NEBRS operates by through a community consent process called "sociocracy". This format is different than traditional voting.

Our communities gather multiple times per year at facilitated meetings in order to make decisions that, to be adopted, need unanimous community consent. Consent is generated through conversations and proposals.

Within this larger ongoing process, NEBRS hosts multiple subcommittees and caucuses around special interests and demographics within our neighborhoods. These committees report back to our open resident steering committee as advisors.

With the exception of the rotating role of committee chairs specific to subcommittees, our process has no elected positions.