On Cleaning:
If the board is indeed responsible for building maintenance (which I
believe it should be), then that fact should remove most, if not all, of
the moral objections to the hiring of maintenance personnel from a board
operating budget. (In the past I've seen consensus discussions about
paying a cleaner go awry when 3 people jump up to claim the cleaning job
because they need the money.)
Hackers don't like to clean, in general. And the cleaning people don't get
enough credit for it. Let's just put an end to the "it's either dirty, or
one martyr keeps cleaning up" NB status dichotomy.
That said, KEEPING clean still needs to be done by everyone, and that's a
cultural issue. But I think that if the "basic" cleaning tasks are taken
care of (e.g. floors and surfaces, bathrooms, kitchen), it'll have a
fixing-the-broken-windows effect.
Okay. How should we hire a cleaner, or other maintenance personnel? Should we… form a maintenance working group to plan & propose?
I strongly think that building maintenance (including cleaning) should be the responsibility of the board. That means we should be responsible for vetting and hiring maintenance personnel.
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