Acting-Acting-Vice-President Katie Reid chaired last week’s Executive meeting, with the presidential by-election causing a bit of a shuffle-up in the Exec structure.
Administrative Vice President/Acting President Brad Russell didn’t want to chair the meeting in case it appeared he was trying to influence votes or something. Really he needn’t have worried – no one apart from Critic (who is forced to) goes along to those meetings anyway. Finance and Services Officer Dan Stride also didn’t want to chair the meeting because he had some stuff he wanted to speak to. Luckily Katie had done some brushing up on the “how to” guide of Exec meetings and had it all well under control. Bureaucracy, it’s swell ain’t it?
Turned out that the things Dan wanted to speak to mainly consisted of a large spiel about how he should still be on the University Council, despite acknowledging at the start that the policy put forward to remove him from this position was going to pass anyway. He is being replaced by Postgraduate Rep Thomas Koentges, because postgrads need more representation on these things, gotta make sure the jelly pool at Starters is constantly topped up etc. The motion to appoint Thomas to the Council was put off until the results of the Presidential by-election were known, as the President also has to be appointed to the position.
Critic understands that there has been a bit of a financial blunder at some point, and the Events team was given an extra $6500 to put on the Blues and Golds Awards, which the Clubs and Socs people now deal with. The general consensus at the meeting seemed to be that Events would just have an extra $6500 at the end of the year that they haven’t spent, and the Exec could then have it back. Either that or they’re going to have a ripping team Christmas party.
A request for a donation to a community organisation led Francisco to suggest that the Executive should do some fundraising in order to be able to donate to more causes. The Executive receives a huge number of these requests every year, and the idea of fundraising in order to be able to donate to them all wasn’t well received. Critic thinks the idea is in line with his perky suggestion that Critic attend all of the OUSA Committee meetings: who has that much spare time?!
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