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Co-op Maintenance Keeping your house around for the long-term. Geoff Mayers gmayers@umich.edu ICC Maintenance Coordinator Ann Arbor student housing co-ops Our Housing Co-op Challenges Goals - Systematic Shifts Our Housing Co-op


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Co-op Maintenance

Keeping your house around for the long-term.

  • Our Housing Co-op Challenges
  • Goals - Systematic Shifts

Geoff Mayers – gmayers@umich.edu ICC Maintenance Coordinator Ann Arbor student housing co-ops

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Our Housing Co-op Challenges

  • Aging Houses
  • Constant Turn-Over of Membership
  • Accumulating Maintenance Upkeep
  • Societal Shift Toward “Outsourcing” = Fewer Skilled

Members

  • Greater Demands on Students = Less Time
  • Increasingly Stricter Group-Housing Codes
  • Competitive Student Housing Market

– difficulty of competing financially with short-sighted “slumlords”

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Goals - Systematic Shifts

Hurdles Now reduce Struggles Later

  • Creating Institutional Memory
  • Short-term Fixes to Long-term Fixes
  • Reactionary Maint to Preventative Maint
  • Focus on Recruitment & Retention
  • Working as a Community
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Hurdles Now

  • Improving upkeep & movement to long-term fixes
  • Catching up with years of neglect or quick fixes
  • Catching up with overburdened workload
  • Finding time for system improvements
  • Record-keeping
  • Planning ahead
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Struggles Later

  • Financial strain
  • Cumulating quick fixes
  • Dangers of reactionary maintenance
  • Safety
  • Sustainability of Co-op as an Organization
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Goals - Systematic Shifts

Hurdles Now reduce Struggles Later

  • Creating Institutional Memory
  • Short-term Fixes to Long-term Fixes
  • Reactionary Maint to Preventative Maint
  • Focus on Recruitment & Retention
  • Working as a Community
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Creating Institutional Memory

Don’t reinvent the wheel.

  • Information Gathering & Organization
  • Record-Keeping
  • Passing the Torch
  • Education
  • Simple & Effective Systems & Policies
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Short-term Fixes to Long-term Fixes

Co-op Proofing.

  • Fix things once, not repeatedly
  • Reduce structural abuse; Expect structural abuse
  • Improvements to the System & Sustainability
  • Avoid damage by neglect; Communication is key
  • Plan ahead; Budget appropriately
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Reactionary Maint to Preventative Maint

Do the small things now to avoid the huge things later.

Examples:

  • Water Management – Rain
  • Water Management – Plumbing
  • Fire Prevention
  • Housing Inspections
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Focus on Recruitment & Retention

Direct relationship to maintenance.

  • Income vs. Expenses
  • First Impressions are Important
  • Sense of Ownership & Care
  • Community Sentiment
  • Word-of-Mouth
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Working as a Community

Getting everyone involved.

  • Sense of Ownership & Care
  • Education & Participation
  • Co-op History & Storytelling
  • Co-op Mission & Vision
  • Good Maint -> Good Community -> Good Maint