Hi @reef-finance!
I have a question for you but wasn’t sure where to put it…
I was wondering what we were going to do with the money that was budgeted for the feasibility studies?
Initially my thought was to use it to increase our common spaces, but then Chris told me that we might not be able to that as the ASBL is not supposed to give a financial benefit to the members.
But then I’m thinking that ASBL have a right to own property, so would it be an option that it owned some of the common spaces??
Another option: would it be possible to use the money to organise workshops (deep democracy, collective intelligence,…) or community days ?
As I recall it, that was… nothing. The architects had committed to giving us a discount equivalent to a maximum of 10 (I think) feasibility studies. So, there was never any extra money, just the idea that we would pay invoices for the FS (we paid one so far), and they would take the amount off their invoices for the actual design of The Reef.
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying… Somehow I thought we had money saved up to do the extra out-of-budget FS.
Another question : can you clarify what the plan is with the money collected with full member’s 2000euros ? Is that cash for the Reef, or is it an advance that will be used to pay the first bills?
Again, anything money-related is a Level 3 or 4 decision. For now, we have used that money to pay the architects, lawyer, notary. It still goes into the cohousing, just indirectly. I see no reason to stop doing that. Payment to the architects are indeed advances, taken off our final bill. But when we paid a lawyer to debug the statutes of the société simple, that was extra.