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Membership Process - Keep in mind that your responses to this form may be shared with the house, minus personal information. - Send us an email to let us know you filled out the form and are interested. - After reading your responses, we will set up an initial video call, phone call, or in-person meeting with 1-3 current members where you can ask questions about Friends and we can get to know you. - After this call, you may be invited for further meeting(s) in person at the house (or via video call) to meet other house members. - If you decide you are still interested in membershipping, we will hold a vote at our next house meeting to decide whether to allow you to become a member. In Our Words After 50 years on W Johnson St, the Friends' community recently relocated to a remodeled house in the Downtown neighborhood two blocks from the capitol and the E. Washington shopping district. The new house has two accessible rooms. We do our best to prioritize these rooms for those with physical disabilities. Our cooperative community is brought together by a radical sense of playfulness and inclusiveness. These values stretch all the way back to Friends' evolution out of a Quaker cooperative housing community. House members contribute a required 5 hours of their time each week for chores such as cooking, washing dishes, cleaning common spaces, paying bills, grocery shopping, serving as a house representative for various committees of Madison Community Cooperative, and many other jobs that go towards the upkeep and continuance of the household. At full membership, Friends consists of 10 adults of varying ages and backgrounds, along with their pets. We offer 100% vegetarian and frequently 100% vegan house meals. We enjoy working together to find creative solutions to problems both in informal and formal decisions. We endeavor to find consensus in the decisions we make during house meetings and work to make sure that all members of the household feel heard and valued. Is Parking Available? At this time, all of our parking spots are full. We may be able to figure out an arrangement to obtain more parking if needed, otherwise street parking is available. If you require a disabled parking spot, we have one of those and would give priority parking rights to you. What kind of parking is available? 2 spaces Are all house meals vegetarian? Yes. Vegetarian option at all meals? Yes. Vegan option at all meals? As needed. What other food options are available at some meals? We accommodate any dietary preference, e.g. gluten-free. Is meat allowed in the house? Yes. Are there any restrictions on meat in the house? Members may purchase and prepare meat separately from house dinners. Meals/Week: Varies, usually at least one and up to four, depending on how busy house members who cook are. Meals Cost: $100/mo Food Membership Allowed? Yes Meal Plan Participation: Required. Exceptions are made on a case by case basis. Pets Allowed? Yes. Current Pet Situation: 3 cats, 2 roaming. 1 dog, roaming Pet Policy: Roaming pets (i.e. those that are allowed to leave their owner's room and roam around the house) must be membershipped into the house similarly to humans. Bring the animal to the house and make sure that it gets along with other pets and humans. We will then vote on their membership. Pets that stay strictly in members' rooms do not need to be membershipped.