Print Edition: May 8, 2013
SUS’s second attempt at an April Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) was successful in quorum and unsuccessful in passing the main motion.
The crux of the meeting revolved around a two-page motion that, if passed, would authorize SUS to obtain a $10 million mortgage and break ground on the long-awaited Student Union Building (SUB).
This motion was originally approved in a 2011 referendum, but must be reapproved on a yearly basis. This ensures the student body, which changes on a yearly basis, continues to approve of the plan to build the SUB.
Derek Froese, former president of Computer Information Systems Student Association (CISSA) at UFV, opposed the motion, stating that SUS failed to give adequate notice.
Print Edition: October 30, 2013
This past Friday, the Student Union Society (SUS) held another scheduled board meeting at UFV’s Abbotsford campus.
Governance committee electoral policy motion tabled again
Changes to the electoral policy, proposed by VP internal Greg Stickland and the governance committee, were tabled by the board at their last meeting two weeks ago.
Stickland explained the governance committee has since worked to address the policy issues the board brought up.
“I received some feedback after last meeting, and even more between board meetings to the policy,” he explains. “All the things were accommodated for.”
However, during the board’s discussion, representative-at-large Jay Mitchell expressed concern regarding the policy’s by-election definition. Challenging the policy’s inability to fully address every possible by-election situation, Mitchell explained his worries to the board.