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