carl – no for neighbor George land because want to support my friend, he is putting a down payment down on that land tomorrow, he wants to make it a land trust, so it can't be built on, care of earth, yes for other land touching our property because within easy reach

Summary - this tells me there is support for buying land. There is much disagreement over where to buy land.

>>> Seeking to Address Concerns:

Starting Post

Name - Janeway

Concern(s) - more efficient use of group money and ease for money manager, less to manage

Proposal - cancel 5831 phone line, use money spent on 5831 phone line to buy ice cream for house

clarifying comment and imperfections - lack of backup for remaining land line, resolve imperfection by asking to use other people's cell phone

likes - Tom, Charles, Sally, Sue, Harry

Responses:

Name - Rassa

Works – efficient use of financial resources, socializing, fun

Concerns – harmony in house, fear fights over which flavor to buy

efficient use of time, concern over amount of meeting time working out details

proposal – have house walks and board game night, let 5831 savings sit in bank account

clarifying comment and imperfections – takes time to organize

likes – Nelix, Romey

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Names Charles

Works – fun, connection

Concerns – lack of clarity how will happen

Proposal- create role of connection coordinator, role is to survey what times work best for walk, set time, and do survey to find out which games people want available for game night and get top games

Clarifying comment and imperfections - someone has to take time to figure it out

Likes – Harry, Romeo

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Names Harry

Works – clarity who organizes, how will happen

Concerns – takes up group time because creates role for group to organize, no clarity around what to do with savings from canceling 5831 phone line, reducing monthly expenses to prevent rent increase

Proposal - cancel 5831 phone line, reduce monthly expenses

Clarifying comment and imperfections – no group activity

Likes - Tom, Charles, Sally, Sue, Harry, Janeway, Brian, Katherin, Harriet, Jolly, ike, billy, April

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Names Nelix

Works – financial security thru increasing savings, reduces monthly expenses

Concerns – fun

Proposal - cancel 5831 phone line, use half savings to buy popcorn (limit $5), remainder to use for building financial savings

Clarifying comment and imperfections – someone has to take time to buy the popcorn

likes - (no one put their name down)

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Starting thread

Name - Janeway

Concern - increases flexibility and ease for cooking dinner,

Proposal – increase day cook budget by $5

Clarifying comment and imperfections –want more spices for taste so meal are more fun, does increase expenses, increase might be small, not every cook will spend an additional $5 every time

Likes - Tom, Charles, Sally, Sue, Harry

Responses:

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Name Hue

Works – increases flexibility for cook

Concerns – reduce the increase in monthly operating expenses

Proposal – increase day cook budget by $5, every other cook cycle

Clarifying comment and imperfections – remembering which cycles have increase complexity, confusion

Likes – (no one signed)

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Name – Charles

Works – increases flexibility

Concerns – too complicated, want simplicity

Proposal – increase food budget by $100 per month

Clarifying comment and imperfections – requires more communication between cooks and shoppers and shoppers need more money to buy food that cooks request

Likes – Harry, Beatrice

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Name Janeway

Works – increases options for cooks

Concerns – too complicated, involves more than one person in getting a small thing, involves coordinating with shoppers

Proposal – increase day cook budget by $2.50

Clarifying comment and imperfections - reduces my initial increase to reduce costs

Likes - Tom, Charles, Sally, Sue, Harry

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Name – Charles

Works – simplicity, consistency

Seek to address – too little choice, flexibility for day cook

Proposal – increase day cook budget by $5, cancel sunrise newspaper subscription

Clarifying comment and imperfections – cancel sunrise covers $5 increase, resulting in no increase in monthly expenses

Likes - Tom, Charles, Sally, Sue, Harry, Beatrice, Alice, Richard,

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Name Hue

Works – eliminates increase in overall spending, seeks to balance budget

Concerns – reduces awareness of local events, community events

Proposal – maintain Sunrise newspaper subscription, increase day cook budget by $4, ask for voluntary increase in rents

Clarifying comment and imperfections – adds variety to what people pay, adds complications, believe enough people are willing and able to pay more to cover cost of $4 increase

Likes – (no one signed it)

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Names - Janeway

Works – maintain awareness of local events, seek to address balance different income level of house members

Concerns – house harmony due to conflict over who pays how much, change in philosophy around rent payment resulting in hours of house meeting time

Proposal – increase day cook budget by $5, sign up for online national new magazine and cancel paper version

Clarifying comment and imperfections - able to access info thru magazine website, much cheaper, expect reduce expense will cover cost of day cook increase

Likes - Tom, Charles, Sally, Sue, Harry, Beatrice, Alice, Richard, Arwen, Kathy, Jolly