The community meets to discuss issues of common concern as often as need requires. In practice this means once every week to three weeks. The most common issues involve support for the school, planning community labor and other shared activities, and resolving conflicts. The meetings also serve a social function, and provide a good excuse for people who want a break from their labors. A few guys are nominated to collect firewood, and a few women are picked to cook, and the community shares a meal (or quite often two, since the meetings are rarely brief).

There is a lot of turnover of community leadership: in the four years I lived in Imi we had four different mburuvichas. (The job involves a lot of work and responsibility, but the only compensation is a little help from the rest of the community in farmwork.) When the last mburuvicha resigned, the community decided that the new leadership should be from the younger set, that is, they wanted people who could read and write. They elected Don Modesto Flores mburuvicha, and Benita Tañera secretary.