A community question
How does a new community begin?
New boards and developers may not know the handoff steps. Offer an onboarding plan and an initial record of rules and responsibilities.
The situation
How does a new community begin?
A new community reaches turnover with documents, contracts and records held by different people and no shared checklist of what the incoming board needs.
The first board starts from a document dump and informal explanations.
What a connected record can do
Keep the answer with the evidence.
- 01
Start with the question
Offer an onboarding plan and an initial record of rules and responsibilities.
- 02
Put the supporting pieces together
Connect the source, documents, decision, and reported result the association chooses to include.
- 03
Let the right person follow the trail
Give an authorized reviewer a clear route back to the records behind the answer.
Relevant context
What the record could include.
- Initial governing documents
- Role and access handoff
- Contracts and records index
- Open transition questions
Future access would follow community authorization.
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