Labor Descriptions

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Prepare a meal with a provided menu and pre-purchased ingredients by approximately 7pm .

Do dishes and clean the kitchen as necessary after meals. Put away leftovers so food doesn't spoil. For convenience and because people eat leftovers throughout the night, this labor can be done anytime between when dinner ends and the next morning.

Light cleaning of the bathroom, living room, and kitchen of common room. Clean for about an hour, if there isn't that much cleaning to do work on organizing bookshelves, closets, etc.

Pull out hose wheel and hose key, attach to hose. Soak the soil of all herbs and vegetable plants in the central courtyard, and ornamentals and other plants as needed. Eventually, this duty will extend to other plots as we expand and grow more productive plants. Must have #101 maintenance closet key.

Frequency: 30 minutes of labor, twice a day – ideally, dawn and a few hours before dusk.

Remove trash and debris from the courtyard, parking lots, and around the dumpster. Sweep the central courtyard. Empty public garbage bins and stash recycling for delivery. This will eventually include some form of gutter-cleaning.

Frequency: 30 minutes of labor, once a day.

Deliver recycling to Ecology Action or some other recycling facility. Must have a vehicle. Ideally we'll find either closer recycling facilities or some form of pickup for this.

Frequency: An hour of labor, once every few days.

Tuesday

1. Primary responsibility: move the SNAP from refrigerator to freezer
   Saturday
2. Primary responsibility: make sure refrigerator is ready to receive KAF on Sunday
   1 hour each day.

Responsibilities:

1. Remove rotten, spoiled, or otherwise not-fresh food from any of the three refrigerators or the freezers;
2. Clean any spilled food or liquids;
3. Make sure all meal leftovers are dated and labeled, tracking down and adding labels if necessary;
   Reorganize items in the freezer if necessary
4. If other tasks don't take a full hour, perform other miscellaneous kitchen clean duties (mopping, dishes, etc).

Daily, 1 hour each day.

Responsibilities:

1. Generally clean the meeting room areas, kitchen and pantry
2. Wipe down counters and tables;
3. Mop the floor;
4. Dispose of any trash or recyclable items, including taking out the trash;
5. Clean the trash can if dirty;
6. Wash any dishes left out;
7. Dust if necessary;
8. If furniture is obstructing safe passage, move it.
9. N.B. Commons Clean excludes the bathroom!

Every day, morning or evening, one half hour each shift.

Responsibilities:

1. Water plants in the courtyard. Pay careful attention so as not to drown or starve plants.

Every day, 1 hour each day

Responsibilities:

1. Sweep dirt;
2. Clean up any toys or obstructions which could trip people;
3. Dispose of trash and recyclable items;
4. Put away any cooperative property (eg, tools, ladders, gardening utensils);
5. Clean up large spills or messes.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, 1 hour each day

Responsibilities:

1. Pick up and dispose of trash or recyclable items around the entire property.
2. Make sure the trash bin near the parking lot has been emptied

Any day, 1 hour

Responsibilities:

1. Dispose of trash;
2. Clean the toilet bowl;
3. Make sure toilet paper is bountiful;
4. Wipe down sink and counter tops
5. Mop the floor;
6. Excludes the bath tub

Flexible, hours vary

Responsibilities:

1. Assist the Treasurer and Bookkeeper with any tasks the Ministry of Finance deem necessary.

Sunday after KAF is received but before house meeting, 1 hour

Responsibilities:

1. Assist the KAF labor with receiving food donations;
2. Wipe down the pantry and make sure all food is stored away cleanly and neatly
3. Go through 'bread pantry' and remove moldy items / move to refrigerator or freezer if space allows
4. Make sure that everything in the refrigerators and freezers is accounted for by doing an inventory

1. Create one dish per lump of labor, focusing on using food that will go bad first
2. Attempt to accommodate dietary restrictions of all residents if possible
3. If food is brought into the Commons, make sure it is in an appropriately labeled container that can easily be stored without the food going bad

1. Cook food out of KAF items that will not be used by the dinner crew (e.g., bananas)
2. Store food in such a way so that it will not go bad (e.g., peel bananas and freeze them)
3. If there is no food to recover, help Pantry Inventory or Commons Clean

(Descriptions distributed via email by labor czar 2013-07-15)