Our Community Place

Keeping Our Community Place clean and sanitized involves organization, dedication, and zeal.  If we don't get all three together we'll get taken over by microbes and smells, and general nastiness. Not to mention the health department might close us down. Agreed?  Good!!  Then let's get to work.

We've divided the task into five areas: the grounds, the front room, the kitchen, the back area, and the bathrooms.  And we're assigning a team for each area with a team leader and members pulled from the community who uses the facility the most--and those who sponsor regular or intermittent events and activities there.

Team Leaders

Team leaders will be responsible for . .

• working up a list of cleaning tasks specific to their designated area, broken out by daily, weekly, and monthly frequency (see list below);
• putting this list in understandable and highly visible form;
• identifying and arranging for the provision of needed cleaning supplies, etc.;
• arranging for the storage and appropriate access to and availability of such supplies for team members;
• identifying, organizing, motivating team members to perform the identified tasks;
• performing the tasks themselves as necessary;
• coordinating with other teams where helpful and necessary;
• working with "outside" groups who may use the facility to arrange and encourage their help and cooperation with cleaning; and
• reporting progress and achievement to the community so rewards and accolades can follow.

Team leader assignments will have a specified duration.

Team Members

Cleaning team members will be asked to . .

• sign up for a team (or teams) at a community meeting, or directly with the team leader (who may want to post a sign-up sheet on the community board);
• provide contact information (phone, e-mail, location on lawn);
• be of good cheer in the performance of their assigned tasks; and
  
• compensate for missed assignments by being extra cheerful and helpful.

Please see below for a general idea of what we're asking of the community who used Our Community Place.

Some Daily Tasks

1. walk-through property inside and out picking up trash, cigarette butts, and recycling;
2. check trash and garbage receptacles, replacing bags as needed;
3. wash and sanitize dishes;
4. put food scraps outside for composting;
5. sweep and mop kitchen floor;
6. check bathrooms.

Some Weekly Tasks

1. put trash and garbarge out on sidewalk Sunday night;
2. clean up after Soup Kitchen Monday;
3. wash and sanitize garbage cans;
4. sweep and mop big rooms;
5. clean out kitty litter;
6. clean bathrooms;
7. vacuum meeting room;
8. wipe down doors;
9. clean out cigarette cans, replacing sand as needed;
10. sweep stairs, walkways, and stoops;
11. check shed, collecting cups, trash, recyclying, etc.;
12. empty refrigerator overflow basin and replace.

Some Monthly Tasks

1. sweep and mop entryway;
2. sweep and mop furnace room;
3. clean shed thoroughly (as needed);
4. wipe down outside doors;
5. wash windows;
6. clean out refrigerators.

Please let us know if we left anything out.  Let the war on microbes, smells, and insects pest begin!