Annual General Meeting (Friday, September 16, 2022, 3 PM - 4:30 PM) - Attendees: - 7 Executive Board members: - Liam Welsh, Morris Greenberg, Kathleen Miao, Emma Kroell, Emily Somerset, Vedant Choudhary, Alex Valencia - 1 CUPE representative: - Sebastian Calcetero - 1 external observer: - Sean Colford - 12 live students: - Marija Pejcinovska, Michael Chong, Robert Zimmerman, Quynh Vu, Ismail Benchekroun, Abraham Morales, Anthony Coache, Spark Tseung, Sophia Chan, Rui Patrick Zian, Ruyi Pan - 2 students on Zoom: - Barry Lung, Vanessa Bierling - Land acknowledgement - Opening Remarks (from Liam) - Introduction of the executive team - Previous year summary (from Emma Kroell, the previous president) - Research day changes (no more Fields Institute involvement), more logistics for organizing committee for that as a result - Goals for this year: - More department interaction via academic and social events - Open door for suggesting events to the executive team! - Constitution - Ratification will be done via simple majority - Explanation of purpose of constitution (from Kathleen) - requirement for being recognized by UTSGU (implications towards head grants, etc.) - Edits (document was circulated in advance of meeting): - "advocate" added to SGSU role - Moved up the election timeline slightly earlier to be the end of September - Fixed typos - Voting changed to "plurality of voting members" so that it is (i) relative to the quorum present, and (ii) robust to handling votes beyond 2 options - No confidence voting language changed - Executive meeting recall language updated (to be more robust to individual agents) - Updated language on financial responsibility with president and treasurer written record - Added requirements of creating a public report that anyone in the student union can access - Vote: 18 yes, 1 vocal abstain, 2 abstains from Zoom - Office - Key access: 7 AM to 10 PM every day - Monitors will be available on a first come first serve basis in the MFI area (for a day at a time) - Events - Park day was fun! - Pancake day in October after the probability midterm (October 20) - Desire for a seminar series (2-3 students each session present for 20 minutes with 10 minutes of questions) - Message from CUPE Representative (Sebastian) - Introducing his role (health benefits, applying to things) and the union generally