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239 <br /> Approved 7.10.24 <br /> 1523 Chris Johnston: You've had none. <br /> 1524 <br /> 1525 Peggy Craft: We've turned away no applicants. <br /> 1526 <br /> 1527 Chris Johnston: So an applicant has gone through the process, expressed an interest, and you have not turned <br /> 1528 anyone away. <br /> 1529 <br /> 1530 Peggy Craft: Correct. <br /> 1531 <br /> 1532 Chris Johnston: Okay. All right. I just want to make sure. And then, again, I don't know how to ask this again <br /> 1533 without being inappropriate,and I do apologize. In regards to your mention of race and religion,the diversity of your <br /> 1534 group. <br /> 1535 <br /> 1536 Dolores Bailey: Ask about the demographics. <br /> 1537 <br /> 1538 Chris Johnston: Yes, I do have to be uncomfortable and ask about the demographics of your group. Is it <br /> 1539 something where if we allow this, is it something that is going to be open to everybody or is it going to be <br /> 1540 demographically stilted? <br /> 1541 <br /> 1542 Peggy Craft: We'd love for it to be open. <br /> 1543 <br /> 1544 Chris Johnston: Open. Okay. <br /> 1545 <br /> 1546 Peggy Craft: And we're doing what we can. So, yes. We understand it's a problem. <br /> 1547 <br /> 1548 Chris Johnston: And I just want to make sure that I'm clear that I'm not accusing anyone or saying anything <br /> 1549 along those lines, but I would not be doing my job if I didn't bring it up. <br /> 1550 <br /> 1551 Peggy Craft: No, it's a reasonable question. <br /> 1552 <br /> 1553 Chris Johnston: Okay. Thank you. <br /> 1554 <br /> 1555 Peggy Craft: For the aging part, I will say, I understand the aging part as well. I'd love to have more <br /> 1556 younger people there. We didn't want to make it a 55 plus because we don't want to discriminate. Why can't you <br /> 1557 come in if you're 40. That'd be great. But I think it is true that the people who are interested in living in that kind of <br /> 1558 environment, and living communally are more likely to be the older people. <br /> 1559 <br /> 1560 Chris Johnston: Wonderful. Thank you for your clarification. I appreciate it, Peggy. Thank you. <br /> 1561 <br /> 1562 Peggy Craft: Thank you. <br /> 1563 <br /> 1564 Whitney Watson: So I have a couple of questions. Some of them are perhaps not the purview of this board, but <br /> 1565 they're interesting to me, and one of them is the governance style. You referenced that in a couple of statements, so <br /> 1566 how are you going to govern this intentional community. Like as in is it a democracy, or a sociocracy, or. <br /> 1567 <br /> 1568 Edwin Cox: We have a board of directors that are elected democratically,and that is an annual process. <br /> 1569 We have bylaws that specify all these conditions, and our goal is to have unanimity whenever possible, and we work <br /> 1570 very hard, so it's moving in the direction of sociocracy without adapting a whole cloth. We are a group of people who <br /> 1571 believe in working very hard to achieve unanimity whenever possible, and if we find even a single person is opposed <br /> 1572 to a particular action that we are proposing,we continue to work until we have satisfied everybody to the greatest <br /> 1573 extent,so that is our ethic, and we've worked very hard. Let me say about where the idea of the Cooperative came <br />