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.

Wednesday 7 May 2008

Representation

The following was agreed

That Union representatives on committees should be elected at the first meeting of the Union Council.

That candidates should be allowed to nominate themselves.

Their nominations should be sent to the Union administration by the deadline set for the receipt of motions.

They must each submit a paragraph of no more than 150 words supporting their nomination, which will be circulated with the papers for the meeting.

That each member of Union Council will have one vote for each vacancy. (i.e. if there are six places then each member may vote six times).

That decision will be made by simple majority on the first past the post principle.

Subsequent vacancies should be filled by the same method.

All representatives on committees should attend a briefing in advance of the meeting.
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