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I acknowledge that we are meeting on the traditional country of the Aboriginal people of Australia and pay respect to Elders past and present. I recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land.

Date: 13/1/2017

Time: 5.35pm

Venue:Council Room

Councillors:

Guild President : Louis Williams +
Education Vice President : Julian Hasleby -
General Secretary : Carmel Hooshmand +
MISA President : Kombo Mash +
MUPSA President: Guy McDonald +
Disability Representative :
Queer Representative : Cody Lam +
Indigenous Representative : Jordan Barham-Shepherd +
Women’s Representative : Bronte Evans +
External Representative : Megan Sleep + (Skype)
Sustainability Representative : Kendal Lynch -
Ordinary Guild Councillors Ordinary Guild Councillor1) : Lili Vos +Ordinary Guild Councillor 2) : Dean Wicken +Ordinary Guild Councillor3) : Penny Kent +Ordinary Guild Councillor4) : Alexander Drane +Ordinary Guild Councillor5) : Kyle Williams +Ordinary Guild Councillor6) : JarradBouckaert -

Apologies:

Education Vice President

Disabilities Representative

Absent without Apologies:
Ordinary Guild Councillor 6

Observers:

Minutes:

Meeting Open at 4.51pm

Minutes:

MUPSA President notes that we need to number motions

Approval for approving minutes via circular because of technical difficulties

Reports:

Guy McDonald Out-going Acting President:

  • Extensive work on editing the policy.
  • Happy to step down and hand over to Louis.
  • Regular internal meetings as well as MSEL steering committee
  • External meeting with student hub,
  • We have assurance that the kitchen will open (not sure when)
  • Renovating the front of library and discussions with the head librarian about that.
  • Senate strategic refresh workshop. University is looking for design new strategy more student focused.
  • Senate December meeting, raised issues which he hopes we will keep hold on
  • NTEU university dispute flair up and control.
  • Thanks everyone for everything.

Louis Williams In-Coming President:

  • Tavern: External renovations will go ahead despite disagreement over the design of board. PDESO has said now that they aren’t approving the external renovations.
  • NTEU dispute has triggered social media discussions.
  • Thanks to Guy for his help with hand-over and his work over the summer.

DeanWicken- Acting EVP:

  • Handling matters for Education Council and Academic Council.
  • There’s no formal procedure for education council, it defaults to standing orders. Recommends fixing that.
  • Has been working on policy updates.
  • Lots of work with the executive council on the tavern amended price lists.
  • Met with a Murdoch student services about their idea for an O-fest. What came of that is a suggestion that we will cancel clubs and socs day and move it into festival day.
  • Bought new IT equipment.
  • Looked into 24 hour hotline for student support.

Ordinary Guild Councillor 3 Arrives 5.09

Policy Changes

Acting EVP and MUPSA President would like to pass substantive changes they have already made in edited policy.

Motion 2.1
Acting EVP Moves
“To pass the changes made to policy made by the new council”
Seconded by MUPSA President.
13 Present
13 In Favour
0 Against
0 Abstentions

Social media policy changes

Key Points:

  • Council discusses temporary changes to how the social media has been run so far.
  • Exec would like to have more say in what is posted on behalf of women’s collective and other guild collectives by the Projects team.
  • The guild page should not promote any political opinion themselves, they should stay neutral, but encourage students to debate and discuss these matters.

Acting EVP has left the meeting 5.34pm

Festival

There is great potential on campus for the Guild to host a music festival. This is a good way to improve campus culture and increase student engagement.

  • Councillors discuss and ask questions relating to profit, ticketing, which musicians would play etc.

Motion 2.2
General Secretary moves:
“To approve the use of up to $30,000 of SSAF to fund a music festival on campus”
Seconded by Indigenous Representative
12 Present
12 In Favour
0 Against
0 Abstentions

Acting EVP returned to meeting 5.45pm

Queer Collective Name Change

Queer Representative puts forward the following points,

  • Some people have commented that “queer collective” is not positive, collective members feel uncomfortable with it.
  • Keeping the name may limit the future membership, as people might be uncomfortable with the branding.
  • Suggestion is put forward to change the name to the “Pride Collective”.

