At its simplest, the Decision page contains a list of community decisions and serves as the official place to store such decisions.
However, there are several optional features including:
By default the page contains a simple list of decisions with fields for a title, the text of the decision, status, and date. Depending on the settings chosen by each community, one or more of the following items may be included in the Page Menu:
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Decisions | the list of community made decisions |
| Old Proposals | a list of previously considered proposals that were either completed (no decision), dropped, withdrawn, or did not pass |
| Opted In Members | the list of community members that have opted in to the decision making system |
| Proposals | the list of proposals currently in process. This can include proposals that have not yet been agreed to discuss by enough people, a Parking Lot of proposals that have been discussed in a meeting but are not yet done, and a list of proposals that have been tabled for future consideration. |
| Votes | the place where community members or owner households (depending on the type of vote) can choose "yes", "no", or "abstain" for a current open vote, and view how others have voted |
As a reminder, these items are optional and so may not be needed for the decision making system in your community. Support for differences in your system can be added to this module. Please contact us if you would like some changes.
There is also a General Meetings Calendar, which contains community meetings with a date, start and end times, a facilitator and an agenda. The agenda can be populated automatically if proposals are supported in settings.
The Decision Status field can be one of the following options (not all will be available depending on how the Decisions module is configured):
| Status | Description | Page Menu Item |
|---|---|---|
| completed | the community agreed to stop discussing the proposal without dropping it or making a decision | Old Proposals |
| did not pass | the community used its process to decide not to pass the proposal | Old Proposals |
| dropped | the community decided to drop the proposal and remove it from the process | Old Proposals |
| in process | the community is currently discussing the proposal so it should be on the agenda of the next meeting, called the Parking Lot | Proposals |
| online vote | the proposal will be decided by an online vote of community members who have opted in to the system | Votes |
| owner vote | the proposal will be decided by an online vote of community members who are "owners" (one per household) | Votes |
| passed | the community used its process to decide to pass the proposal | Decisions |
| pending | when the module is configured to "support proposals" this is for online approval by community members of proposals to go on to a meeting | Proposals |
| tabled | the community has decided to table the proposal until a later date | Proposals |
| withdrawn | the proposal was withdrawn by the person or team or proposed it | Old Proposals |