After fewer than half of required members attend two attempted meetings, SUS AGM will likely be moved to spring
Fewer than 24 UFV Student Union Society (SUS) members attended the organization’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Oct. 20, forcing the society to delay the meeting by one week.
The meeting, held via Zoom at 11 a.m., required the presence of 100 members, pursuant to SUS bylaw 16.1.2. This bylaw requires either one per cent of membership or 100 attendees be present, as SUS plans to introduce a special resolution during the meeting’s proceedings.
The AGM is typically held in April each year, but the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent closure of UFV’s campuses last spring caused the society to delay the meeting to October.
Items featured on the agenda for this year’s AGM include a proposed revision to bylaw 16 (the bylaw concerning quorum at general meetings), and presentations related to the results of SUS’s 2018-19 financial audit, the goals of SUS executives, and the 2020 budget.
Several of those who did attend the cancelled meeting Tuesday claimed to have had difficulty joining, after an incorrect Zoom link was posted on some of SUS’s online channels. Titus Gregory, SUS board chair, addressed the issue at the beginning of the cancelled meeting, and said that SUS was aware a link was erroneously posted and had corrected it around 11 a.m., when the meeting was slated to begin.
Following the first meeting’s failure to meet quorum, a second meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 27 with a reduced quorum of 50 members. However, that second meeting had similar attendance to the first, and after waiting half an hour for attendees, SUS was forced to cancel it as well.
At the meeting’s close, Duncan Herd, vice president internal, said the next AGM will “likely” take place in spring. He also said that the presentations that would have been given at the AGM will likely be posted online, but was not able to offer further specifics at the time.
