What is this Working Party Doing?

Last year the Executive Committee took on the major task of re-writing the constitution to make it shorter and easier to read. A lot of detail was taken out so that the Union was able to respond to the needs and desires of students without the students having to learn a lot of procedural details in order to be heard.

That constitution was agreed by the last Annual General Meeting.

A lot of the things which were taken out of the Constitution are still important, just not neccessarily as part of that document, which is the governing document of the Union. The Union is now going through a process of reviewing all of those elements which were not included in the revised constitution.

In order to do this the Union has set up a working party consisting of sabbatical officers and some staff. The group will come up with a range of operational recommendations and operational policies, which will go to the Executive Committee for their consideration.

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Committees etc.

The following was decided:

That Stratcom should continue, and be a joint working group of all sabbatical officers and all senior managers. That it should have as a focus the future direction of the Union and should amalgamate with the Vision 2011 group.

That the Welfare and Membership Services Committee and the Commercial Services Committee should be discontinued and that departmental reports, including performance against KPI's should go to the executive committee monthly.

That a Welfare Campaigns Group should be formed to support the VP Welfare and Equal Opportunities in carrying out their role.

That the Finance Committee should continue with it's current role.

That the Reps Councils and the Societies Exec. should continue in their current format.

That each of the non-sabbatical officers should plan on holding two Forums, one in each semester, for the students they represent.

That there should be a Post Graduate Students' Forum, facilitated by the Mature Students' Officer.

That the Halls Exec continues in it's current form.

That the Sports rep should establish a Sports Council.

The Environmental Rep should faciliatate an Environmental Forum, which would elect an Environmental Council,

These forums (fora) should be used to gather information from students to inform the work of the Union and should directly link to the Welfare Campaigns Group

The committee structure should be reviewd within one year. If any of the newly formed Forums etc are not seen to be working, they will be discontinued.

The forums, committees, councils and execs which are to be facilitated by officers and Union COuncil reps should be recorded by students, without using the staff resource provided by paid staff.
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Jason said...

Where we have looked at the committees we want to keep and the new structure, i don't think that we have quite answered the question of the membership of those committees.

I think one of the problems at the moment within the SU is the disjointed way in which information is circulated to Officers about the operation of Union services - KPIs etc that have previous gone to meetings such as CSC and WMSC.

If departmental reports from these two departments will go to Exec cmt (i presume closed?) then the relevan tSMT should also accompany them. This will enable questions to be addressed immediately in the meeting without the need for reporting back to the following meeting (a month later!) through the GM.

8 May 2008 at 09:21

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