Acting President:

  • Council should not race to change too much in our constitution, this change will need to go to senate. It’s a good idea to wait to see what else we need to change and take it all at once.

General Secretary:
Let’s table it, and use that time to reach out to collective to ask about what they want to change it to.
Queer Collective Representative left 6.15

Changes to Council

General Secretary:

  • Megan Sleep the externals representative has resigned due to other commitments, and has now been replaced by Josh Boardman.
  • Deb Blecha the disabilities representative has also left due to personal commitments, and has been replaced by Donna Gatt.
  • We would like to thank both resigning councillors for all their great work, and welcome the new councillors.

MSEL Staff Funding

Acting President:

  • We have a draft 2017 budget which includes pay increase for Thomas from 4 days to 5 days a week. This is to increase the capacity and productivity of MSEL program.

Motion 2.3
General Secretary moves:
“To increase Thomas Steward’s employment from part time (4 days) to full time (5 days)”
Acting President Seconds
12 Present
12 In Favour
0 Against
0 Abstentions

Motion 2.4
General Secretary moves:
“To approve the following hours for the Executive student councillors
President: up to 60 hours a fortnight
Education Vice President: up to 37 hours a fortnight
General Secretary: up to 37 hours a fortnight”
Seconded by Chair.
12 Present
12 in Favour
0 Against
0 Abstention

Increased Hours for General Secretary

Due to increased events and work around the first few weeks of semester, it may be necessary for the General Secretary to work more than 37 hours a fortnight. The Executive committee and Project’s team are on board with temporarily increasing the General Secretary’s hours from 37 hours to up to 60 hours to allow her to work on upcoming events.

Motion 2.5
Acting President moves:
“To increase the hours of the General Secretary from up to 37 hours a fortnight to up to 60 hours a fortnight, for the period of 13th January 2017 until 3rd March 2017”

  • (Please note that after this period the hours of the General Secretary will automatically revert back to the previous standard of 37 hours a fortnight).
  • Seconded by Chair,
    9 for
    1 against
    2 abstentions. Noted: General Secretary.

NUS Conference

President:

  • The president has been invited to this conference
  • President holds the position that it is not in the best interest of the Guild to attend.
  • Reasons include NUS’s politically driven image and that the benefits seem minimal.

Motion 2.6
President moves that
“Council does not support sending a representative to the NUS conference of 2017.”
Seconded by Indigenous Representative
10 In Favour
0 Against
1 Abstention.

NTEU discussion

Acting President explains the situation between NTEU and University.

President

  • The Guild office and the university was happy with our position on this matter.

Women’s Representative: What’s the worst case scenario?

President:

  • A potential scenario is our staff strike and it causes problems for the students.

General Secretary:

  • I think the position we have so far taken is the best we could have, because we haven’t ruined our relationship with NTEU or the university. Remaining neutral since this has not impacted student’s welfare so far is okay.

MUPSA President:

  • Let’s remember that we also said we needed to look into it further before we took a position on it. We should use meetings coming up to get more information about the matter.

Resignation and Co-option of MUPSA President

MUPSA President:
“I love you all, but I quit. As was my initial intention when I took the position, I have handed over the Presidency back to Louis and no longer need to remain on council. Working with all of you has been fantastic and I can’t wait to see the great stuff you guys do through the year”

Council takes the chance to thank Guy for his extensive work across 2 terms for the Guild.

Ordinary Guild Councillor 4:

  • I would like to nominate myself as MUPSA President.
  • Candidate (Alexander Drane) explains reasons he would be suitable for this position.
  • Candidate leaves the room for councillors to deliberate.

President:

  • This candidate knows a lot about education and learning, he would be good for the role.

 Motion 2.7

President motions:
“To co-opt Alexander Drane as the 2017 MUPSA president"
10 In Favour
0 Against
0 Abstentions

President calls the meeting closed at 7.48pm