By Dessa Bayrock (The Cascade) – Email
Print Edition: March 6, 2013
The morning began in a tucked-away boardroom on the ground floor of the new CEP building, as SUS reps filtered in clutching Tim Hortons to-go cups and toasted bagels. Due to start at 9:30 a.m., things got off to a slow start and at 9:45 a.m., the meeting was called to order.
Guests from Visual Arts Students Association (VASA) including students and instructor Shelley Stefan asked for support for the Bachelor of Fine Arts grad show. This is an event that SUS donates to every year, and will be coming up later in the year.
Guests from the new UFV Carpool Club presented their plans to introduce a better carpool system for students at UFV, and asked for funding to market their ideas on campus to help the program get up and running.
Guests from the Biology and Chemistry Students Association (BSCA) raised concerns about the funding they received for this fiscal year. Due to miscalculation, they received less than they were promised last summer. President Shane Potter says that this particular problem is one they’ll be dealing with during board reform over the summer, and SUS will form an ad-hoc committee to deal with BCSA’s problem in particular.
VP social Chris Doyle and AfterMath manager Brad Ross waxed poetic about St. Patty’s day events planned for this year.
Regular semester funding was approved for the 8-bit Adventure Club, the Tabletop Games Club, the Video Games Club and University Christian Ministries (UCM).
UCM also requested funds to send members to two conferences. Their request for $305 to send 10 members to “World Views” conference was turned down, but their request for $310 to send five members to $310 to the annual Provincial Summit for Christian Ministers was approved.
SUS also approved a funding request for a printer cartridge (at a cost of $213.98) for the Library Information Technology Association.
The Students of Philosophy were given $44.87 to fund a student coffee meet-and-greet.
The most hotly-debated topic of the morning was who to send to the annual Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) conference. VP academic Dan van der Kroon, absent, is required by job description to attend. Discussion quickly turned to the feasibility of sending more than one representative, and possibly the whole board; since this is the year that SUS will have to decide between full membership and non-membership, rep-at-large Jay Mitchell suggested that SUS send as many reps as budget allows. The decision was tabled, to be approached at the next meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 11:17 a.m. and the next regular SUS board meeting will be held on the Mission campus on the morning of March 15.
