This is part of the Membership Process, it was consensed on 2007-07-09 Meeting
The Community Greenlight (hereafter “greenlight”) is the transition event from “interested” to “candidate”. The greenlight signals the community’s active acceptance of an applicant into candidate status, and sets the clock on the community’s commitment to making a membership decision in 2-6 months.
The greenlight step is not intended to be as rigorous as the membership decision; it should be lighter and less time-consuming. Lack of information by some members (a concern such as “I don’t really know this person”) is not a valid criteria to deny green light, but actual negative experience with the person (such as “I have had a serious conflict with this person”) could be. A positive sense of the community about the applicant becoming a candidate is desirable to move forward.
Greenlight decisions may be requested by the applicant’s liaison or the Bienvenidos Committee to be scheduled at a Community Meeting. The applicant is expected to attend the meeting. The applicant must complete all the prior steps before the greenlight is scheduled.
In community consideration there are two basic questions, both of which must be answered yes for the applicant to be greenlighted:
Is the applicant ready?
Is the community ready?
For the first question, the community should consider questions along the lines of:
1A. Is this applicant going to enjoy and value living at LAEV?
1B. Is this applicant motivated and available to attend meetings?
1C. Is this applicant likely to enhance LAEV?
1D. How do we anticipate this person making LAEV better?
For the second question, the community should consider questions along the lines of:
2A. How will this person make LAEV more or less diverse?
2B. Does the community currently have time and interest sufficient to commit to engaging this person as a candidate for the following 2 to 6 months?
If an applicant’s greenlight is not approved, and the applicant remains interested in becoming a candidate, then, generally, the community would wait two months before scheduling reconsideration of an applicant’s greenlight decision.
Approved by consensus at Building/Community Meeting 16 July 2007
In order to give Los Angeles Eco-Village membership candidates sufficient attention and to not spend too much of the community’s time and energy, LAEV intentional community chooses to limit the number of candidates for membership we greenlight at a given time.